Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-04-04
Neighborh0od ltems.
WALPoLE.

In accordance with vote passed at
the annual school meeting authorizing
the same, the schoolhouses known as
districts No. 4, No. s, No. 8 and No II
will be sold by the school board at
public auction at the high school build
ing in Walpole on Saturday afternoon,
April 13, at o'clock Old windows,
formerly used in the high school build
ing, will also be sold at the same time
and place.
A daughter was born Saturday, March
80, to Mr. and Mrs. ID. G. Clark, residents
in district No. 4.
Miss Annie M. Buffum came home last
vacation. Miss Mary II. Bellows, also a
student at the college, is spending a part
of the vacation in New Y ork city.
Mrs. E. F. Tobey and daughter, Miss
Mary A. Tobey, have returned from Boston
where they have been spending the past
month.
The annual collection for the New Hamp-
shire Bible society will be taken at the
morning service, Sunday next, at the Com
gregational church.
DIR. j. w. Knight spent few days LAST
week with the family of his nephew in
w estborough, Mass
Miss Blanche S. Griffin of Thorntons
Ferry, who has taught so acCeptably il The
Walpole grammar school for nearly Two
years has been elected to the position of
principa of the seventh and eighth grades
at Wakefield, Mass, the largest grammar
room in the city, the term opening Apr s.
Miss Elizabeth Bowers of Merrimack Y.
H., an experienced and successful teacher,
will fill the vacancy in the grammar school.
Miss Grif1in's many friends in WalpOle
riuI1 Inr in hnr nav owl
Mrs. Ellen Hosmer arriv,d 4 from New
York March 29,and is spending a week in
town at the Dinsmore.
DrArthur X Drake of Tewksbury Mass.
was the guest Saturday and Sunday last of
Rev. William S. Nichols.
The spring term of school in Christian
Hollow will open April s.
DIR. e. w. johnson has decided to remain
in the Sherman house on Main street and
will not remove to the LebOurVeaU resi-
dence as he intended few weeks ago Mr..
and Mrs. Fred A. Graves, who have lived
during the past year on the Lucius Slade
farm on the river road, will move to the
house on Turnpike street owned by Fred
Prentiss Mr.. PrentiSs' family intending to
remove to the old PrentiSS farm in Wal
pole Valley. Henry Ii. Sawyer and fam
lily of Somerville, Mass, will live on the
Slade farm the present year. Mr.. Sawyer
Mrs. Sawyer and the younger sons are eX-
pected later. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward c..
Haynes have moved from Walpole Valley
to the Reynolds farm, sO-called, near the
head of High street, and the Rattray fami-
ly who lived there during the year past
have returned to their home in the village.
Thomas n. and Hudson 81 Hastings came
home from Philips Exeter academy ON ac-
count of the latters illness March 30. few
dayS before the beginning of the SDrinp va
cation. Blendall +. Becl1ley is also home
from Mt. Hermon, Mass, for the spring va
cation.
An Easter concert will be given by the
children of the Sunday school at the Uni
tartan church Sunday evening next at 80
o'clock. Miss Baldwin of Danvers, Mass,
who is guest in town this week, has
kindly consented to sing at both morning
and evening services.
Mrs. G. T. Kenrick has been visiting
friends in Springfield, Vt.
Henry b. Holland is expected within a
few days from Whitehall, n. ", where he
has been employed for two or three years
past, and will commence work for Perry &
! Porter to fill the vacancy made by the
resignation of NJ. G. Driscoll.
! During the quarter ending March 80 there
were 50 registered letters and parcels sem
out from Walpol ~CstoIiice and % received
/ During the month ending March 80 ther,
were So money orders sold for which wa:
received the sum of S:I4S. So In that time
there were II paid, amounting to $685..
! Misses Mary and Nellie Nichols of Dan
vers, Mass, sisters of Rev. VS.. Nichols o
/ this town, and their friend, Miss May Bald
win arrived in Walpole March 30, and ar,
spending this week here. These young la