Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-01-24
Bellows Falls Times
THURSDAY, JANUARY "a, 1901.
STATE NEWS.
IcoNTINUED FROM PAGE 81

Michael Dyer of Lowell rescued party
cons sting OF a man and his wife and sew
ersl children rom the snow en- top OF AL
bany mountain. They had got off the roat
into a big DRIFT and would probably have
persisted but tor the timely assistance o.
Mr.. Dyer. 1t took about four hours tt
shovel out the team Az one horse was rem
dered WORTH SIS and bad TO be killed.i
What came near being a serious calam
ity took place one Saturday evening re
Gently in North HYDE Park. Guy NewtoI
and his mother hitcbed up and drove to tht
post, flee. His mother went in, Guy tax
ing the team over to the Congregations
meeting house sheds there he tied the
horse and started across the road t. Z W
Smiths store. In less than two minutes
the church bell began to ring, people
shouted for help. The meeting house
sheds had collapsed (tbere were twelve o.
them) all OF witch Icy fiat on the ground
except what room Guys horse and Calvin
Fo's' horse took up beneath the wreck
Help arrived and the horses were soon lib.
Grated and both are alive A very fortu
nate accident, as both the boys escaped
Too much snow was the cause.
Edward E Bl kelly OF Montpelier, sor
OF I, llins Blakely, was found dead in BIZ,
room at the Avenue house in St. j obnsbury
Wednt sday morning of asst week He wa.
80 ears old and probably died of apoplexy
sometime the day before. He was found
lying on the bed dressed with his han ,i
his heart. The body wa. rigid and he mu I
boua koo,, 1ool 10. IL l.. i
WAS found. There were no iniica'ion. al
suicide and the local physi ians declared
dea'h was due TO heart failure About q
year ago M. Blakely lost one foot by fall
ing under a moving train on the Montpe-
Ter and Wells River railroad. He carried
at that time $1,000 accident insurance in
two companies. He had not settled with
the companies a, he claimed one-h half the
face value of each policy.
Rivers Bros. of Montpelier have on ex-
hibition at their store an unusually large
cat owl. Its head is the size OF a boys,
aud its claws are a, large asa good sized
hand. This owl has for the past three
years given John Gould con,id .rable trou-
bic and has destroyed abour 800 worth Of
hens IN that time, defy ing all ,ttempts
made for its capture Finally it practi-
cally trapped itself. When Mr. Gould
went to bis house one morning he found
that in chasing hen Mr.. Owl had fallen
through scuttle door and could not es-
cape, A sharp fight betw+e en- man and owl
ensued which resulted in Mr.. Gould cap
turing the bird after it had torn his clothes
and lacerated bis arm with its talons. The
owl is now in strong cage but its di,posi-
ton is against it Tor pet purposes, and it
will undoubtedly find its way into the hands
of the taxi lermist in the near future.
There is no p aspect that the Winooski
wooden mills will start up AGAIN soon, per-
haps ever. This announcement is based
on a statement made by prominent officer
of the mil g. who .aid that the superintend-
ents of the wooden and worsted mills and
most of the overseers had handed in their
designations to the agent. and would seek
employment else where. The infor mant al
so said that both the WOODEN and wnrsted
mlls had practically losed and that in all
probability they woul not be opened apa,n
under the present management. "The
WOODEN business is very slow" said he,
"and many wooden mills hav- failed lately
because of this bad condition of the wooden
market. There is no other reason for the
mills not running, as they have always COM
peted succe ssfullp wi other mills through
out the country" The mills have run but
very little during the past six months, but
1t is expected to close them entirely before
long. The Colchester mill, manufacturing
cotton yarn, will run as usual.
Mrs George Rushlow of Burlington has
received from Mrs Elizabeth P Root, who
is at San Diego, Cal, letter containing
information about her grandfather, James
Hawl-y, and his connection with Ethan and
Ira Allen. Mr.. Root, who is airing her
91't birthday, is the widow of Ell jan Root,
who was for manv years conn, cted with
the Champlnn T importation company.
The tollo wing extract from the letter will
be interesting, especially to the older in
habtants: james Hswlev came with Ira
Allen from Arlington in 1886 to Colchester,
where he built mills. Later he went to
Swanton, where he built mills for Allen.
He then went to Shelburne, where he built
mills for j. I.ham. James Hawley died in
1918 To show the charge in customs an
example is given. Before his death Ethan
Allen appointed James Hawley t.pster to
draw good liquor tor those who attended
hi, fun-ral. Mr.. Havley lived in the house
with Ira Allen when Ethan Allen died.n
The assests of the defunct Merchants
National bank of Rutland will be enriched
for the brne6t of its depo ors ard other
creditors on April by $4,000 to be con-
trlbuted by the directors, according to q
recent settlement made with the comptroller
Of the currency. This amount will be paid
in by directors in settlemeRt in tull for the
unesrned dividends declared by the direc-
tors during the past five or six years and
pad to themselves. The amount of such
dividend is somewhat in excess of $4,000
but by an agreement made between the
comptroller and the directors this amount
is accepted in full payment. The comp
troller OF the currency, it seems. found that
the dividends declared by tn directors OF
the bank during the last six years of its
existence we're unearned. As result, the
directors were ask d TO pay TO the receiver
such portion of the divid .nds declared as
went to Themselves. The agrs ement o. the
directors to S. tile the clam for $500
which is close to the full amount they re-
ceived as the Tt suit OF such DIVIDENDS, fol-
lowed.