Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-04-30
chester, A ID L Herrick and Hon. Hugh
Henry Chester Depot, CHI Waterman !;
Weston, A d Gilmore.
WALPOLE.

MISS Jennie L.. Fuller made brief tril
TO concord the first of this week.
DR.. John f. Hale of Boston is in towr
this week on business.
Mrs. Emma F Blake left yesterday after
noon for trip to New York city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Wilson are enter
tanning their nephew, Charles Wilson, from
Franklin Falls, N. Y.
Mrs. Henry A. Slade spent a few day.
recently in South Acworth with George
Lewis and family.
BY proclamation of Gov Ramsdell, to-
day, Saturday, April 80, is to be observed
as Arbor Day throughout the state
Mr.. and Mrs. p Drislane spent Satur-
day and Sunday at Hotel Alstead with thei,
daughter. Mrs. H. B. Chapin, and family
Frank Lane, late hostler at Hotel Dins.
more, has enlisted in regiment forming
in Brattleboro.
Miss M. Elbra Hooper is riding a new
wheel, the Bostonian, on her daily trips to
and fro from school.
Attention is called to the letter in an
other column from Miss H. j. Gibson, East
Africa.
Miss Minnie L. Fuller of New Bedford
Mass, is a guest at Maple Grove Farm,
arriving Wednesday evening.
Miss Fanny E. Jennison is expected
home today from Somerville, Mass, for
the spring vacation.
The ladies' sewing society will meet at
the Hastings Memorial Parish House on
do o+
Renew TIMES at the postoffice; adver-
tisements and local notices for same will re-
ceive careful attention.
Miss Anna Mclaughlin, nurse from
the Elliott city hospital in Keene, is in
town this week professionally.
James E. Knapp is in Salem Depot, N.
H., this week in the interests of the Whit
ney Nursery Co.
Mrs. Fannie M. Sparhawk left Thursday
tor Winchendon, Mass, where she will re-
main for protracted visit with her son, T.
G. Sparhawk.
Charles H. Thatcher of Marlboro, who
with his family, is visiting at G. B. Halls
IN district No. 9, is very seriously ill with
bronchial fever and heart trouble.
E. X. Seabury was absent few days
last week in Hinsdale, Bernardston and ad-
Joining towns IN order to engage corn land
tor the new corn factory recently estab-
Lshed in Brattleboro by Baxter Bros.
Miss Lizzie NJ Maynard, who tor 20
years has been the soprano singer in the
choir OF the Unitarian church in Keene,
rrd for number nj years the leader of the
choir, has recently resigned her position.
Rev. E. A. Keep and Deacon Charles
ii. Barnes, as pastor and delegate from
the Congregational church in this town,
were in Bellows Falls Tuesday in attend
ance at the installation Of Rev. John. H.
Reid.
Mrs. George B. Holland started this
for her former home in Dayton,
o., and upon her return east she will be
accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Morri-
son, who will remain here for an indefinite
visit.
1t has been proposed that for reasons of
the meeting of the village
school district, called for Friday evening
next, be held in the lower town hall. We
shall hope t, give exact information con-
cerning this matter in Wednesdays TIMES.
A business meeting of the ladies' sewing
society was held Thursday afternoon and
it was decided to relinquish the plans, by
which under its auspices dramatic enter
tainment was to have been given next week
by the Y. P. G. U. from Bellows Falls.
An exhibition consisting of readings,
recitations. music, etc., is under rehearsal
by the village schools and will probably be
presented during the latter part OF next
month. The proceeds are for the benefit
of the graduating class. Announcement as
to exact date will be given later.
Mrs. j. G.. Bellows returned this week
from attendance at the council of Colonial
Danes held recently in Washington, D. G.
One hundred and fifty delegates from all
sections of the country were present, the
south being especially well-represented.
The meeting is reported as evincing a
great deal of enthusiasm and the services
Of the society we're rendered to the govern
m mt for reliet of suffering in times of ma
tional calamity. A large sum Of money
was contributed in behalf of the sick and
wounded in the present need of our coun-
try, and the members of the society
pledged themselves to raise more money
for that purpose by all those means which
women SO successfully used during the late
civil war. F9e@ S219s-7
EIGHTIETH ANNIvERsARY.
The following will, we think prove of in
terest to the friends in this town, where tor
so many years Mr.. Ball was highly es-
teemed resident:
''Mr. Harvey Ball of Nashua, for many
years resident Of Walpole. celebrated his
80th birthday on Wednesday, April 81.
Throughout the afternoon his house was
filled with kindred and friends who were
glad to extend the hand of congratulation
and to leave floral tributes, as we'll as many
more substantial reminders of their friend
ship. Mr.. Ball is one of the most ingeu-
ious mechanics in the state. 1t can well be
said of him that he is s'curious workman
and cunning artifcer." His best known
specially is clock work. He has made
timers OF his own design, one with only
two wheels. His timepleces made in mi-
tation of the long eight day clocks of the
olden time are held in high esteem by those
who e so fortunate as to possess them.
Thei were four of them at one time in the
dining room OF the Boston & Maine r. R.
station at Nashua Junction. Mr.. Ball is q
musician of much merit and has made
many kinds of musical instruments. His
violins command high price. He made
those used in the American orchestra at