Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-02-05
LOCAL MATTERS.

etery question, Monday afternoon next
at O'clock.
- AT many of the entertainments
given at Union Hall, active police duty
is much needed especially was this true
on Monday evening.
- Remember that DIR. Smyth's first
visit to this place terminates on Satur-
day Of next week, Feb. 18th: He can
be seen Al Towns hotel.
~ All members of the Bellows Falls
Musical Society will meet tomorrow
friday evening at the NJ. L Church,
for rehearsal for "Greate Conferte F"
to be given Feb 10th
= The civil authority of the town Of
Rockingham willmeet at thetown clerks
office, Thursday of next week, Feb. 18th,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, for the abatement of
taxes. The auditors will also meet at
the same time.
Mr.. G. s. Griswold of this village
is agent for the book entitled Tell it
All,n u notice of which will be found on
second page. The work is very nicely
got up ia all respects and is highly com
mended from the best sources.
So The goods of Messrs. Fisher &
Fairbanks, Of Boston, which we have
sometimes had occasion to heartily en-
dorse, and which are regularly advertis-
ed in this paper, are for sale at the Bel
lows Falls Drug store of IL II. q S. NJ.
Davis.
The cemetery campaign has been
going on lively in this village the past
week. The contest is on the location ;
both parties have held caucuses, and a
full attendance Of the voters of this vii
lage at the special town meeting next
Monday i expected.
The G.. A. r, of Charlestown gave
their Entertainments at Union Hall on
Thursday and Friday evenings of last
week. They were well received by those
present, but the elements were against
them and they did not have the full
| house they deserved.
III. Smith fell from the roof of
i'll. A. Titus two story house on Atkin-
son street on Friday of last week, while
removing snow from the same, and had
some Of the bones of one ankle broken.
His injuries are such that he viii prob
ably be disabled for several weeks if not
for the winter.
All who send marriages or deaths
to this Office, should be sure they sign
their names somewhere on the note, as a
Voucher to us, not for publication.
Doubtless they are often sent anony-
mously on the supposition that we shall
recognize the hand writing, which is often
. true, but not always.
Il On Thursday of last week, John
A. Wightman, formerly Of this place,
was found dead near the bottom Of the
0 stairs To the cellar way, in the house
IS. where he lived alone, at South Charles
town, N. H. His habits were such as to
lead to conjecture as to the cause, al.
/" though We are informed that no indica,
ID tions appeared as to whatmay have been
the immediate cause Of death.
Work was lively on many build
'H ings in this place on Wednesday, if not
agreeable, in removing snow and ice
which caused the water to set back and
run down inside The most "scary y
s instance which came under our observa.
ton, was that of Mr.. Sanford Granger
who we believe is over seventy years Of
age, but who nevertheless mounted the
roof Of the east end Of his building
where he must have been some so or rs
I feet above the railroad track.
= The first rain storm of the winter
occurred on Wednesday. 1t was so cold
that ice formed and grew in thickness
on nearly everything it touched, like
dipping tallow candles, and late in the
day the limbs of trees, especially if {
RAJ little weak, began to give way. In tn,
err evening it had so far moderated tina
with prevailing wind the ice fell anc
thus relieved trees and shrubbery. A.
Y thaw it was not much of a success anC
during the night it cleared and thi
Thursday morning it is very much cold
err.
Rev. P n Granger, agent of tn
Vermont State Temperance Society, lee
tured at the Congregational Church OIL
fl Sunday evening. He replied to tn
statements that more Intoxicating liquor
are drank now than formerly, and a
ID compared with forty or fifty years ag
=, made strong case. He would use bot
moral and legal suasion, and dwelt es
pecially on the Importance Of attractin
.n the young people from the dram shops
i, One generation raised up free from il
toxicating drinks, and we would 500
- have a nation of temperance people.