Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-09-14
Bellows Falls Locals.

G. H. Osgood is in town this week.
Mrs. F. W. Britton visited in Keene
asst week.
Miss Mary St. Croix is visiting friends
in Holyoke.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles M. Blake are in
New York this week.
Norwood & Field have new horse on
their delivery wagon.
George j. Wilson, who has been quite
sick, is slowly improving.
A child of John Gately has diphtheria
and the house is quarantined.
Hoyt's A Stranger in New York comes
to Bellows Falls September 2l.
F. T. Diggins left thi, morning to take
up his new duties in Clinton, Mass.
Quite number of wheelmen from this.
place took trip to Claremont Sunday.
A few from this place are attending the
Springfield fair held yesterday and today
Miss Ida Glover, former teacher at
Gageville, spent Sunday at c. H. Spauld-
ing's.
Mrs. Bradshaw of Montpelier came yes
terday to visit her sister, Mrs. Mary
Nutting.
Albert Avery and Roy Granger went to
West Rutland and back on wheels Sunday,
distance of 1913 miles.
The ladies' aid society Of the Methodist
church will serve bean supper this even
ing from to o'clock. Cordial welcome
to all.
r. c. aud r. H. Thomas expect to
leave Sunday morning on their tandem for
the Sovereign Grand lodge 1. o. OF. held
at Boston,.
P. H. Conley has finished large job of
upholstering for w. G. Banning in Wal
pole and is again at his rooms under
Swift's studio.
Miss Katherine Kidder leaves for her
home in Kansas City, Mo-, tomorrow,
and will be accompanied by her grand
father, E. P. Kidder.
A. H. Chandler leaves today for two
weeks in the White Mountains and vicin-
ity. He goes in company with Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Parker Of the Vacuum
Drier Co.
Merrill Dodge is in town, having left
the Brosnahan-J Jackson Co. in North
Adams, but he expects to join them again
the last of the week. They are in York
state this week.
George Woods of South Acworth was
found by L. J. Royce badly intoxicated
yesterday morning at the Vermont end Of
the B. and M. railroad bridge and run into
the cooler; he had hearing and was
fined S. and costs.
Rev. G. R. B. Dodge delivers an address
this evening at the Woodstock Baptist
association held in Cavendish. Besides
those previously mentioned Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry G. Bacon, Mrs. w. o. Kemp and
Miss Minnie Perry are in attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Royce of Boston
have been guests of his sister, Mrs. G. X.
Labaree, this week; they return home
to-day. Mr.. Royce is a member Of the
firm of johnson & Royce, who run res
taurant at No. Z Spring Lane, Boston.
There will be team race tomorrow at
els P. NJ, on Henry street between teams
consisting Of Frank Upham, Harry Mar
tin, Will Woods, Daniel Campbell and
John Wetherbee, Mr.. Lyons, Harley
Whitman and Charles Rich. The distance
will be quarter of mile, each man run
ming ITO yards.
Mrs. Charles Brill, living in North Wal
pale, died of typhoid fever Monday night.
A two-y ears-old child has the fever now,
and the mother of the dece ased has a
severe bowel trouble. The whole trouble,
so the physician in charge thinks, is caused
by wretched plumbing. The owners and
occupants of tenements and the village
fathers cannot look after this matter too
closely.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Holly of Everett,
Mass, have been in town since Saturday
stopping with j. c. Day; they 60 to Ply
mouth today for an outing of a week or
two. Mr.. Holly for the past six or eight
months has been head clerk with the comp
troler of the Boston Elevated Railway and
has an excellent position. This company
controls practically the entire electric read
system of Boston, including the subway,
and is now planning to construct several
miles Of elevated road. The headquarters
o. the company are in Post Office squa' e
where there are 65 offices. The company
has enormous vested interests, and 500