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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-05-10

No. 10, examined, considered and ap.
proved.
In the matter Of the Frank Kellar ct
al. road i'll road district No, ~. in Nez
Perez county, Idaho
Now at this time the hearing in the
Frank kellar ct al. road in road district
No. -, Nez Perez county, Idaho, coming
OH regularly this 18th day Of Arpil,
1899, upon viewers report filed
herein; said viewers report having been
examined and considered il is hereby or
dcrcd that this hearing be postponed till
Tiurday, the 18th day of July, 1899, at 2
O'Clock p. III. OF said day.
The viewers report Of the John G.
keany ct al. road in road district No Is.
heretofore fled herein, was examined
and duly considered, and prayer granted
according to said viewers report, and
road ordered opened; and in case there
is no change made in said road within
one year it is hereby agreed to by this
board that Louis Clark shall he furnished
with sufficient wire to fence his road
with two wire fence.
In the matter of the petition for the
I Jacob Schadcr ct al. road in road district
/ No, Is:
Now, at this time, said petition having
been examined and duly considered, il Is
ordered by this board that the prayer 81
/ said petition be granted and road ordered
/ opened.
The application and bond Of T.. L.
| Zeiler for liquor license in the city o
Lewiston, county of Nez Perce. Idaho
having been examined and duly consid
cred, bond is hereby approved and appli
cation allowed and license is hereby or
dered to be issued.
in the matter of the II. G. Chase ct al
road. in road district No. :, county @
! Nez Perce, Idaho:
/ The viewers report as filed herein
having been examined and dnly con
si,lered. said road is hereby. by thi
board, ordered opened according to sal,
viewers report.
/ The viewers report, as filed herein o,
4 the c. ". Mote ct al. road in road dis
trict No r. having been examined an,
\ duly considered ,,y the hoard. il is here
by ordered that said road be opened a
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
New Hampshire News.

Rev. William g. Poor, pastor of the First
Congregational church in Keene, has re-
signed.
The Exeter Manufacturing company is
about to ship to Havana, Cuba, three cases or
5000 yards of its finest cottons.
The date for the trial of Willard Green, in
dicted for murder in the second degree, has
been set for January 80. Green is the sol
der who engaged in stabbing affray at Lake
Massabesic, which resulted in the death of
Eddie Moore, last fall.
By the will of the late Andrew N. Shepard
of Milford the New Hampshire Bible society
receives bequest of $3000 Presbyterian
church of Bedford, $1,000; Home for Aged
Women of Nashua, $1,000; New Hampshire
Orphans Home at Franklin, $1,000; Home
for Aged People, Winchester, Mass, $4,000.
The report of the state board of health soon
to be issued, will, among statements and OBJ
servations on some of the more prominent
causes of death in New Hampshire, contain a
chapter on consumption which will be of the
greatest possible interest, as showing the
through the intelligent employment Of sani-
tary and hygienic methods throughout the
state. A table shows the number of deaths
annually, the total mortality for the state
and the percentage of deaths from consump-
ton to thetotal mortality for the years from
1884 to 1897 inclusive. The total number of
deaths was 10 466, of which All were males
and 1887 females. The percentage of NOR
tally caused by consumption fell from IA 46
in 1884 to 9 80 in 1897. Remarking upon the
prevalence of con sumption, DIR. Watson says
that it stands at the head of the list of fatal
diseases during the past IA years.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
ALSTEAD.

Mrs. j. P. Forristall, whose illness has
been spoken of died Monday afternoon at
o'clock at the age of so years and few
months. The funeral is to-day at 2 o'clock.
Her granddaughter came from Ashburnham,
and the grandson Leslie from Brockton last
Saturday.
Henry Wiley had the misfortune to fall
Sunday afternoon and iniure his hip. His
friends hear the sad news with much regret
as MIR. Wiley has been great sufferer from
rheumatism for many years.
Miss Rosine King, who has been in Fitch
burg and Keene for the past few months,
returned home last Monday.
The first entertainment in the lecture
course, Friday evening, was we'll attended,
considering the disagreeable night and the
large number on the sick list. 1t was much
enjoyed by all. The Clio quartet is well
known in this vicinity and needs no com,
ment, and the reader, Mr.. Royleigh, did his
part in very pleasing manner.
George Buxton was home from Bellows
Falls Sunday and Monday.
Lawyer Smith and wife have been suffering
with the distemper.
The friends of Miss Addie Morse and hel
mother are sorry to learn of their illness al
Bellows Falls.
Mrs. Maria Burge, who had been i'll for the
past week, was taken worse Sunday and dice
Yesterday at the age of 88 years. Her son
Frank Burge, and wife, were called from
Bellows Falls Sunday: also f. P. Huntley
from Claremont Monday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
WARDsBORO.

Lewis A. Howard has gone to Winchester,
N H., to work in livery stable.
Little Ruby Rice has gone to stay with Mr..
and Mrs Ellery Chase for time, since the
death of her father, c. D. Rice.
Dr. A, F. Bliss is quite ill.
Mrs. Mary Bishop and Mrs. Bartlett are
on the sick list. Many others are sick with
the prevailing distemper.
Lester Wilbur of Brattleboro, who has
been sick for some days at his brothers, has
returned home.
Dr. Cole visited patient in Bondville the
18th.
Another thaw passed over this section Fri
day night and Saturday. On Saturday night
the hardest wind known in this section for
years did much damage, breaking windows,
taking off chimneys, limbs of trees, etc.
Arthur Jops,n and family have taken
rooms at julius Wilbur's for a while.
Presiding Elder Davenport of the Metho.
dist conference will be with the people of this
place next Saturday evening and Sunday
Singing schools will be held Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
Mr.. and Mrs Bert Knight started Saturday
to attend the funeral of Bert Morse of Towns.
bend and were obliged to turn back on &C.
count of the severity of the storm.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
GRAFTON.

There will be box social at A. o. Mason's
Friday evening, January 20 Those who wish
to go and have no means of conveyance will
be carried by Mr.. Mason, who will meet
them at W. +. L. Walkers.
Those on the sick list are Deacon and Mrs.
French, Mr.. and Mrs. William Colburn, Miss
Laurette Palmer, Everett Palmer, Madeline
Staples and Carlotta Lawrence.
The many friends of Mrs. 81. H. Burlin-
game are sorry to hear of her illness at Sax
tons River.
Rev. J. A. Leach was able to hold services
Sunday.
George Aldrich from Westmoreland is
stopping at Oliver Lawrence's and looking
after his lumber interests here.
J. H. Stowell has been housed few days
with the prevailing distemper.
Mrs G. s Frost from Saxtons River visit
ed at Judge Walkers Sunday.
E H. Clark has added another lathe to his
bobbin factory.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
LOTTERIES AND LUCK
TRICKS THAT HAVE BEEN PLAYED BY
TICKLE FORTUNE.

Some Instances That APPLY Illustrate
the Truth of the Old Adage That
There Is Many Slip 'Twixt the
Cup and the Lip.
There are few things with which ro-
nance is more closely competed than
the distribution of lottery prizes, and
there can be no doubt that we Britons
are all the better off because of the lille
Kingdom. A big lottery must disap-
point hundreds of thousands while it
enriches one winner, who often finds
that his hastily acquired wealth results
in doing him more harm than good.
A short time ago the first prize in
one of the Italian state lotteries, which
amounted to some S. 900, fell to a
peasant who, with his wife, had actually
died of starvation within a few hours
of the drawing of the prize.
Owing to a dream in which a peasant
had the presentiment that a certain
number would be on the ticket which
would win the splendid prize. he
scraped all his money together and pur-
chased not the ticket he wanted, be-
cause it was already sold, but one which
bore the same numerals, differently ar
ranged. Then he and his wife fell on
desperately hard times, which eventual
~ closed upon them in death from sheer
starvation, for he had tried and failed
to sell his lottery chance, which was
the last thing left to him.
When the drawing came on, he won
the first prize of eS, 600, but as he was
dead and no next of kin could be discov-
cred the prize was Haffled for again,
when it fell to swell the purse of an
Italian banker who already was pos
sessed of vast wealth.
A German lady living in Brunswick
had fancy that certain ticket would
win a prize in a lottery in which the
first prize was e15, 600. 1t may seem
strange, but it is vouched for as being
perfectly true, that she so altered her
opinion as to the chances of her ticket
winning a prize that she battered il
away for a new hat from her milliner
within a few days of having purchased
il.
This was a melancholy exception to
the rule that second thoughts are al
ways best" The ticket which she had
exchanged for a hat, possibly worth q
couple of guineas, succeeded in captur-
ing the first prize of e15, 600, and the
milliner, who considered he had run
his risks, absolutely refused to palliate
his customers bitter disappointment by
anything beyond the payment Of few
pounds, which were dragged from him
by hollow threats Of legal action.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18

There is story told on one of the
circuits, which may or may not have
seen the light Of print already, of how
not long ago very young barrister rose
to examine one of his witnesses with an
unaccountably hazy notion of her iden-
tity. 81 think that you are the prison.
er's mother" he began.
Certainly not, SIR" was the unex-
pected answer
Turning hurriedly to his brief, he
thought he had found the reason for her
evident annoyance. "Ah, yes" he con-
tinued, 81 see, you are the prosecutrix's
mother?''
Certainly not, came her reply, still
more emphatically.
"Then whose mother are your" he
demanded, almost in despair, and she
fairly boiled over with indignation as
she retorted: "Nobody's, sir. l am a
single woman. st. James Gazette.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18

On one occasion the nrsr prize IN
italian lottery, amounting to nearly
Go, 900, fell to man who had died
three days before the rattle, the second
prize of e2, 900 fell to lady who had
sold her lucky ticket at the eleventh
hour, and the third prize of 81, 600 to
private soldier who, on hearing Of his
good fortune drank himself mad and
then committed suicide. For want OF
claimants who could establish their
claims satisfactorily, the first and third
prizes were again ratified for, and this
time they both fell to the same person
the owner of one of the largest pri-
vate estates in, Austria, who was quite
Indifferent about the addition to his al
ready huge fortune.
Silly superstitions play an important
part in the buying and selling of lottery
tickets and it is no uncommon thing
for person who fanoies certain num-
Der to buy it at price equal to hum
dreds of times its original cost, and
many of those who indulge in this kind
of speculation with the fixed idea of
gain generally discover that it is an
expensive game.
A German banker conceived the idea
that the first prize in a certain lottery
would fall to the holder of ticket on
which the figure three stood either alone
or with others. So greatly impressed
| was he with this belief that he bought
| up every ticket that bore the numeral
| three, little deal which cost him some
| thousands of pounds, because. many OF
the tickets he fanoied were held by per-
sons to whom he had to pay fancy prices.
One of these persons when approach
ed on the matter refused to sell his
ticket unless the banker purchased a
Ieomplete bundle of 90, of which he was
anxious to get rid The banker did not
wish to do this as there was only one
| ticket bearing three in the bundle,
but he ultimately consented, took the
ticket he wanted and gave the vender
| back all the others. Great must have
been his annoyance on discovering later
that the first prize had not fallen to
him, but had been won by one of the
tickets he had bought and soorned.-
London Tit-Bits.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
Vermont Horticultural Society.

The Sd annual meeting of the Vermont
Horticultural Society will be held February
2l.22 in the Williams Science hall, u. " M
burlington, Tuesday afternoon, at O'Clock,
sharp.
L. l.. Kinney, Presidential Address
Review of the Year.
A. A. Halliday, Bellows Falls
Home Marketing of Fruits.
F. A. Waugh. Burlington
Notes on Cherries.
Question Box.
Tuesday evening, February 81, 730 o'clock.
Charles A. Hinsdill, North Bennington
Culture of Small Fruits.
Prof. J. L. Hills, Experiment Station
The Profitable Use of Fertilizers.
Friday morning, February %, s 80 o'clock.
d. G. Hicks, North Clarendon
Some Fruits not Generally Grown in Vt.
w. A. Orion, Experiment Station
Plant Diseases in 1898.
8. P. Gordon, Pearl
Profitable Varieties of Apples
Election of officers.
Report of Committees.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
ANDOVER.

frankie Barnes has the chicken pox.
William Rowell is quite sick with the grip,
and Mrs. Rowell also has it.
Mrs. S Farrar and daughter Laura are vic
Tins of the grip.
w. W. Fuller is failing slowly.
Lloyd Farrar is caring for thirgs for Will
liam Rowell.
Alma Hazsltine was home from Chester
over Saturday and Sunday.
Maud and BERTHE Gutterson were kept from
school a part of last week with hard colds.
At an adjourned meeting of the Andover
Dairy association held Saturday, January IA,
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Samuel Farrar; vice president, William
Rowell; secretary and treasurer, H. j Walk
er; directors, Abram Rowell, Samuel Farrar
f H Parker; auditors, f. E. Feltt, Il. H
Parker and E. l.. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. s. Leonard, Laura and
Annie of Simousville spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. w. w. Ward.
Eddie and Arthur Dewman are on the sicH
list.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
Windsor County Court AnjOurns.

The iNal adjournment of the December
term OF Windsor County Court came Satur-
day morning when Judge Taft rendered de-
cision in the divorce case of Sarah Goddard
VS. Charles Goddard from Ludlow, denying
the petition. The case was strongly contest.
ed l. M. Read of Bellows Falls appearing
for petitioner. Between 80 and 40 witnesses
were examined. The wife sought divorce
on the ground of intolerable severity. Eight
or ten other divorce cases comprised the
court business of the week. In the case of
Safe VS.. Royal Adams, a hearing had before
the court on proceeding to condemn liquor
which was the subject matter of recent
seizure and trial, The liquor was ordered
forfeited Exceptions were taken and the
case goes to the supreme court.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
EAST LEMPsTER.

Ed Allen has been visiting friends in Bos-
ton and Lowell.
The Sigma Cappa are having some very
interesting meetings of late; last Thursday
night the boys gave an entertainment which
was enjoyed by all.
The farmers are now filling their ice
houses; they report the ice as rather poor
quality in the Dodge pond at the village.
Religious meetings are now held at the
interesting and it is hoped they will be well
attended.
Mr.. Bean and daughter, Mrs Susie Hurd,
Master Phil Leighton and Miss Ethel Pollard
have gone to Hsverhill, Mass, visiting their
relatives and friends.
Milan Noyes and James Nichols are draw.
ing lumber to Newport for Burt Chellis.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
ATHENS.

Josephus Durham has been quite sick for
several days.
days last week at N. H. Pierce's.
Herbert Swan of Fletcher visited at George
Smiths one day last week.
Mrs. Ida Nichols and children of Concord,
N. H are visiting at Charles Willis.
Mrs. w. r. Davenport of Ludlow Joined
her husband at j. M. Powers last week.
The revival meetings in charge of Presid-
ing Elder Davenport closed Thursday even
ing. These meetings have been we'll attend
ed and the results have been good in the
quickening of the church and the saving Of
souls. 1t is expected that Mr.. Davenport
will be here again and hold meeting Mon
day evening, January %.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
TOWNSHEND.

Miss Ada Albee of Fairlee, former Dress
maker, visited friends in town; also Miss
Mary Rock OF Putney.
Rev. C. D. R. Meacham is home from Pas
sumpsic.
Jennie Holbrook has returned from New
York.
There is much illness in town from the
prevailing distemper and the doctors are very
busy.
Miss Carrie Allen, who has been at W. s..
Hollands for some time, went home sick last
week.
Bert Morse, son of Elliot n orse, aged 26,
died from the effects of grip Wednesday
night. The funeral services were held Satur.
day.
DR.. Parker is doing plate work in the dem
tistry business.
The road below Harmonyville was filled
with water last week caused by the ice block
ing in the river.
The academy was closed last week owing
to the illness of Prof. Edgecomb and wife.
School in district No. was closed for q
few days on account of the illness of pupils
Halle Wilson has not missed a Sunday
for three years in attendance at Sunday
school.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
ACWORTH.

II any one had asked US if it was icy here
Sunday morning of if the wind did not blow
we should have been inclined to have treated
the interrogatories as bordering on sarcasm.
Yes it would have made the boys laugh to see
the old man on that morning just before day
light, with lantern in one hand and milk
pail in the other, vending his way towards
the barn over route that would puzzle q
snake and taking steps and making evolu-
tions not known in military tactics. How
ever, he is glad to report that he got there
and no bones were broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Wheatley are report
ed as being confined to the house by the grip.
Edward Norton was so i'll Sunday as to
need the assistance of DIR. Huyck.
We are glad to see Martin Bascom out
again but as yet he does not feel at all rugged
F. G. Parker is again able to attend to his
store and postofice duties, but like all the
victims of the distemper he is willing to be
excused from another attack.
Rollo Potter is working for the heirs of the
late Charles A. Hull.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
Grange Fair Association.

The annual meeting of Cheshire County
Grange Fair association was held in the
grand Jury room in Keene on Saturday, JAN
uary IA. The meeting in the forenoon was
for closing up the business for 1898 The day
being stormy the attendance was small.
The directors for 1899 met in the afternoon
and chose officers for the coming year as fol-
lows: President, John G. Leisure, Keene
first vice president, G. L Mansfield, West
moreland; second vice president, c. w. Far
well, Keene; secretary, F. K. Jewett, Keene
treasurer, E. A. Kiugsbury, Keene; execu-
tive committee, D. G Stearns, Winchester,
J. w. Prentiss, Walpole, J. M. Howard, Mar
low, Henry Banks, Swarzey, W. A. French,
Gisum.
A committee consisting of E. A. Kings
bury, j. G, Leisure and w. A. French was
chosen to confer with Mr.. Batchelder as to
terms upon which the driving park can be
hired for fair next fall, and to report at an
adjourned meeting Saturday afternoon Janu-
airy %, when it will be decided whether to
hold fair or not this year. The association
failed to meet its expenses at the fair of 1898,
but the deficit was not large one.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
The Vermont Association of Boston.

The annual reception and dinner of the
Vermont association of Boston will be held
at the Hotel Vendome today. Business
meeting at 80, reception at s. dinner at 6
The theme will be "Vermont in the Navy
and as Vermont led all the states in the naval
achievements of the recent war, of course her
loyal sons and daughter will assemble and
rejoice. Gov. and Mrs. Smith, the Hon. j.
Martin, United States district attorney for
Vermont, and Mrs. Martin "a niece of Ad-
miral Dewey Commander Allan D. Brown
and Mrs. Brown and Lieut. w. B. Fletcher
will be read from Admiral Dewey, Comman-
der Converse and Capt, Clark. 1t will be
ladies' night, and the Hon. Alden Speare
will preside.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18
Discovered by q Woman.

Another great discovery has been made,
and that too, by lady in this country. "Dis-
ease fastened its clutches upon her and for
seven years she withstood its severest tests,
but her vital organs were undermined and
death seemed imminent. For three months
she coughed necessarily, and could not sleep.
She finally discovered a way to recovery, by
purchasing of us bottle of DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, and was so much
relieved on taking first dose, that she slept
all night; and with two bottles, has been alb
solutely cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther
Lutz" Thus writes W. G. Hamnick & Co.
of Shelby, N. C. Trial bottles free at Pierce's
Pharmacy. Regular size Soc and 81. Every
bottle guaranteed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-18

rs pounus, pruporuOn tna5 IL not the ,
lot Of all in these hurrying, scurrying
days. An average sized man weighs lao
pounds woman 1875 pounds. Curious
ly enough, the mean weight and height
plJ. Another unexpected thing in this
respect is that a negro's skeleton weighs
more than that of an Englishman.
The vitalizing power is the blood,
drop of which takes but 22 seconds to
go the round of the body. There passes
through the heart once every three min
utes an amount of this precious fluid
equal to all that is contained in the
body. The mileage of the blood oircula-
ton reveals some astonishing and un-
dreamed of truths. 1t is estimated that,
assuming the average speed of the heart
to be 90 heats a minute, the blood
travels 207 yards in go seconds. In 9TH
er words, miles an hour, 1853 day,
or 6, $40 per year.
If man of "a could have one single
blood corpusole floating in his blood all
his life, it would have traversed in that
period no less than 8, $50. sos miles.
The average weight of the brain of an
adult male is 3 pounds s ounces.
of female pounds ounces. The
woman's brain begins to decline in
weight after the age of 30, the mans
not till ten years later. According to
high authorities the nerves, with their
branches and minute ramifioations con-
Meeting with the brain, exceed 10, 000,-
600 in number.
The palms of the hands and soles of
the feet are composed of cushions of fat,
in order that sudden jolts and violent
blows may be successfully resisted and
no injury done to the muscles and bones
underneath. The muscles-of which
the tongue monopolizes 11-and bones
of the human structure in combination
are capable of more than !, 200 different
motions.
The teaching of experience indicates
that accidents are far more likelySo &C.
cur to the right leg and arm than to
the left. Further evidence of this fact
is supplied by the makers of artificial
limbs. They dispose of many more APP
pendages to the right side of the body
than to the other Statistics show that
in 81 cases out of 100 the left leg is
stronger than the right.
If a man could move his legs proper
| tionally as fast as an ant, he would
| travel not far from 800 miles an hour
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