Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-28


One boy zach has been received at the
Industrial school from Brattleboro and Jay
and two were sent from the Orange county
court at Chelsea. This makes 168 boys
and % girls now members oil this institu-
ton.
1t is expected that stock company with
$40 600 capital will be organized at Lud-
low to control the silk mill, two miles east
OF that village. II the industry is we'll es
tsblished it will bring 200 more people to
Ludlow.
The Congregational church at Dandy
has parsonage tor the first time in its his
tory The cost of the building, $1,000, was
largely met by the women OF the
parish. Within three years the church
has been rebuilt at an expense Of $1,000
Gen w. W. Grout has notified Dauiel
Lille Post, 81, G. A. r at Bethel that it
can have six-pound gun from Cervera's
feet and as many 11-inch spherical shells
and eight-inch elongated she'll, as it desires,
nv aging the transp ortation charges from
Newport, Va. The .ffer has been accept
ed by the Post.
Every day is record breaker in the
eno,mons amount of freight traffic through
Island Pond. Never fore was there
such volume Of business transact ed. Tie
yard from one end 10 the other is ammed
with cars and as fast as one train gets out
another comes in to take its place, and SO it
goes on eve y twenty-four hours.
The Vermont and Massa husetts bound
airy line commissioners held conference
at the sta'e house in Boston lately. Kit
tredge Haskias and Levant M. Read
represented the Vermont commission. BY
the req plans, as drawn, the total distance
from the northwest corner of Msssachu-
sets to that in the west bank OF the Con
necticut river is Al. 06 miles.
The directors of the Mount Lake Cream
held a meeting and agreed to contsr with
committee OF farmers relative to the future
operations of the company's plant. The
company finds it.elf short about $4,000,
despite the fact that the books show
heavy profit. The manager, j. w. Far
we'll, who has had charge of the business
since the company was formed, has re-
sign d.
TIE trial of Eastwood, the Middlebury
murderer in Addison county court, came
to an abrupt termination, aud thu respon-
dent was committed by Judge Rowell to
the state asylum for the insane at Water
bury, tor examination as to his mental con-
diton. A law passed by the legislature OF
1898 gives judges of the supreme court
such authority. TIE trial cf the case was
postponed u til the June term.
Rev. Louis Grout Of Brattleboro, cous-
in OF Congressman Grout, has received sew
eral complimentary letters from prote so
in various educational institutions in regard
to his paper on ''The Boer and the Bnton
in South Atrics," viii, he dAlive, ell Ie-
Gently before the Brattl-bor Professional
club He has ais, received from Edwin D.
Mead, editor OF the New England Maya
zine, an invitation to deliver the paper be-
fore the Twentieth Century club OF Boston
and to dine with the club.
"Henan' Bowers of Montpelier was
found by the city sheriff in an intoxicated
condition and taken before the grand juror
Bowers case is an unfortunate one and
sentencing him to Rutland, as has been
done many times, does not appear to effect
any change tor the better in his case. On
this occasion new method will be tried,
hoping Bowers will be benefited thereby
By process obtained through the probate
court he was committed to the state hospi-
tai for the insane at Waterbury as con-
frmed inebriate where he will receive
treatment 10 the hope that ultimately he
will be cured of his inordinate desire for
liquor.
The True Blue Marble company of Rut-
land has bought 108 acres of marble land
in Plttsford a halt-mie southwest of the
Florence station George E Royce has
bought 20 acres adj lining and by this pur-
chase tae company and Mr.. Royce are
owners OF ridge one mile in length which
contains over 100 different varieties of
white marble and the vein is the largest OF
its kind in Vermont. Most of it is stau,ry
marble and it does not take rank below
even the Italian marble OF the same variety
The property was purchased of the New
berry estate and will be developed at once.
The supreme judicial court of Ma,sa-
chusetts at Boston will in January hear
arguments as to the validity of the will OF
Thomas Thompson. which bequeaths the
income of his 100000 estate TO needle
women and shop girls OF Brattleboro and
Rhinebeck, N. Y. Brattleboro will be
represr nted by counsel who are confident
OF establishing the validity OF the will and
thus securing to the lega'ees perhap, $780,
900 year or more. Just how strong the
opposition to the confirmation of the will
is will b, known at the time of the hearing,
but those who lave already investigated
the situation feel cor fdent that he purpose
and intent Of the giver will be respected
by tn. court.
l. G. Houghton recently shipped to Bos-
ton Is deer and one elk which were kill d
at his park in Halifax The deer weighed
about 100 pounds each, and the elk tipped
thu scales at 400 pounds. Mr.. Houghton
states that bis deer and elk have increased
so rapidly during the past two seasons that
he will he obliged to kill a number OF them
every fall in order TO prevent the park from
becoming overstocked. during the past
year the animals have devoured all
the underbrush on the 1000 acres over
which they roam, and now are beginning
TO destroy the hemlocks. Nearly all Of
their food during the coming winter will
have to be supplied from other sources
thsn from the land to which they have &C
cess. Mr.. Houghton's flock of Aneors
~1.k. -o-. Il. .I...o - r.