Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-05-21
Bellows Falls Times
Vermont News

port June 8.
The 21st annual encampment of the
Vermont division Sons of Veterans will
be held with G. S. Clark camp, No. s,
Stowe, June 16, II and Is.
While the station agent at Underhill,
G. c. Abbott, was at dinner Wednesday
noon of last week, entrance was made
into the private office by some person or
persons climbing over the top of the lat
tice work which incloses the office, and
between S25 and 500 stolen.
Mrs. w. Seward Webb and Miss Fred
erika Webb are guests of Mrs. George
Vanderbilt in New York. On the re-
turn of DR.. w. Seward Webb from
abroad Shelbume Farms will be opened
and house parties will be given there I'M
til after the Fourth of July, when the
Webbs will go to their camp in the Adj
londackS.
Troy Conference academy at Poultney
has recently been presented a scholar
ship of $1,000, to be known as the DR..
Henry 2. Prouty scholarship, given in
memory of her late husband by Mrs.
Martha Broughton Prouty. The donor,
although a resident of Chicago, has
always been classed among those who
are affectionately devoted to Poultney
and its academy.
Louis Lacaz, solicitor for the Rutland
City Electric company, has mysteriously
disappeared. He was last seen on May
when he was at work as usual Lacaz
was about 80 years old, unmarried and
came to Rutland about year ago from
Pittsburgh, n. Y. He was boarding at
the Brock House on South Main street
and hoI hic hoo rl hin oil III 10
left his trunk and personal belongings in
his room. He is not known to have had
any great amount of money about his
Isperson when last seen.
Nearly 100 young trees have been set
by the sides of the highway leading
north from the village of Windsor to the
Pettes place, under the direction of the
Rural Improvements society. In addition
to these, 70 or more have been set out,
under the same direction, in different
parts of the village. The society has
engaged Constant Pardy to Superintend
it's out-dc or work for the season, plans
for which with the assistance of Station
Agent Hazen include the improvement
| in the appearance of the depot grounds.
T. W. Pretsch, government architect
has arrived in Burlington from Washing
ton, with preliminary plans for the new
postoffice building. The plans were sub
mitted to Congressman Foster and the
officials who will occupy the new gov
eminent building. 1t is understood that
the plans for the temporary building to
be erected south of the postoffice will be
received within few days and bids for
the construction of the structure will be
called for at once. AS soon as the build
ing is ready for occupancy the old post
Off &c will be torn down.
Erwin II. Thorp, native of Charlotte
and a graduate of the University of Yer
mont, Burlington, in the class of 1879,
has been appointed assistant in charge
to M. G. FoSneS, who succeeds A. W.
Machen at the head of the rural free
delivery in the United States. Mr..
Thorp was connected with the Rutland
Herald for four years after graduation
and then with the Middlebury Register
until 1897. From 1898 to 1900 he was
postmaster at Middlebury and then
became postotfice inspector, covering
good part of the country until he
became inspector at the New York city
postotfice.
1t is understood among the Boston
and New Y ork alumni of Norwich uni
versity, Mortified, that Allan D. Brown.
president of Norwich university, will
resign his position at the coming com
mencement. President Brown is in poor
health and cannot give the office the
attention that it demands. President
Brown has been at the head of the insti
tuition since November 1896 His health
has been impaired more or less for manv
years and II years ago he was retired
from the navy on account of physical
disability. Malaria has been one of his
chief foes and he is otherwise broken in
health. President Brown declines to
discuss the matter.
The annual meeting of E. & T. Fair
banks & Co., the St. Johnsbury scale
manufacturers was held Wednesday.
May 10, and the old board of directors
was elected as follows: Samuel n.
Brown of Boston, Henry Fairbanks of
st. Johnsbury, William Storrs Wells of
New ork, Charles H. Morse of Chicago
Ii. N. Turner, John G. Clark and Frank
III. Brooks of st. Johnsbury. The board
organized by re-electing the following
officers: President, S. N. Brown; vice
president, Henry Fairbanks; general
manager, II. N. Turner; secretary and
treasurer, John c. Clark. In his annual
report to the stockholders President
Brown said that the volume of business
in 1902 was the largest in the history of
the corporation.
Raymond U. Smith, the well known
young lawyer of Wells River, is at pres
ent in the Mclean asylu N at Waverlv,
Mass, suffering from what is hoped and
believed to be case of temporary insan-
ity. Recently he went to Springfield.
Mass, to visit his brother, who is a civil
engineeg there. He said that he had
important business in New Y ork and his
brother accompanied him to that city.
When they reached there Mr. Smith
transacted no business but insisted on
going at once to Boston. On the way to
that city he showed unmistakable signs
of insanity and finally became so violent
that he was restrained with difficulty.
When Boston was reached Mr.. Smith
was taken to the Mclean retreat. 1t is
believed that the trouble will be only
temporary.
The Red Lion inn in Randolph is