Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-07-18

An anti-cigarette league has been Or
ganized in the Newport schools.
An old-fashioned firemen's muster is
to be held in Nashua August sth.
The salary of the Bristol postmaster
has been raised 500, making it $500.
The Exeter police judge has sent a
man to Jail for go days for stealing an
umbrella.
Seventy-five elk and deer were re-
Gently counted in one herd in Austin
Corbin's park at Croydon.
William B. Leavitt of Grantham the
publisher of Leavitt's Almanac, is hale
and hearty at SO years of age.
Several shares of the stock of the Ber-
lin building and loan association sold
recently at premium of $36.
While bathing in the river few days
ago Joseph Hurard of Somersworth
was taken with cramps and drowned.
Two-thirds of the number of pris-
oners now in the New Hampshire state
capped from the institution.
Miss Mabel Ruggles, eldest daughter
of Professor Ruggles of Dartmouth col
lege, was married last week to Valentine
w. Eaton Of Memphis, Tenn.
The following fourth-class postmas-
ter was appointed last week. New
Hampshire; G. w. Blanchard, Barn.
stead, vice Edgar Jenkins, resigned.
The old Brown" house, a familiar
and uhsightly landmark at Ossipee.
was partially torn down by a party of
about 80 citizens under cover Of dark
ness one night recently.
A life-sized effigy of man was hang
ing upon Warren street telephone
pole in Concord on the morning of the
Fourth. The placard bore the inscrip-
ton: concord q Montreal: leased for
81 years"
Mary j. Bunchar, for many years city
librarian at Manchester, also nurse in
the hospital during the rebellion, died
last week at the residence of her sister.
Mrs. Evan B. Hammond in Nashua of
apopleNy.
A destructive fire occurred at Han
over Thursday night. Kaufman's store
gether with two other dwelling houses
in the immediate vicinity. Loss about
$4,000. Insured.
On tombstone in Landau Center is
the following: "Widow Susanna
Brownson was born August 8, 1899 and
died June II, 1902, aged 103 years. y
The remarkable part of this record is
that Mrs. Brownson lived in the 18th,
18th and 10Th centuries.
Gen. John Ell. Brown of Bristol, Con-
cord & Montreal official, comes out of
the railroad deal right side up. He has
just been appointed claim agent of the
White Mountain and Concord divisions
and that portion of the southern divi-
sion north of this city, with office in
Concord.
On the night of the 9th burglars en-
tered the store of J. w. Garvin & Co.,
at Sanbornville, in which the postoffice
is situated, blew open the safe and Sc
cured S195, S65 being in stamps. The
cash drawer was then pillaged of $40.
There is no clew to the guilty parties.
At Portsmouth last Thursday the
police captured Max Barrett and David
! Newman of Rochester, N. Y, who
were engaged in working an eyeglass
swindle. On their agreeing to refund
the money secured from parties and
leaving town, they were allowed to de-
part.
A. G. Whittemore, receiver of the de-
funct Dover National bank, has de-
clared dividend of 25 per cent, paya-
BILE in 10 days, which, with the one paid
in May, makes total of IS per cent.
He expects to wind up the affairs of the
bank by the LIST of January, 1896.
Manchester was visited by the heav-
lest rain storm in many years on the
9th, and thousands of dollars damage
was done in the city. The rain poured
in torrents for over two hours and the
streets in many places were washed
away. Many cellars were flooded and
the electric car lines were almost totally
paralyzed. Many business houses suf-
fered heavily.
George Tirrell, young man en-
! ployed in Manchester, while driving
from his home in Goffstown to Lake
| Massabesic, to attic nd party, was held
up by two masked men, who sprang
from the bushes at the side of the road
and relieved him of his money, amount
ing to S21. The robbers asked him for
his watch, but, on being told he had
none, they told him to drive on.
John Banks, aged Is years, was in
stantly killed at Dover July g He was
looking down the elevator well in the
Moulton shoe factory when the car
came down and caught him by the
neck, breaking it. He was wedged in
SO tightly between the elevator and the
| floor that the latter had to be cut away
before the body could be removed.
The second annual exhibit of the New
Hampshire Horticultural society will
be held in Concord October l, 2 and 8.
The premium lists have been distribu-
! ted, and in addition to the awards,
much information is given relative to
the various classifications, rules and
other important matters in connection
with the exhibit and the distribution OF
the 500 in prizes.
What is believed to be the largest gIa.
cial bowlder in this country is near the
point where the towns of Madison, Tam.
worth and Conway join. 1t is one OF
the wonders of the world and yet COM
paratively few people know of it's ex-
istence and there are many living with
| in few miles of it who never saw it.
Marshall Tidd of North Woburn, Mass,
recently examined it, and found it to be
SS feet long, A feet high AS feet wide and
226 feet in circumference, weig hing 16, 800
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