Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-10-26
yre,s ON March 8, 1891, made an sppro-

gre,s on March 8, 1891, made an appro.
priation OF $50. 700 for it. On March 5,
1898, it appropriated $4,000 to complete
it, In the fire of 1895, the building was
partially destroyed. On June IL, 1896,
congress voted $40, 900 for rebuilding and
repairing it, making the total amount ap-
propriated $685. 900. The amount ex-
pended for the site and incidental expense
was $S,7SS. 40, and the total cost OF the
building, rebuilding and repairing, was
$l46, 211 go. The Vermont Marble COM
pany furnished all the marble for the build.
ing.
Italians have been shooting birds around
Wilmington and Is robins were recently
found in the possession of three of them,
who were arrested. One escaped and the
other two were fined $40 each.
| Mrs. Margaret Delsnd of Boston,
au hor of "John Ward, Preacher" and
"Old Chester Tales" will lecture in the
Billings library at Burlington Tuesday
evening, October 81, on "The Change in
the Feminine Ideal"
Curtis Brown Of Belvidere has recently
klilcu us fOtu DcdT. OuTU5 mas Kllltu
evory one of these g unaided and alone,
and therefore claims to be the champion
bear killer of Vermont. Surely /" Spunky
Lamoille" is ahead on bears.
DIR. C. L. Moren and Walter Brooks
made one OF the biggest hauls of fish
taken in years near St.Albans Wednesday.
The seine was drawn opposite the St. AL
bans point schoolhouse, the united effort.
| OF six men being necessary to handle it.
The catch consisted OF 5000 bull pouts,
six pike, seven pickerel. The estimated
weight of the fish was 2200 pounds.
In 1925 Marquis de Lafayette, the friend
and companion of Washington, visited this
country and made trip through Vermont
one OF bis principal stops being at Mont
pelier. At the gathering in his honor one
of the mounted citizens was George S
Hubbard of Montpelier. Mr.. Hubbard i.
still living, and though SO years old wa
able to be present at the Dewey celebra
ton, and enjoyed it as well as men 81
years younger.
The sales of the St. Adams liquor agen
| cy show an increase in the first eigh
months OF this year over 1898 of So, S14 0S
This is since the saloons, drug stores ant
hotels have gone out of business. L
shows an alarming amount of sickness il
that city. The state board of health should
investigate the matter at once. The fac
that the Messenger advertises a Ger.
tain brand of liquor as being sold at thai
agency may account for it, as good adver.
Using always increases the sales.
The State board of railroad commission.
ers, D. j. Foster of Burlington, id. Mil
Ter OF Wallingford, A. E. Watson OF Hart
ford, made the annual inspection of the
Bennington and Rutland railroad last week.
Thy made careful examination of the
road bed, culverts and bridges aud found
many improvements since the last trip was
made. Superintendent Bennett and Road
master McMaster accompanied the party.
The commissioners were much pleased with
the changes at North Bennington. The
party, together with Col. r. j. Coffey, N
M. Puffer and ex-United States Marshal
John Robinson, took special car and went
over the Hoosick Falls electric railroad, the
largest part of which is in Vermont. They
were much pleased with the appearance Of
the plant.
During Admiral Dewey's recent visit to
Montpelier a gentleman called at the
house where the admiral was born and
upon asking if that was the house and
being told it was, wanted to look it over.
The lady in charge told him they had to
exact small fee as SO many wished to go
over the house, whereupon he paid the
required Is cents. Shortly after this
another gentleman called and asked the
lady If Admiral Dewey was there. She
told him he was not, but he said he must
be as he saw him 60 in short time before.
She found the first gentleman and soon
found that it was the admiral himself. She
was much chagrined to think she had
charged hum the regular fee and fastened
to return it to him, but he did not take it
and enjoyed the joke more than the lady
herself.
The Fish and Game commissioners of
the state have issued the following warn
ing: The first day of the open season for
shooting deer is Sunday, October %.
The observance of the Sabbath is police
regulation, connected with which the war
dens have no duties. But, if a person
kills deer without horns on Sunday, or
violate, any other game law on Sunday,
he should be arrested; and venison illegal
ly killed should always be seized and held
as state property, and not returned to the
owner after his trial, unless he is acquitted
of any violation Of the law. Hunters are
urgently requested to read all the vari-
GUS sections pertaining to the protection of
deer, moose and caribou, and if anything
is not plain, to make inquiries of the COM
missioners. Remember that in all cases,
deer and all fish and game illegally killed
are the property Of the state, and, as such,
should be kept in as good state of pres
ervation as possible, perhaps transported
to cold storage plant, when convenient,
and then await orders of the Fish and
Game commissioners tor disposal.
Two Vermont Monuments at Gettysburg.
The dedication and unwilling of the
monuments erected by the 18th and 18th