Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-05-08
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1897.
Bellows Falls Locals.

Inc grammar scnOOl DullolnS IN North
Walpole has been reshingled.
c. l.. Forbes was in Essex Junction
Monday where he attended meeting of
the Vermont Hotel Keepers association.
The Sunday evening services at the
Baptist church, will hereafter be favored
with music from an orchestra and chorus.
The gross receipts in Montpelier for the
four presentations OF Zephra were 1880.
The net proceeds for the Heaton Hospital
were about $400.
DR.. IL. l.. Waterman's Office is now a
% Henry street and the outside entrance
is from Chase court, and not at the door
looking toward Henry street.
Recent purchasers of new wheels are
Miss Margaret Bailey, Chief d. w. Lin
ton, Chief; G. V. White, Crawford j. H.
Wright, Crawford John Dennison, Craw-
ford tandem.
The pupils in F. V. Thompson's school
in North Walpole in conjunction with the
graduates of last year now in the B. F. H.
S. are planning an elaborate entertainment
for the closing of the school the last of
June.
Almer Green, who has been in town the
past week tuning organs and pianos, tuned
the pipe organ in the Baptist church and
did several other jobs. He will not be in
Bellows Falls again until October.
+. M. Wilson will erect his new grain
depot on the garden next to the house
occupied by E. L. Shedd. He will not,
however, construct new building but will
move his building near the Rutland rail
road canal bridge onto the new site and
remodel it.
Owing to the prevalence of measles the
three lower grades in the North Walpole
schools have been closed this week, but
will open again Monday. Miss Kate Bux-
ton, one of the teachers, has also had the
measles.
The general convention of the Congre-
gationa churches of Vermont will meet at
Middlebury June s to 10. N. G. Will
liams is to be moderator and Rev. j. E.
Fullerton is to preach the sermon Tuesday
evening the 9Th.
H. w. Keene was down from Woodsville
Thursday; he said the Ammonoosuc branch
of the F. M. P. Company's log drive is all
ready to let into the Connecticut river.
So far this season the logs have been hand.
led with far less difficulty than usual
Two weeks ago Thursday Prof. Thomp'
son of the North Walpole grammar schoo
completed two days teachers examina
ton for the city OF Boston, and has just re
ceived a certificate ''High school, class A,
the highest certificate issued by the city
1t does not necessarily follow that Mr.
Thompson will take a school in Boston
the certificate puts his name on the eligible
list. However, it isn't everyone who car
get certificate, and Mr.. Thompson is re
ceiving congratulations.
1t has been decided by the civil service
commissioners that the position OF pension
examiner where the quarterly salary doe
not exceed $500 does not come under the
civil service regulations. This saves Drs
Hill and Waterman and other candidates
from the pleasant privilege of being exam
ined in arithmetic and the elementary prin
ciples of medicine. But the candidates
for deputy collector of internal revenue
will not be so fortunate; as the boys say
they will have to "plug up" their common
school studies again.
There is talk to the effect that the Boston
& Maine railroad will convert what lant
it owns on the island on the east side o
the canal, between the canal and the Fal
Mountain House into freight yard. |
will soon have to move its tracks in tn
depot yard on the Rutland railroad land
and by removing the houses near tn
canal and running perhaps two track
from the turn table to the line of the Fal
Mountain property near the highway wi
have substitute for part of its presen
yard facilities.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. K Labaree, Miss Eft
and G.. w. Labaree returned from LAX
Sunapee Wednesday. c. X. made two o
three splendid catches Of fish; his larges
was land-locked salmon which weighe'
eight pounds and measured % inche
in length and II inches in circumference
He also caught one trout weigh
, ing one and three fourths and tw
weighing two and one fourth pounds. {
w. Labaree, who is on the road most G