Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-09-30
Bellows Falls Locals.

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The engagement Of w. S. Durham and
Miss Nettie Wheeler is announced.
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The road from the canal street bridge
to the station has been newly gravelled.
The Keene Cash grocery is running a
fine new delivery wagon, the make of O.
H. Whitman.
The special train to Brattleboro this
morning had eight cars; 1874 tickets were
sold at this station.
j. 0. Spring has gang OF masons at
work upon the new brick machine shop Of
F. M. Gilbert at Westminster.
The Boston Shoe store has a newly
painted veriegated sign that ought to at
tract the attention ofthe purchasing public.
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A large attendance of the X. of 2. is de-
sired at Castle hall next Tuesday evening
as business Of Importance is to come up.
Brosnahan and Blakley have put up two
new bill boards, one on Cassidy's stable,
the other on Swift's photograph gallery.
Over 1000 people visited the F. B. F.
store at their opening Saturday. Over
800 pounds Of chocolates were given away
and about 200 cigars.
Owing to internal dissentions the high
school football team is in bad way and
the talk is that there will be no team this
fall. AT any rate no game will be played
in Brattleboro Saturday.
f. H. Kimball was the only one from
here who went to Boston last Friday to
hear Bryan. He says the speaker is a
smarter man than he had expected to hear
from newspaper reports.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Kibby will not re-
move to Worcester, Mass, until next
spring. They have purchased two build
ing lots there and will build residence
before they move.
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John Mcleod and William Hayes had a
wet sail last Saturday. The wind or some
thing else was too strong for them and they
had to tow their boats to shore near the
Pine Dell boat house.
Mrs. Simonds, mother of j. j. Simonds
Of Towns hotel, submitted to surgical
operation Saturday in New York. At last
accounts she was seemingly rallying and
with good prospect of recovery.
Miss Lizzie Butterfeld representing the
Junior League, and Miss Maurilla SWEET
the ladies' society Of the Epis-
copal church and Mrs. George Burnside
will attend the convention in St. Adams
October and s.
During the stay here of w F. Ballou, a
former we'll known tailor, he was kept
busy measuring his old customers for suits
to be ''made as they should be-" as our
older residents will remember to have seen
his standing advertisement Tor many years
j. E. Brosnahau has leased the opera
house at White River Junction for the
coming season, and will luu it in connec-
ton with the show business of Brosnahan
and Blakley here. He also books with
Manager Fox of Brattleboro.
Since last Saturday w. A. Burr, under
the direction of the baiiffs has been thor
oughly overhauling the electric fire alarm
system. The wire has been examined all
along the line; where boughs of trees
interfered with the current they have been
cut oil, and the system is now thought to
be in good order.
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Since the death by diphtheria last week
people are doing considerable talking,
whether with reason or without reason we
cannot say. Several cases of sore throat
are reported, some going so far as to call
them cases of diphtheria. Residents on
Atkinson street are complaining loudly of
the condition of the sewers. They say the
board of health have been asked two or
three times to investigate, but pay no
attention to the request.
A. f. Pierce while being driven from the
station by Mrs. Joseph Rich met with Sc
rious accident on Westminster street near
Wyman Flint's residence Saturday night
about o'clock. Mrs. Rich's carriage col
lided with Mr.. Converse's milk cart, and
Mr.. Pierce was thrown over the dasher of
the wagon and was rendered insensible,
and remained unconscious until about 9
o'clock Sunday morning; he has since i'm
proved rapidly. No one else was hurt.
The wagons were damaged some.