Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-03-25
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY MARCH rs, 1896,
Vermont Local Notes.
SPRINGFIELD.

4hIo. ". II. bisDCC anu MISS tAltCc CRY
are in Boston this week.
Mrs. E. G, Blossom of Enfield, N. H.,
was in town last week.
Edwin Whitehill of Woodstock was in
town last week.
The annual festival of the Universalist
church will be held April g
Mrs. John Martell has been critically i'll
the past few days with erysipelas.
Mrs. Hector Greenwood and son have
been visiting in Cavendish the past week.
Herman Dressell, Sr., has purchased the
Chester Branch furniture store of Mrs. Il.
A. Smart.
Will Richmond has returned to Boston.
Miss Julia La Fountain of Newport, n.
H., is visiting at her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Richardson have
returned from their recent trip through the
southwestern states.
Justus Dart is home from his school in
Massachusetts.
George Brace spent Sunday with friends
in White River Junction.
Miss Grace Clissold left Tuesday for an
extended visit with relatives in New York
and Woonsocket, r. l.
Miss May Soper returned from Boston
Tuesday.
Mrs. May Eaton went to Boston Mon
day to purchase new millinery for her
spring opening.
Miss Rose Cain has returned from Bel
lows Falls, where she has been visiting her
sister.
Fred Hewey severed finger at the
Parks & Woolson machine shop Monday
while working on lathe.
Mrs. Corse is in New York this week Sc
iecting goods for the New York millinery
store.
Fred Olney cut the first finger of his
right hand quite severely Monday, while
slicing meat at the market.
Miss Fannie Gould, who has been seri
ously ill oftyphoid fever, is now improving
Frank Barney, Jr,, is making extensive
repairs on the new home which he has re-
Gently purchased of D. 0. Gill
Miss Julia Allen of Rockland. Me-, who
worked for Mrs. May Eaton this winter
has been re-engaged as trimmer for tn.
! season.
The Jolly Joes have had numerous call
from Woodstock and other places to Civ,
their celebrated minstrels in the near fu
ture. No decision has been given as yet
| Mr.. Clement of Manchester, n. H., ha
taken MIR. EddyS place as jeweler a
Dodge's.
Walter Bisbee of Charlestown was i,
town last Friday.
w. B. Packard, formerly printer in tn
Reporter Office, has secured position a
St. Regis Falls, N. Y.
We have been favored with an unusua
amount of March weather Of late. Sleigh
disappeared from our streets last week 70
the second time this winter.
The teachers and scholars are eniovin
two weeks of well-earned vacation TIL
schools are said to have been unusual
successful and most of the teachers renal
another term.
The new town history is on sale at tn
town clerks office. The book has been
years in preparation, most of the work wa
done by G. III. Hubbard and .|ustus Dart
. 1t is illustrated with many pictures of oil
homesteads and public buildings and th
features of 1876 men who are or have beer
citizens Of the town smile out from i
pages. In the genealogical record al
sketches of many of the old families an
biographical notices of some 800 men an
one woman. Won't Susan B. Anthony {
Mrs. Blake rise and make few remark
appropriate to the situations? Among oth'
families once prominent in town, the fami
which claimed General Braxton Bragg
the Confederate army is mentioned. Nicl
olas Bragg came here at very early da
with large family; his son, Nicholas Jr
built house in the famous Eureka distri
and in it Braxton Bragg's father and
other children of Nicholas Bragg we
born. They scattered very widely, job
the eldest. heing famous bridge builder
James went to South Carolina one in
Louis was an inventor and maker of Il
Mustang liniment but none OF the name r
main in Springfield OBSERVER.