Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-02-19
THE TIM rs.
WEDNESDAY. FEB. 10, 1896.
Bellows Falls Locals.

Rev. Mr.. Chaplin of Saxtons River will
speak in the Y. M. c. A. rooms Sunday
afternoon.
A meeting of Windham County under
writer's, will held in Towns hotel next
Tuesday.
The Rem Men now hold their regular
meetings on the LIST and Sd Tuesdays OF
each month.
There were ten ladies present at the
ladies' gymnasium Monday afternoon and
two in the evening.
j. A. Cope, one of the passengers in
the accident at Ludlow yesterday, stopped
at Towns hotel last night,
Herbert Gum, an employee of Dunham's
market, is quite sick with typhoid fever at
his home on Green street.
The Episcopal ladies realized about $1S
as the result of the supper given at the
Parish house last evening.
A change has been made this week in
the singing books Of the eighth grade, they
having adopted the Cecilian series.
Oh! the joy of receiving valentine !
So thought the children Of the lower grades
and even some "children " not in school.
Photographer G.. F. Swift went to Lud
low yesterday and secured good negatives
of the wreck which occurred there in the
morning.
The bailiffs have set aside the back hill
on Centre street for coasting purposes and
posted notices asking teamsters claiming
runners to use the other hill.
Saturday being the anniversary OF Wash
ington's birthday and legal holiday, the
postoflice will be closed from until 8
o'clock in the afternoon.
The membership committee of the Y.
M. c.. A. has been very active the past
week, i new names having been added,
making the present membership AL.
The sad news of the death of Mrs c.
G. Moore, formerly of this place and later
Of Bridgewater, Mass, has been received
here. She died last Saturday of pneumo-
MIA.
The Crescent club of Westminster will
repeat their drama, ''The Flowing Bowl"
next Tuesday. The guitar and mandolin
club from here have received an invitation
to play for them.
Charles H. Brown, who was so seriously
poisoned by coal gas in Montreal some
weeks ago, is convalescing very slowly.
He is able to spend only an hour or so
each day at his office yet.
D. Tomasi, who owns the mercantile
block at the north end Of the Square, re-
turned last Thursday from Italy, leaving
his wife and four children there for the
present. He went Friday to Montpelier
and St. Adams.
Rev. E. E. Marggraf is in Rutland to-
day attending the convention of Young
Peoples Christian Union of Vermont and
the Province of Quebec. He will remain
tomorrow and preach sermon before the
convention in the evening.
The schools in North Walpole closed
yesterday after ten weeks term this win
ter. They will again open during the first
week in April. Prof. F. V. Thompson
will remain in town until after March II
when he will assist in giving an operetta in
St. Peters hall
Twenty-Five young people, mostly mem
bers of, the Bellows Falls Social club,
enjoyed a sleigh ride to Saxtons River last
night going in two teams. They were hos
pitably entertained at the home of William
Coughlin where whist was played and a
supper was served. A delightful time is
reported.
Those who remember the successful
presentation Of breakers Ahead" last
winter will be interested to note the mar.
riage of B. j. Kenyon to Miss Nellie S.
| Case at Prescott, Ont, February s. Miss
Case was one OF the singers in the cast
and Mr.. Kenyon made many friends dur
ing his short stay in town.
Six or eight couples of our young people
had for some weeks been intending to GO
to Rutland Monday afternoon to attend a
ball held there in the evening, but they
gave it up at the last moment. Had they
gone the whole party would have returned
on the Tuesday morning train which went
down the bank with probably disastrous
results.
Three wrecks happened in short success
sion near the scene of yesterdays disaster
at Ludlow. Monday freight car was of
the rails and yesterday morning just a
short time before the accident to the pas
senger, car on an early freight was de-
rallied and dragged on the ties for nearly a
mile before the train could be stopped.
Brosnahan & Blakley bring Cleveland's
minstrels here February %. There will
be three bands and about 75 in the COM
pany.
Appropriate exercises will be rendered