Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30
Vermont Notes.

a depth of several inches all over the
state
Ex-senator Edmunds has give $50
| for the assistance of the st. Adams fire
sufferers.
The board of managers of the Yer
mont Baptist historical society will
meet at Bennington June 3.
The annual meeting of the Rutland
county Christian Endeavor societies
was held at Rutland, last Friday.
The Mad River Fair association will
hold their June meeting on their
grounds in Waitsfield on Tuesday,
! June IL.
Prof. Arthur Fairbanks and family
of st. Johnsbury have sailed from New
York and will spend the summer in
Germany.
James E. Tracy, the popular editor
| of the Winooski Journal, was married
last week to Miss Mary r.. Long of
| Winooski.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Michaud of Burling-
ton assisted in the laying of the corner
stone of the new hospital at st. Johns
bury last Sunday.
A convention of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society of st. Adams dis
trict, Vermont conference was held in
the M. E. church, Underhill, Tuesday.
The Caledonia county convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was held in the Congregational
church at Barnet Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Vermont stands at the head of all
states in the amount of maple sugar
| 900 900 ,,lnnIc nd
with the sugar 100000 gallons of
molasses.
The grand master and grand secre-
tary of the German order of the Ham,
gari have established a woman's lodge
or Herta Groed, in connection with
Goethe lodge in Burlington.
The st. Johnsbury district Methodist
preachers met at Barre Friday there
being a large attendance. The sermon
in the evening was by Rev. Edward
Smith of Montpelier seminary.
Rev. Alexander McGeorge of Ben
nington has resigned the pastorate of
the Baptist church, the same to take
effect the second Sunday in June. Mr..
McGeorge will go to New York city to
engage in missionary work.
Senator Proctor attended the funeral
of Gen. Cogswell last Saturday being
designated by request of Gen. Cogs-
wells family, by the vice president as
one of the representatives of the senate
to attend the funeral.
Charles H. Smith, the bicyclist, who
was killed in a collision with an cleo
trio car at Lowell Mass, last Saturday,
was native of Tunbridge,. though he
was living at Nashua. His body was
taken home Monday.
The annual encampment of the Yer
mont division Sons of Veterans will
be held in st. Adams June Is or
10, owing to the fact that the only avail
able hall in Vergennes was recently
destroyed by fire. st. Adams fortu-
nately saved it's halls from the recent
condagration so that it can accommO-
date the delegates.
st. Adams is now posing as the great
showp place of Vermont. Throngs of
curious people visit the ruins of the
fire every day, coming from all parts of
the state. The Central Vermont rail-
road runs excursions to accommodate
people who desire to look upon the
melancholy evidence of the greatest
disaster by fire that ever visited this
section of New England.
Rutland is to have new track on
the fair grounds in that city which will
| be second to none in the state. G. NJ
Delaney, the well known track builder,
and A. r. Dow, the civil engineer
went to Rutland Saturday and laid out
the track, which will be built from the
plans and specifications submitted by
them. When completed it will be one
of the fastest half mile tracks in New
England.
There were So regular and nine
mutual insurance companies interested
in the st. Adams fire. Twenty-siX adj
iusters, representing the different COM
panies were in St. Adams last week.
The total amount of insurance involved
is S465, 900. The chairman of the board
of underwriters estimates that the COM
panies will be obliged to pay out $685.
900 insurance. This amount will not
vary $4,000 either way.
The Vermont state fair will be held
at Howard park Burlington, Septem-
Der 3, 4, 5, and 6, and promises to be
one of the best in the history of the
state. Secretary Hawkins books show
that there are 195 entries to the races.
| The stakes amount to nearly $500. The
unusually long list is partly due to the
new trotting circuit and partly to the
liberal stakes offered by the directors,
who are determined that the next state
| fair shall be the best exhibition of the
kind ever given in Vermont. Only one
of the scheduled races failed to fill.
That was No. a, the our-year-old race,
which has accordingly been declared
off.
Heavy Liquor Raids.