Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-07-28
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, JULY %, 1897.
Bellows Falls Locals.

The telephone at the residence of A. M.
Shipman at Gageville has been taken out.
The last of the summer meeting OF
board of parish trustees of the First UNI
versalist church will be held in the church
parlors tomorrow evening at s o'clock.
Lowell & Carpenter have adorned the
entrance to their Rockingham street meat
market with new sign on which appear
all the colors of the rainbow and few
more.
''Taunt's" hotel at Drewsville, kept by
O. P. Cassavant, formerly of Bellows Falls
was raided again Sunday evening, the
18th, and quite an amount of the con-
traband secured.
The Republic Journal of Littleton, N.
H., speaks OF the Mora company, which is
owned by Bellows Falls parties, as having
given very great satisfaction to audiences
in that vicinity the past week.
The Fitchbnrg railroad will run a popu-
lar excursion to Boston including trip to
Nantasket and Bass Point on July 3Oth !;
rate from Bellows Falls only $1.50 Spe-
cial train leaves Bellows Falls at 5 ,20A. NJ.
The Waits River Paper company at
Bradford, in which number Of Bellows
Falls citizens have been interested at diff
ferent times, suffered considerable damage
by the treshet of July IA, the mill itself
being crippled for some time to come.
The Woodstock Association of the Bap-
fist Young Peoples Union will hold mid
summer rally and basket picnic at Caven-
ish gorge Tuesday, August "a A large
number from here will probably attend.
Rev.J B. Lawrence, pastor Of the Con-
gregational church in Claremont, made the
TIMES office call Monday. He was on
his way to his old home in No1walk, Conn.
He will make the entire trip, some over
200 miles each way on his bicycle.
At the Baptist church for four Sundays
after next Sunday, during the vacation of
Rev. G. R. B. Dodge, the regular preach
ing services will be discontinued. The
services will be as usual next Sunday. The
Sunday school will be held at the usual
hour during the whole month.
The family of J. E. Mccartney who have
lived some years on the Old Terrace, re-
move today to Waterbury, Vt, which
they will make their future home. Mr..
McCaffrey has for some years been en-
ployed by Allbee & Babbitt as tinsmith
and roofer. They came here about nine
years ago from Montpelier.
Frank B. Phelps reports rushing bust
ness in doors and windows. He is thorough
ly equipped to turn out on short notice odd
sizes in doors and windows, and this is an
advantage which the people of this section
thoroughly appreciate. 1t is not every
place the size of Bellows Falls which can
boast of facilities like this.
The Gagevllle base ball team played the
Saxtons Rivers last Saturday on the Gage
vile grounds and were whipped by score
Of Is to 9. The score was tied in the 9TH
inning but lost at that time by errors, as
they claim. They will 60 to Saxtons River
next Saturday to get their revenge in play
ing another game and winning.
The storm of Friday night, which was
the most severe of the season in our village,
has kept the street department busy clean
ing up the debris and cleaning out the catch
basins again. No great expense is attached
to it. The same storm was severe also in
Westminster and Walpole, the hail cutting
some of the crops, including particularly
the tobacco. The corn crop was injured
in all this section by the wind. Alstead,
Westmoreland, Surry and Gilsum all sui
tered to large degree.
The snath shop of Derby & Ball will
shut down Saturday for the month of
August as usual, their season of manufac-
ture being over. The past year has been
a very busy one for them, the demand for
their goods being larger than usual owing
to the prospects of large crop of hay
over the whole country. They have manu- |
featured much larger quantity of goods
than last year for the United States and
export trade.
Rev. F. w. Lewis of the Methodist
church returned from his two weeks trim to
the Toronto Epworth League convention
last Saturday morning and occupied his
pulpit as usual Sunday He reports one
Of the best conventions ever held of that
organization, and an enjoyable trip in
every respect. Three other Bellows Falls
citizens took advantage of the excursion
rates to 60 to Toronto, but were not menu
bers of the convention. The Epworth
League of his church will invite the Chris
tain Endeavor societies of the other
churches to meet with them next Sunday
evening to hear his full report of the con-
vention, which will be highly interesting
for all.
Manager Burr Of the local telephone ex-
change has received permission to make