Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-03-19

III the cHurcn Vestry tIls (lnursuay)
evening from to o'clock.
Look out for the counterfeit five dollar
notes which are becoming plenty in this
vicinity. They are said to be as de-
ceptive as any the treasury department
has ever had to contend with.
Letters advertised at Bellows Falls
postofiice. Silas c. Albee, w. e. Clark,
S. d. Corey, w. H. Furbisk, John b.
Judd, Albert Smith, Miss Hellie Enos,
Miss H. G.. Smith, Mrs. Jennie Smith.
Three Fitchburg freight conductors,
six brakemen and six engineers came
here from Keene the first of this week
and Monday the freights began running
on the new schedule as mentioned last
week.
On one train on the Rutland road are
four men whose ages are little out of
the ordinary. The youngest is 30 years
old, the next one 3S, the third 4s and
the last IS. The birthdays of all occur
in the second week in October.
Does Bellows Falls intend to do any
thing in the way of putting a baseball
team into the field this season? 1t is
none too early to talk Of such matters.
There is material here for first class
team, and the matter ought to receive
some attention.
The Vermont Farm Machine company
is driven with work now and has been
for some time, owing to the near APP
proach of the sugar season. The COM
pany has shipped large quantity of
sugar apparatus already and more will
be demanded before the season is passed.
The bailiffs could profitably put up
suitable small bill boards in different
parts of the village, so that it would not
be necessary to use the trees and electric
light poles for that purpose. 1t spoils
the looks of noble tree trunk to have it
covered with tacks with bits of paper
clinging to them. Visitors don't COM
mend the taste of the villagers who allow
it to be done.
In consequence of serious break in
the machinery at the electric light
station the village was shrouded in dark
ness last night. A gang of men were
put at work on the dynamo at once but
repairs were not completed so the light
could be turned on at all last night. The
scurrying for old kerosene lamps was
comical illustration of how much people
in these days are dependent upon cleo
tricity.
A successful term of school in district
No 8, taught by Miss Rose Atkinson,
closed March ID. Miss Atkinson is
graduate from Cambridge, Mass, an ex-
perienced and able teacher. The even
ing after school closed she held recep-
ton at her boarding place, where all,
parents and pupils alike, enjoyed pleas
ant evening. Refreshments were served,
after which all went to their homes.
Miss atkinson has endeared herself to
all and the best wishes of acquaintance
follow her to her home.
The lecture at the Young Mems Insti-
tute Monday evening was on life half
century ago, by d. X. Barry. His talk
was very interesting and was illustrated
by numerous articles of domestic use of
that time. 1t was really setting back
of the clock of time for so years and Civ
ing the young people of to-day glimpse
of life and manner Of living and working
at that time. Nothing is more interest
ing and few subjects are more entertain
ing to the people of these times who can
not remember as far back as that.
By the new arrangement on the Fitch
burg road, by which the train men make
round trips each day, they are required
to run 1872 miles. One hundred miles is
considered run, so that they get paid
for 80 extra miles. This makes the paw,
in the case of the engineers, SO 76 per
day. But the work is too hard to do
every day, so respite of day is given
at regular intervals. The plan is new
yet and the men are uncertain about it,
but all seem to think that when they be-
cone accustomed to it they will like it
as well as the old plan.
Last Saturday noon an employee of the
United States Fish Commission went
through here with fourteen cans of Cali
fornia trout, destined for Secretary Proc
tors home at Proctor. The fish varied
from two and one-half to six inches in
length. They were similar to the common
brook trout of our own waters excepting
they We're not so sharply marked and
notified, and in place of red spots they
had stripes on the side. They sometimes
grow to weigh six pounds but the aver
age weight is not far from two to three
pounds. There were about 1000 fish in
all and most of them appeared healthy
and lively although they had come from
somewhere ia the south.
Charles Spaulding, who runs the saw
in the sulphite mills, came near meeting