Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-23
WALPOLE.

| Renew your TIMES at the postoffice.
| W. l.. Sage is at T. N. Hastingss.
DIR. Cannon of Providence, II. l., is III
| town.
| Miss Mary Aldrich of Boston is in town
| this week.
| Mrs. Anna Wright spent Wednesday in
| Boston.
| Waldo F. Hayward is visiting friends in
| Cambridge, Boston and vicinity.
| Miss Mary Il. Maynard returned Tuesday
evening from a trip to Boston.
DIR. Richardson attended the medical meet
| ing held in Keene, Thursday of this week
| Concreters from Clarcnont are ut L. N
Hastings, recovering the driveway, walks,
| etc.
Mrs. George b. Holland and Miss Mamie
left for Boston on Wednesday for few day S
outing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Watkins of Springfield,
Vt, have been in town this week at Edward
Wells's.
George p. Porter has been in Boston this
week, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Charles
Whitney.
This town was well represented at Hoyt's
play, "a Midnight Bell'', given in Bellows
Falls last evening.
Mrs. Miriam Nicholson and family from
New York City arrived for the summer yes
Gerday afternoon.
We are informed that the building owned
by Thomas Dinsmore of Alstead and used
last year a bake-shop is now offered for
sale.
ID. w. Smith and Rowe Wier went troutinc
Monday in Westmoreland and secured 20
speckled beauties, weighing one-half pound
and over.
Exercises appropriate to Decoration day
are being prepared by our graded school, and
will be given in the high school rooms next
Friday afternoon.
Tickets for the commencement concert to
be given June 9th, will be on sale Monday
morning, May 25th, at c.. G.. Davis's drug
store. Seats 25 and 35 cents.
The gray horse owned by Fred Graves died
suddenly the first of the week, about 20 min
utes after return trip from Keene, the ami
NAL being apparently in sound health up to
that time.
The drama under rehearsal for the benefit
OF the Unitarian society and advertised for
the 9th of this month, has been postponed
until June, the announcement being made
later of the date.
A Pomona grange meeting is to be held at
Alstead next Wednesday. G. w. Stanley and
q. X. Jennison, members of the grange in
this town, have been invited to speak on the
question for discussion, which is: "How
shall we get the largest returns from our land
and stock -
The annual business meeting of the ladies'
aid society will be held at the Congregational
church parlors, Wednesday afternoon,
May 9th, at o'clock. The election of Off
GERS for the missionary society, adjourned
from last week Friday, will be held also at
that time and good attendance is solicited.
A class of four, Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Prentiss, Mrs. Lucius Wellington, and Will
liam Brown, were initiated into the third and
fourth degrees at Walpole grange Tuesday
evening. The initiation was followed by the
usual harvest supper and social hour was
then enjoyed. About 81 were present, includ-
ing few guests from the grange in West
minister. a committee was appointed to
make arrangements for the Pomona meeting,
which will be held here in June.
+. ID. Smaley has been appointed manager
OF the branch establishment of the Boston
Dairy Co. recently located at Bellows Falls.
The milk business is conducted on quite an
extensive scale, 600 cans being received daily,
and the milk run through Il separator, $50 gall
Ions of cream being sent every morning to
Boston. The milk is then sold out at | cent
Il quart to chance customers. and refuse milk
at - cents barrel for swill. This milk,
which, at present, is the surplus, is supplied
from the towns of Athens, Cambridgeport.
West Parish. Rockingham, etc, and later
when there is a shortage will be sent direct
TO Boston.
Mrs. Howard has 20 children in attendance
at her dancing class at Dusmore hall, and all
seem to be making rapid progress in that art
under her skillfu tuition. At present, Mrs.
Howard is very busy preparing her juvenile
class of 13 members which she has under her
instruction in keene for the grand exhibition
ball TO be given about the middle OF June.
The fairy dance, never before presented III
this vicinity, will be feature of the evening.
in which little Majorie Elder as queen of the
fairies and Paul Woodward as king take part
with 20 other children. Several other cxhibi-
ton dances will be given also.