Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-06
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, MAY Q, 1896.
Bellows Falls Locals.

pairs III MS Cherry street fesiuoheo'
George Burnside has been confined to
the house for the past week with broken
jaw.
Mr.. Sanders and family of Littleton, N.
H., are moving into the Chase house on
Henry street.
Charlie Wing, the Chinese laundry man,
has an assistant in his work, his business
having increased rapidly.
Among the piscatorians who made good
catches May day were +. l.. Thompson
and E. H. Rogers.
w. H. Griswold has moved his barn on
South street and has his lot in readiness
for the new dwelling which he is to erect.
Arthur Dascomb, Dartmouth '97, is
spending the week at G. w. Osgood's,
convalescing from his recent serious illness.
Louis Robertson was at home over Sun
day and entertained some 20 of his friends
at his home on Atkinson street Saturday
evening.
Al Mack, jobber, has bought the w.
S. Bennett farm in Brookline. and will
move to that town in the near tu-
ture.
j. G. Bryan will add third story to the
Hubbard house on Atkinson street and build
a new tenement on the lot facing on Oak
street.
The dwelling of Mrs. M. L. Bowers on
School street has been repainted the past
week, the color being much lighter than
heretofore.
B.A. Putney, who spent the winter in
Florida, returned to town last Friday. His
friends are now calling him "major" after
the true southern style.
Through the efforts Of Prot. +. E.
Chaplin pupils graduating from the high
school are now admitted to Smith and
Wellesley colleges on certificate.
Miss Lothrop, who will be remembered
by many here, will give summer lessons IN
music while spending her vacation here
from June Is to September 10.
J.F. Pierce started Sunday to make a
trip to Boston on his wheel, reaching
Fitchburg that night and finishing the trip
Monday. He found the wheeling excel
lent.
F. c. Winnewisser, George Hapgood
and F. M. Wilson caught 230 trout May
day, the lot weighing dressed nearly
Is pounds. This is the best catch we
have heard reported.
Bruce Babcock and Marion Ethel Daley
were married in Black River, n. Y, last
week Monday. Mr.. Babcock recently came
to town and is in the employ Of the Rob-
ertson Paper Co.
The auction sac of real estate and per-
sonal property belonging to the estate of
the late j. A. Farnsworth occurs at Sax
tons River tomorrow, sale beginning
promptly at 10 o'clock.
A. w. Emerson, formerly Of the TIMES,
has just moved his paper, the Republic
Journal, into new quarters at Littleton,
N. H. put in new machinery and enlarged
it to seven column quarto. His friends
here will be glad to know of this evident
prosperity.
Lient. Foote, who is an old friend of
Hon. F. C. Partridge, having spent year
in South America, came in from Vermont
Academy Monday evening with number
of the students to hear Mr.. Partridge's talk
upon Venezuela.
O. L. Brown an employee of the Yer
mont Farm Machine company, had the
finger of his right hand caught in the gear
to a machine he was running Tuesday
morning, and badly injured. DR.. Allbee
dressed it.
There seems to be no good and sufficient
reason why Bellows Falls should not have
a good old-fashioned Fourth of July cele-
bratlon this year. If any move is to be
made in this direction it should come early
so that surrounding towns may know where
the chief attraction will be on that day.
The boat house of Hall and Blakley was
towed from the upper end of the canal last
week into its position for the summer, in
the same locality as last year. The steamers
have not been launched yet, but will be
during the coming week. The water in
the river is in good shape for boating now.
The party at Sunapee the first of the
week comprised Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Swain,
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Leonard, Mr.. and Mrs
CIV. Black, Mr.. and Mrs. G. X. Labaree,
Miss Eta Labaree, C. w. Labaree, Mr..
and Mrs. G. A. Moore and n. S. Brock
way. Some fine catches of fish were made.
One salmon was caught weighing Is 1-2
pounds, and c. X. Labaree caught one
from his wharf weighing 1-2 pounds.
The high school junior exhibition will be
held in the Opera house the last of the
month. The committee of arrangements
consists of Prof. F. f. Chaplin, Miss Annie
Harrington, Miss Lucy Barker, Ernest
Dean and Henry King. Beedle's orchestra
will provide music. The speakers who are
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