Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-07-11
WALPOLE,

Harry Tollerton from Wisconsin is in
town.
Rev. and Mrs. G, I. Bard spent Tuesday in
Keene,
| George M. Seabury has been home from
Boston for few days.
| j. Wallace Burbee is at work on the foun-
dations of his new house.
Miss Fannie Beal of Keene is the guest this
week Of Rebecca Hooper.
Miss Hood OF Morristown, Nj, is spend.
ing several weeks in town.
Mrs. II. M. Stoddard of West Westminster,
VT, is at Oliver j. Hubbards.
Frank w. Porter and wife of Chicago are
making their annual stay in town at the Elm
wood.
John P. Holmes is driving new horse,
having recently snapped with c. P. ellison
| of Chesterfield.
Miss Edith Platts has returned from a few
weeks absence with friends in Fitzwilliam,
Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. George Smith and little son of East
/, Longmeadow, Mass, are spending two weeks
with Mrs. L. S. Taggard.
Mrs. Oliver Joslin, who has been so criti-
cally ill for several weeks, is improved some
| what at present writing.
Waldo Burt has returned from his trip to
the sea-shore, and, we are glad to learn, is
greatly improved in health.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Selkirk and six chill
dren from Holyoke, Mass, are visiting at
John Selkirk's on Prospect Hill.
| j. w. Fitch Of Cornish, N. H., agent for
the Grange Life Insurance Co., was IN town
Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren B. Chaplin of Fitch
burg, Mass, spent Wednesday here with
| friends en- route for Bellows Falls and Ches-
| ter. Il
Misses Fanny and Emily ,Jennson left to-
day for Martha's Vineyard to attend the sum-
mer institute held there during the next four
| weeks.
William F. Sherman of Lawrence, Mass,
| has rented Mrs. A. E. Kenricks house for
the next two months and will arrive with his
family next week.
Leave subscriptions and renewals for the
TIMES at the postofficei also advertisements
and local notices which will receive prompt
| and careful attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Howard were obliged
| to postpone their trip, mentioned in last
| Saturdays issue, for few days owing to the
quite serious illness of Mrs. Howard.
F. A. Lebourveau is the late recipient of a
handsome gift from John Uhl of New
York City, namely, his chestnut mare 'sRose'' ,
which is valued at about $500, is registered,
| and is standardized.
Walter b. Wightman and wife of Milwau-
kee were in town few days this week. Mr..
Wightman returned Thursday to the west,
Mrs. Wightman intending to remain some
time in Fitchburg with relatives.
party of five gentlemen from New York
City, Messrs. j. Z Nicholson, George Hoe,
j. NJ. Droemus, Charles Galloway, and G. p.
Harmon, arrived Friday evening of last week
on the late train and spent the 4th and the
day following at Mrs. Nicholson's, returning
Monday afternoon.
The actors in ga Scrap of Paper" the
drama so successfully presented at the parish
house recently, have organized under the
name of "The Unity Footlights'' and have
elected officers as follows: President, Rev.
F. W. Pratt; secretary and treasurer, Miss
Mary.E. Maynard stage managers, Mrs. Mary
ii. Hastings; selecting and casting committee,
Mrs. f. W. Pratt and Mrs. J. G.. Bellows.
About IS new volumes have recently been
added to the Library and will now be ready
for distribution. They are mostly fiction iu-
Guiding the later novels, "Madelon" by Mary
wilkins, 'sTom' Grogan'' etc. with Mrs.
Browning's poems and copy of ''Western
Verse" by Eugene Field; the Life and Letters
of Maria Mitchell and DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes are on the list, and n new edition OF
"Cranford" those charming stories of Eng.
lish life by Mrs. Gaskell has been added also
An interesting program appropriate to the
Fourth was presented at the Grange Tuesday
i evening under the direction of Mrs. j. III
Graves. A word-picture of the Boston tea
party was given BY Edwin Guild, who alss