Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-02-01

Miss Fanny Jennison spent Saturday at her
home here, returning to Somerville, Mass,
Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. K. A. Keep was in Boston Fri
day.
A daughter was born Janusry %, to Mr..
and Mrs. George H. Wightman in Putney.
Mrs. Julia A. Bean has returned to her
home IN Conway.
Mrs. g. w. Kingsbury continues very ill
and the services of a trained nurse are re-
qnired in caring for her.
The typesetter owes the doctor an apology,
inasmuch as the word which appeared as
"artifcial" in Saturdays issue should have
been "atypicar' and we make bold to say
that we took especial pains to write it plain
ly.
1t is reported that Mrs. Jennie M. Hatch
has exchanged her farm for q house and
building lot in Claremont.
The following shipment of stock was made
Monday night from Walpole station: q
| cows, 20 calves and hogs.
Miss Ez .beth Pettes has returned to her
home in Holyoke, Mass.
F. M. Gilbert has been absent the past ten
days on visit to his family in Glencoe,
Maryland.
One of Fred Prentiss' PAGERS fell and broke
leg, near the shoulder, in the "brush" on
Main street Monday afternoon.
Following is list of the letters advertised
at the posto flee for the month ending Janu-
ary 3l-Ezra Howard Chld E.q, Davis,
Martin & Co, Mr.. Moses W. Wheeler.
Mrs L. M. Fosburg of Bartonsville is
spending few days with her aunt, Mrs.
Rhoda Knapp.
Miss Jennings spent Sunday with friends
in Warren, Mass.
Invitations are out for the marriage recep-
finn IF Mice Ffbal 0niou nd r
coin Porter. The cer emony will take place
Thursday evening, February 9, at the home
oi the bride, 6037 Madison Avenue, Chicago
Mrs. Eliza Driscoll died Sunday, January
20, at the advanced age of SO For many
years she had lived alone on Depot Hill,
although lame and burdened with the
infirmities of age. She was born in Ireland
leaves no near relatives. Funeral SCI vices
were held Tuesday forenoon; interment at
Bellows Falls.
The annual meeting of the ladies' sewing
society will be held Friday evening, Febru-
ary 8, at 80 o'clock at Mrs Fred Lebour.
veau's for the election of q Ulcers for the en-
suing year. All members and all others in
terested are earnestly requested to be pres
ent.
About so were present at the annual sup
per and business meeting held Monday even
ing at the Hastings Memorial Parish house.
The parlors and entrance hall were effective-
ly decorated with smilax and fragrant carna-
ton pinks, and the tables glistened with cut
glass and silver. After a bountiful supper
the reports of the Unitarian society, the la
dies sewing society, The Footlights and the
o x society were read and officers
elected for the ensuing year D N Wright
was ch sen collector for the year 1899, aud
DIR. A. z. Richardson treasurer; the b. a d of
trustees was reelected The evening was a
most pleas ant one and fifty commemorated
the dedication of the building three years
ago.
The "Hobby sociable" given last Wednes-
day evening was perhaps as interesting So
ciable as has been given in long time Fol-
lowing the usual sociable supper came the
literary entertainment, the speakers being in
those who gave five-m1nute talks upon their
hobbies were G. G Davis, Rev. E. A Keep,
George o. Smith, F. A. Spaulding, John T..
Houghton, Miss Jennie L. Fuller, Miss Eliza
beth M Seabury, Mrs. o. Butterfeld, Mrs.
George 0 Taggard, and Mrs. John W.
Graves The talks we're informal, witty and
entertaining and inc uded variety of suhj cts
as Out Door Life, exempliied in long walks,
tennis and golf; the t of cooking; expert
ments in chemistry the advIsability of using
everything in Paris; pies, part cuarly the
deceitful mlnce pie; nv separator worked by
sheep; tribute to Green Victoria and
racy talk proving that ones h. b,i-s are SUBJ
ject to change with the years and citing as an
example that the speaker has successively ex-
perienced an absorbing interest in widely di-
versfied sui cts, with more yet in view.
Piano solos were given by Miss Gree K.
Hooper, Master Burton Holmes Miss
Cert ude ID. Jameson favored the audience
with song. The sociable netted the society
SIS.