Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-11-02
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1898
Bellows Falls Locals.

is down for repairs.
Frank Field of Chicago is guest Of his
brother, A, l.. Field.
Mrs. M E. Cummings of Holyoke, Mass,
visited friends last week.
The president has named November "a
for Thanksgiving day.
Mr.. and MRS. Herbert Cox we're in
Springfield over Sunday.
c. T. Sherwin went to Plymouth last
Friday tor a deer hunt.
Electric lights are being put into the
house of Mrs. Walter G. Blake.
Horace Dean of Lawrence, Mass, is a
guest of his brother, c. E. Dean.
The interior Of the Keene Cash Grocery
has ben given a new coat of point.
Miss Ruth Cove has been engaged as
bookkeeper with Lowell & Carpenter.
Mrs. Eliz, Lane and Mrs. G. H. Proc
tor of Rockingham went to Boston yester-
day.
Victor Brinn is building bay window
as an addition to his house on Atkinson
street.
Mrs. C. w Pond was called to Ticcn-
deroga, N. Y Monday by the death of a
sister.
Charles C. I'll d and family have moved
fir ,m North Walpole to h use on the Old
Terrace
The Y. P. s. G E. Of the Baptist church
will give a social in the vestry Of the church
Friday evening.
Miss Alice jackson returned Monday
from week spent in Rutland as the guest
of Mrs. DR.. Senton.
It is reported that Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.
Clair are attending the Trans-Mississippi
exposition in Omaha.
Several from here attended the institu-
ton of lodge of the Eastern Star in Al
stead last Friday evening.
Miss Hattie Woodbury. Clarke Of Sax
tons River has been engaged to sing sopra-
no in the Baptist church choir.
The Viavi lectures, several of which will
be given here during the winter, are receiv-
ing large audiences throughout the state.
Supt. Murphy Of the International Paper
company has been i'll during the past week
but is able to look after his duties in
way.
W. E Petty, son Of G. L. Petty, living
on the Old Terrace is canvassing the town
for +" Revelations of the Grandest Cen
fury"
DR.. o. M. George was taken i'll at Mont
pelier last Friday but had recovered
sufficiently to come to hi, home here yes
terday.
The ladies of the Universalist church
will serve supper at the vestry Thursday
under the direction of Mrs .Divoll and Mrs.
McDuffee.
George A. Bowen of South Charlestown
is placing 1875 horsepower Dillon boiler
in his saw mill. G. L. Wheeler Of O.good
& Barker's is doing the piping.
About 50 we're present at the social
given by the Junior Endeavor society at
the Congregational vestry Monday even
ing, and very pleasant time is reported.
Patrick Healey reports large sized fire
in his vicinity last Friday night. He says
he had ton and half Of corn fodder in
the field and that some rogues turned kero-
sene thereon and reduced the entire lot to
ashes.
| The ladies of the Methodist church are
to meet Thursday and Friday afternoons
of this week to clean the church. All those
interested are requested to be present in
person, to furnish substitute or the funds
for procuring one.
Mrs. E. A. Norwood and her sister,
Mrs. E. A. Eaton, went yesterday to Win
chester, N. H., to visit their mother.
Later Mrs. Norwood will 60 south for the
winter and Mrs. Eaton will return to her
home in Johnsonville, N. Y. Coco.
i John Wilmoth exhibited yesterday three
fine specimens of the eel family. They
we're found by some Of his men who were
digging for water pipe near No. ma
chine room in bed OF gravel six feet un-
der ground and fully 100 feet from water.
They were sleek and lively and when placed
in pail OF water acted as happy as child
lren loosed from school. How long they
had been imprisoned in their unnatural
environment is matter of conjecture.
Leonard P. Edison was at one time in
the shoe business in Bellows Falls, and
over 40 years ago moved to Galva, Ill.
ALTHOUGH several months since, possibly it
may be news to some to learn that his wife
died July 16. Mrs. Edson's maiden name
was Jane johnson Ballou. She was born
in Westmoreland, N. H., April II, 1917,
and was married to L.. p Edison in 1884.
They went to Galva in 1856. Eleven chill
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