Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-05-14
NeighbOring Towns
WALPoLE.

WALPoLE.
wALPoLE GRANGE
AT the regular meeting May the lectur-
er's program consisted of the following
numbers: Reading, Mrs. Warren Thomp-
son; recital, Mrs Charles Seward; instru-
mental solo, Mrs. f. Il. Graves: question :
(Which has the greater influence, wealth
or education?" This question was ably
| discussed by MesSrS. Guild, jennings
Burt, Phelan and others. There were Wis
itors present from Leominster, Mass, AL
stead and Chester, who took part in the
discussion.
wALPoLE BAND CONCERT AND BALL.
The concert and ball arranged and con-
Quoted by members of the Walpole brass
band was given Wednesday evening, May
6 and was an unqualified success in every
particular. The band was fortunately
favored by the weather and a large attend
ance of townspeople and others rewarded
its IN ,mbers for the excellent work which
was done to make the affair success The
concert rendered by the band, with the as
sistance of local and other talent, deserves
a great deal of praise. Under the able
leadership of Mr.. Beedle the band added
new laurels to it's already good reputation
as a musical organization. Walpole should
be proud to foster this enterprise which in
an incredibly short time has reached an
unusual degree of excellence, and that the
town is proud was shown by the response
made to this first benefit. The solo num-
bers on the concert program were greatly
enjoyed. DR.. E. w. Johnson sang in his
usual artistic manner and was well APP
plauded. OF no less pleasure to the audi
ence was the singing of George B. Will
| lianls, Jr., without whom concert in
| Walpole is not complete. Prof. Arthur
| .Nn,, tl,A e Il
evening and delighted all by his cornet
! playing and especially by the marvellous
manner in which he played his two comets
at once. This difficult feat was not only
clever bit of manipulation but also must
cally agreeable to listen to. Mrs. H. B.
| Rogers accompanied the soloists on the
piano and deserves much praise for her
work. The popularity of Mr., Beedle was
shown by the applause which greeted his
violin solo. The concert was brought to
close by a final selection by the band and
all felt we'll repaid for coming if only to
this part of the evenings enjoyment.
The ball which followed the concert was
participated in by large number of
couples and the dancing was kept up until
O'Clock the next morning. During the
lntermlssion bountiful supper was served
in the lower hall. Throughout the even
ing much interest was manifested in the
various voting and guessing contests es-
pecially the voting away of the dolls to
tie most popular girl in town. The result
OF the various contests is as follows: On
the dolls which were given by Knowlton
| & Co. the total vote was 81. Laura GlaZier
received 221, Alice Moran 215, Carolyn
Burt III. Hortense Gotta 10S and Jennie
Holden %. The barrel of flour donated by
Perry & Porter was awarded to the one
guessing the nearest to the number of
seeds in the squash. When the seeds were
| counted there were found to be 265 and of
the III guesses Rev. w. S. Nichols was the
nearest, with a guess of 260. A pair of
shoes given by Frank A. Spaulding was
won by the person guessing the nearest to
| the number of shot in bottle. The bottle
| contain ed 2079 shot. There were 10 guesses
and Fred Weymouth, with guess of 2130.
was the winner. The guesses ranged from
33l to $4,000. Five pounds of candy pre-
sented by John A. Weber was also award
ed by the guessing of the number of shot
| in bottle. This bottle contained 573 shot
and Warren Thompson and his son, Carl
Thompson, had registered the guess of 575.
| This left no doubt but that the Thompson
family was in need of candy. There were
LOG guesses sold An oil stove which was
presented by Charles w. Morse was award
| ed by the guessing on numbers. HI. b.
Rogers out of so who took chances, picked
the lucky number 70, winning the stove
| A box OF fine cigars was awarded in the
| same manner as the stove to DR.. w. C.
| Matthews on the number 80; 81 took
| chances for the cigars.
The financial success of this first annual
| concert and ball was upwards of $500 and
we expect very soon to see the members of
Walpole band wearing their new uniforms
and delighting us more and more with the
strains of martial music.
The Federation of the Young Peoples
Religious Unions of the Upper Connecticut
valley held its regular spring meeting in
| the Unitarian church Saturday afternoon
May 3. There We're delegates present from
windsor and BrattlebOro. CharleStown and
Keene, n. H. The delegates arriving at
noon were given lunch by the local union
in the parish house The meeting in the
church opened with a brief devotional SER
vice conducted by Rev. w. S. Nichols as
sisted by Rev. E. @. S. Osgood of Brattle-
boro. Rev w. S. Nichols as president of
the Federation, presided throughout the
meeting. AT the business session reports
were heard from the unions represented
and other business was transacted. Rev,
j. ID. Reid of Greenfield, Mass, gave the
first address. His subject was 1.-THE Su-
premacy of the Ideal" and he treated the
subject in thoughtful and inspiring man.
ner Miss Bowen of the union at Windsor
read short and interesting paper on the
Atmosphere of Thought A choir CON
sisting OF Miss Nancy Holland, soprano,
Mrs. Louis r. Lincoln, alto, George B.
Williams, Jr., tenor and DR.. E. w. John
son, bass, sang an anthem between the adj
uI'NntS' iatN' " D. ElleT OF Meme spoke
of ''The Value of Federation Meetings"
and set forth some very practical ideas
Mr.. Boren, student from the Harvard
Divinity school, who was present, spoke
briefly and brought greetings from the
president of'the national Y. p. r. q.
Mrs. Louisa A. Sargent. wife of DR.. John
H. Sargent of Philadelphia. died at her
home in that city Friday, May after
long illness. Mrs. Sargent was born in
Nalpole in 1914 and was the daughter of
Capt. Thomas j. Pierce. She was educat-
ed in the Walpole schools and for time
was librarian of the town library She
married John II. Sargent of Grafton .Janu-
airy l. 1873 and removed to Philadelphia.
Mrs. Sargent often spent her summers in
Walpole. She left. besides her husband
two daughters, Clara Ivanette and Jane.
The members of the Congregational
Home club will meet in the Congregational
church parlors Wednesday, May 13, at
go P. NJ.
Work on the new Episcopal chapel be-
gan last week. The walls are to be of
rough stone.
Library statistics for April: Circulation
500 attendance 462.