Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-02-05
VERMONT NEWS.

"A Club hllOWu uS
has been organized at Northfield.
Postmaster Roberts of Fairhaven, ha
500 new call boxes and 60 lock boxes.
G. F. Peet of Bristol has shipped over
10000 pounds of poultry since Septembel
l, 1890.
There is to be a creamery at Sharon
At meeting held for this purpose $500
was raised.
Bernard Mcdonald of Pittsford has
contracted to build new cheese factory
and creamery for $1,000.
The ice carried away the highway
bridge half mile north of Cuttingsville,
known as the Waterman bridge.
1t is reported from West Berlin that
several small brooks became swollen
during the recent thaw and did consider
able damage.
Brandon people talk of putting large
pump in the scale shops building in the
heart of the village as an additional pro-
lection from fire.
There is good deal of interest in the
''single rail" railroad project. DR.. Ma
hama exhibited his model in Fairhaven
last week Wednesday.
The cheese factory at Bloomington re-
celved during the season from May to
November l, 1890, 1872 ,057 pounds Lof
milk from which were made 1919
pounds of cheese.
DR.. James r. Nelson of St. Johnsbury
was awarded $l3,5O0 damages by jury
IN the superior court yesterday. This
was for Injuries received in collision
January 10, 1889.
A % months old child of Thomas
Palmer OF Fairhaven, was badly scalded
by sitting down in pail of boiling water
scaldlng Its back and arms so that it is
doubtful if it lives.
The citizens at Chelsea are 'sthoroughly
aroused" over locating some manufacture
ing industry there. They have bought
the Campbell mill property and propose
to hold it for future development.
d. P. Prescott & Co.'S steam mill at
Newfane was entirely destroyed by fire
Saturday evening about o'clock. The
loss on the building and machinery was
about $4,000 and it was insured for
$4,000.
Many logs are being drawn from Lin
coin and the Little Notch in Bristol to
the banks of the New Haven river, to be
floated thence in the spring to the pulp
mill in Weybridge. The business gives
LuolU W Il large Oh Iar-
mers and their teams.
The through freight train on the Pas
sumpsic road was derailed at St. Johns
bury Centre at 3 o'clock Thursday morn
ing and II cars and a part of the engine
left the track. The track was badly
torn up and trains were delayed several
hours. No one was hurt.
DR.. Currier of Newport has an original
copy of the Constitution of Vermont. as
adopted by the convention held at Wind
sor, July 4, 1893, and printed that year
by Alden Spooner. 1t was found in a
rag bin with almost complete set of
Walton's Vermont Registers.
Woodstock has the two oldest printers
of any town in the state-Messrs. Lewis
Pratt and David L. Howe. Mr.. Pratt
has represented his town several times
IN The legislature, and Mr.. Howe is a
prominent Free Mason. Both are in
g0ed financial -circumstaIues.
The stockholders of the Citizens Light
and Power company of Burlington held :
their adjourned annual meeting last even
ing in the parlors of the Hotel Burling-
ton, with a large attendance. The old
board of directors were reelected. And
at a meeting of the directors held after
the stockholders meeting the officers were
elected.
The magnitude of Vermont investments
in the west may be somewhat realized
when we state that the semi-annual divi-
dends received and paid out at Montpe-
lier on investments at Sioux City, Ia,
are at least 100000. Sixty thousand dol
lars year interest coming to one Yer
mont town from only one city in the
northwest is suggestive.
One of the relics of the early DAYS of
railroading on the Rutland division, is
old stove in the station at Salisbury,
that has furnished warmth for station
agent A. ID. johnson, ever since he has
occupied that position. The stove was
put into the station when the road was
first opened and it is still doing duty,
being in very good condition.
At West Berkshire last week Friday
evening, while steering large 'spung"
full of boys, Wart Welcome was instantly
killed. The roads were very icy and on
going through the bridge, the small sled
went from under him. going partly
through the side of the bridge. He was
dragged some distance by the large sled
and then crushed between a post and
the heavily loaded sled, killing him in
stantly.
In commenting upon the selection of
Gen. w. w. Henry for appointment as
special agent of the treasury department
the st. Adams Messenger says: "No
one doubts the generals ability to fill the
bill. He will make trusty officer for
the confidential position. He is patriot,
the strongest sort of government man,
and has been since he was member of
the famous vigilance committed in Cal
lfornia early in the fifties. Until the
war broke out he was Democrat. Since :
then-well, everybody has known the
generals politics."
The passenger train from Rutland due
at Burlington at III a. m. was derailed at
the double road crossing in Proctor
Thursday by the breaking of wheel on
the tender. Two cars and the engine
left the rails, running some distance on
the ties. As soon as word was received
at Proctor, station agent Markham tele-
graphed to Rutland for wreck train.
which was soon at the scene of the acct
dent. Passengers in the first car were
badly shaken up but no one was hurt.
The SOuth- hOund mail train uyac hold or