Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-08-11
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WESTM MINISTER.
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Miss Ellen Terrill of Rochester, N. Y,
is visiting at O. L. Fishers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Fish are rejoicing
over the birth of twin daughters.
Mrs. A. X. Chase has been housed on
account of sickness during the week.
Mrs. Nellie L. Taylor is in town this
week, her home being in Hartford,
Conn.
G. F. Arnold and wife are at Chester
week. .r. u
Miss Grace Chase of Somerville, Mass,
is passing the month of August at Miss
Ellen Wetherell's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Mason of Somer-
vile, Mass, are passing a few weeks at
G. ii. Hathaway's.
Miss Nettie Rice has had her cousin,
Miss Grace Chase, of Somerville, Mass,
with her for visit.
Mrs. Arthur Arnold is at her old place
in the telephone office at Bellows Falls,
while her sister is taking her vacation.
DR.. Willard H. Pierce and DR.. Robin
son have both been on the sick list this
week. DR.. Richardson has attended
them.
Rev. G. A. Dickinson has consented to
preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday and no doubt large num-
Der of his friends will want to hear him.
Miss Annie Thompson who has been
teaching for five years in Yokohama,
Japan, stopped with her friend, Mrs.
Herbert Leach, this week when on her
way home to New Jersey.
The selectmen have posted the check
list of the voters of the town; it is the
privilege of every voter to inspect the
same and see that their names are prop
erly entered thereon, if they are not al
ready placed there.
The Baxter Brothers are in want of
large number of helpers during the can
ming season, we understand. The work
of filling the cans, which have been in
process of manufacture during the past
few months, will commence August 20.
Be sure and have your nominations for
town representative and justices of the
peace all filed with the town clerk in due
season. 1t was decided at the confer
ence of town clerks at Brattleboro last
week that August "a was the last day for
receiving them.
The following item is of local interest
to large number of residents Of the
town and is copied from the Detroit
Evening news:
Woodbridge street are voluble in speech and
rather of ovial disposition; but this is not true
of D. Q. Wiley. He is quiet, unassuming man,
with a low voice, and seems to have his mind on
his business all the while. He is a Yankee, hav-
ing been born in Westminster, VT, As years ago.
He lived and worked on the farm where he was
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worked awhile on farm near Boston and then
came to Detroit. He went into the produce
Co, and after three years went with Ira siade,
who was then doing business under the Russell
When saae his n Mr. h
brother and Gen. L. Lee, under the firm name of
D. o. Wiley & Co. Besides this store on Wood
bridge the firm have branch at Birmingham,
where they deal in lumber, coal, wheat and wool.
Mr.. Slade, for whom d. o. worked, was mana
g ger Of the Birmingham cham branch 81 until he died
managed the business themselves and it has
grown to considerable proportions. They have
good seasons they ship as many as 10000 barrels
of apples. Last year they shipped about 10000
barrels of potatoes. D. o. Wiley is a Republi-
can a Congregationast and has wife and two
daughters. lie is man of a good deal of nerve
When he was young man he taught school for
few months twas one of thosecountry schools
where the ambition was to lick the teacher.
Wiley laid down set of rules for observance
by the scholars, but one of the big boys con-
Guided that the rules were not made for him,
he undertook to disregard them and when the
teacher insisted that every scholar must obey
the rules, he undertook to lay out the teacher
But he was awfully surprised when he found
himself going through the window taking sash
and glass with him. This determination Mr.
Wiley has with him still.
The old saying or adage that lightning
never strikes in the same place twice has
suffered an entire collapse. Last Thurs
day evening about o'clock the residents
of The village were startled by vivid
flash of lightning followed by terrific
crash and the alarm was Immediately
given that our new town hall had re-
ceived the full force of this heavy bolt.
Rollo Metcaif had Just passed by the
house and was only few feet from the
building when he was suddenly sur
rounded by flying debris and partially
bewildered for time. Abial Abbott
was driving by at the time and was also
dazed for few minutes. The bolt first
struck the top of the cupola, stripping off
the slate and woodwork and tearing out
the supporting timbers scattering them
in all directions; from thence the fluid
passed to the southeast corner of the
main building, tearing large hole into
the building and completely annihilating
one of the large windows, thence the
course OF the current was around UDe
building between the stories, tearing off
clapboards, boarding, lath and plaster
ing, until it reached the chimney at the
back side of the building; at this point
the fluid in the main seems to have en-
tered the chimney and passed to the
ground. as the chimney is badly damaged
and probably will have to be taken down
as it is thought to be unsafe. Four years
ago the 9Th day of June the old town
house standing upon the same ground
was struck and burned and now in al
most the exact place the new building
was the aim of the invisible but powerful
destroyer The building is insured
through the agency of E. S. Leonard,
but at the time of writing the loss has
not been adjusted.