Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-10-26
SPRINGFIELD.

SfRlNGF lELD.
The ladies' society of the Methodist
church serve chicken pie supper Thurs.
day evening, October 26 supper from
6 to8
The annual hunt will be October 31st, and
the game supper at the Adnabrown Novem-
Der 1st.
The vestry of the Methodist church has
been undergoing repairs the past week,
the walls being kalsomined and the ceiling
handsomely papered; the ladies also have
been sewing on carpet for the vestry.
A steel bridge has been put across
the canal at the shoe factory, the old
wooden one being considered unsafe for
the heavy loads it was subjected to.
DR.. Henry Stickney of Newport was in
town Friday.
j. E. Kirk of Denver, COL, has been
visiting James L. Whitcomb the past week.
This is bis first visit here since he left 80
years ago.
George Putnam has gone to Mount
Moses on ten days hunting trip.
Miss May Broderick of Chester was in
town several days last week.
A large load of clerks and young people
enjoyed moonlight ride Thursday even
ing to Chester, returning by way Of Gas
sets and North Springfield, and another
large load went to Sydney Peck's to husk-
ing and dance the same evening.
Bert Bingham has let the contract for
the building of bis house on W. H. Cobb's
addition to Joseph Morse.
Yen- L. C.: l..
Putnam, Lafountain & Co. and gone into
the gear shaper shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Chandler have
changed their rooms to over DR.. Furber's.
Henry B. Holmes is making quite extern
sive alterations on the interior of his man
sion.
Silas Amidon has returned from the Hot
Springs and reports Mrs. Amidon as
improving in health under the treatment
there.
Miss Elsie Chase of Chester visited
friends in town over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Welch of Wheel
ock are visiting at Henry W. Dexter's.
Saturday afternoon at o'clock the high
school eleven play the Black River Acad-
GUY ClCFOu oO ALiNCIeiuO p6TA.
Monday morning while DR.. Doane was
coming down Seminary hill the bit broke,
which startled the horse into run. The
doctor jumped, thinking the ground the
safest place under the adverse circum-
stances. The driver, Mr.. Fuller, kept his
seat and hold of the reins and by talking
to the animal got it quieted SO that when
they reached the street the horse turned IN
at the DOCTORS residence and stopped at
the barn without further casualty.
Mr. and Mrs. M. c. Lowell went to Bos-
ton Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Spaulding Of
Windsor came Friday for few days visit
with friends and relatives, returning to
Windsor Monday.
Joseph Wilson and bis famous trick dog,
Jack, was in our village Monday.
John Smith visited in Woodstock Satur-
day. John wanted quiet, safe team and
he got it, but he thinks he wouldn't object
if the next team he hired had bit more
nerve.
Sunday afternoon an alarm of fire was
rung in and help wanted to subdue fire
started in the woods of Mrs. Johnathan
Butterfeld on Skitchewaug mountain. An
electric was run down to the nearest point
with about 60 men but the fire was under
control when they arrived. 1t would be
a good plan for hunters to be sure that
a match was out before they threw it away.
Arthur Fuller, Arthur Mason, Fred
Bishop, NJ Nicholson and Karl Perry took
a trip up Ascutuey Sunday. They report
fine time and had day unsurpassed tor
sight seeing. In going up the mountain
they had view of fine buck but did not
modest him and he did not seem very wild.
They also saw the fire on Skitchewaug.
James Pollard of Chester was in town
Monday with party OF visitors.
Several Nimrods are out with the rife
now and great slaughter OF deer may be
expected.
DEATH OF MRS. LUCY HULETT.
Lucy Hulett of Springfield died in Ches-
ter October 10Th at the advanced age of
80 years, after a painful illness of five
weeks. She was the eldest daughter Of
Loam and Delight Cutler, an old-time resi-
dent of this town. Her husband, Lyman
Hulett, preceded her 81 years ago. After
his decease she began to care for the sick
and this occupation she followed as long as