Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-02-14
Bellows Falls Times
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1901
Bellows Falls News

iting at his home here.
Miss Grace Kellogg of Keene is visit.
ing at II. L. Kellogg's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valliere, living at "a vii.
liams street, went Monday to Haverhill
Mass to attend his brothers funeral.
| P. E. Griffin is in Concord, N. H., this
week. naa y .aa
| A party from here attended the paper.
makers ball in Alstead Friday night.
E. B. Aldrich, formerly general freight
and passenger agent for the Rutland road
died at his home in Rutland Sunday.
Miss Josephine Sylvester announces
that circumstances have made it neces.
sary for her to close her store.
A hearing was held Saturday before the
commissioners of the G. L. Barber es.
tate. The question was the allowance Of
a bill of p. De ST. Croix for 5000 against
the estate.
The Junior Christian Endeavor society
of the Baptist church will hold valen-
| tine social tomorrow evening.
Walter A. Henry of Springfield, Mass,
formerly of this place, died in New Mex
| leo Sunday. He went there for his
health about month ago.
W. R. Farnsworth, division engineer of
the international Paper company, was in
town Tuesday looking after the COM
pany's interests.
j. A. Whiting, salesman from the Bos-
ton Office of Messrs. Wyckoff, SeamanS
| & Benedict, was in town Tuesday look
ing after the Remington typewriter bust
ness.
| E. B. Walters, salesman from the Bos-
| ton Office of the international Paper com
| pany, was in town on business last Fri
| day.
One of Lowell & Shedd's order teams
started from Burt Place Tuesday and
made a lively dash down through the
Square and was stopped near Wheeler's
laundry. No damage was done.
| Forty-eight enjoyed the Baptist sleigh
and trolly ride to Springfield with sup
per at the Adnabrown Friday evening
Lowell provided teams.
The figures of the net amount of assess
ment in the water department in the las
few years follow: In 1892, $5640.61 wa!
collected. 1 600 et757 ~ I4l,;, daoraos 81
owing to the reduction in the rentals
which have since remained at the same
| figure); 1894, $4S73.70; 1895, $5361.57
1896, $5553.47 1897, s6134.o4; 1898, $685..
90; 1899, S6315.7S; 1900, $6S3S.25.
A well defined case of varoloid was
discovered Monday afternoon in the fami
| ly of David Veto in Keene who lives il
the old Catholic church, where a boy 1f
years old, who has been employed by the
Diamond Match company, is i'll with the
| disease. The board of health at once
| caused the premises to be quarantineo
and hung out red flag.
Frank S. Whittier of Lynn, Mass, has
presented to the Rockingham Free Ii
brary copy of the City of Lynn Semi
Centennial, a profusely illustrated book
of some 300 pages, and which is credit
able piece of Typography of his owl
work. Mr. Whittier was formerly of th,
Bellows Falls high school, learned hi
trade in the TIMES office, has been sue
cessful in business, and for the past ter
years he and his partner have been til,
official printers of the city of Lynn.
A man named Willis, who said he cam
from Athens on the,electrics, was arrest
ed Saturday for drunkenness by B. NJ
, Walker At the hearing he was fined s
and costs. When asked where he 90
his juice he said at first that a strange
gave him bottle on Bridge street Whe
asked to revise his memory he said h
got it at place unknown in North Wa
| pole. He was put into the cooler t
think the matter over, and finally dis
closed on North Walpole saloon.
John P. Riley, superintendent of til
| ihOoAh"'OIoiihl dpCI COIlpdIN, ulSC0Nere
that considerable old metal belonoino +
the company was disappearing. Invest
} cation resulted in the arrest of Nelso
Jarvis, Alexander Shackett and Georo
J X. Shackett. AT hearings Saturday til
, two former were fined SO and costs an
the latter, lad about Is wears of 40.
: was sent to the Industrial school at Vel
gennes for the remainder of his minorit,
The respondents were employees of tn
4 International Paper company, and tn
: stolen metal had been sold to the Bake
Junk company.
New Hampshire exchange has TIL
to say about fellow. townsman: ssTl
: member who surprised the house in la
weeks debate over the Barnstead ele
tion case was Mr.. O'Neil of walpole WI
e developed his side of the question with
dexterity of argument and facility
speech that were notable. Mr.. ONE
was member of the house in 1891,
he knows the legislative ropes by expe
fence: and he is an insurance aua,