Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-10-26
A Busy Week.

RAPID SUCCESSION OF EVENTS, LEGIsLA.
| TIVE AND SOCIAL.
Montpelier, Tuesday Morning
Loved ones at home
| Well, the fun is on in dead earnest
This is the liveliest week of the grand new
year, land those who keep up with the social
and legislative procession will have to
strike gait and keep it. The trouble be-
gan last night, as was quite proper, with
the annual gathering and meeting of the
state press association, the election of a
new board Of officers with new and up-to-
date board of management t land an informal,
small and early supper to top off with The
ga herring was not large one but it made
up in quality what it lacked in quantity and
was decidedly pleasant and profitable oc-
casIon, and today the town belongs to the
society of Colonial Danes of the state, who
meet here today in first annual conclave to
| organize by the election of board of Off
GERS submitted by committee on nomina-
ton several months ago. There is large
ard most noteworthy representation of the
blue blood of the state present, and doubt
less the occasion will be referred to with
pride by posterity for the next 200 years.
There is also a meeting of the state sanl-
tary as,oci 'ton here today, with lecture
III the hall of the house this evening by
Surgeon-General George M Sternberg, the
medical head Of the Unit. d States Army
Tomorrow we have the annual business
meeting and re-uniono'tae Eight Vermo
Regiment with the camp fire and oratory
in the evening, and also tomorrow the most
important annual meeting OF the Vermont
off ers association.
ception by Gov rnor and Mrs. Smith at
the executive chambers at the capitol This
will be specifically low necked and spike
tailed affair and evening dresses will be
strictly in demand. Society has been
building clothing for this special occasion
for the past three months and doubtless
many so called ''ravishirg" costumes will
be exhibited, clawhamm red coats that
haven't been out of the bureau drawer for
two years or more will be unrol.ed and
smooth d out for the occasion. After the
reception which will probably occupy two
hours, the assembly escorted by the bran
new governors staff in their bran new uni
forms, will move in force on the ball room
of the Golden Fleece, the old skating rink
on Main street, where the bewildering
mass of fair women and brave men will |
trip the light and airy until the diminutive |
hours OF the morning. Such is life.
Meanwhile legislation is coming on red |
hot and right over the base. The outfit |
aim st to man Monday noon |
and were in their seats and loaded for bus
mess, when the mallet fell at 2P. NJ The |
house seemed to be loaded for hired girls
as bills fairly rained down during the hour
of them were to legaize quadrennial sp-
praisal, and by the way, all the large towns
and cities that ought to know better are
doing that this year, to incorporate the
buttermilk ''crick" creamery, and to pay
somebody the sum therein named, for as
sisting in apprehending horse thief.
These are what we expect when the Clerk
begins to read bill. IT it turns out to
amount to something we are agreeably dis
appointed and look smiling
Today's bills included one from Mr..
owazey OF Barre, providing for two more
egal holidays, Defenders day in February
md Labor day, the first Monday in Sep
ember. This, Mr.. SEazay wants distinct
y understood, is in the interest of labor.
The bill OF Mr.. b 9th of Milton to
AK bicycles was adversely reported yester-
lay and would have been killed and buried
hen and there had not Mr.. McGeary of
Burlington spoken briefly and sensibly in
aver of it, and it was then ordered to lie
md be taken up for future discussion. 1t
will probably be killed but it deserves a
,etter fate.
The bill to establish state bscteriologi-
al laboratory has passed the house and
ONES up as special order of the senate
cmorrow morning. II viii very likely go
hrough all right. but may be the object of
considerable oratory..
The fate of the attorney general bill is
cry much in doubt and the chances are