Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-04-27
WALPOLE.

AsAioo NAs "A. SdluWcll entertained Irl6nOS
from Keene last Thursday.
Mrs.J. B.Clark from Dorchester, Mass,
is the guest OF Mrs. Emily R. Barnes on
Prospect Hill.
We understand that Mrs. Banning and
family will move to their new home here in
the village about July 1.
Mrs. S. G. Hemenway is at this writing
very critically i'll with Bright's disease, hav-
ing been confined to her room a week past
Since Clinton Ordway's return from the
hospital he has improved although slowly.
DIR. Matthews of Bellows Falls is the at
tending physician.
Stock was loaded at the station on Mon
day night as follows: Seventy-fve sheep,
As calves and 80 cattle.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Christian Hollow church will be held next
Sunday evening, at 7.30 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Russell OF Portland,
Me-, have been with relatives in town for
several days past.
Walter Wiggin and Dan Kiburn have
returned from trip to Boston and Fitch
burg.
Miss Emily M. Jennison is expected
home Friday from Greenfield for a vaca-
ton of one week.
Arthur Putnam from Springfield, Vt,
was guest the first of the week at G. d.
Hooper's.
1t was decided to hold services in the
Unitarian church last Sunday, the same
being conducted by S. H, Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney S. Newton are in
Boston for the next ten days, leaving on
Saturday last.
G. O. Taggard has sold part of the
land which he recently purchased to
George Emerson.
Commodore Henry B. Robson is in
town, arriving from Brooklyn, N. Y, on
Monday of this week.
Miss Lydia A. Maynard has returned to
her home on Prospect hill, after spending
the winter months with Mrs. George S.
Wilder.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Webster were in
town Saturday and Sunday, returning
Monday morning to their home in Green
field, Mass.
Miss Alice w. Jennings was home from
Bellows Falls over Sunday, and Master
Thomas N. Hastings from Vermont Acad-
emy.
0. D. Buffum is improving his grounds
by new fence. The grounds about the
library have also been put in order for the
season.
Rev. and Mrs. F. w. Pratt came yester-
day from Deerfeld, Mass, and are guests
for few days at Mrs. Theodore Schultz's,
on Main street.
DR.. Cannon is expected on Saturday
evening from Palmer, Mass, and accord
ing to previous announcement will be IN
his office here the two days following.
c. W. Adams was home over Sunday
from Putney, VT, and Mrs. Adams
returned with him to remain there tor the
present.
Communion services will be observed in
the Congregational church on Sunday, at
the usual hour. A lecture, preparatory to
the same, will be given Thursday evening
at 80 o'clock.
Gentlemen's night in Walpole grange
will occur Tuesday evening, May 3rd, at
which time it is expected that program
comprising the marvellous and unique will
be presented.
The delivering of nursery-stock for COM
panies in New York and in and about Bos-
ton is the annual occupation engaged in
by several of the men here and the season
is now commenced.
Elmore W. Jennlson, who has been liv-
ing for two years past on the Crehore farm
in the southeast part of the town, removed
few days since to Keene. The farm will
be carried on by j. H. Jennison in con-
nectio n with his own.
A meeting of the ladies' missionary
society will be held in the Congregational
church parlors Saturday at o'clock P M.
1t is expected that the program on this
occasion will be furnished by the children
of the Sunday school. A good attendance
is urged.
An historical lecture, entitled "The Rise
and Decline of the Spanish Empire" will
be given in the Christian Hollow church
by the pastor, Rev. James F. Scott, on
Wednesday evening, May 4, at 7.30
o'clock. This lecture is free to all, and all
are cordially invited to be present. At
the close of the lecture a soclable supper
will be served.
There was good attendance at the in
formal meeting of the village school dis
trict held Saturday evening, few being
present from the town school district,
including representatives from North
Walpole. Those in favor of uniting the
districts seemed to have matters their own
way and their bursts of eloquence were lis
tened to in silence by the opposing fac
ton, who for some reason failed to bring
forward those specious arguments, which,
for the past month or two, since this ques-
ton was agitated, they have hawked on
the street corners and shouted from the
house-tops. We all know that life in a
small country town ensures a delightful
certainty concerning our neighbors' affairs,
and so it is in this case-everyone knows
the attitude Of the next one and the boun-
dairy line is sharply defined. We are told
some undeniable arguments were presented
in favor OF uniting, and that the existence
of several erroneous impressions on this
question, were removed from the minds OF
many. One man, mathematically inclined,
gave the figures regarding the taxes Of
both districts, during the past IS years,
aud showed conclusively that the village
district in that time might have saved the
sum of $5000-an item to be considered
surely. The opposing force regard the
meeting as amounting to but very little
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