Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-10-01
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, OCT. l 1898.
Bellows Falls Locals.

Teachers convention in Montpelier TINS
week.
CT. Cotton, head clerk in the Fitch
burg division office, resigned his position
Wednesday.
FEE. Clark left Thursday morning on
his wheel Tor Mil ord where he at present
has employment.
j. A. Eaton has purchased the Glover
house in Alstead occupied by DR.. Z. 1.
Clarke, the dentist. ~
George F. Webb of Rockingham has
entered the employ of the Vermont Farm
Machine company.
V. N. Demlng is in town thi, week.
He is mail clerk running between Boston
and New York, and is on the road every
other week.
w. A. Truax returned Thursday from
visit to Canada and the north part OF the
state, where he went to look after the set
Ting of his fathers estate. g.
Rev. j. j. Lewis, wi o lectured on Ober-
ammergau in the Universalist church Thurs
day evening, was at one time principal OF
an academy at South Woodstock, and F.
A. Bolles was one of his pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Huutley and their
niece, Miss Annie Ball, drove down from
Claremont Thursday and back the next
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Huntley visited IN
Saxtons River, and Miss Ball in Bellows
Falls.
Moses Miller says he was the first man
to agitate the building of an electro road
between Bellows Falls and Saxtons River !;
it was six years ago this fall that he
endeavored to have charter obtained.
j. Hunt has sold bis restaurant in the
Farr block on Rockingham street to u.
Marta, who took possession Thursday.
Mr.. Marta has been in the employ OF
Frank Massucco for some time.
1t is said that the attendance from this
section at the Valley fair this year was
record breaker Wednesday 1O1 tickets
were sold at this station and Thursday
491. The special train had - or
13 cars, every one loaded before the train
pulled out of the Bellows Falls station.
Mrs. Julia A. Parkinson died at the
home of her son George in Walpole Valley
last Saturday at the age of IS years. !. She
leaves five children, three Of whom live in
Bellows Falls, Charles Parkinson, Mrs. ).
Nv. Esterbrooks and Mrs. H. j. Huntoon.
Miss Hattie W. Clarke, who has long
been connected in church and concert
work in Boston, is prepared to give lessons
in voice culture this fall and winter Satur-
days at G. L. BARRIERS music rooms, Bel
lows Falls. Miss Clarke's postoffice ad-
dress is Saxtons River.
An exchange says: William Murray,
son of Joseph Murray, who moved to Sun
apee Station from this place about month
ago, died there last week Wednesday of
diphtheria. He was II years old and had
been employed in the paper mills here for
short time before leaving town. Two
Younger children were sick with the same
disease last May but both recovered under
the care of local physicians.
The New York Racket makes the earliest
display of fall millinery with an extensive
assortment of trimmed and untrimmed hats
and bonnets. All the novelties OF the fall
and winter season are shown and the ex.
hibit by the variety and wide choice it
offers, quickly catches and holds the atten-
ton Of the shopping public.
Captain Walter Taylor writes from Bar
louisville that on looking over his log book
he has found an entry to the effect that the
expenses of congress annually are: Mile
age, So, 1888, 624 senators, 1886, 1000 rep
resentatives and delegates, $1,665,O00
F furthermore the item says that on the 4th
of March, 1873, congress began its session
in New Y ork and in 1870 removed to Phil.
adelphia, meeting in that city for ten years
thereafter. November II, 1900, the sixth
congress convened in Washington in the
unfinished capitol and on the 22d Of that
month President John Adams appeared
before both houses and delivered the
annual address.
The 18th annual inspection Of the Bel
lows Falls fire department will take place
Friday, October 81, followed in the even.
ing by grand concert and ball at Unior
hall with music by Mandigo's orchestra o.
IL pieces, H. G. Chandler acting a:
prompter. The concert will last from tc
1880 and the grand march will begin a
l9.45. The duties of floor director will bt
performed by John Dennison, assisted by
William Flanders, Jr., John Pickett, Joh1
Kelly, Z. Fountain, P. Raiel and w. w
Dodge, decorated with an insignia Of blue
The committee Of introduction, will b,
composed of George Gale, I. Conuors
Ed Moody, james Cray, H. Fl. King
James Mcdowell, j. Relihan, P. Galway
and NJ. Powers, wearing red insignia
Supper for the dance is to be served q
Towns hotel.