Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-09-02
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WALPOLE.

The town schools will open on Tuesday,
September 5, with the exception OF tha
school in district No. 6, which will be de-
layed one week, commencing on Monday,
September II Repairs are being made en-
the schoolhouse, INC uding new floor and
modern seats the seats from No. 4 school
house having been utilized. 1t is expected
Miss Alice M K,ngsbury will have charge
of the school.
DIR. T. B. Buffum Of New York is in
town this week.
Mrs Helen B. Smith of Rutland has
been here for several days with friends and
relatives.
M. H. Gorhsm was home from Dorches-
ter few days this week.
Mrs G. G. Abbott of ST. Johhsbury is
guest at the Congregational psrsonsga.
Master Gilbert Griswold Hale of A lis
ton, Mass, came from Keene Tuesday
where he has been visiting relatives and is
spending the week here with friends.
Mrs Mary H. Hastings and her four
nephews, Thomas, Hudson, Russell and
Winthrop, left Thursday morning for an
outing of several days at Portsmouth, ii.
Moses LaClair and family of West Unity
visited here recently with Herbert Smith
and wife.
Harry Towner of North Charlestown ar
rived here last Saturday for several days
stay
Miss Seymore of Northampton has been
the guest of H. A. Perry and wife durin
the past week.
The ente- tainment given on Tuesday
evening at the town hail. consisting of war
pictures and talking machine, was at
tended by small audience, who, we are
tod, do not consider the ey enirg exactly a
success.
Mrs. Kate M. Harvey and children of
Brighton, Mas, are visiting relatives in
town.
Miss Lockwood of Boston has been visit
ing at Mrs. Elizabeth F. Tobey's.
Mrs. M. W. Murray of Milton, Mass,
Misses Matte Dodge of Wilton, n. H.,
and Ruth and Mamie Cove of Bellows
Falls were the guests Old Home Day OF
Waldo A. Burt and wife.
John E. Nicholson arrived in town on
| Thursday for few days. His little daugh-
| ter Margaret, who has spent the summer
here with her grandmother, Mrs M. Mich
olson, will return with him to New York.
The collection for the Kurn Hattin Home
| last Sunday amounted to SIG.
Louis r. Lincoln and wife of Brookline,
Mass, are at the Elmwood.
Arthur Jennison and wife of Milford, n.
H., called on relatives in town Thursday.
Mrs Wallace L. Mason and Miss Ger
| trude Beal Of Keene and Mrs. Beal attend
ed the Old Home Day celebration here on
| "Wednesday.
The 'ittl) son of G.. W. Kingsbury and
wife has been quite i'll for the past ten days.
| The resid, noes of Hnn. T. N Hastings,
II. A Perry and Mrs Nicholson were d. c.
grated with flags and Illuminated with CHI
nese lanterns on Tuesday and Wednesday
in honcr Ct the Old Home festival. Tho
Din.more was also prettily Lighted and gay
with fsgs.
Will i'm Hunt Bellows of Cincinnati, o.,
is in town at T. B. Peck's.
Rev. r. N Bellows ia entertai 1ing hi
sister, Miss Ellen D Bellows OF Boston.
TIE bank will be closed Monday next,
Labor Day.
G. M. Faulkner and wife were not pres
ept at Wednes iay's celebration as expect
ed, having been navoidably detained. but
will come today and remain until Tuesday
i Aaron Purbee of Grand Rapids, Mich
has been visiting his brother, Anson Bur
bee and family AMI relatives In BELOW.
Falls aud vie;rity, during the past week
, after an absence of 26 years. He was al
empoye on the old Cheshire railroad, ant
! at one time be, with his three brothers, An
| son, and tie twins, Chester and Dexter
also employed on the road, had charge o
: all the freight. Their home at that tim
was in Keene, although the early life o
these brothers was passed in Caremont
Several good stories are told In connection
with the TACT concerning their employment
en- the same road at the same time, fac