Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
WALPOLE.

Mrs, Catherine B. Holmes returned Tues
day from visit with relatives in Langdon.
D. G. Clark is absent this week on trir
| north after cows.
j. E. Jeffords is in town in the interest o.
the Keene Sentinel Co.
Mrs. H. H. Stone spent Thursday of this
week with friends in Bellows Falls.
James D. Snow was in Northfeld, VT, the
fl rst of this week for brief absence.
Miss Kate Field from the Proctor hospital
is in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lewis of South Ac.
worth visited friends here recently few
days.
| C. r. Crowell from Cambridgeport, Mass
spent few days in town this week at M. H.
Gorham's.
| IA are entertaining guests from Brattleboro,
this week.
George F. Chandler is taking few weeks
vacation and Reuben Kilburn is employed in
the livery stable.
Frank D. Webster of Greenfield, Mass, is
spending his vacation here at his grand
mothers, Mrs. B. K. Webster's.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Podwin are moving
into their newly erected home on High
street.
Road-agent Prentiss has been employed
this week on the river road, assisted by o. E.
Hull and w. L. Kilburn and their teams.
H. A. Slade sold recently two pair of his
first class oxen to parties in Dublin and pur-
chased another pair of Mr.. Banks in Alstead.
Miss Mary M. Holland of Woodstock, Vt,
and James L. Holland of Boston are in town I,
called here by the illness and death of their
mother Mrs. L. B. Holland.
G. B. Davis has entered the employ of w.
H. Cole in Westminster, and with his family
will soon remove to that town, occupying the
tenement house owned by Mr.. Cole.
Quite extensive repairs are being made on
the house recently purchased by w. G. Ban
ming. A furnace and bath room are included
among the Improvements.
Rev. E. A. Keep was in Keene Tuesday of
this week in attendance at the spring meet
ing of the Monad dnock Association of Congre-
gational Ministers, having part in the pro-
gram presented.
Mrs. Harriet Webster, who for the past
year or two has boarded with Mrs. A. E. Ken
rick on Prospect Hill, moved this week to
North Street, where for the present she will
remain with Jarvis Kinds and family.
Miss Sylvia M. Guild has secured posi-.
ton as stenographer and bookkeeper in the
Office of the Chcopee Falls Manufacturing
Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass, and intends to go
Monday next. Miss Guild is one of four en-
ployes in the office.
During the month of April the Bridge
Memorial library was open to the public in
the afternoon and evening of IL days, the at
tendance in that time averaging about 4S, or
in round numbers $40. The number of books
taken out was 559.
The village schools here closed yesterday
afternoon as the teachers, Prin. H. S. Rich
ardson and Misses Wightman and Darling,
were in attendance at the meeting of the
Connecticut Valley Teachers association, held
in Bellows Falls.
In an account of the annual Unitarian Fes-
tival given this week in Keene,w notice that
prominent and successful feature of the
evenings entertainment was the exhibition
dances by the children given under the di-
rection and training of Miss A. E. Gaskill.
The water works at the Homestead Farm
are under repairs this week, second three
quarter inch pipe being laid from the spring,
in order that greater supply of water may
be afforded. Some concrete paving is also
being put in.
Mrs. Julia Weir of Drewsville has leased
the Elmwood for the year ensuing, and
| assisted by her son will open the house for
summer guests, presumably by June lst.
The Elmwood was formerly the residence OF
the late DIR. Kittredge, a name well-known
IN town, but for the past 20 years it has been
popular summer clearinghouse. During
the first few years it was used for this pur-
| pose the house was in charge of Mrs. Wright,
but for the last l6 years it has been the prop
erty of Crowell & Richardson, and run under