Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-08-14
SPRING FIELD.

Fred Lawrence is among the recent arrivals
in town.
L. p. Norton visited in Bellows Falls
Wednesday.
Mrs. c. II. Moore returned home from
Sunapee Thursday.
Wallace Fairbanks is employed as motor.
man on the electrics.
Miss Sadie Dimond of Virginia arrived
Tuesday at III. II. Mason's.
Mrs. E. p. Norton is passing a few weeks
pleasantly with friends in Plymouth.
Mrs. Lynn Buck and daughter of Virginia
have been visiting friends in town this week.
Adm Hewey is making preparations to
move his family to Springfield in a few days.
Mrs. Jonah Bisbee returned Thursday to
her cottage on the Claremont camp grounds.
Mrs. o s. Tuttle of Massachusetts is visit
ing her brother, E. b, Cook, on Lewis
avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bowman of Bridge
water, Mass, have arrived at Joan l..
Stacks.
D.J. Boynton returned home this week
after spending AZ days in Woodstock i'll
attendance at court as juryman.
Mrs. Walter Dorcom, nee Jessie Whitcomh
OF Otter River, Mass, ON Tuesday arrived at
her fathers, Emerson E. Whitcomb for a
visit.
Miss Annie Messenger is enjoying afew
weeks we'll earned vacation, having con-
cluded her ser,i ices at the Boston millinery
store last Saturday.
Babu Bheem Roy, a converted high caste
Brahmin, gave a very entertaining address
last Sunday evening at Il union meeting at
the Congregational church.
Miss Lucie M. Hutchinson of Woodstock,
who succeeds Mrs. Savard in the millinery
hns t.-it, h..r H..
Barlow house on Main street.
Miss Helen Preston, who went to Los
Angeles, Cal, four years ago, is expected
this week for visit 10 her parents, Mi. and
Mrs. L. Preston of Baltimore.
William f Putnam and Miss Lula Bald
win passed Thursday pleasantly with their
classmate, Miss Elizabeth G.. Wilder, who
entertained them at her home in& stead,
n. IL.
William H. Loveland is preparing to place
upon the market some valuable building lots
on South Clinton street, which are to be
graded and staked out soon, the work being
placed in the charge of a party commanding
judgment and experience.
Albert Kendall was suddenly called last
Saturday to Felchville to attend his father,
George Kendall, who that day met with a
serious accident and has since been in a very
critical condition. DIR. G. w. Locke is in
attendance and is rendering all possible
assistance that his skill commands.
Rev. Thomas M. Boss, who about II years
since was in charge of the Congregational
church of this place for about seven years,
passed away at Leayenworth, Kan, July 80.
MIR. Boss was unable to preach for nearly one
year before his death. A widow, two sons
and two daughters survive him.
William l.. Picknell the landscape painter,
died sudden at the home of his uncle, Daniel
S. Ford in Ma,blehead, Mass, ON the morn
ing of August s. He was born in Windham,
and his boyhood days were passed in North
Springfield, where his father, a Baptist
clergyman, and much beloved had a Parish
for several years, and died leaving widow
and four children of whom the subiectssS this
sketch was the oldest. After the WI of
his father the family moved TO Masychu-
sets. When William was II years Old he
began the study of art in Rome under Inness
From Rome he went to Paris and worked for
two years in the Ecole de Beaux Arts under
Gerome. Mr.. Picknell lived abroad ten
years. At the Worlds Fair in Chicago for
his "Edge of Winter and other paintings
he received a gold medal. En- 1895 from the
Salon at Paris he received u gold medal for
his picture of the sold Fort at Antilles, y
journals. But no one who had the fortune
to know William Picknell would be satisfied
with the mention and praise of him as a
painter, the man was so good. Active and
intelligent with wit tempered by kindness.
he was friendly to all. Mr.. Picknell married
four years ago, and his widow survives him.
His life was short, being only AZ years old
but earnest, helpful and happy, saddened
only in the last half year by the death of his
American art have met with heavy loss.