Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-05-05
9ellows falls Timrs,
BELLOWS FALLS, MAY. 5. 1876.


- Those with failing or defective ey
sight, are referred to DIR. Strassman'
advertisement
- Misses Wilmoth Il Chapman hav
opened a room for dress making. i,
Bingham's block, over Babbitt q Have
store.
r We hardly need to explain to sew
eral friends why their iavors do not an
pear this week. They will see for them.
~ selves.
- Fire ran over the new cemetery
grounds on Saturday, and doubtless kill.
ed many of the early spring flowers, but
we do not learn of any other dsmage.
- Eleven persons presented them
selves for examination at the public ex-
animation OF teachers Saturday, all of
whom succeeded and received certif.
NJ Gates,
n - Babbitt q Hayes have put water
n tank in one of their front windows and
N and have placed in the same several
beautiful trout, which of course make
quite an attraction.
We tried to say Millinery for A.
F. Holden Il Co, last week. They have
the spring styles and lots of other nice
goods of which they will have an adj
verlisement in full bloom next week.
- The season for shad and Holsters
has arrived, and f. E. Dewey will furn-
ish the same right through the season,
Wholesale and retail. Advertisement
next week.
One day last week FIRE, supposed
to have started from the firearms of
hunters, burnt over some thirty acres of
pasturing, belonging to C. P. Allbee,
who resides some mile and half above
this village.
- We are greatly indebted to several
ladies Of this village, for the full report
of the centennial on second page, and
especially to Mrs. Col. A. T. Duntop,
Awho has been untiring in her efforts to
aid us, and but for whom the report
must necessarily have been very imper.
feet.
Many have engaged copies of this
weeks TINES for preservation during the
next nifty and one hundred years. Some
Of the children of to-day will remember
It to the half century hence, but it Will
be about the third generation from the
present time who will be in prime cele-
@ating mood in 1876.
= There ought to be full house
'at Onion Hall Friday evening of next
week. II is for the benefit of the Cor
net Band, who wish TO buy new instru.
ments. They have freely given their
services on many occasions during the
past year or two, and we ought now to
give them a rousing return. The orches-
ira, whose music stands so well for ex-
cellence, are also members of the band
- The thanks of the Ladies Centen.
NAL committee are due and hereby ex-
pressed to ST. Patrick's Benevolent and
temperance Society, for the use of their
hall, for the New England Kitchen !;
also to Z. d. Murphy, Fred J. Blake,
Henry Bowtelle, Edward Lyman, F. P.
Wells and Dr. 0. NJ. George, for their !
efficient aid, and to the singers of Sax !.
tons River and this village and the or
.chestra for their very valuable assist
pAqe.
A fire alarm sounded at Z o'clock
Wednesday morning. The fire was in
Fheslaughter barn of Wheeler q; Searle, i
Rt the south end of the village and was :
soon extinguished, doing but little dam
'ge 1t probably took from the arch in
which there had been fire Tuesday al. !,
ernoon, as it burnt through the floor in
ront of the mouth, and the spark from :
'hich it started must have mulled for
ome fifteen hours. HI, ii. Wolfe, whose !,
ouse is near the barn, had his attention Z,
allied to the smoke issuing from the Z,
ullding, when he instantly mounted his IN
orse, and rode into the village in good
'aul Revere style, shouting FIRE at the
laughter barn." In the next instant
he bell of Engine Hall was struck, 81
followed by the church bells. ds
he tremen were out Immediately and
lad their engine down Westminster
freet, as far as the house of Mrs. j. w. "
Ehurch, when Geo. Rogers rapidly rode
faek announcing, FIRE all out" The
faf1 in which there was some stock, was p
'Ded with smoke, but a few persons of
lruck at the heart of the fire in the at
'om OF the arch, and within few feet of W;
large quantity of tallow, &c, quickly, Oh
nd serious loss was averted. on what q,
as probably not not over a margin Of 4,
We minutes, and in about ten minutes -
le town resumed its usual quiet. 1t was -
course favorable time to arouse the /,
'ople, but it is rare that promptness is
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