Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-02-27
D. 4. BRIGHAM & CO.,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
VERMONT IN GENERAL.
RUTLAND.

RUTLAND.
Work on the old ladies' home has been
resumed.
Diphtheria has again made its appear
ance among Rutland children.
The Rev. Lorenzo Sears of Burlington
has concluded his temporary rectorship
of Trinity church.
Troy, N. Y, firms have secured the
ice from about two-thirds OF Lake st.
Catherine in Poultney.
The Rev. Herbert E. Cushman, the new
pastor of St. Paul's parish, preached his
initial sermon on Sunday morning.
The Rev. S. F. Barrett of Castleton,
SON of the Hon. James Barrett, occupied
the pulpit of the Congregational church
Sunday morning.
The second low rate excursion to
Washington left on Tuesday. Tickets
were $40 for the round trip, good Tor III
days. Another excursion in March.
Col. w. Seward Webb will make an
exhibition OF selections from his stud at
Sherburne stock farm at the Home
Breeders Association meeting here In
August.
The Ron. Merritt Clark of Poultney
passed his S7th birthday, February IL,
He is a well preserved gentleman of the
old school who retains his mental powers
and physical health to a wonderful
degree.
The state geologist, the Rev. George
w. Perry of Rutland, has prepared
new illustrated lecture on marble, which
he is to deliver in several towns of the
state He delivered it for the first time
at Windsor last week.
| A letter was received recently from
the wife of Commander Edwin T. Wood
ward of the warship Adams, who is now
at Mare Island navy yard hospital, stat
ing that a favorable change has taken
place in the case of the Commander and
it is hoped to bring him to Saratoga as
early as he is able to undertake the trans
continental journey.
The wool trade in this section is very
quiet and prices somewhat lower. Lots
of wool that have been held by the far
mers for some months above the market,
since the beginning of the year have
been offered for sale and the result is that
some of them have sold at a slight de-
cline and considerably below what they
were offered at in the fall.
The Rev. Charles M. Niles of st.
AIMS church, New York city, the assist
ant rector, has accepted the rectorship of
Trinity church, Rutland, at salary of
$4,000 per annum, and assumed his duties
on Sunday. He is Vermonter and
when nine years of age was a wandering
boy about the streets of Rutland. He
has a wife and three children.
The March term of the Rutland coun-
ty court will convene on the 18th. Judge
Loveland Munson will preside. A few
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large number of rum cases are on the
probably compromised as this form of
procedure fattens the official pocketbook
quickest and in larger amounts.
The state reform school at Vergennes
contains 76 inmates.
New York capitalists are developing
an asbestos deposit at Reading.
One hundred and seventy-six births
and us deaths were recorded in Rutland
during 1889.
Albert Peak of Peacham lost S43.2S
in the woods while numbering, but two
weeks afterward found it.
Mayor Crombie of Burlington has been
renominated almost unanimously by the
Republicans of Burlington.
Secretary Proctor is expected to attend
the annual encampment of the state
militia at birmingham, Mass.
Some 80 workmen are engaged in quar-
rying granite at Dummerston for the
Main street arch of Springfield
The late Riley Burdett is said to have
left an estate valued at SS5.00G, a life
interest of which is left to his widow.
Preparations are being made at Tyson
for a large number of visitors at the
Echo Lake House the coming summer.
| On Saturday afternoon a fine American
| flag. 10x1S ID feet, was unfurled to the
breeze over the graded school at Poult-
ney.
| Swift & Co. of Chicago have cut and
stored 5000 tons of ice on the Verne Mt
side of Lake Memphremagog for use h,
coming season.
! The Rev Mr.. Atwood of North Dam
Vile has accepte a call to the Free Bap-
\ fist church in Sheffield and will move
/ there in the spring.
! TheRev. \. ID. Clark of West Oswego.
\, Y, has accepted the call of the
/ Pownal Baptist church and will cCu-
mence his labors March s.
I Charlie. aged Il. son of Thomas II.
Syan of Brattleboro. was drowned i'm the
| Connecticut river NJ the rear of the rail-
road Sunday evening. lie was skating
with other boys ana broke through the
/ ice. Willie Drisanc. his playmate. mar
! rowly escaped. The body was +; cover
ed.