Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-06-06
WALPOLE.


Ada Howe left last week for Windham, Vt.
Edith Platts is with friends in Fitzwlliam.
Leave subscription for TIMES at the post
office.
Mrs. Ephraim Slade of Boston is at s. X.
Elwelrs.
A rain-water cistern is being put in at N
A. Wheeer's.
William Culey has recently purchased
colt of Willis Foster.
Mrs. N. A. Wheeler and little Henry are in
Bellows Falls for few weeks stay.
| Fanny Rowland of New York city is the |
guest of her aunt, Mrs. j. G. Bellows.
Mrs. George B. Williams, Jr., is visiting in
Wellesley Hill, Boston and vicinity.
| Mrs. Ethel G. French arrived at Brookside
| cottage Thursday afternoon for the summer
months.
Stephen Slade, an old resident of this place
but now living in Fitchburg, Mass, has been
in town this week.
Mrs. Henry B. Robeson, who has been in
Portsmouth for nearly year past, is in town
for. Il short time.
The Misses Williams from Minneapolis
have been spending a few days with Mrs.
George f. Wilder.
Mrs. G. w. Chickering returned this week
from Nashua, where she has been visiting
friends and relatives.
MIS-. DucklnlnSCcr OF keene has been
town a few days this week, returning to her
home yesterday afternoon.
There was an informal dance in Dinsmore
hall Thursday evening, piano music being
Furnished by Alice and Maud Maynard.
A committee meeting was held at Charles
A. Watkins Wednesday evening tn make
arrangements for the Pomona meeting next
week.
c. r. Crowell is in town again and Mrs. L.
tn1 .,1,x, Hl,,I
wood will be open sometime during the last
of this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom Sherwin of Chester
were in town yesterday to attend the gradu-
ating exercises and the commencement con-
cert i'll the evening.
Russell Hastings caught his hand someway
in his bicycle while riding Wednesday after
noon, injming it so severely as to require
dressing by a physician.
The spring work at the Knapp farm is
being done by d. F. Brown. Mr.. Watkins is
in such poor health that he is unable to do
the entire work this year without assistance
James Foord, who took part in the Smyth
prize reading and speaking at Durham col
lege Tuesday evening, won prize of So
The subject of his defamation was carts
and Letters"
George b. Williams has been in Durham
this week attending the college commence
ment. At the annual meeting of the board
of trustees, which was held Tuesday, he was
re-appointed as one Of the committee on real
estate.
The ladies' aid society met Wednesday
afternoon at the Congregational church par
lors and re-organized the sewing society of
two previous summer. Work for the kurn
Hattin Home is being done and box for
girls school in Armenia which is in the
charge of Miss Blaklely, is being prepared
and will be sent sometime this month.
| al
ent. Jean Sanborn of Boston, who has been
with him in that capacity for a month or two
past, took French leave this week, with
sum of money obtained under such circum-
stances as leaves one to imagine Mr.. San
born's finer moral perceptions are not yet
fully developed and that his ideas of meum
and teum must he somewhat vague. All
efforts to discover his present abiding-place
have proved unsuccessful.
Class-day was observed in the high school
grounds Thursday afternoon The class song
written by Grace Hooper was sung and the
class tree planted with appropriate ceremony.
At the close of the exercises Miss Hooper, i'll
: behalf of the Junior and senior classes, pre-
sented watch-charm to Mr.. Sherwin, gold
piece worth $3.50, inscribed ON one side with
the letters w. H. S. in monogram and '96
and '97 above and below, as a token of their
esteem and regard for him.
The Cuba question was treated in a very
thorough and able manner at Walpole grange
Tuesday evening by Messrs. Guild, Dwinnell,
Burt and Jennison, the discussion being both
interesting and Instructive to all present.
An amusing dialogue, entitled "The Coal
heavens Revenge, was given by five young
men who showed great histrionic talent.
Following this was defamation by Clar
ence Houghton and readings by Mrs. Fred
Ramsay and John Weber. Music was fur
nished by the grange choir. About 20 were
present with a few guests from neighboring
oranges.
F. A. Hatch has in his possession ring
which he found on the old Wilson farm OH
Barnett Hill, this farm being owned by Rowe
: Wier. Mr.. Hatch was passing through the
barn cellar, when in a cavity in the wall
something glittering caught his attention and
among the loosened stones he discovered this
ring. 1t is evidently an old-fashioned mourn
ing ring, and consists of three bands of gold
I set with stone containing hair and sur
e rounded by small black stones some of which
are missing. Inside is this inscription
S "Dec. Francis Wright, obi. 18th June, 1872
i Ae. 56." No one who has seen the ring
seems to have any knowledge of this name
Can any one furnish information on the sub
. ject?
. Cheshire County Pomona grange will meet
with Walpole grange Wednesday, June 10
o in the town hall The meeting is open to the
: public in the afternoon and cordial invita-
= ton is extended to all The following is tho
- program in part Address of Welcome by Ira
w. Ramsay; response, Arthur H. Rugg
question, resolved, that if farmers would cul
tivate less land and do it more thoroughly
J. their profits would be greater and their pro
ducts no less. Speakers-George G. Wright
.. Wapole; A. j. Williams, Keene: Messrs
Wilder and Nesmith, Surry; w. S. Mans
field, Gilsum; Mr.. Jewett from Granite Lake
n grange essay on the question, Mr.. Dwinnell
Walpole; paper, Chow would keep house i
S l were a woman Edwin Guild ESSAY, d. NJ
Spaulding, Keene; reading, G. IL. Barnes
h Walpole.
Republican Caucus.