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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
SPRINGFIELD.

Something about One Of the Lovllest WI.
lagos In Vermont-How The Town Came
to have Fair. &
Springfield, now thriving town of over
5000 inhabitants, has grown to its present
proportions from single. log house built
in 1852 by John Mott, who for one year at
any rate joyed the distin ton of be-
ing the most prominent citizen in town.
The next year a settlement of eleven
homes was made on the ridge near the
Sartwell farm; but it was not until 1861
that Gov. Wentworth of the Province of
New Hampshire gave the original charter
of Springfield, granting to Gideon Lyman
and sixty-one others tract Of land SIX
miles square to be divided into sixty-eight
equal shares.
The original proprietors were most Of
them residents of Northampton, Mass,
and only one of them, Joseph Little, is
known to have settled in town.
The first store in Springfield was kept
by jesse Sanderson at the Ferry in 1888,
and we are given to understand that s'dry
goods did not form his principal stock
in trade. From this small beginning the
present important mercantile interests
have grown, w. A. Wheeler, dealer in
drugs ard medicines, jewelry, ETC., having
been the longest in trade as he started in
business in 1852.
In 1858 the savings bank was incorpo-
rated and ten years later the articles Of
association for the First National bank
were adopted.
The manufacturing interests, which are
quite extensive, include the cotton mill Of
the John G. Holmes Co, the Parks &
Woolson Machine Co., Gilman & Son
manufacturing latbs, the Vermont Novelty
Works, the Springfield Marble Works, the
shoddy mill of W. H. II. Slack & Bro,
Boynton's single and lath mill, the Henry
Parker bobbin and spool factory and the
Cobb & Derby grist mill.
As an agricultural town, Springfield il
hardly to be surpassed, its meadows and
intervale land being easily cultivated, anc
the soil of its billsides fertile to the
very submits. Though the first settlers
on Sartwell hill were driven away by the
Indians, so favorably impressed were they
with the character of the soil that they re-
turned as soon as they could with safety
to the same spot. n ,
In 1862 the farmers of this highly pro
ductive region organized club. out o
which grew the Springfield Agriculture
society, which has held annual fairs since
1866. The first was held on the common
but after the failure of the Springfield
Park association, its grounds were giver
up on mortgage and offered to the Ag.
ricultural society for $1,000. Six hundred
dollars was raised by voluntary subscrip
ton, and later the remaining four hundred
was appropriated by the town, and thu
property decided to the town, to be helt
forever as place for fairs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
ARIZONA ICE CAVES.
Five Hours' Railroad Ride Takes One
From the Tropical to Temperate Zone.

a. -sF
Five oHours, Railroad. Ride Takes Ono
From the Tropical to Temperate Zone.
Arizona is known chiefly to the
world at large as the hottest place IN
Uncle Sans domain. and here the in
formation of great many otherwise
intelligent people ends. But Arizona
is not all hot, says a writer in San
Francisco paper, nor are the hot spots
hot all the time. Arizona is country
of extremes and of contradictions.
Five hours railroad ride takes one
from the tropical to the temperate
zone, and apparently into diiferant
world.
About ten miles south of the town Of
Flagstaff. and not more than sixty
miles north of the geographical centre
of the territory, is the last place III
the world where one would look Tor
caves; for there is not mountain
within dozen miles, and the rolling
country is densely wooded.
The entrance is from the level plain,
and is down through an opening ap-
parently made by the caving in of
the crust which formerly covered the
subterranean cavernS. None but small
| men and new women may enter; for
one must crawl backward through a
passage just large enough to squeeze
! ones body through, and then drop
some six feet in darkness and in faith
to the floor of the first chamber. Here
the air is decidedly cooler; and lit
| tie ice is seen in the cracks of the IT,
| regular walls. We continue our de-
i scent down a steep declivity and over
huge masses of rock to room No. 2,
where a resident of the vicinity is dis
covered filling his pail with pure ice
for use at home. Here is considerable
ice on the floor and in the crevices, but
not in solid masses.
The passage to the third and the low.
est chamber is even more perilous and
i difficult. The exit from the room above
Il it is through a narrow crevice in the
wall, which inclines outward, and i'm
mediately over perpendicular drop Of
five or six feet. The room below is
veritable ice palace, although not more
than eight by twelve feet.
The floor is of solid ice, and the wall
are wainscotted with sheets of pur,
ice which sparkle in the candle-ligh
like diamonds and crystals. There al,
passages leading on and down from
this chamber lined with solid fee; bu
no one knows how far they go or wha
they lead to; for they are not larg,
enough even to crawl through.
Some have supposed that snow drift
in during the winter, and, freezing in
to ice, remains all summer But iii
cOnfiguration of the passages and tn
chambers is such that it would be i'm
possible for snow to penetrate NOR
than few feet, unless it should b
melted. If melted at the surface, VIII
, should the water freeze again in tn
lower levels?
| Above, the warm summer sun smile
down through the balmiest of atmos
pheres. and the mercury marks eighty
five degrees in the shade. This is trop
ical Arizona. One hundred feet belo'
is the perpetual ice of the Arctic re
gions. That is the other extreme.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
WlNDHAM.

Miss Grace W. Upham is with friends in
New York city.
Rev. Hathaway Francis was called to
rownshend Sunday to attend a funeral in the
family Of Silas Edwards.
Charles l.. Raymond, who visited with
friends in town for several days, returned to
his home in Ludlow Monday.
Schools in town opened Monday with
Bertha Abbott at the center; A. A. Goodell
at South Windham and Mrs. L. II. Jones at
the west part.
Miss Mary K. Lawrence went Monday to
her school at Lawrence Mills; this is Miss
Lawrence's third year in the town of Rock
ingham.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. B. Chapman and daughter
Winifred returned from Boston last week.
They were accompanied by Miss Mana Clark
Of Charlestown, Mass, cousin of Mr.. Chap
man.
Mrs. Celerta Bots of Bellinua, Ohio, was
in town recently the guest of her brother-in-
law, A. II Mack. Mrs. Bois is pleasantly re-
membered here as Celertia Gould.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
A FORBIDDEN CITY.

German Traveller spent Two Hours in
Chang-Sha, Closed to Visitors.
Some curious details are given in let
tiers from missionaries in regard to the
visit of German traveller, DIR. Wolfe,
to Chang the capital of Human.
which never before had been entered
by foreigner. 1t seems that the doc
tor gained his point and entered the
forbidden city, but his visit was mere
farce. as he was not permitted to go
about in the city or to see any of its
features. He simply was carried in
closed chair to the projects room in
one of the government halls. where he
was entertained with refreshments and
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
poo,ls IN Various Grades and Schools.

Yesterday evening the enrolment Of the
Bellows Falls public schools at the end Of
the first week was as follows: Pupils in
the high school, 1879; whole number in the
9th grade 40, of whom Miss Mary A.
Dewey has %, Miss Alberta Campbell "a !;
the sth grade has AZ, of whom Miss Annie
M. Bemis has 33, and Miss Mary E..
Powers IA; the 7th grade has 81 pupils,
Miss Eva A. Fuller having 80 and Miss
Mary E. Powers 16itthhe sixth grade has
IS pupils divided as follows: Miss Z A.
Foster has 3s, Miss Agnes Elmendorf 30 ;
whole number Of pupils in the new high
school building is S24.
The 9Th grade has GA pupils, of whom
Miss F. M. Chapman has "a, Miss A. j.
Parker 80; the whole number OF pupils in
the 4,h grade is 95, Mrs. w. w. Sawyer
having 40, Miss M. A. Hunter 46; the Sd
grade has So pupils. Of whom Miss Mabel
Goodhue has "A, and Miss Lucy Taylor
Al; whole number Of pupils in building
No. 4, 1856; in building No. 2, ia.
The five schools in grades l and 2 have
in all 1879 pupils: Miss Annie M. Ball
has 4S, Miss Mary H. Baker AZ, Miss Lie
Berveau 40; Miss Alice S. Dasccmb 81
and Miss Susie Thompson 81. Whole
number of pupils in building No. 3, 15O'
Whole number of pupils in village schools
is SO4. The enrolment is not yet com.
plete and additions may swell the grand
total to 1926 or more.
sUPT OF SCHOOLS.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
Teaching Temperance.

The teaching of temperance is now
compulsory in the public schools of
the Province of Ontario. According to
the minister of education, no fewer
than one hundred and fifty thousand
pupils are studying this question in
the public schools of the province, and
thirteen thousand in the separate
schools; and the public school inspec-
tor for Toronto states that more than
twenty thousand pupils in the public
schools of the city receive instruction
in temperance
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
Rest for Plunfs.

It is well known that plants require
periods of rest or sleep, and all over
the world they enjoy such intervals Of
repose by night, or else in the winter
and the rainy season. Acting on this
hint, a Swedish man of science has adj
ministered chloroform to several
plants, and found that he could control
their growth by it. When the plants
are under chloroform or ether they are
resting and do not grow SO fast; but
their growth is all the more vigorous
when they awaken from their sleep.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
PERSONALS.

Miss Storrs OF LongmeadoM, Mass and
Miss Mann of Hartford, Conn, visited
Mrs Harriet Adams the first OF the week
Mrs. Ellen Young who visited at DR.. A.
J. Parker's this week. started on her home
ward journey Thursday.
Perley N. Parker, son of DR.. A. J. Par
ker. is visiting his grandfather in Dixville,
P. @ having made part OF the journey on
his wheel
DR.. and Mrs. J. 7. Ridden were in
Windsor over Sunday.
Miss Irena Howe, who has been visiting
here several weeks, returns to her home In
I.yndonville to-day.
MIR. and Mrs. G. A. Moore returned
from Sunapee this week.
Mrs. Fred Harris and child of New York
city is visiting at w. H. Griswold's.
Miss Fannie Keyes of New Haven, Ct
has been visiting friends in town.
3 Miss Margaret Neyland of Boston is
visiting her sister, Miss Kate Neyland. b
Miss Katie Murphy Of Claremont is Wis
ting her aunt, Mrs. John Keete.
DR.. Spring, dentist in Germany, is the
guest of his father, J. o. Spring.
Mrs. F. D. Lockwood and Miss Annie
Fletcher were in Boston Thursday.
Thomas Shaughnessey left Wednesday
to resume his studies in Holy Cross college
E.. j.. McKeon Of Worcester, Mass Wis
tied Frank Diggins this week.
Ernest Blake Of Windsor was in towr
this week.
Miss Dora Murphy begins two weeks
vacation Monday.
Miss Mildred Pelky goes to Boston
Monday for two or three days.
GL Provost was in town last Sunday
Mrs. E w. Brown is vi, iting her daugh
ter, Mrs. Ball in Sharon.
Mrs. A. L. Field is visiting at her home
in North Springfield.
Mrs. Charles Bruce is spending few
days in town.
Mrs. Sidney Benson OF Weston has beer
staying at E. R. Fosters.
N. S. Brockway was in attendance al
the rifle match held in Vernon this week
Miss Grace Howe of Erie, Pa, is visit
ing Mrs. 0. o. Hart.
Mrs. H. F. King, with her son ant
daughter, is to spend the winter in Wash
ington, d. c.
Frank Cotton, employed in the Fitch
burg raiIrc ad division office, is enjoying 6
vacation of two weeks.
Judge and Mrs. Read and their daugh
ter are home from carriage drive through
the counties of Windsor and Orange.
Miss Ruth Cove has resumed her worl
in White River Junction after couple o
weeks spent at home.
Miss Belle Whitcomb of Claremont Wis
tied Miss Addie Landon this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Durham returned
Wednesday from their visit in Maine.
FIJI. Rabbit and family returned from
their New York trip Tuesday.
Hon. Kirke w. Wheeler. two sons ant
daughter from Huron, South Dakota, ART
visiting at Mrs S F. Goodridge's.
Miss Whitcomb and Miss Reed of Dor
chester. Mass, are visiting at Miss Mar
guerite Burbank's.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
THE SPRINGFIELD FAIR.

PROMISES 10 DC the MOST SuCCeSSJuI lot years
Springfield People Enthusiastic Clare.
mont Band Will Provide Music Magnifi.
cent Coaching Parade-Over $1,000 Ia Pre-
miums.
The 22nd annual fair of the Springfield
Agricultural society will be held in Spring
field next Tuesday and "Wednesday, Sep
TENDER IA and Is. The people of Spring
field have entered into the arrangements
with much enthusiasm and seem determined
to make this the most successful fair in the
history of the society. The American
band Of Claremont, 90 men, will furnish
music. On Tuesday at P NJ there will
be a magnificent coaching parade. About
every merchant and manufacturer in Spring
field has agreed to participate and the
parade promises tie be one of the best ever
seen in Windsor county. Fifty dollars are
offered in prizes. On that afternoon there
will be two races, with purse Of S75 for
the 2 so class, and 800 for the 2 80 class.
On Wednesday there will be three races.
$50 for colts four years old or under, S75
for 2 40 class, and $3.50 open to all. Over
$1,000 is offered in premiums and the
entries promise to be large.
The officers of the society are as fol.
lows: President, r. W. Whitney; vice.
president, N. P. White; secretary, l. M.
Cragin; treasurer, George F. Leland !;
general superintendent, L. M. Holmes ;
directors, Leon A. Cutler, A. L. Slade,
Lyman Whitcomb, William d. Wco!son,
w. G. Nourse, f. E. Cutler, j. E. Had
wen; Department Superintendent Cat
tie, Leon A. Cutler; horses, A. l. Slade ;
sheep and swine, Lyman Whtcomb; poul-
try, b. w. Brown; grain, vegetables,
fruit, dairy products, maple sugar, honey,
Simon Green; Mechanics hall, C. c.
johnson; Floral hall, Ell Keyes.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11

The lock-step has been abolished
at the Detroit house of correction for
sanitary reasons. Experts assert that
this timehonored method of march
ing convicts about brings their heads
SO closely together that their breath
is poured over each others shoulders,
increasing the liability of spread of
contagion should there be any in the
ranks.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
To Mark it's Birth.

1t is proposed to build steel tower
twenty-one hundred and forty feet
high to mark the birth of Greater New
York If it is borne in mind that the
Eiffel Tower is less than a thousand
feet high, it is clear that this would
be a venture without precedent.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
In l{elDiunl.

Belgium, with all her great mineral
wealth and her busy, industrious pop
ulation, is nevertheless, of all the coun-
tries of Western Europe, the one where
the toiler suffers most from inadequate
remuneration and the pressure of pow
erty. This excessive struggle is inten-
sified by the frequency of Sunday la
bAr
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
Notice TO Parents.

Parents of pupils in the public schools
are asked to keep in mind that the appor-
tioning of pupils to the various school
buildings according to their places of
residence in the village is nearly the same
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
The Oldest Chair.

The oldest armchair in the world
Is the throne once used by Queen Hat
asu. who fiourished in Egypt 1000 B. c..
1t is made of ebony, beautifully carv-
ed, and is so hardened with age as to
appear to be made of black marble.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11

tive of Marlboro, Vt. He married Eleanor
Bennett of Bfattleboro. III December 1913,
and they had since lived on farm In West
Brattleboro. They have one son who lives
ut home.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
Reduction In the Price Of Wood.

Wood fitted to stove; mixed 81; hard
So; soft So. Pine and oak lumber for
sale. Orders filled by Patrick B. Leen at
store of P. Fleming & Son. G. X.
LABAREE.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
A New Hack,

am now running hack to all trains,
and am prepared to do a general business
about town. Orders can be left at store
of w. j. Eaton & Co., or sent by tele-
phone to my livery. w. j. CASSIDY.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY SEPT IL, 1897.
BUSINESS NOTICES.

Wedding cards and invitations printed
in nice manner and on short notice at the
TIMES Job Department.
TLetter heads and envelopes and all
kinds of commercial printing can be had at
the TIMES Job Department.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11

Something about One Of the LovIlest WI.
lagos In Vermont-How the Town Came
to have a Fair.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26

Nobody will be surprised if Germany
carries out her threat to Withdraw
from the concert of the Powers, but
there will be much inquiry as to what
will happen next. Very probably MOTH
ing of importance will happen, except
that a peaceful ending of the long
diplomatic struggle may be secured,
without Germany's persistent opposi-
tion Ito everything proposed by the
other Powers. Lord Salisbury's de-
mand for the evacuation of Thessaly
may then be complied with, after which
the arrangement of affairs will be easy
unless, OF course, Germany chooses to
take defiant stand, and insist on hay
ing her own way, in Which case there
is no predicting What wild scheme the
erratic Emperor will next engage in.
There is a rumCr, also, that England
will withdraw from the concert bu;
there seems to be more reason to fear
that the other Powers will withdra "
from England. The war cloud is thick
ening again, as it has thickened So
many times in the past. 1t may blow
over as harmlessly as it has done on
previous occasions, or it may precipi-
tate the long-expec'ted European war.
Nobody can tell which will happen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26
A Story Of Raphael.

Raphael, the great Italian painter,
whose celebrated Biblical pictures are
worth fabulous sums of money. was not
rich man when young. and encOun-
tered some of the vicissitvn1es of life, like
many another genius. Once, when frav.
ching. he put up at an inn and remained
there. unable to get away through lack Of
funds to settle his bill. The landlord
grew suspicious that such was the case
and his requests for settlement grew
more and more pressing. Finally, young
Raphael. in desperation. resorted to the
Following device:
4 He carefully painted upon table top
in his room a number of gold coins; end,
placing the table in certain light that
gave a startling effect he packed his
few belongings, and summoned hts h6st4
< There, he exclaimed, with l0fdly
wave of his hand toward the table, us
enough to settle my bill and more. Now
kindly show the way to the door,"
+ The innkeeper, with many smiles and
bows, ushered his gnest out, and then,
FASTENED back to gather up his gold. HIS
rage and CONSERVATION when he dfsc0v-
cred the fraud knew no bounds. until .
wealthy English traveller, recognizing the
value OF the art put in the work. gladly
paid him so pounds for the table.-Har-
per's Round Table.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26
skinned Boston kickers.

October will see the first ''open sea-
son" for deer Shooting which Vermont
sportsmen have enjoyed for twenty
years The animals had practically
been exterminated in the Green Noun
tain state by the same methods which
until this year were annually decimat-
ing the Adirondack herd. In 1873 a
party of sportsmen purchased and freed
a number of deer in the Green Noun
tains. and secured the enactment of a
law prohibiting the killing of the ami
mails AS a result the deer have SO i'll
creased that some of the farmers are
complaining of depredations on thei!
gardens and cornfields. The last Yer
ment Legislature created an open sea-
son, but still forbade the use of dogs
jacks, or traps, all of which methods
are now illegal in this state. Vernon;
will therefore share honors with Maine
as a favorite resort of the still-huntel
this fall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26
VOICES OF TINE PRESS.
Heard in Kansas.
Boston Advertiser.)

It's orly bout a year ago or so it seems
to me, that We was all for silver, "unlim-
tied and free" Old neighbOr Wayback
used to come and sit on that there fence
hOrred by men of sense. He used to say
the farmers was all robbed by Wall street
banks and that yet those very robbers
called us western farmers cranks for
crEin' and protestin 'gainst the wOYs of
honest toll when the vile gold standard
cheapened all the producks of our soil.
so long as silver's robbed of-all the val
Tie that it had" says neghbor Mossbaek,
Just So long the times will be so bad"
but | notice that | haven't seen Il sight
OF his ole phiZ, since silver's dropped
most out O. sight and wheat has riz!
By jinks, the way he used to talk, my
blood would almost boil against the
greedy capt. lists who robbed the sons of
toll. He figgered it all plain and clear
that they KEEP silver down because they
'roun'. They buy their wheat in In
diar with silver that is cheap, and we
men sit and stand SIGH things. as meek
as any sheep!" He showed the crime of
70 when Congress was all brought to
strike the silver standard down, before
the people thought. Your wheat" he
says you'll have to burn, your stock
amt worth their feed. Demonetized is
silver, and you're sufferin' for that deed.
Your crops, you'll find will sell as cheap
seem to work, since wheat has riz!
Now silver's down, the papers say, the
lowest ever yet; but I don't find that
wheat is down, nor other crops, you bet
Why corn is up, and barley's up, and dol.
lar wheats in sight. and steers are SELL
ing better and my sheep amt cheap a
mite. IL / don't like the price of corn
feed 1t to my pig, for bacon's up and
pork is UP to prices that look big. Yet
while these prices still go up, just what
l want to know, is how such things can
really be when silver is so low? Now
neighbor Wayback might explain, 81
Bryan make things clear how these
things can be reconciled with what they
said last year; but neighbor Wayback's
| lost his voice and Bryan he's lost his
since silvers dropped most out of sight
and wheat has riz!
| Well. well! We all must make mistakes
| to learn the truth at last. The silver
craze has had it's day, now that hard
| times have passed. We've found the
world is within now to buy our crops with
gold and we can get good prices too on
everything that's sold. We needn't fire,
our souls about the crime of 70. The
| fact that We have dollar wheat Is good
| enough for me. A man amt got much
gumption II he calculates to stop to dig
up ancient hist'ry when It's time to sci
| his crop. No Democrat nor Populist car
now make me believe that with such
crops and prospects 1 shud just stant
still and grieve. With Wall street. ans