Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-12-01
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SPRINGFIELD.

SPRINGFIELD.
We now have an all night electric light
service.
Wheeler & Parkhurst are painting
Browns block.
Both Fred and Ellsworth johnson
were at home Thanksgiving.
j. III. Algier of Gardner, Mass, is
stopping at Edward Warmers.
Lulu Hayes passed Thanksgiving with
Mrs. George Burke of Burke Inn.
Edward Robinson's address for the
rest of the winter is st. Augustine, Fla,
Charles Hutchinson, who is very sick
with Inflammation of the bowels, is not
expected to live.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bird attended the
wedding of Ella Streeter whose home is
in Hinsdale, N. III.
Col. Aver and two engineers, who are
to help him complete the Black River
railroad survey, were In town Monday,
Jones & Lamson's machine shop are
rushed with orders. To fill them they
find it necessary to run nights as we'll as
days.
We would call the attention of our ef-
ficient trustees to an ugly looking hole
in the sidewalk opposite Desgesnais' bar
Der shop.
Quite number of our citizens, with
their wives and daughters, ate Thanks
giving dinner with Landlord Miner of the
AdnabrOwn.
Albert LaFouutain is happy and the
boys remind him that as it was so near
to Thanksgiving that he had much to be
thankful for.
Who has any apples they wish to mar
ket? A. w. Thorpe of Cincinnati. o.,
hearing that apples were plenty in this
vicinity, has been in town the last few
days, trying to secure some.
Two-horse teams loaded with people
enroute to Grandpa's is sight familiar
to our eyes and witnessed every Thanks
giving morning. Christmas isn't in it
alongside of the Puritan barbecue.
During the holidays the boom was
crowded with skaters. A few daring
spirits ventured out and skated up and
down the main river, but the ice which is
only one inch and half thick, was not
considered safe, and both Jerry Laundry
ard viii Lockwood took involuntary
baths.
Josephine" was produced Saturday
evening at the Town hall before a large
but not particularly enthusiastic crowd.
The receipts were large amounting to
$107. The town receives 35 per cent of
the gross receipts. Whoever has charge
of the funds will see that the money is
expended as intended.
Springfield has many young athletics
in its midst whose deeds of valor on the
field and in the highways has been her.
aided before now as par excellence, but
it remains for Charles Ely to prove to
his admiring friends that when the prizes
were distributed he was most shamefully
forgotten. Nothing daunted, he ssayed
to prove to few of his friends and the
passers-by that if you wish to attend a
rattle in George Smart's paint shopit is
not necessary to climb the stairs to reach
your destination, but grid the cloth about
your IOins as he did and simian like make
an effort to shin up height as steep as
a cliff dwelling, but unlike that animal
which never misses its foot hold, he did,
tumbiipg into the brook alongside, strik-
ing on his head and cutting deep cash
which when healed will serve to remind
him of his daring effort.
With their clansmen, kinsmen and ad-
under the coming administration are al
ready in the field and eager for the fray
The two prominently named candidates
N. D. Fisher and Jerome Pierce, are both
good men and either would do honor to
the position, but we would suggest that
Pierce who was postmaster under Cleve.
lands first administration stick to his
green bag and his fighting clients. A
few of the Democrats have promised tt
sign his petition as soon as he can make
it out. How the mighty have fallen
Eight years ago it was rendered him. to
day he must pray for it. M D. Fisher
late proprietor of the Springfield drug
store, is favorably known. Repub
licans as well as Democrats believe hin
to be most fitted for the position, as he i
not in business of any description a
present, should he re ceive the appoint
ment he would be able to give his un
divided attention to his duty which is NJ
sinecure. But we are not anxious for al
early change.