Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-11-18
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. Is, 1896.
Bellows Falls Locals.

James B. Sullivan last Thursday.
The Shakespeare club met at thevestry
of the Universalist church Monday even
ing at 7.30. Miss Head read.
The Odd Fellows in Saxtons River are
to have Thanksgiving ball Wednesday
evening, November %. Weeden's orches-
ira will furnish the music.
The ladies' society Of the Universalist
church at its last meeting decided to hold
fair at Union hall Thursday afternoon
and evening, December 10.
Montpelier Trap Shooting club will
entertain with shoot in the afternoon of
November 10. Sportsmen throughout the
state are invited to join in the shoot.
j. S. Cooley's talk in the high school
room Saturday morning on vertical writing
was attended by 80 or 40 teachers and was
much enjoyed. He succeeded in making
some of his auditors believe that the verti-
cal system is the only proper one.
Beginning next month all the teachers
of North Walpole will meet once in two
weeks with Rev. E. E. Marggraf for the
study Of psychology. The class will con-
sist Of F. V. Thompson and Misses Katie
O'Brien, Kate Buxton, Nellie Hartnett,
Agnes King and Mary Powers. Tully's
work on psychology will be used as text
book.
E, H. Rogers and family, who for some
time have been residents of the town, will
soon remove to Boston. The recent death
of Mr.. Rogers father makes this change
imperative, as he will have charge Of his
fathers business. Mr.. Rogers and family
have been very prominent in the work Of
Emmanuel church and will be much missed
not only there but by many friends to whom
they had become endeared socially.
Once in four years the postoffice depart
ment requires that the mails from every
office be weighed for period of 50 days
in order that rates for transportation may
be arranged with the railroads. Accord
ingly all out going and in coming mails in
this section were weighed from October 7
to November 10 with the following results
Bellows Falls q, $3.50 pounds, Brattleboro
35,S27 pounds, Keene $4,000 pounds,
Greenfield, Mass, So, 900 pounds.
Milton Jennison of Westminster had an
unpleasant experience recently. He start
ed to row across the Connecticut river in a
small boat in the night and collided with a
log which could not be seen in the dark
ness. The boat was overturned and sank
but the boy managed to climb upon the
log and was saved from drowning. The
boys cries attracted his fathers attention
and he was rescued after having foated
i down the river about half mile.
A concert and dance will be given at the
town hall in Alstead on Monday evening
November %, which will attract many
from here. Miss Hattie Woodbury. Clarke
well known in town, Miss Nellie Louise
Woodbury. Of Alstead, and other noteG
musicians in this vicinity will take part anc
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Blakley will give some
of her popular recitations. Dancing will
follow the musical and literary treat.
DR.. Thomas D. Quackenboss, who il
staying in New London, N. H., has writ
ten an interesting letter to. patron o
Lake Sunapee in which he details at length
the efforts being made to stock that LAKE
and the brooks that run into it with game
fish. Fifty Sunapee lake trout have beer
given the New York f h commissioners t.
be placed in Lake George, in return fol
which Commissioner F. G. Cheney of tina
state has furnished consignment of Eng
lish trout, which has been placed in Chand
Ter brook, in New London, and 1000, 00(
pike perch, which have been turned loose il
Lake Sunapee. Two cans of Caledonia
trout have been placed in Lake Sunape'
and the brooks about the lake have beer
stocked with fresh water shrimp as foot
for the fish.
Vermont Academy offers rare trea
Saturday evening at which time Charles f
Underhill, the impersonator, will recit,
Grip Van Wrinkle" OF his Burlington
appearance the Free Press says: sin thi
series of recitals Mr.. Underhill has proven
himself to be an artist of the first rank an,
is probably at his best in rip" He ha
a digniied stage presence, intellectual
force and powerful and at the same tim
melodious voice. His personality is en-
tirely lost sight of, and all the familia
faces are on the stage as if he were sur
rounded by a company of artists"
Peyton r. Chandler, who died last weel
Tuesday in Chicago, was born at Saxton
River January 90, 1917. He was in tn
mercantile business at Putney for SOM
years, and married Levinah, younges
daughter of Artemus Knight of Brattle
boro. Under his supervision the Vernon
Valley railroad from Brattleboro to Bel
lows Falls was constructed and he wa
superintendent of the road for severa
years. He went to Chicago 40 years ag'
where he founded and was the first presi