Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-02-22
New Hampshire News.
WALPOLE.

Renew your TINES for '96 at the post
office.
Misses Jennie and Kate Watkins spent
Thursday in keene
Mr. Morse. agent for 90 The Peoples
Encyclopaedia, was in town Thursday.
Warren kingsbury, W G. Leonard and
Charles B. Davis are each putting in slo.
Miss Annie BufIum is home for weeks
vacation from the Springfield high s~nool.
Don't tail to attend the lecture by Prof.
Lamson in the town hall on Tuesday even
ing.
Mrs T. B. BuiIum retuned Wednes-
day from a months absence IN New lork
city.
Mrs Mary H. Hastings is i'll, having
been confined to the house for several days
past.
MIR. and Mrs. NJ. II. Gorham intend
leaving Monday for trip 70 South Boston
and vicinity.
Mrs Charles E. Watkins is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. G. II. Davis, in Chester
field N II.
Miss Lillian Hale, who has been spend
ing a few days in Boston, returned home
Thursday.
1t is rumored that preparations are
being made for a masquerade ball to be
given in few weeks.
The property OF the Mountain Spring
Brewing company is advertised for sale on
Friday, February 28.
Business is rushing at the Adams's steam
mill, about 10000 feet OF timber being
gotten out every day.
Five couples from here attended the
closing bali OF Long & Chambers dancing
school in >eene Tuesday evening.
Notice the offer Tor the semi-weekly
TINES to new subscribers four months Tor
% cents. Give the paper trial.
Mrs. Jane Roberts, Who has been in
town fortwo weeks past, returned 10 her
home in Putney Friday morning
A Democratic causus is called for this
evening in the town hall and Republican
caucus in the engine hail at 730 sharp.
The ladies' aid society is preparing a
barrel OF clothing and other necessities for
school for negroes in North Carolina.
Charles H. Barnes has raised % pigs
this winter. They are extra nice fat ones
and he has already refused SIX cents per
pound for them.
Owing 10 the severe cold Monday morn
ing several hundred young plants IN Clii-
ford Kinds greenhouse We're badly FROST
bitten, despite extra precautions taken to
keep them from freezing.
Miss Gibson is expected home in a few
DAYS to remain in town until about the
middle of March, when she will leave for
her mission school in South Africa.
Mrs. Ellen Farmsworth of Bernardston,
Mass, was in town few days recently, and
we believe she intends to remove here in
april, occupying her house on lligh street.
The meetings of the Golden Cross whcih
are held in Grange hall the second and
fourth Tuesdays in each month, are to be
held on "Wednesday evenings while the
grange course OF lectures continue.
The entertainment to be given by our
graded school next Friday evening will
consist Of recitations, readings, vocal and
instrumental music, and flag drill. Fur
ther particulars will appear iii Wednesdays
paper.
Miss Burbank, who taught in No. II
this winter, offered prize to the pupl
making the most Improvement in reading
during the term. A marked change for the
better was noticeable in nearly all the
pupils, but the prize, which was prettily
bound volume of :. Irimm's Fairy Tales,
was awarded to Mabel Watkins.
We are unable to furnish program fol
the temperance convention to be held mex
Wednesday in the Congregational church
but judging from the past, it will be {
meeting of interest with popular speakers
1t is hoped there will be large attendance
for SO worthy a cause.
1t is reported that George G. Wells ha
sold out his blacksmitliing business to FREQ
Prentiss We understand that Mr.. Prem
tiss will leave his old shop on Turnpike
street and locate in his new one, as 1t i
!, more central, and that the transfer of prop
, erty includes the services of Carl Smith
also retaining in his employ L. w. Barker
two very popular and reliable workmen-
Surprise parties are in high favor thi
winter. The last of which we have recor'
| was on Thursday eve when seven lad
friends of Misses Amy and Alice Jenning
appeared to them bearing a handsome oa
tea table as reminder OF their birthday
The anniversary is on Monday next, bu
D these friends, in their wisdom, planned tn
e celebration few days previous in orde
d that the surprise might be the more con
: plete. The evening was pleasantly passe
y in card playing and refreshments wer
1 served
e A class of nine received the third an
e fourth degrees at Walpole Grange, Taei
day evening. The imitation was followe
: by the usual harvest supper, which W;
g served to about 80 members and guest
Westmoreland, Surry and Westminst'
!. Oranges being repr, r,sented. Il social goo
/ time was reported and the meeting a,
o journed at late hour. The names of Il
d new members are as follows: Mr.. and MIR
A. b. Wilson. Mrs. Sidney llemmenwa
8 Mrs. George ID. Stanly. Mrs. John
i Weber, sliss Gertrude Watkins, Mi
Grace Towne, and the Misses WellIngto
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