Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-06-07
Bellows Falls Times
WEDNESDAY, JUNE z, 1899.
Bellows Falls News.

F. l.. Amadon Of Ticonderoga, N. Y,
visited relatives here last week.
Eugene A. Woods Of Woodstock has
been visiting friends here lately.
Miss May Beaton is quite sick at the
home Of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Martin.
Mrs. H. M. Leonard went yesterday to
New York to visit her son, George Leon
ard.
L. c. Lowell recently purchased new
rubber-tired landau, the only one in the
state, so it is said.
Franklin Barney, marble and granite
dealer from Springfield, was in town yes
terday on business.
Mrs Boone and her son, Elliott Boone
of Columbia university, are the guests Of
Miss Kate Williams.
Bishop Niles of New Hampshire will
preach in St. Peters church, Drewsville,
next Sunday afternoon.
Thomas O'Brien has been spending sew
eral days lately in Greenfield, Mass, with
his son, DR.. John O'Brien.
Miss Emily Blake returned Monday
from St. Margaret's school in Concord,
which has closed for the summer vacation.
The two tenement buildings in the rear
Of the Rockingham, facing on Canal street
and owned by L. T. Lowell, are being
newly painted.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Hall are ex-
pected to arrive from New York Monday
to pass couple Of months at their home in
Bellows Falls.
Mrs. H. E. Clark cleared the expenses
of the dance May 81, as also did Mr.. and
Mrs. H. G. Moore Of Hartford, VT, who
had charge of the music.
Messrs. Foss Bros. of Boston have ar
ranged to have their sale of needlework at
the millinery store Of George F. Davis on
Monday and Tuesday, June ~ and 10.
A new carpet, given by the ladies' So
ciety, is to be laid this week in Emmanuel
church, the work being done by a man
from the house in New York where the
carpet was purchased.
Some Canal street testers have dubbed
the extension on the engine house for the
new ladder Smiths desk" in honor Of
the local giant, Fred Smith. The " desk
is some 20 feet from the ground.
Kenneth Martin, nephew of Mrs. John
W. Flint and member of the second var
sity boat crew of Harvard college, has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Flint since Sat
urday, returning to college today.
An auction at the residence of the late
Sophia Evans on the Rockingham road will
be held at P. NJ. tomorrow. The real
estate and long list of personal property
will be sold. A full description is given in
our advertising columns.
H. M. Amadon has hired window in
the store of E, j. Knapp & Co. on West
minister street and is again ready for bust
ness. This is temporary arrangement,
and later in the season he hopes to have
larger and more permanent quarters.
James L. Hackett, formerly chief clerk
in the postofice, has purchased of j. T.
Keefe the shoe store on Canal street
recently owned by c. F. Maynard. He
took possession Saturday and will run it
under the old name, the Boston Shoe store.
The woman's auxiliary of Emmanuel
church will meet at the parish house to-
morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock to pack a
missionary box, and what articles any one
may have to contribute to the box should
be left at the parish house before that time.
The public rehearsal of the school chill
dren's musicale Monday afternoon was
largely attended and very enjoyable, the
success Of this first recital promising well
for the concert this evening in the opera
house, to which every one is most cordial.
ly invited.
The TIMES has received copy of the
official journal of the ffty-ffth session Of
the Vermont Methodist conference held in
Newport in April. 1t was evidently
arranged with much care and patient effort
and reflects much credit on the secretary,
Rev. F. w. Lewis OF this place.
The annual exhibit made by the pupils
of the graded schools opens today in the
high school building and lasts through to-
morrow and Friday. Different phases of
school work will be illustrated IN this ex-
hibit, which will naturally be of great in
terest to the parents and friends of the
children. The display has been arranged
in room B, where there will be some one in
charge from 9 in the morning until in the
afternoon, with the exception Of the noon
hour.