Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
! Bellows Falls News
LOCAL NOTES.

d. y. LAY is III NEW orh oiis4 w
selecting spring goods.
| Miss Iva Young, who was sick last
week, is much improved.
The New. York Racket will aopen q
store in Towns hotel dining groom after
March TO-.
II. d. Ryder has been chosen one OF
the judges at a prize speaking to be he"
at Dartmouth college March IA.
George II. Allbee has gone to New
! York state where he is travelling sales
man for the American Feed company.
Keane's lunch room has been sopen all
night since Monday; Leon Virgins is at
tending nights and Lawrence Cannon
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. MN. Whitney are among
the victims of the grip, and their daugh-
ter, Mrs. C. S. Howard, is caring for
them.
The saw mill at Barberlpark is saving
wood right along. Last week $1,000 feet
partly hard wood, were sawed ready for
the market.
Nelson A. Brown, son of George A,
Brown, is an instructor in elocution at
Dartmouth college. Mr.. Brown gradu,
ated last June.
F. G. Hildreth reports "a delightful
southern trip. He went as. far as Palm
Beach, Fla, and on the way home passed
a week in Washington.
| II. S. Gray, G. II. Shepardson and E.
A. Lille went to Newfane yesterday
where they will serve as jurors during
the March term Of the county court.
A two-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Miller, living on Bridge street.
died Saturday. The funeral was from
the house at 2 P. N. Sunday, Rev. d. L.
Sanford officiating. ......
| Miss Mary Wood, who has been criti-
cally i'll for two weeks with sore hand,
, is improving. The trouble arose from a
slight bruise, in which she caught cold,
causing DiOOu pOlSolllilS.
II. O. Whitman is the new clerk in J..
G. Day & Co. s store, taking the place of
Pearl Blanchard, who is still ill at his
home in Putney though at last accounts
reported to be slightly better.
Miss Addie Sawyer of Belfast, : Me-,
who has been spending the winter here,
is quite sick at the home of Cher cousin,
Percy A. Dean, suffering from a severe
cold and an abscess back of the ear.
The Rebekahs gave pleasant swhist
party in Odd Fellows hall Friday even
ing. The ladies' prize was won by Mrs.
III. D. Aldrich, and the gentlemen's by
G. B. Underhill. J.iJ. Smith scooped
the BOBBY.
Miss Lillian WilderXwent toTBoston
yesterday to studyassstyles in ispring mil
linery. Later she expects to go to New
York. She will be gone ten days or two
weeks and during her absence the store
will be run by Miss Mamie Cove.
The young people.of St. Peters parish
in North Walpole are planning "a grand
celebration for the evening of St.KPat-
rick's day. Supper will be served from
5 to 7.30 o'clock and will be followed by
an excellent program which will beigiven
in the next issue of the TIMES.
w. F. Allen of West Stewartstown, N.
H., who is in the assemblyfat Concord,
came over last week to visit,friends of for
mer years and renew old acquaintance at
A.E. Lambs. He returned to his duties in
the New Hampshire legislature Tues
day.
The st. Johnsbury Republican has the
following to say regarding a recent item
of news: 1.-The Vermont Farm Machine
company of Bellows Falls won first place
at the National Butter Makers meeting
at st. Paul last week. There were 500
entries. Premiums and medals must get
to be almost an old story to this well
known Vermont firm
Gen. L. A. Grant of Minneapolis,
MIMI, spent Sunday in Bellows Falls,
where forty years ago he practised law
as member of the firm of Stoughton &
Grant his partner being the late Hon.
Ill. E. Stoughton. When the civil wal
broke out Gen. Grant joined the army as
Northumberland and served through
out the entire rebellion, being in com
mand of the old Vermont brigade and
rising to the rank of brigadier-generaL
During President Harrisons administers
ton, he was assistant secretary of wal
and part of the time acting secretary.
After the war the general did not again
engage in the practice of law and for
some years now has been in the real es-
tate and loan business in Minneapolis.
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