Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-01
BRATTLEBORO.

Mrs. Mary E. Shattuck of Bratteboro died
Thursday of pneumonia at Townshend,
where she went to attend her brother, Henry
Holland, who died there last week. Mrs
Shattuck was most estimable and beloved
woman and member of the First Baptist
church. She leaves one son, Charles L.
Shattuck, a New York photographer, and
two daughters, Addie N, and Carrie H both
of Brattleboro: She also leaves two brothers,
Holland of New York and one sister, Mrs.
Robert Kathan of Putney.
The Brattleboro jelly company are plan
ming for a capitalization by which they
hope to secure sufficient funds to enlarge
their business, the plan being to ask the
growers who raise cucumbers for the pickle
factory, which is rart of the company's bus
mess, to subscribe $25 year for four years,
while the present stockholders of the COM
rany are to provide $4,000. The company
can use the product from 100 acres, 80 of
which have already been pledged in accord
ance with the above plan.
The spring term of county court convenes
at Newfane March s, Judge j. M. Tyler pre-
siding. There are several important cases on
the docket 1t is thought that the session
will be short, owing to the difficulty in get
ting witnesses on account of bad travelling.
Local friends Of William j. Bryan are hop
ing to arrange for a sneech from the colonel
on the topics of the dav some time during the
early summer, when Mr.. Bryan has suggested
that b will come to Vermont
The women of the Congregational church
held supper at the church parlors Thursday
night, which was well attended, the proceeds
going to fund for the repair of the parson-
age.
DR.. A. j Pullen, who recently located in
Flint, Mich i, is in Brattleboro for a couple of
weeks settling up his affairs preparatory to
removing his family west.
The venerable town clerk, William New
ton, is still confined to his home fror, an
Hawley.
Albyn E. Atwood has been appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of Caroline H. Field.
Hugh NJ Adams, former proprietor of the
Bratt eboro livery plant, writes from Daw-
son, January l3 81 saw the sun Jannary 4
for the first me 81, ce November 27 1t
shone about 20 minu'e,-looked like hinge
ball OF fire and not more then mile IF Six
of us cut tn day enough logs for 1900 feet Of
lumber. We hal t, go three miles M on the
mou tain, slide the logs down with ropes
and draw them on a sled ore at tire j. to
camp. Two men csn from $50 to 200
feet a dev hut it is hard work Lumber is
worth $500 Thousand feet The thermom-
| eter is 40 'egrees below zero to-dav. and it is
light from 80 in the morning till 80 in the
afternoon
Emory Knowlton, proprietor of the old
| stage line between Brattleboro and Town
she nd, ard more recantlv proprietor of the
! American house, has leased the Fullerton at
| Chester, recently run bv DR. w Ray Mr.
Knowlton's brother, Orrin F. Kuowlton,
a former clerk in the Gnrham general store
at Wilmington, is proprietor of the hotel at
Ludlow.
| Newfane people will be interested in an
item from New York psper. which, in
speaking of the death of Lymus W. Dexter,
/ aSufo hat ~ Lac
fortune of $500 QUO Mr.. Dexter leaves
a widow and one brother, the latter a resi-
dent of Newane.
Tawver G. G. Fits has brought suit for
$50 600 against the Roston and Maine rail-
ro,d in fsvor of George NJ. Ellis of Brattlr-
boro for Injuries received bv him in 1894
while in the employ of the Fitchburg rail-
road company.
| Michael j. Sherry, member of the 9th
United States Infantry, will go to San Fran.
cisco March Z, sailing thence to Manila with
Dan ONeill, who is in the same regiment.
DIR. E r Lynch was called to st. Johns.
mother, Mrs. Mary Conan Lynch. His father
died there about four months ago.
The secretary of agriculture at Washing.
ton ordered qusntity of maple sugar last
week from the Brsttleboro jelly company.
W. H Bond has sold his grocery store in
Tyler block to Charles cleveland, q former
clerk in Starkey & Welman's store.
George d. Reed, former quartermaster oi
the Estey guard, went to Manchester, Conn.
SATURDAY. n work in a store thare