Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-09
WALPOLE.

DIR. John E. Hale and wife of Boston are in
town.
Miss Sylvia Guild is home from White
River junction, vt.
Miss Nellie DriscoH has returned from
trip to Easthampton, Mass.
Mrs. Fred Prentiss is recovering from an
attack of infammatory rheumatism.
Remember the services in No. school
house Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. F. M. Bowman and Mrs. Warren ID.
Knowlton have been in Boston the past week.
Mrs. w. C. Banning and Misses Dorothy
and Helen are visiting friends in Lyme,
Conn.
Ten cent offer to July lst for the semi
weekly TINES. Leave subscription at the
postof1ice
Mrs. William Hall is in Leominster, Mass,
spending Il few weeks with her daughter
Mrs. E. II. Chaplin.
Miss Anna Hitchcock left for her home in
Boston the last of this week, accompanied by
her cousin, Miss Wright of Rutland, vt.
The cows at the Homestead Farm were
tested for tuberculosis Thursday; seven of
them, it was found, would not stand the test.
G. r. Crowell, who was in town for a few
days recently, left Tuesday with his team, in
tending to drive to his home in Boston.
Sam Seabury has been appointed captain of
the Mazeppa fire company; the engine was
taken out last Saturday evening for inspec-
ton
The property of the Mountain Spring
Brewing Co. was sold last Monday for taxes,
the purchaser being the town of Walpole, and
amount of claim $7S4 bearing interest at II
per cent until settled.
Moses J. Hale died suddenly Wednesday,
May 6, at his home on Prospect hill, aged rs
wears. Mr.. Hale has lived in town for Il great
many wears and was a very Industrious man,
Ia, ,Ixy Tod Nv.
and two sons, DIR. John E. and Dudley p. of
Boston and two daughters, Mrs. Abbie Whit
ney and Miss Lillian 4. of this town. Funeral
services were held at the house Friday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
| The calico party held at the parish house
"Wednesday evening, proved a pleasant and
successful affair. Some very pretty light
gowns worn indicative of "gentle
SPRING while among the gentlemen who ap-
peared in costumes, which were at once
stylish and becoming, H. A. Perry bore off
the palm for one both simple and unique, and
/ G. b. Williams, Jr. is deserving of very hon
orable mention. The ice cream and cake
found a ready sale and dancing enjoyed
1 until II O'Clock, Miss Arnold furnishing
/ piano music.
There was a good attendance at Walpole
] grange on Tuesday evening, about 60 being
1 present with a few guests from neighboring
| oranges. After the initiation into the first
and second degrees of the class of four, reso-
lutions were passed on the death of Mrs.
Emma L. Wilder, late of Surry, wife OF
Daniel Wilder, worthy master of the grange
in that town, also letter read from DIR.
Craig of Westmoreland in reply to letter OF
coincidence sent from this grange on the re-
cent death of Mrs. Craig.
Francis Bellows Knapp died in Plymouth,
Mass, Wednesday, May 6, at the home OF
Mrs. Frederick n. Knapp. He was born in
Roxbury, Mass, May 80, 1870, the oldest son
4 Of nd I Rplln,yS X He
graduated from the Divinity school in Har-
ward college in 1913 hut afterwards relin-
quished the profession of ministry and fol-
lowed the occupations of farmer and teacher.
He was well versed i'll classical literature and
an accomplished Spanish and Norwegian
scholar, at one time translating Icelandic
work from Latin into English. Mr.. Knapp
spent the greater part of his life in town al
the old family homestead on DIR. Bellows hill
but the Last ten years he has lived in Ply