Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-03-26
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, MAR. %, 1893.
Bellows Falls Locals.

w. A. Burr will build house at Gage |
vile this spring on one of Z. E. Prou'y's
lots.
The supper at the Baptist vestry
Wednesday evening was well attended
and the proceeds amounted to about $40.
Mr.. James O. Smith is great sufferer
from an internal abscess. Miss Ellen
Loye of Bridgeport is taking care of her.
The painting begun in the store Of 0. d.
Gray & Co., continued into the barber
shop of f. 4. Gotta and both rooms now
have much improved appearance.
The Christian Endeavor societies of the
Congregational church will place a crayon
portrait of the late Rev. j. Ellsworth Full
lerton in the church parlors in the near fu-
ture.
Fred Smith says he has received pho
tograph of the Missouri giantess and thinks
it star. She writes that she will make
tour east this summer, and will be on exhi-
bition in Boston probably in July.
Prof, g. H. Greeley, optical specialist,
will be at Towns hotel for two weeks, COM
mencing today. For further particulars
consult his advertisement, which appears
elsewhere in this paper.
j. E Edison of Gageville bad the mis-
fortune Thursday to cut bis foot on
circular saw at the works of the Vermont
Farm Machine company the cut, however,
was more painful than serious.
D. w. Mitchell, formerly employed by
w. H. Bodne & Co., and later by George
B. Allbee, went to Boston Tuesday. 1t is
reported that he has been engaged as
plumber on one of the United States war
ships.
The schools in the village closed yester-
day for two weeks vacation. Nearly all
of the teachers leave town Principal Craw-
ford will go to Hanover, N. H., Miss
Annie Ball to Brockton, Mass, Miss
Eunice Foster to Langdon, N. H., Miss
May Baker to Johnson and the Misses
Dascomb to Boston.
Considering the uncertainties of Yer.
mont climate March has been a remarkable
month. The heavy fall of snow which
buried the entire state in February has
quietly disappeared and there has been nc
high water. There is almost no snow in
the Champlain and Otter Creek valleys
and but very little in other parts Of the
state. Indications now point to an un
usually early spring.
That Bellows Falls and its environment
are remarkable for a gift Of tongues and
general knowledge oflanguage is conceded
by any one who has sojourned Tor any
length of time on either side of the river
but that it is the home of dictionary il
not perhaps so generally we'll known
However. there is still extanct copy o
Walkers Critical Pronouncirg Dictionary
and Exposi'or of the Euglish language,
printed and published in Bellows Falls b,
James I. Cutler & Co., in 1924, and sole
by them, wholesale and retail, at thei
book store. The title of this volume wa
deposited in the office of the clerk Of the dis
trict of Vermont, Jesse Cove, by Rev. Carl
ton Chase of the said district on the 1Otl
day OF October in the 47th year of the II
depe ndence of the United States of Amer
lea. The style tf spelling followed make
use OF some unnecs ssary letters a
"musick" and ''crtick", and its explana
ton and pronunciation is after the fashio
of Dr. Johnson Touching the use Q
dictio 2aries and newspapers its prelac
avs, The ponderous folio vindicates tn
rights of analogy and the light ephemers
street of news cor ec:s errours in grammar
as well as in politcks, by slyly marking
teen in ita'icks." A well preserved cop
of this dictionary was found by G.
Perry in house at South Keene, n H.