Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-02-21
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A few nights ago as George Seyerns
of Derby was driving toward his nome
his horse SHE'D from the road and ne
saw something on the snow and getting
out to pick it up found it was headleSs
partridge tluttering still. Interested TO
learn what was the cause of its death he
walked back little way and CHANGING to
glance up he noticed bunch of feathers
on the telephone wire and lying in the
snow near by was the birds head.
As it was about dusk the bird evidently
did not see the wire and flew against it,
meeting its death that way.
At directors meeting of the Rutland
railroad held in New York last week
Henry G. Smith, formerly treasurer OF
the road, was elected vice president and
Olaf f. Harrison, cashier of the Clement
national bank of Rutland, was elected
treasurer to succeed Mr.. Smith. The
earnings of the road from July l, 1900,
to January /, 1901, amounted to about
3 ~ per cent on the preferred stock OF
the road. This is without the benefits
to be derived from the new Rutland-Can-
adam road.
There is a little excitement over small
pox in Randolph, says the Herald and
News. Bernie Durgan of Queechee, son-in-
law of Eugene Adams of the Centre, came
to spend Sunday with him. Before his re-
turn he began to break out in a way that
suggested chicken-pox. On Monday
Health Officer Bailey was notified by Dr.
Holton, secretary of the state board OF
health, who had been called to Quechee,
that Durgan and several Others had
smallpox in a mild form. DR.. Bailey
promptly placed quarantine on the
Adams house at the Centre, which in
cludes seven members of that family
and two sons of Adna Adams, who also
saw Durgan. 1t is not thought that any
others were exposed and as the fourteen
day limit is now nearly passed and no
one has come down little anxiety is felt.
Charles M. Wilds, Esq, of Middlebury,
a prominent corporation lawyer, died
Friday morning of pneumonia after a
brief illness. In March, 1897, Mr.. WildS
was retained by Charles M. Hays, gener-
al manager of the Grand Trunk railway,
who was in search of some competent
counsel not connected with any of the
Vermont railroads, Mr. Hays being adj
viSed oy Aldace F. Walker, formerly of
the interstate commerce commission that
Mr.. Wilds was the proper person,and his
connection with the reorganization of
the Central Vermont railroad is matter
of public notoriety, there probably being
no man in Vermont that could have done
the work as well as he did. Judge Rus
sell S. Taft said of him recently: Ellis
ability and capacity is known to many,
and | never knew man more radically
honest, upright and straightforward than
he" Mr.. Wilds was chosen a presiden-
tial elector on the state republican ticket
in 1892. tt E.l2 IN n aH
Mayor John d. Spellman has been
renominated by the democrats of Rut-
land to head the city ticket. The eau
Gus was small but enthusiastic. George
G. Underhill presented Mr.. Spellman's
name and I. W. Moloney and Others sec
onded it. The mayor took the platform
and made 15-minute speech of accept
ance. He said he wanted the nomina-
ton simply as matter of vindication
and justice. He would have given the
people better service he said if they had
sent better class of servants to the
council chamber. He did not believe
that Daniel Webster himself could have
succeeded as mayor under the circum-
stances which existed last year. Father
Matthew, the great Irish apostle of tenn
perance, he thought would have been
driven to drink. Referring to his recent
he said he regretted that occurrence, but
declared that it was in the nature of
every chivalrous man to act promptly
when the sanctity of his home was in
vaded by a dirty, unprincipled despoiler.