Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-08-29
Vermont Notes.

1t is estimated that there are 800
summer visitors ON the shores of Lake
Bomoscen in Castleton, and Lake st.
Catherine in Wells.
James Boutwell, has bought out the
Landgon Granite company, operators
of one of the largest Barre quarries.
Boutwell, was the manager.
The old depot at Hyde Park has been
moved across the track and practically
rebuilt, making it when completed one
of the best stations on the line.
A subscription of $1,000 was made
recently to the endowment fund of
Craftsbury academy. This doubles the
present endowment. Friends hope to
raise it to $4,000.
Mrs. Daniel McGovern of Montpelier
tried to commit suicide last Friday by
throwing herself in front of Central
Vermont train and jumping into the
river. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
Out of 68 persons who took the Rut-
land county examinations for teachers
only II passed. Miss Mary l. Novak,
who graduated at the Rutland high
school last term, received the highest
percentage of scholarship.
The following Vermonters have been
granted letters patent recently: Will
bert f. Gilman of Springfield, lathe
for turning lasts; Charles N. Hart,
Pittsford, bride bit; Fred E. Smith,
Moscow, machine for making butter
boxes.
News has been received at her former
home in Ryegate of the death of Mary
/ ri fol in,
Ceylon. Miss Leitch and her sister
raised 81 900 for Jaffna college in Great
Britain, and were very successful mis-
sionaries.
The Vermont Granite company
and the Eclat Granite company of
Barre have received from Badger Bros.
of Quincy, Mass, the order for two
Pennsylvania State monuments, which
grounds of Chickamauga.
The third annual field day of the
Odd Fellows of district No. was held
on the fair grounds at st. Johnsbury
Saturday, August "a. The day was
devoted to sports, athletic contests,
races, band concert, and general
reunion of the Odd Fellows and their
families and friends.
F. E. Witham, prominent Congre-
gational preacher of Rutland, has
applied for a divorce in the Oklahoma
courts. He alleges that his wife has an
ungovernable temper and would at
time break up the furniture and Crive
him from the house and that she left
her home and neglected her children to
deliver lectures.
Adams L. Miller of Derby Line was
arrested Monday by the United States
authorities for smuggling. Adams is
one of the most prominent citizens of
Derby Line, holding the offices of
deputy sheriff, constable and taX-col-
lector, 8 and trustee of the village.
Bonds in $500 were furnished and the
case continued to August 80.
The second annual meeting of the
Vermont State Pharmaceutical Associ-
alton in Burlington last week elected
these officers President, A. M. Hig-
gins, Rutland !; first vice president, B.
M. Styles; second vice president, w. H.
Gladding, Barre third vice president,
A. w. Livingstone, North Troy sec
rotary, H. A. Chaplin, Brattleboro !;
treasurer, F. w. Pierce, Chester.
A. J. Johnson of HeartwellviIle
recently went fishing at Crooked pond,
near GuilfOrd's mills. He took with
him a valuable bulldog, which was a
pet in the family. While on the pond
in the afternoon, fishing, he heard a
big racket in the bushes where he had
left the dog, and also heard him bark
ing and growing. He hurried to the
shore and went into the bushes just in
time to see a large black bear stride
across little clearing there was in the
forest on the other side. The bulldog
was on the ground gasping, and before
Johnson could reach him he was dead.
The bear had clawed off one side of the
dogs head and bitten him through the
spine. Bears are unusually numerous
in this section this summer, and several
have been killed in Bennington and
POWnal.
Brattleboro has on an average nearly
as many trolley accidents as Brooklyn.
Last week there were no less than
three. Mrs. Harriet Goodnow of
Nottingham prefers claim against
the company for wrenched knee sus-
tanned in stepping off the car. She
claims that it started too quickly be-
fore she had time to get off. The COM
pany claims that it waited a suitable
time, while others got off at the same
tllbC, anu llldt BIC ulSl LOl yet up uHIll
they were off substantially. ID. P.
Cobb undertook to beard car which
was going slowly down the Main street
hill Monday evening, and having a
sickle in one hand seized hold of the
perpendicular rail with the other and
as it was the hand whose wrist he
broke last winter, and the fingers were
stiff, he got twisted and broke the
third finger near the third iOipt He
did not motion for the car to stop, but
took it for granted that it was going to,
SO he does not blame the company in
any way. Carl Winchester, who was
disciplining Mrs. E. f. Brooks's horse
to get used to the car, sat watching it
on Oak street Wednesday, when the
animal squatted down under the thills,
hoisted him out, stripped off the har-
ness and ran into the yard. He was
not hurt and no harm was done.