Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-06-21
Bellows Falls Times
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 81, 1899.
Bellows Falls News.

Miss Caroline Smith is visiting friends
in Worcester, Mass, this week.
Mrs. Mortimer Davis went Monday to
Providence, r. L., to visit Mrs. G. G.
House.
MIS-. j. l.. Bodies of Springfield, Mass,
spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Al
bert Hammatt.
A son was born Sunday to Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas brisbane, living on the extension
of Henry street.
Mrs. Guptil of Montpelier is the guest
OF her mother, Mrs. M. A. Nutting, on
Henry street, arriving Saturday.
Rev. Albert Hammatt has gone to Will
Evansville to preach the occasional sermon
before Universalist convention in session
there.
Rev. F. w. Lewis went to Barton yes
terday to be present at the funeral of Mrs.
George H. Blake, which Is held there this
afternoon.
Rev. d. l.. Sanford, Hon. James H.
Williams and w. c. Belknap represent
Emmanuel church at the diocesan conven-
ton in Rutland today and tomorrow.
Mr.. Whitcomb of St. Adams has taken
the position on the Central Vermont night
force vacated by o. M. Custer, who en-
tiers the employ of the Boston & Maine.
George L. Hapgood, who seems to
know the secret of forcing garden truck to
early maturity in spite of the season,picked
a meal Of green peas from his garden Sat
urday.
Gilbert A. Davis of Windsor was in
town briefly SATURDAY.. The library,
which Mr.. Davis has lately built in FelcL-
vile, is to have formal opening with ap-
lpropriate exercises the Fourth OF July.
A, E. E. Rand was going up in the ele-
vator at the Farm Machine shop about
6 o'clock Saturday night, his foot was
caught some way and badly crushed and
broken before it could be extricated.
F. j. Hall, j. A. Thwing, Capt. W. H.
Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Cannon,
Mr.. and Mrs. George X. Russell and Mrs
A. R. Perry are attending the annual re.
union OF the Vermont department of the
G. A. R., held this year in Montreal from
} June 20 to the 22nd inclusive.
Farmers, the productiveness Of whose
lands is threatened by the drought, should
pattern after the Mis,ours agriculturists
who, in districts where the ground is dry
are planting onions with potatoes in the
hope that the onions will bring tears to the
, eyes of the potatoes and thus moisten tn,
, soil.
Edward j. O'Brien OF the division offic,
was married Monday morning at II
o'clock to Miss Caroline l.. Haufer, on
of the most estimable young ladies Of Ran
dolph and singer Of no little reputation
in that part of the state. The ceremony
was performed in the church of S. S. No
!, tation and Rogation by Rev. FIR. Theriel
of Windsor, the priest IN charge OF thu
Randolph parish. Mr.. and Mrs. O'Briel
\ will be at home in Bellows Falls after Jul
Il.
The many friends of the groom will b
interested to learn Of the marriage, June 6
in Chicago, of Charles Seneca Eddy t
Miss Grace Darling Hamilton. Mr.. Ed
is the son OF Charles F. Eddy, formerly G
Bellows Falls, and grandson OF the lat
Charles B. Eddy. He i, also great-grand
7 son of the Charles Eddy who lived an
died in Chester some years ago. Th
young man was educated in our villag
schools, graduating in the class of 81. Fo
} the last four years he has been employee
in the wholesale store of Marshall, Field ,
Co. in Chicago.
Newspaperdom, a paper for publisher
says: Notwithstanding the opposition an
denunciation of newspaper proprietor.
''the white paper trust" otherwise the In
ternational Paper company, appears
to keep up healthy appearance. Seer
> tary Warner Miller is advertising, for th
= benefit of shareholders, that the compan
will pay a dividend at the rate of Pr
4 cent a year preferred stock, and ps
cent on the common, for the quarter endir
June 80. The combine is either maxim
money or making an impressive bluff;
either case, no indication of lower mark
prices for paper appears.
i Serving the public is not all fun but no
and then an amusing thing occurs, even
I" postoffice, which is held responsible #
I the lap,es of memory and epistolary anti
of its patrons generally. A lady quite an:
l. ious to obtain some trimming which 81
had ordered from the city to decorate
gown for an approaching function hauntt
the local Office tor several days, her gent
spirit on each succeeding visit becomir
more aud more disturbed as her mercha
disc tailed to appear. To appease he
HE Laughs Best
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