Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-04-06
w. J. WEBB,
March 2l. 1898.
SPRINGFIELD.

G. 0. Henry of Providence, r. l., is in
town for short time.
Mrs. Capron of Brandon has recently been
the guest of her son.
Mrs. William L. Whitcomb died Monday
after brief illness.
Mrs. L. W. Hodgman went Monday to
Boston for an absence of several weeks.
G L. Cossom, Jr., went Monday to Bnr-
lington to embark in business.
Miss Ethel Warren arrived last week for a
brief visit with her Springfield friends.
TFoR SALE-A Chickeripg piano. Inquire
of G.. Q. Henry.
Charles Cross has moved this week upon
Merrill Damon's farm.
Mrs. Clements, who died last week, was
taken Monday to Dorchester, her former home,
for burial
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth Adams have COM
menced housekeeping in Louis Norrington' s
house.
Henry Lawrence, having purchased the
Spencer house, on Valley street will move to
his new home tomorrow, Thursday.
The millinery openings at the several es.
tablishments occur Wednesday and Thurs.
day of this week.
The young men of Y. P. s. G. E. have con-
ceived of "Modesty social to be given
Thursday evening at the Congregational yes.
try.
| Clyde E. Perkins has returned from Ho.
bokep, n j., where he went last week to set
up machine for the Fellows Gear ShapeI
| Co.
Nellie Dodge returned Friday last from
North Adams, Mass, and is this week en-
gagged at the store of G. w. Brush & Co., to
assist at the Easter sale.
The Universalist parish have been cordia
| ly invited by their pastor, Rev. Walter A
| Tuttle, to meet with him at the church vestry
| Thursday for an evening of social enjoy
ment.
The Episcopals were cordially invited by
| Rev o. S. Davis to hold union service Sun
| day evening at the Congregational church
j. Harr1s d. D and most gratifying to the
| large audience present.
| The dainty window display at Brush's is {
beautiful Easter suggestion, with its pure
white enclosure and the inclined cross, ,drapeC
with ribbons and festooned with ivy and the
| pots of Easter lilies and ferns, emphasiz ing
the purity symholized in the unique design
Rev. o. s. Davis of the Congregations
church last Sunday announced to his congre
CATION his decision to go to Nashua, II :
severing his connection here May L. 1t has
generally been understood for several week.
that Mr.. Davis has been contemplating tht
change and his audience were not unpre
pared for his announcement and he will leave
/, in this, his first parish, many friends ant
we'll wishers.
Four vonng ladies, members of the gradu
ating class of the Springfield high schoo
were encouraged by their principal, H Dres
sci, Jr., to test their scholarship by taking
the teachers examination, bat as some of thu
subjects have received no special attention
in the high school course, and there was nj
time for careful preparation, the pupils fal
tered but finally yielded their consent ant
after the school examinations at the close o
last term they were examined and three o
the four have obtained teachers certificate
and the fourth only failed by loss of on
pes cent in drawing, which is not taught i
our schools, in attaining the required stand
ard. These scholars are to be congratulate
The successful candidates were, Lena N
Bixby, Edith Stone and Alice Lawton.