Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-10-12
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Frank Howard is moving into the house
| on school street owned by Mrs. ii. MI.
Fisher. Mrs. Fisher and family have
lately moved to Bellows Falls.
DR.. and Mrs. w. G.. Matthews attended
Hoyt's "A Contented Woman" which was
played Saturday evening in Keene, and re-
NAMED over Sunday in that city with
friends.
Jurors from this town are drawn as fol-
lows: grand, Everett l.. Houghton; petit,
Albert G Dickey and William King.
H. A. Perry will attend the Dewey cele-
bration at Montpelier this week, leaving
Wednesday.
G. w. Morse is putting in hot air fur
nard on Prospect Hill.
Word was received here the first of the
week, of the death in Greenfield, Mass,
on Friday, October 6, of Mrs. Laura A.
Sparbawk, aged "a years. Mrs. Spar
hawk was the widow OF Oliver Sparhawk,
native of Walpole and the son OF Oliver
Stearns and Hannah (Stearns) Whitney
Sparhawk, and grandson to Judge Thomas
Sparhawk who settled in this town in 1863.
Mr.. Spsrhawk was druggist in Green
field for number of years, but passed his
early life in town, living in the house now
owned by Harrison G. Barnes, which was
built by his father, Oliver Stearns Sparhawk
aforementioned. Mrs. Sparhswk was an
occasional visitor in town, and at one time,
with her daughter, Miss Lucy Sparhawk,
who survives her, boarded for number of
weeks on Middle street with the late Mrs
Elizabeth Rust. For several years Mrs.
Sperhawk was in delicate health but the
immediate cause of her death was Bright's
disease. Funeral services were held on
Monday, October 8.
A special meeting of Walpole Grange
was held on Tuesday evening, and at the
next meeting, October II, the third and
fourth degrees will be conferred on the
class joining, followed by the harvest sup
per usual on such occasions.
Rev. E. A. Keep will be married to
Miss Jape Conway Hale, at Conway, N.
H., Wednesday afternoon, October 18, at
the residence of the brides father, Matthew
Hale, Rev. John Wright Buckham OF Sa-
lem, Mass, officiating. Mr.. and Mrs.
Keep expect to arrive in Walpole, Mon
day, October %, and on Wednesday even
ing, the 25th, from to 10 o'clock, there
will be reception at the Congregational
parsonage, to which the parish and all
other residents of Walpole and other
friends are most cordially invited. Rev.
j. w. Buckham will preach for Mr.. Keep
at the Congregational church, on Sunday,
October %, conducting both morning and
evening services. He also expects to re-
main until after the reception.
Col George W. Hooker OF Brattleboro,
chief marshal at the reception to be ten
dered Admiral Dewey this week, in Mont
pelier, has appointed Hon. T. Nelson
Hastings as aid. Mr.. Hastings left for
Montpelier Tuesday noon with both hi.
saddle horses. He will ride the Kentucky
grey and we understand Col. Hooker is to
ride the bay horse.
Some 2000 bushels of beets were lately
harvested at the Homestead Farm from
about two acres of land.
j. w. Graves, who had so far recovered
from bis recent illness as to occasionally
drive to the street, is again i'll and confined
to his room.
The family OF B. F. Webster in Green
field, Mass, are mourning the loss of theil
gray horse ''Dick", formerly familiar
sight in the streets of this town.
Rev. E. A. Keep intends to 60 to Man
chester this week to be in attendance a
the state association of ministers.
VIM. Murray, who ha, lived in town fol
the past year or more, has moved with hi
family back to Boston.
Mrs. G. G. Davis expects to leave mex
week for visit of several weeks in AL
bany, N. Y, with her son, William R
Davis, and family.
George Sparhawk of Hotel Dinsmort
left Tuesday for an indefinite stay in Bos
ton, owing to increasing i'll health. HI
was accompanied by G. E. Sherman.
Mrs. John P. Holmes and daughter are
again in Bethel, VT, with relatives, leaving
the 10th inst.
The district Sunday school convention
will hold meeting at the Congregations
church in this town Friday, November 8.
We heard little story the other day
that may be OF general interest. We can't
give it exactly but it was after this manner
somewhat. Two men were seated near
each other in the Kansas City railroad sta
ton, waiting for their respective trains.
They finally entered into conversation, for
man, as we all know, is a social creature.
1t appeared that they both were residents
of Chicago. One remarked he was from
New England originally. The other mau
was, too. The first man said he was raised
in New Hampshire. The second man al
lowed he was. Well he came from Cbe-
shire county. So did the other one. Here
matters became interesting for the first
speaker said be lived in Walpole and the
other replied he did also. But the first
man lived in the house on the corner O
Main and Middle streets, now owned by
w. w. Porter. The other man said it Wa:
Just the case with him and so it fell out, a.
their trains rolled in, that John Cole snC
Mr.. Tracey, rose and shook hands, aud de
cided the world wasn't so very big after all
Mr.. Cole has been in town within few