Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-13
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 18, 1897.
Bellows Falls Locals.

|. b. Newman and family moved from
Alstead into their new house here last
week.
A supper will be given in the vestry OF
the Congregational church tomorrow
evening.
The next term of Castleton normal
school begins January 10, with the same
corps Of teachers.
1t is reported that DR.. r. G. Flower OF
Boston, who has lectured in Bellows Falls
several times, has filed petition in insol-
vency.
The citizens of Wilmington have decided
to investigate the Hotel Raponda fire
there are strong suspicious that it was OF
incendiary origin.
The mid-week Bible class meets in the
vestry of the Congregational church at
As, Friday night; the subject will be,
Tabernacle, synagogue, and church"
Ernest Wood, stenographer for Osgood
& Barker, has been succeeded by Harry
Waterman of Millbury, Mass. Mr.. Wood
resigned his position owing to ill health
and will return to his home in Millbury.
The union services during the week of
prayer were we'll attended and fully the
usual amount of interest manifested. The
service Sunday evening was in the. Baptist
church and the sermon was by Rev. Ellis
worth Fullerton.
Osgood & Barker will ship this week a
large vacuum pump, of their manufacture,
to Japan. 1t is all set up and is to be
shipped all ready to set to running. 1t
weighs about six tons and is for pumping
chemical pulp.
Skating has been excellent on the Con
necticnt for the past week or ten days.
Two hundred or 800 merry skaters enjoy
ing this exhilarating sport has been com
mon scene. A few have tried bicycles on
the ice without disastrous results so long
as they turned neither to the right nor the
left.
Coils. Edward G. Osgood and Carroll A.
Moore have been in Brattleboro this week
in attendance upon the officers school held
there Monday and Tuesday. The COVER
nor, together with his staff officers and
the commissioned officers of the Vermont
National Guard were all there.
News was received last week of the
death by paralysis of the widow of Alex
ander Fullerton of Chicago. Mrs. Fuller
ton leaves two daughters, Mrs. Prescott Of
Washington and Miss Matte Hill OF Chi
cago, and one son, James Hill Of Chicago
Her husband was son of the late Nathan
lei Fullerton of Chester.
B. Cannon, Jr., received from John I'll
Hoskison of Ludlow last week one OF his
own letters dated November 4, 1864, writ
ten to Frank Stacey, then in Healdville.
Mr.. Cannon was at that time in the army
and was stationed at Strasburgh, Va. 1t
is not often that a man has one of his let
tiers returned after 80 years from the time
it was mailed.
Principal A. B. Crawford gave talk in
the Y. M. G. A. rooms Sunday afternoon
which was much enjoyed His subject was
manners maketh man." His insistence
was that boy in school or young man en-
tering upon business Or professional
career should cultivate discreet silence,
purity of thought and language and avoid
cynicism. The talk was one of the most
thoughtful and forceful heard for some
time.
The personal property at the Mount
Lake farm in Londonderry owned by
Frank c. Miles, the defaulting treasurer
of the Boston safe deposit and trust com
pany, will be sold at auction tomorrow
morning, by Deputy Sheriff c. c. Plimp
ton of Londonderry on writs of attach
ment. Among the property to be sold are
the work and driving horses, GA head o
cattle, 16, 900 feet Of hemlock boards il
the mill yard at Chester and 10000 feet o
hemlock, spruce, pine and balsam logs.
The Burlington Free Press says: ILL
liam Kennedy fell in love while stopping a
the American House during her stay in thu
city. 1t cost her the sum of 500 and tn,
guests are all angry at the pretty actress
Some time ago John r. Reed, one of tn,
proprietors Of the hotel, purchased a larg
Newfoundland dog named Colonel" a
DR.. Webb'S farm. The dog became
great favorite with every one and whel
Miss Kennedy arrived she also took Xix
ing tor Colonel" So great was her al
lection that she bought the dog and tool
it with her."
Dacia M. Patch, wife of George nj
Gould, died of consumption at her hom
on Atkinson street Monday morning
Mrs Gould had been sick in bed for nearl
Is weeks and had been i'll some two years
She was born in Wallingford May q, 1865
and had lived in town some eight years
and was married to Mr.. Gould four year
ago. She leaves young child of L