Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-10-12
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valuable dog and if stories are true thi S
seemingly trifing business transaction at
times caused considerable embarrassment at
Blake & Warmers grocery store. Mis-
takes are bound to "cur'' in the best of
regulated families, but imagine the incon-
venience occasioned when the dogs master
steps to the door and whistles to his bre-
waited yet popular clerk, who perchance is
crossing the street for the mail, while his
own true canine friend, the party in ques-
ton, sulks back of the counter. The stu
alton is made. doubly alarming if near
sighted customers, coming in Just then,
wonder why Dean is so very quiet and
does not wait on them.
Now that the construction of the electric
road has really begun let us be optimistic, or
at least rational, and look for an increase
of life and business in our handsome little
village. When the first volt of electricity
comes over the completed line it ought to
bring to US as it has to the people of so
many other villages new impulse, desire
to little more than exist. Not one of us
can question the fact that transportation by
the use of electricity is the most modern,
the cleanest, the easiest and in almost
every known case the quickest and cheap
est. That the road about to be construct
ed will be an injury to some, man is fool
i,h to dispute, for there is hardly a con-
ceivable occupation or enterprise which an
individual, company or corporation can en-
ter into that does not ipjure some one; but
when one hears person arguing for indi-
vldual welfare when great enterprise for
the benefit of the public is at stake and
seeming to forget that it is the thing that
helps the greatest number that helps the
most, why, to use homely expression,
eve feel for him." Group, if you please,
the contraminded by themselves and you
have with but few exceptions class of
people on whose rough exterior the erup-
ton enterprise has long been extinct.
Miss Evangeline Roux, who spent the
summer in Germany, recently visited her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. L. Roux, for a
few days; she has now returned to her
school at Godfrey, Ill.
Mrs. Marlborough visited friends at Bel
lows Falls last week.
Mrs. Francis Reynolds and baby of Bel
lows Falls have been passing few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harty.
Mrs. Richard Gott of Fowlerville, Mich,
has been visiting her cousin, Miss Fannie
button.
1t is rumored that the old covered bridge
at the factory is to be removed by the Sc
lectmen and erected at the clay bank at the
fork of the roads below the village. If this
is done it will be used as tool house.
A son was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. WAR.
Little Theresa Spillane returned last
week from Springfield, where she has been
visiting her aunt.
A number from here attended the play at
Bellows Friday night and spoke of Hoyt's
ga Contented Woman" as being good and
quite equal to the other plays written by
Mr.. Hoyt which have been presented at the
opera house.
Miss Della Smith, who has been visiting
at Laconia and New Bedford, returned to
her home Saturday.
Mrs. James Little met with quite a seri-
GUS accident Saturday evening while re-
turning with her husband from the Hartley
farm. While driving down the steep pitch
below the Smith farm the horse stumbled
and fell, breaking both shafts and throwing
Mr.. and Mrs. Little and son Charlie from
the carriage. Mrs. Little struck in such a
way as to break three ribs the others were
uninjured.