Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-07-11
SPRINGFIELD.

uDIOdu.
Bradley Cutler is clerl1ing with the
Lelands.
Mrs. d, X. Barry of Newport, N. H.,
is in town.
M. Harlow of Claremont was in town
this week.
Ellison is running another team on
his stage line.
Miss Lou Kimball is assisting in the
savings bank.
William Higgins is making additions
to his property.
Myron Brtton of Ludlow was in
town over the 4th.
Ed Brown has been suffering from
sprained shoulder
Mr. and Mrs. e. Keyes have returned
to Springfield, Mass.
M. S. La Fountain of Holyoke, Mass,
enjoyed the 4th here.
Will Graham of Marlborough, Mass.
was visitor the 4th.
Isaac Dodge and family of Amherst,
Mass, are visiting here.
Business is rushing at the Jones &
Lamson machine works.
r. F. Hall of the Springfield Mass. y
Union is visiting in town.
Some of the boys from here wheeled
to Walpole, n. H., Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adna Brown are ex-
pected home the last of this week.
Messrs. Porter & Angel are putting
a new office in their furniture store.
Arthur Marcy of Fitchburg, Mass,
is visiting here with Merrill Damon.
Pictures of the wheelmen here two
weeks ago are exhibited in Wheeler's.
Prof. G. H. Cambridge and brother
of Grafton were visitors here recently.
| The Sells Brothers circus in Bellows
Falls Tuesday drew a number from
here.
| Mrs. Ann Kirk of the west part of
the town died last week and was buried
Friday.
A few from here are in attendance at
the hristian Endeavor convention in
Boston THIS week.
Miss Jennie Head has returned from
her school in Warren, n. H., and is
spending her vacation at home.
The Parks & Woolson Co. are cover
ing the exterior of the new building
and tower with a brick imitation.
The switchboard for the new tele
phone system has arrived and is placed
at the central office at Wheeler's.
Col. H. o. Bixby, formerly with
Sheldon & Witt, now postmaster al
Chelsea, spent Sunday among friends
here.
Several of the emergency fire extin
guishers have been placed among the
private residences and stores about
town.
Miss Zilpha Nourse of Springfield
Mass, and Charles Nourse Of Rutland
were here in attendance at their sister,
funeral.
Misses Alice and Fannie Eldredge
Miss Gregory, and A. X. Van Armin o
Boston and vicinity, are city boarders
at III. M. Arms.
Rev. o. d. Clapp and daughter o.
Windsor and MIR. and Mrs. Wheeler OF
Bellows Fails were visitors recently
with Rev. w. 1. Todd.
Quite number from here will occupy
cottages and spend their vacations al
Sunapee this year. The lake is becom
ing a favorite resort to people in this
vicinity.
The horse OF G. w. Chase, in it's re
cent runaway, was caught by George
Bates while ascending the hill near hi:
farm. The wagon and horse received
no injuries.
A beautiful display of oil painting
decorates the window of Messrs. Porte
& Angel, furniture dealers, which at
tracts the artistic eye of the passer-by
, The artist is Mrs. l.. w. Hodgman
who is uneXceiled in this art in GU
village.
Gates & Co. have developed and arr
exhibiting the photos of the parade TIT
Fourth. They are remarkably clear il
detail, and were taken from differen
points about the village. Many viii
undoubtedly secure one as mementt
of the most glorious Fourth Springfield
! ever saw.
The Boston Journal of Sunday haC
the likeness of Kathleen l.. BiXby il
the group OF Boys and Girls of Jour
nal Readers and the paper says al
: follows " Kathleen l.. BiXby is sly
!, years old. Her home is in Springfield
Vt. She is the daughter of Mr.. JOIN
HI. Bixby. Her mother tells how Kath
, leen came in from play one day anc
asked Mamma, are my eyes too large?
She told her they were not, and askeC
who said they were. Kathleen said
My playmates, and [ told them they
were just as God made them.'"
Miss Mary Nourse, who has been sicf
several weeks with consumption, dice
Friday of last week. She was one o
the estimable young ladies of Spring
field, and although quiet and unassum
ing in manner, she possessed qualities
which endeared her to many friends
and rendered her a favorite in the fam
lily circle. For many years she has
been successful teacher, and won the
love and respect of her scholars. She
was also student and graduate of the
Chautauqua Circle. Her funeral oc
cured Monday afternoon, and many
expressions of love and esteem were
manifest in the profusion of rare and
beautiful flowers which decorated bel
grave.
Springfield celebrated Fourth that
in the annals of town history is not liza.
BILE to repeat itself every Fourth. Nc
expense or time was spared to make il
a success, which it was from beginning
to end, and justly merited the praise ii