Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-02-22
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WEDNESDAY.,FEB. 20, 1899.
Bellows Falls Locals.

The 6CnOOlo are cioo0u eo""y ~
legal holiday.
Miss Carrie Smith passed Sunday with
friends in Springfield.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs
M. H. Ray Sunday morning.
Miss Hanrahan Of Brattleboro is the
guest of Mrs. George l.. Burnside.
A. H. Chandler left Monday on trip to
Boston and Springfield; he is expected
home today. -
The rehearsals tor the senior high school
play to be given in the opera house April
8 are progressing finely.
The "Around the World" compan,
PLAYED at Chester last night, will play at
Ludlow tonight and at Springfield Friday
night.
Mrs. j. A. Robinson and daughter OF
Providence, R. l., are visiting at F. +.
Proctor's. Mr.. Robinson is expected Sat-
urday to remain for a short time.
The Y. P. G. U. Of the Uniyersali't
church will give Washington Party at the
church parlors Thursday evening" February
%. at 7.3O. Tableaux, vocal and instru-
mental music, also cane drill, will fur
nish entertainment. Refreshments will be
served and a small admission tee will be
charged. All are cordially invited.
The friends Of Mrs. Ball in this place
will read the following from Livingstone,
Mon, paper with interest: Thursday
afternoon Mrs. u. H. Daniels, assisted by
mrs. Charles Scblosser, gave party COM
plimentary to Mrs. Alkaline Ball. Domino
whist was the diversion enjoyed by the
guests, the prizes going to Mrs M. u
Ia.born and Mrs. Isidore Roth. About
40 ladies enjoyed the bountiful hospitalit,
Of the Daniels home and psrtook OF thu
delicious refreshments served at the con
; clu,ion Of the games"
, The people of Rockingham will be sorr!
to learn that NJ. F. Burt of Bartonsvill
has decided to sell his place and will eav
town. An auction of his property
advertised for March 10, and after his busl
ness affairs are closed here he will G
70 Wells and make his future hom
with his daughter. Mr.. Burt has lived
Rockingham for 33 years, always living o
the same farm. Each of these years, wit
one exception, he has been justice OF tn
peace and was lister and auditor tor sewers
: wears. He has always been worthy an
public spirited citizen.
Miss Jessie Ackermann, round-th'
world missionary of the Woman's Chrl
tan Temperance Union, addressed lare
audience Sunday evening at the union Sc
vice in the Congregational church. Att
! eight years spent abroad Miss Ackermar
has returned to her own country firm
persuaded that missionary work, lii
charity, should begin at home. "Fir
cast out the beam out of thine own ey
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out t
mote out of thy brothers eye" H
theme was more especially the evils of Il
opium and liquor trade with China, Afri
and India, and she gave it as her opini
that China as nation would never acce]
Christianity until it is freed from the cur
inflicted upon it by Christian nations. S
quoted Ii Hung Chang as saying th
China rooted over would be nothing mo
nor less than one vast opium den, al
brought wildly before her hearers MAJ
s. interesting bits of personal experience
: distant lands. At the close Of her adore
ladies of the local union passed throu
: the aisles requesting people to give tn
T. names for membership, and II sgnatur
were obtained in this way. A collect
of $50 was taken for the, Frances w
" lard Memorial Fund. Miss Ackerma
devotes her life to this work without !
muneration and is one of the unions MI
= brilliant speakers as we'll as one OF its mt
= earnest laborers. During her stay in to-
she was the guest Of Mrs. H. B. Jackse