Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-10-19
| New Hampshire News.
The Manchester mills at Manchester a..

The Manchester mills at Manchester aro
having foundations for cotton mill 1000
feet long, 100 feet wide, and four stories
tall, the largest in the world.
State teachers are looking forward with
a great deal OF interest to the annual mee,.
ing of the state association to be held IN
Laconia, October 81 and %.
Mrs Lizzie Provinchia, charged with tbo
murder OF Annie M. Cox at Rochester in
January last, has been sentenced to Ok
years imprisonment in the state prison.
The internal revenue collection, for th;o
district for the month ending September
so were $105.5S6.52. For the CORES.
pondlng month of 1898 the receipts were
1914, 400 80, showing a gain OF S1i ,OS6 so
Reports from all over the northern ,ac-
ton of the state show that there is a scar.
city of birds, while deer are uausualIv
plentiful. Qrite number were reported
killed last week, and the season promises
to be very prolific one for sportsmen.
There is good prospe that there will
be big cut of logs IN the northern mart ot
New Hampshire the coming winter. The
demand for lumber in the markets has en-
hausted about all the logs on the river, and
the outlook for big season next summer
is the best. The mills will all be run late
into the fall.
Miss Mary Lyman Storrs of Lebanon
will sail for Cuba in November with marty
OF investors In the Cuban Land & Steam,
ship company, which will control and de-
velop lands on the north coast of the NOV
fence of Puerto Principe. Some 5000 neo-
pie, including several Lebanon residents
are interested in this company.
The historic Wiley house in the White
Mountains was burned week before last
This was the house of the WILEY family
who were killed in the great slide from
Mount Wiley in 1926. The property wa,
owned by George H. Moran, the owner of
the late DR.. Samuel A .Bemis estate while
Leonard and Mayo were the occupants.
At the annual meeting of the Boston G.
M aine the old board of directors was re-
elected, including Charles M. Pratt, of the
Standard Oil Company, elected June 10
last, to succeed John A. Hall, resigned.
The purchase of the Portsmouth and Dover
railroad, Portland, Saco and Portsmouth
railroad, and Portland and Rochester rail.
road was approved.
The John M. Hunt Memorial Home for
Aged Couples, at Nashua, was dedicated
with impressive ceremonies, October 3,
The home occupies site on two acres of
land and the buildings cost $4,000, in
Guiding furnishings. The home, by the
will OF Mrs. Mary A. Hunt, carries with it
an endowment fund of 100000, with q
1928, 900 additional fund to 90 with it on
the death of legatees The interest from
this sum will be used for the support of the
institution.
The great council of New Hampshire,
y. Il. M met at X. of P. hall in Clare
mont last Thursday. Officers were elected
tor ensuing year as follows: Great sachem,
Edward D. Seaver, Manchester; great
senior sycamore, Erwin W. Hodson, Cen
ter Harbor; great junior sycamore, Par
don N: Dexter, Salmon Falls; great pro-
phet, Levi N. Reynolds, Wolfboro; great
Z OF K, James T. Whitehead, Dover :;
great K of w, Ceylon Spinney, Ports
mouth; great trustee, Benz Herbert,
Manchester; great representative, Levi N.
Edwards, Wolfboro.
The freshman class list at Dartmouth
with all erasure, and additions made, shows
a total regi:tration of 1879, distributed as
follows: Massachusetts II, New Hamp-
shire 43, New York 81, Vermont Is,
illinois 10, Maine z, District of Columbia
8, New Jersey 2, Nebraska 2, and one
each from Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Rhode Island and China. The
striking feature is the performance of stu
dents from Massachusetts,. Last wear
Massachusetts led, for the first time, New
Hampshire in the number of students sent
to Dartmouth, but by a narrow margin.
Inns year she has nearly twice as many
sons at Dartmouth as New Hampshire Ten
freshmen from Illinois is considered a good
showing, Dartm outh now has over 80 ILL
nois men in her classes.