Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-25
WALPOLE.
Precinct meeting this evening.

Precinct meeting this evening.
MISS Clara Hooper of Nashua is the guest
OF friends in town this week.
Arthur Davis is at home from Worcester
for short time.
Miss Helen Guild snent the first of the
week with Miss Sylvia M. Guild in Chcopee
Falls, Mass.
Mrs. G. B. Wabrfdge has been spending
several days at Mrs NJ e Burts returning
to Sharon the last of the week.
A party OF nearly 80 young people attended
the squerade ball in Langdon Friday
evening.
q Holland was in Boston and Mills,
Mass this week.
There is more snow on level at this writ
ing than at any previous time this winter;
shedding is excellent and business brisk in
consequence
Prof Franklin W. Hooper was in town the
fist of the week called here bv the illness of
W''llsm Hooper, hut was able to return to
BROOKLYN Thursday
Tuesday evening was set spart tor the Gel
ebration of "Gentemen's Night" at the
grange, the brothers providing the supper
ard literary entertainment Buck wheat
griddle cakes, maple syrup, rolls, dnu ghuuts,
cookies and c. ff-e were served to nesrv one
hundrfd, followed by rotations from Ira W
Ram,ay and James Becklev. The grange
paper was read by John l. Hubbard and an
es@ on the monetary commis. i IN was given
Westmoreland and Alstead and the evening
was most successful and pleasant one
COLLECTION OF ALMANAcs.
covering the years from 1901 to 1920. has
been presented t. the Bridge Memorial IL
| brary by Mrs Oliver Martin The almanacs
we're preserved by Mrs Clarinda Adams, a
once well known and highly resnected resi-
| dent, occupying at one time the house on the
| common where Mrs. Martin resides and later
| the double tenement house on Middle street
now occupied by Mrs. Knowlton The col
lection il cludes 1.-THE Farmers Almanack
calculated on New and lu,proved Plan, For
the Year of our Lord. 1902" by Robert B
| Thomas, printed in Roston by Manning &
Loring; Houghton's Genuine Almanac on
1904 by Asa Houehton "with one ephemeris
| for the year ne the creation, according to
Sacred Writ, 5766 and of the Christian Era,
| printed in Keene nv John Prentiss; the
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Yer
| mont A'manack for the Year of cur Lord
1907, fitted to the latitude and longitude OF
Wa pole, N. H., but will serve without es-
| sential variation for the adjoining states, "
printed at Walpole, by Charter & Hale; also
Isaiah Thomas Jnnior's Town and County
Almanack for 1872 printed at Worcester
Mass. Houghton's Genuine Almanac, pub.
lisbed hv Isaiah Thomas & Co, and printed
in Walpole; the LADIES and Gentemen's
Diary and Amsnsc for 1919 by Asa HouRh
ton printed by Bill Blake & Co, at Bellows
Falls, Vt. and the New Enq'and Farmer:
Diary and Almansc for 1920 and 81, printed
in Windsor, VT. The collection is an inter
esting one and contains much good advice
interspersed with farm notes. poetry, anec
dotes, astronomical calculations and not 6
little moralizing in a serious vein. The diary
the probate courts, college vacations ant
weather observations all receive their met {
OF attention, new receipts for cooking arr
Given and cures for seemingly all the ILL
q esh is heir to in either man or beast.