Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-14
Bellows Falls News.

The s'mystery supper" served Wednes-
day evening by the ladies of the U. 0. G.
C. under the direction of Mrs. Humphrey,
Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Brown, proved a
pleasant surprise. The mystery, old
fashioned corn-beef hash, was solved to the
satisfaction of all who partook.
The ladies' of the w. r. G. attended the
funeral of Mrs. l. S. Howard Thursday in
body Their contribution to the floral
tributes was a book of flowers marked
'closed" the G. A. r. also contributed a
beautiful piece. The bearers were B. Can
non, Jr., w. III. Taylor, H.a4W... Hutchins,
A. D. Beckwith, F. J. Hall, w. L. Mandi-
go.
The funeral of Matte French held in the
Universalist church was largely attended,
and the floral tributes were many and
beautiful. Her Sunday school class and
her school, the fifth grade, attended in a
body.
E. H. Richard son and Gerould King,
who went to Camp Olympia at Burlington,
passed the examinations and will be mus
tered into the United States army.
There will be a dress rehearsal of Mar
riage Dramas on Tuesday, May II, at Z
o'clock in the opera house for all except
the Japanese and Gretna Green. The
Japanese dress rehearsal will be at 4.3O on
Wednesday, May s, same place. All
characters must come to dress rehearsal.
Rev. J. H. Reid of the Congregational
church will preach the Memorial sermon in
the opera house May 20.
A resurrected battleship Maine may be
seen in the show window of M. A. Durkee
and considering the material Of which it is
formed it makes clever advertisement.
The ship with the bunting and the flags
form very pretty picture indeed.
Wheels have been sold by several
other than those mentioned on page 2, for
example: Barnard Bros. are agents tor the
Crescent wheel; Bodine & Davis for the
wheels OF the Pope Manufacturing Co.; j..
H. Blakley carries a fine line and has made
numerous sales; Winnewisser & Conway
have also handled few wheels; F. H.
Mark is agent for the White and Duane
and has sold to Guy Mark and David Dana
one of each. Wheels have been purchased
direct and by parties not agents, but just
how many there is no way of finding out
easily Good guessers think that IT'S or
200 new wheels have been sold to parties
in and about Bellows Falls so far this
season.
Rev. FIR. Holahan will hold services in
st. Peters church in North Wa'pole to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock.
Fred Smith was again center of attrac-
ton last evening. He was hired by the
Columbia bicycle people TO advertise their
chainless wheel and this he did very effect
wely. Dressed as Uncle Sam and armed
with cowboy pistols and Indian war-whoops,
he dashed through the streets with an
abandon that made peaceable citizens trem-
bic for their safety.
No legal steps will be taken in the
assault proceedings between j. w. Bue-
mond and Ed Gould arising from some
misunderstanding at the depot last week
Wednesday evening. Papers were made
out for Gould's arrest and placed with
Chief Thompson but were not served and
the case has been dropped,-Mr. Gould's
friends say because Mr.. Buemond was the
sggressor One result of the trouble is
an edict from Station Agent Switzer COM
pelling all hackmen to stand behind their
own hacks instead of being allowed the
freedom of the platform as heretofore.
The telephone Office may be moved into
the rooms in the second story of the Nam