Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-08-20
Bellows Falls News.

Rockingham street is being graded this
week and when the sidewalks are completed
will have greatly improved appearance.
w. F. Harvey, special salesman for the
Singer Manufacturing Co., is in town as
sisting j. o. Smith, Agt for an indefinite
time.
Wyman Flint & Sons expect to shut
down their mill sometime next week for
repairs and may not resume work for three
weeks or month.
Fifteen tickets were sold here for the
Fitchburg excursion to Narragansett Pier
yesterday, and SO this morning for the
Foresters' field day at Rutland.
Rev. F. W. Lewis was in town Thurs
day to officiate at the wedding of Rev. E.
E. Marggraf. He returned to Claremont
the same day accompanied by Mis-, Louise.
Fourteen neighbors and friends visited
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Elliott at their home
Wednesday evening and enjoyed corn
roast in honor of the sixth anniversary Of
their wedding.
E. j. Robbins, who stole the watch in
Saxtons River and was given $40 and
costs for petit larceny, could not raise the
money and so was taken to Rutland for
a 60 days sojourn.
Tuesday was Bennington Battle day,
but the only reminder that it was legal
holiday was the closing Of the National
bank all day. This is about as useless
holiday as was ever inflicted on an inno-
cent public.
E. j. Lockwood went to Rutland thi.
week to serve 80 days sentence for VIC.
lating the prohibitory law. This is SEN
tence imposed nearly a year ago when Mr..
Lockwood was running restaurant in the
Brown block on Canal street.
Kendall Banning, who for the past few
weeks has been the efficient local hustler
for the Evening Pbenix, sewers bis connec-
ton with the paper to-day. He will take
a two weeks vacation and September Is
will enter the freshman class of Dartmouth
college.
The Rutland railroad will run an excur-
sion to Lake George next Saturday, August
q. The round trip from here is 81 so
for adults and IS cents for children. The
train leaves at 20 A. NJ. and returns at
$50 P. NJ. The trip includes a ride Of Sc
miles on the lake.
The great four days fair at White River
Junction, August 3Oth to September End,
will be complete in its departments and
offer more inducements to exhibitors than
any state fair previously held. A visit will
be combination Of pleasure and profit.
Billings Park, during the days named, will
be the center of attraction to Vermonters
and other dwellers in the Connecticut val
ley.
The summer school which has been in
session this week at Claremont Junction
camp grounds, followed somewhat the
Chautauqua lines and proved very interest
ing and enjoyable. Among the lectures
delivered we're "Rambles among the
Rockies" by Rev. DIR. Watkins of St.
Pauls, Lynn; "Modern Scottish Novelists, :"
with specimen readings by Rev. James
Alexander Of Newport, and "The March
of the American Republic, by Rev. j. M.
Durrell of Nashua.
Miss Ethel Farley of Farley,
Mass, has been passing the week at
Fletcher Carruthers'. Her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Farley, were expected
yesterday for short visit. The family
lived in Bellows Falls some Is years ago.
Miss Farley has ,pent two years at the
conservatory in Leipsic, Germany, and
will return there in four weeks for stay
OF two years more.
The Woman's Relief Corp, gave sup
per Thursday under the management of
Mrs. William Mandigo, Mrs. R. j. Stood
ley and Mrs. John Patterson at the farm
of H. w. Thompson. There was corn
roast in the afternoon and evening aud
later the party returned to the house for
dance. There were present about IS peo
pie, who had most enjoyable time. The
proceeds of the supper were devoted to
the soldiers monument fund.
1t is reported that o. F. Knowlton,
landlord of the Commercial
House and lately Of the Windsor House in
has leased the American House
in Brattleboro. This is the house where
The rent was reduced from $500 to 5000
per annum because of the strict enforce
nent OF the prohibitory law. Landlord
Pratt who is now running the house has q
nearing next Monday on charge of viola