Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-05-01
WALPOLE.

w. w. Porter was in Keene Tuesday,
on business.
Harry Olson is the proud possessor of a
new wheel.
Miss Kate Watkins is at work in Bel
lows Falls this week.
Hon. T. N. Hastings is expected home
today from New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blake OF Surry
we're in town Wednesday.
David j. Driscoll has been in w orcester,
Mass, the past week with friends.
Miss Helen r: Sherman left Wednesday
morning for few weeks absence in Bos-
ton.
Sidney S. Newton is at his home in
Greenfield, Mass, leaving Tuesday OF this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conant from Melrose,
Mass, are guests for few days at L. b.
Peck's.
Lawyer George H. Weston and wife Of
Bellows Falls, were in town Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Porter are home
from trip to Weslfeld and Boston, Mass,
| returning wednesday.
Miss Fanny E. Jennison came home
Yesterday from her school in Someryille
tor ten days vacation.
A meeting OF the Mazeppa Engine
company, will be held this evening at 730
o'clock, in engine-house hall.
The last meeting OF the whist club will
be held at the Dinsmore Tuesday, with a
banquet served during the evening.
Mrs. H. F. Chandler is expected home
soon from five weeks absence with her
son and family in Chelsea, Michigan.
Mrs. Henry j. Watkins is in town
again, arriving from an absence in Rutland
and Bellows Falls, Thursday afternoon.
Miss H. o. Bardwell has decided to re-
main in town for the present and will not
return to Rutland until later in the season
A collection for the benefit of the church
building society, will be taken at the Con-
gregational church Sunday at the morning
service.
Miss Sheridan of Rutland, Vt, has been
engaged to teach in district No. this
spring. Miss L. M. Thompson is teaching
in Walpole Valley.
The next meeting Of Walpole Grange
will be held on Tuesday evening, May 4,
at which time class Of six will be initiated
in the 1st and End degrees.
Miss Lucy Pratt who has been spending
the winter here with her brother, Rev. +.
w Pratt and family, returned Tuesday t,
her home in South Deer6eld, Mass.
Evening services will be held in the
Unitarian church tomorrow at 80 o'clock,
as is customary the first Sunday in the
month. A chorus of children will assist in
the music.
The village schools we're closed Wednes-
day in order that the teachers M. r Rich
ardson, Miss Darling, and Miss Wight
man might attend the teachers institute
held that day in Keere.
A part of the farm owned by the late 0
H. p. Watkins has been recently pur-
chased by George Taggard. The price
paid was $500, the sale including the
buildings His portion of the farm con-
tains, he believes about 80 acres, % I'M
der cultivation, so in woodland and the
remainder in pasture-land.
The Birthday Party, given at the Con-
gregational church parlors Wednesday
evening, under the direction of Mrs.
Charles G. Davis, was very pleasant and
successful affair. Tableaux, representing
the twelve months of the year, each her
aided by appropriate recitation and song,
we're very effectively and artisticallly ar
ranged and met with the approval of the
audience as manifested by hearty applause
and oft repeated encores. 1t would take
critical critic indeed, possessing un-
precedented powers of discrimination to
decide on the superior merits OF any one
tableau from January to December, all
did themselves proud. The music was
furnished by quartette composed OF Mrs.
Charles H. Barnes, Miss L. R. Hale and
Messrs Booth and Prentiss. Miss Hale
sang a solo, "Hark, l Hear an Angel
Sing" and chorus of children also as
sisted, with solos by Bernice and JOSEPH
Butterfeld. REGULATIONS given by Masters
Burton Holmes and Gilbert Hale are de-
serving of especial mention, showing good
training, aside from the natural talent pos
sessed by each. At the close of the pro-
gram the audience were invited to the
supper-rooms, where was served coffee,
chocolate, cake and fancy crackers. Birth
day cakes by the slice or loaf were for sal
also. The receipts of the evening vert
| S25 so.