Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-06-24
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE q, 1896.
Bellows Falls News.
Mrs. Emily Smith is riding new bi

DAY the Fourth.
Good music for dancing all day at Lake
Walden July 4th.
A fine bouquet of white roses from ID.
M. Damon came past the sanctum to the
Job department of the TIMES. Thanks for
them.
The church organs here and at Saxtons
River have been tuned and repaired during
the past week by II. P. Seaver of Spring
field, Mass.
Quite number of Bellows Falls citizens
drove to Saxtons River Saturday evening,
attending the lawn party on, the academy
campus.
About 20 members of the local G. A.
r. and w. r. G. attended the reunion and
basket picnic in Chester last Saturday, and
all report an unusually pleasant time.
Mrs. Fred Saker gave tea party to the
elderly ladies of the neighborhood Monday
in honor OF her mothers, Mrs. Perkins,
72d birthday.
The Rockingham farmers have been hav-
ing sorry time with dogs again. One
farmer having flock of over so sheep has
about 20 left. Several dogs have been
killed, and it is hoped the right ones.
j. O. Smith, former resident and bust
ness man here, has just purchased farm a
short distance out from Brattleboro village.
He is proprietor of line Of public coupes
in that village.
The ST. Johnsbury Epworth League will
meet at Barton, VT, next week, and special
rate tickets will be on sale at the Boston
4 Maine stations, which will be good 60
ing June 80 and July /, and returning
until July 2.
The opportunity of life time; 60 to
Lake Walden on July 4th and see the pro-
fessional athletic events. Tickets from
Bellows Falls 81 for the round trip, in
Guiding admission to the grove, good 60
ing on $50 and $50 A. NJ, trains and re-
turning on train leaving Lake Walden at
5.37 P. N.
The opening by the Pine Dell boat
club tomorrow evening promises to be a
very pleasant affair. Refreshments will be
served at the boat house, and dancing
enjoyed. Both steamers will be brought
into requisition to accommodate members
of the club and invited guests.
Sail boats are quite fad this season.
Those owning boats are H. R. Thompson,
George F. Ball two, AL Godsoe, F. II.
Kimball and John and Simon Mcleod.
Most of the boats have been rugged with
heavy centre boards and the sails increased
from 90 to 100 or 125 feet. Tests Of
speed have thus far favored Mr.. Ball.
''Pen and Sunlight Sketches" and s'Fish,
ing and Hunting Resorts head the title
page of two pamphlets sent out by the
Grand Trunk railway system. The former
is generously illustrated and is book of
30s pages replete with information for
travellers. Fish, game, livery, hotel and
general facilities are treated in the latter.
A most excellent concert will be given
in Saxtons River this evening by the Har-
ward male quartet, Miss Eldridge, elocu-
ZIONIST, will assist. The occasion is COM
mencement and the annual entertainment
given by Vermont Academy. Tickets are
only 80 cents and can be had OF Mr..
Graves at Saxtons River.
The first locomotive of the Rutland road
to come here after repainting and lettering
was No. 232, which began running Satur-
day. 1t has been in the shops at Rutland
some weeks, and thoroughly repaired. 1T
is one of the best engines on the road, and
looks finely in its new coat. The tank has
the word Rutland on it in large letters,
painted white.
The mileage books OF the Rutland road
are of an entirely new style and there is
quite difference OF opinion among travel
ing men as to liking them. They are
longer than the ordinary books, and mar
rover, having the 20 tickets in one row
upon page, instead of two. They do not
fit readily into the little cases made for the
purpose used by those carrying number
of them.
Logmen say this is bad weather for log
driving owing to the very low water. Some
of the Van Dyke drive is as far down a.
Wells River, but the rear is hung up OF
the Is mile falls. The Ammonoosuc branci
of the Fall Mountain drive comes yer,
slowly while there is some four or five
million feet at Woodsville, there is still man,
thousands of feet in the branches of tha
river which cannot be moved. The White
river is even in worse condition.
L. L. Wetherbee has come into the pos
session of a choice relic,-the old bricl
box which was first used in collecting toll
at the toll bridge. MIR. Wetherbee's grea
great grandfather was the builder of tn
bridge and this relic has always been KEEP
in the family, being until recently In tn
possession of Mrs. Lucy Wood of Hyd'
Park, Mass. The back in the box is sewet
together with shoe-maker's waxed end
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