Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-13
WALPOLE.

WALPOLE.
Il. B. Buffum was in Keene last Friday.
Mrs. William Cady and child are visiting
her brother, Fred Smalley.
Miss l.. c. Joslin has been spending few
days with friends in Keene.
Mr.. and Mrs. Redding from Boston were at
| the Dinsmore over Sunday.
Miss Mary E. Maynard is spending few
weeks with friends in Boston.
Mrs. Lockwood from Bellows Falls was in
town last Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rowell ofThe Fullerton
Chester, were in town Monday.
Copley Amory from Boston has been at
| the Homestead farm recently.
John Farnsworth came home from Green
| field, Mass, Saturday evening.
Thomas B. Peck is expected home to-day
| after an absence of several months.
Rev G. l. Bard exchanged pulpits Sunday
| with Rev. French of Westmoreland.
Mrs. Theodore Schultz is in Summit, N
j., with her sister, Mrs. Norman Schultz.
| Miss Kate Watkins is the possessor of a
new wheel, an 1896 model of The Rambler.
Sidney Newton of Greenfield is the guest
this week of his brother, DIR. l.. A. Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. Royalton of Ply
| mouth, Mass, were in town the first of the
week.
William Ballam is spending some time at
| home with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Bal
| lam.
Herbert j. Watkins from Charlestown,
Mass, is spending few days in town with
his family.
Dudley p. Hale and wife returned to Bos-
| ton Monday afternoon after q few days stay
| in town.
John P. Holmes has recently purchased the
Genzer farm containing 40 acres more or less,
! for a little over $780,
Miss Maria Guild returned this week to
Woodstock, VT, to remain indefinitely with
| her sister, Mrs. NJ. A. Mellish.
Mrs. Anna Wright has removed to the
Mitchell house and will be ready for summer
guests about the 18th of this month.
DIR. A. p. Richardson attended the meeting
| of the Connecticut River Valley Medical as
| sociation held in Bellows Falls Tuesday.
1t is reported that John Selkirk has sold
| his farm in district No. 8, known as the Cap
| tain Hodgskins' farm to Il man from Cape
| Cod.
Leave subscriptions and renewals for the
TINES at the postoilice; also local notices and
| advertisements which will receive careful at
| tention.
Mrs. L. 6. Hadley of Bellows Falls was in
town Monday; also Mr.. and Mrs. Durand of
Palmer, Mass, who were the guests of Miss
Jennie Watkins.
Beedle's orchestra has been engaged to
| give the concert at the commencement exer-
/ eises Of the Walpole graded school which take
place the first week in June. The concert
will be given Friday evening, June 5.
AT the next meeting of Walpole Grange
which will be held Tuesday evening, May 49,
| the 3D. and 4th degrees will be worked with
4 the class of four, followed by the usual har.
| vest supper. good attendance is solicited
/ Na,t,n 7 h., fba
boggy meadow farm, had the misfortune las,
Friday to run a spike into his foot requiring
i the services of physician to dress the same
and incapactating him for work for a few
days.
/ Henry Frost of Bellows Falls has lately
bought the Elliott place on the Drewsville
road and is making quite extensive and much
| needed repairs on the house, with new tim
bers, clap boards, etc. The roof is being
| slated also.
The Sunday school institute held at the
Congregational church last Friday was fairly
well attended. G. A. Raynor, secretary OF
| the Keene Y. M. c. A., gave an address on
| Chow to Study the Bible which was inter-
esting and helpful. Some papers on the diff.
| ferent departments of Sunday school work were
| presented and L. b. Miller, state agent, gave
an extended report from the schools through
| out the state. Rev. E. n. Jarrett from Mar
! low spoke on ''Chief End of Sunday school
| Work" which was suggestive of good ideas
| and was both practical and comprehensive.
| The exercises closed with a general discus
sion of the work in which all took part. A
baked bean dinner was served at noon by the
ladies of the church.
The lyceum with good attendance met
Friday evening i'll the high school rooms as
previously announced. The meeting was
called to order at s o. clock by Principal L. E
Sherwin and the exercises opened with a
reading, "Farmer Stebbins on Rollers" by
Alice Maynard, '97, and recitation by Bertha
Agent" Then the question 'Resolved, that
a man should never vote contrary to his own
conscience for the sake of agreeing with his
party" discussed by Rev. F. w. Pratt
Edwin Guild and E. w. Barker in the affirm.
| ative, and O. j. Butterfeld, George G.
Wright and Judge Bellows in the negative
The question was most ably and thoroughly
discussed, good points being made on both
| sides, and the debate us whole was of high
order of excellence. The judges appointed
were j. w. Hayward Albert Dickey and L
n. Hastings, who on the weight of argument
presented decided i'll favor of the affirmative.
The vote of the house was then taken ON the
merits of the question which vote was in the
affirmative also. This was followed by reci-
tation by Denny Holland, $50, ga Recipe for
Courtship," and violin solo by William A.
Galloway, Jr., 81, after which the meeting
was adjourned. This was the last lyceum in
the series, all of which have been well at
tended and the questions presented practical
and interesting. 1t has been through the ef-
forts of Mr.. Sherwin that these meetings have
proved so successful and satisfactory to the
public and much credit is due him for the
same.