Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-09-17
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, SEPT. II, 1898.
Bellows Falls Locals.


house tonight.
Charles Hubbard is the new barber with
George F. Spaulding.
A child of Mr.. Hall on Atkinson street
is sick with rheumatic fever.
A daughter was born Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs. George F. Beals.
Charles Coffee has left the employ OF G.
F. Spauldipg and is now working for j. f.
Byrne.
G. H. Mussey went to his old home in
Maine last Saturday IN order to be present
to vote Monday.
Dennis d. brisbane has placed fine
granite monument on his family lot in the
new Catholic cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Clifford and Miss
Maud Fleming of Springfield returned
Monday from two weeks outing at Cres-
cent Beach.
Frank R.McGowan and wife leave Mon
day to spend two or three weeks in Sera-
&C, N. Y, where Mr.. MCGOWAN expects
to hunt ducks.
Mrs. G. H. Barrett of West Brattleboro
is visiting at G. F. Spaulding's and Bert
Simonds of Boston is expected today to
pass Sunday there.
+. S. Beard, who recently opened res
taurant in Cray's block, reports a good
business. He is providing board by the
week and serves meals at any hour of the
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Frost of Jamaica
are in town visiting their daughters, Mrs.
j. T. Dodge, Mrs. S. G. Davis, and Miss
Emma Frost. Mr.. Frost intends to 60 to
Boston Monday.
L. G. & C. E. Howard are exhibiting in
their show window fine specimen case OF
tools, covering about everything a ma
chinist uses; it is from the works of the l..
S. Starrett Co. OF Athol, Mass.
George H. Babbitt went to Montreal
Thursday and yesterday attended the
funeral of Gilbert Cheney, ex-president OF
the Canadian Express company. MIR.
Cheney formerly lived in Manchester, NH.
John d. Drew has purchased the barber
shop of E. E. Gotta and took possession
Tuesday. Mr.. Gotta is moving his family
to Westminster but will work in the shop
Wednesdays and Saturdays and other days
when especially needed. Mr.. Drew came
here from Randolph six months ago and
entered the employ of Mr.. Gotta.
The sixth grade in No. 4 school building
taught by Miss Agnese Elmendort has
been moved into the new high school
building and the primary school taught by
Miss Rosabelle Hatch has been moved
from No. 2 into No. 4. This proves
great convenience to parents at the north
end of the village, who have small children,
:. At the last meeting of the soldiers aid
society, the ladies voted to return their
promissory notes to those soldiers who
borrowed from the Bellows Falls fund suf
fcient money to take them to their homes
from Camp Olympia on the 80 days fur
Tough. About $50 was loaned in this way.
and the ladies, by returning the notes, con-
vert the loan into gift.
The fleet footed gentlemen who "dld"
Bellows Falls sports so cunningly have
been operating in Barre lately. A Mont
pelier paper has the following as the clos
ing paragraph to its account OF race in
Barre Monday: "On the train from Barre
to Montpelier a Record man en-
gagged in conversation with one of the
quartet of toot-racers that has been making
i is headquarters in this vicinity and was
entertained with a narration of how the
runners did the sports Of Bellows Falls
and Brattleboro out of their money"
Conductor Holland of the Rutland rail
road was arrested on the charge of lar
ceny recently by j. S. Hickok Of Burling-
ton. Mr.. Hickok's daughter was on
train between Rutland and Burlington and
asked Mr.. Holland to pull mileage from
her book for herself and lady friend.
She gave one Of the names in the book
as that of her friend; Mr.. Holland
SAID that was not her mama and took up the
mileage book. Mr.. Hickok was very angry
but at the time set for hearing be did not
appear and MIR. Holland says his non-ap-
pearance means that he will not press his
suit.
The Walter L. Main circus, which exhib-
its here next Monday, seems to be making
a very successful tour of the state. At
Barre Tuesday the performance was at
tended in a body by 80 members of the
Mystic Shrine from Montpelier with as
many more of the order from Barre. Out
of compliment to these gentlemen several
Masonic rites were gone through by men,
beers of Mr.. Mains troupe, which were
enjoyed by the large audience present but
more especially by the &c Shriners," who
understood their significance. The circus
is pronounced good one wherever it has
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