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in 1892 to visit his sister who ran a shoe store and he has been here ever since, first working in the paper mills and the Fall Mountain Electric Light Co. then "sallying out for himself" and starting a lunchroom which was the only eating place in town. He employed eight people, made his own doughnuts and catered to local organizations such as the Fireman's Ball, Masons and Board of Trade. After five years he sold the business to Carter & Donegan and opened a shoe store on Canal Street which he ran for 16 years. Besides this he served his com munity as a lister for fifteen years, as an officer of the Board of Trade and was a juryman for 45 years. Pat is a grand old man who loves nothing bettter than to live over the old days again with anyone who will listen. (He passed away in 1957)
In 1930 A. M. Bragg remodeled and leased the building at 84 Atkinson Street to C. L. Mandigo, also the Gulf Gas station run by Raymond Bullock. In 1932 this market was bought by Andrew Hollar which he sold to Alexander Mileski in 1949. Mandigo moved to Rockingham Street where Brillant's Bakery is today. For twenty-one years Frank Massucco ran a fruit store on Rockingham Street, selling out in 1913 to John Berto- lino and Peter Barbieri. In 1918 they opened the Bellows Falls Fruit Co. but today they cater to the public with magazines and papers.
At the north end of the Square, now occupied by the Army & Navy Store which opened there in 1946, was once the fruit store where Patsy Baldasaro hung out great bunches of bananas, set out baskets of oranges and apples, watermelons and coconuts and whose peanut roasting maching whistled cheerfully on the edge of the sidewalk. Patsy was a well known figure in town for many years and every housewife rallied to his long-drawn call of "ba-na-nas, o-ran-ges," as he rode his cart through the streets, seated like a Gargantua, his immense body making it a hazardous adventure to get up and down from his high perch. Youngsters saved their pennies to buy an orange as big as a croquet ball for a nickle and the last thing on Saturday after- noons, thrifty mothers could buy eighteen dead ripe bananas for a quarter. The pleasant ghost of Patsy still rides the summer streets along with the sprinkling cart, the ice wagon and the hot smell of tar sidewalks on a July day. His broad face always smiled but his whip was ready to reach out and flick the bare legs of any youngster who sneaked up behind to snitch a loose banana or coconut.
Walter Kiniry, former manager of the Grand Theater, bought the Cook market on Canal Street in 1923 which business he later conducted on Westminster Street until 1939 when he continued it in his home on South Street before he left town to run a move theater in Lancaster, N. H. Alfred Boule of Gageville, for 19 years ran the Quality Fish Market which he bought from Frank DeForge in 1917 after working in it for four
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years. This was closed in 1938 but Mr. Boule has always been in demand for clam bakes and shore dinners. Fifty years ago Winfield Scott Lovell, known as "Scott," had a meat market on Henry Street near F. S. Clark's store. It was at first called Lovell & Carpenter's with Ernest Carpenter, then, with Fred S. Shedd, Lovell & Shedd. Mr. Shedd, today, at 92, lives with his niece, Mrs. Wilfred Bodine on the New Terrace. Winslow Damon opened a similar market and like other such markets, ran a meat cart about town. In 1928, Steven J. Cray, because of ill health, retired from the meat and grocery business at 24 Westminster Street after 42 years. With him for 34 years was Mortimer J. Grandfield who also gave up his active work. Another longtime business went into history.
A. M. Richards or "Al" as he was known, opened a meat and provision market in 1894 in the old Morgan Tavern on the west side of Rockingham Street where his business expanded until he became one of the leaders in the community. Each fall he collected and displayed in front of his store, an assortment of such unusual wild game as elk, moose, bear, caribou and deer with once a buffalo and once, even a seal. If you couldn't go to the zoo, you could visit Richards' market in the fall and winter! In 1910 he dressed off a famous pair of steers which, alive, weighed 3,620 pounds and dressed, 2,693. The same year, however, he did even better for he bought, dressed off and retailed the meat of the Holstein "Mack," the largest steer ever slaughtered, according to stockyard records. This im- mense animal weighted 4,700 pounds in his prime and was 4,628 pounds on the hoof when killed, dressing out a carcass weighing 2,911 pounds. He and his teammate "Teddy, " held the world's record for draft oxen after they pulled a load of 11,284 pounds at the Brattleboro, Vt. fair. Twenty-six years later, "Mack's" great carcass would have brought from $462 to $648. But in 1910 heavy steers from 1,500 pounds up were quoted at a top of $11.05 a cwt. "Mack," they say today, was born thirty years too soon! The market was moved to 35 Rockingham Street in 1914 and it was sold on July 1, 1925 to Frank Shaugh- nessey and John Gallagher who had worked there for many years, the former for 22 and the latter for 18 and it now became the Sanitary Market once the site of the livery stable of L. T. Lovell & Son. Ironically, L. T. Lovell also opened the first meat market in town shortly before the Civil War. Mr. Richards and his family moved to Los Angeles, California where he died May 21, 1932. During the first part of 1956, the Sanitary Market was closed up by the owners.
For some time Martin Barrett conducted a grocery store on the corner of Barker and Westminster Street and early in the 1900's, Francis Reynolds moved his grocery shop from West- minster Street, opposite the stairs, up to Williams Street where he catered to friends and neighbors for many years. This was
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later run by Merle Jackson as the Red & White Store. Once M. M. Whitney sold groceries in the Square as did M. B. Kelley and Charles E. Whitman ran a grocery store on Westminster Street about 1900. Benny Gordon runs Benny's Groceries at 113 Rockingham Street today.
In 1893 a new store opened in the Square and six years later it excited the community with the demonstration of a new beverage called Welch's Grape Juice. The store was called the F. B. F. from the three partners, Elijah Brown, E. R. Fair- banks and Willis Ferguson. You might say that this was a Baptist store as all three men were stanch pillars of that church behind them on top of the bank. It did not close its doors until 1915 although Mr. Brown carried on, in failing health, for four years longer with his new partners E. R. Culver and H. H. Bressor. However, his eyesight forced him to finally give up his work while his partners bought the F. L. Simonds store in Gageville. Mr. Brown outlived his original partners by several years and was a well known figure for another 25 years although completely blind.
But his infirmity never prevented him from active work until old age also crept up on him. Known as 'Lijah, during the coal shortage in 1923 when he was 72, he sawed and split four cords of wood alone and unaided as well as caring for his furnace himself, emptying ashes regularly. He shaved himself as well and a favorite occupation was cracking butternuts and extracting the unbroken meats, a feat too much for many sighted hands. He wrote his own letters and kept up on world affairs. He attended church regularly. He had no use for anyone, he said, who "laid down on the job" and he often told of his days on the "section" at Sharon, Vermont when he got 90 cents for a ten hour day. Young men of the present, he would com- ment sharply, complained if they worked more than a four hour day. But when his wages were cut from $44 a month to $40, for a ten hour day, in 1886, he came to Bellows Falls to work in the Vermont Farm Machine Co., then moved into the M. B. Kelley grocery which he bought out the next year and the F. B. F. Grocery became a fixture in the Square for 22 years. After the death of his second wife in 1930, Miss Nellie Smith, now residing at the Bellows Falls Inn, took over the care of the house until finances forced him to give up his home and move to Grafton with relatives where he died the next year. To older people, the white house at 107 Atkinson Street, is still the "'Lijah Brown house" for so it goes with old houses.
In 1924 Anthony "Tony" Lisai and his wife Lena opened the Bellows Falls Cash Market on Atkinson Street, a building 22'x 28' and renovated it in 1937 with a new addition which added 50 percent to the original size. Also carrying Red & White products, the store added to the firm in 1925 when Tony's brother Mike entered it and in 1946 Tony's son Leonard also
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came into the business. In 1949 Mr. Lisai celebrated 25 years with still more renovations necessary because of increased patronage. Today, it is one of the most up-to-date stores in town. Tony came to this country from Grodna, Russia in 1907 and has become a leading citizen.
Among other "side street" markets is the Bellows Falls Village Store on Oak Street, run by the Yankovitch family until, after the death of the father, it was sold in 1951 to Louis and Helen Andrews. The Cloverdale Store in the Fiorey block on Rockingham Street, was run by Frank Holt, previously em- ployed by Goodnow's grocery store. This store was purchased by the First National Stores and run by James Powers now of the same store in Rutland, after the death of Mr. Holt. It was later moved to the space now occupied by Noyes & Whitehill where it remained until June, 1939 when it moved into its pre- sent location in the new block built by J. H. Blakeley on the site of the old Commercial House, a second-rate lodging house operating forty years ago. The new block also covers the old Morgan Tavern and Frost's Livery Stable. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the "A. & P," opened in the Square in the fall of 1938, moving into the space vacated by the Goodnow, Jewett & Pillsbury store which had closed that spring and which had first opened on Westminster Street.
Louis Marre, whose fruit store at the foot of the stairs, was long a familiar spot, sold his business to Natt Pintello in 1947 and after being away from town for a few years, returned to open a similar place on Rockingham Street. John Sullivan, for many years connected with the Fenton & Hennessey store bought the Pintello store which he called "Sully's." He sold it in October of 1955 to Roger Coutermarsh who has named it The Village Store. For 55 years Franklin J. Hall & Son was the name of a grocery store on Old Terrace etreet which closed in the winter of 1953. Mr. Hall built the building and started his career when he was twenty-one years old, running a grocery cart and eventually employing five clerks.
There are three DRUG STORES in town today, one of them, The Rexall Store, started in 1909 when C. N. Shaw and H. W. Hodgdon bought out Andrew's Drug Store in the Square. Mr. Shaw had been managing the store for Mrs. Andrew and both owners had been in the drug business for over 40 years. The new store became known as Hodgdon & Shaw until 1936 when Mr. Shaw and his son Everett, purchased Mr. Hodgdon's interest. After his father died in 1937 after a five day bout with pneumonia, Everett Shaw became the present proprietor.
The Corner Drug Store formerly operated by L. S. Hayes and George Babbit, Sr., Will Holden and others including Ed. Osgood (who sold insurance in the back), was run by Oscar Gast for many years until in May 1934, Mr. Gast sold to Robert Howe and Clinton Fullam and it became known as the Cut Rate
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Drug Store. Howe later sold his share to Fullam who moved the business, after 50 years on the same corner in the Square, to Rockingham Street in 1937, Howe going into the Whelan Drug in Gardner, Mass. In 1951, Edward Kane, formerly pharmacist with Shaw's Pharmacy, opened a new drug store on Rockingham Street called Kane's Pharmacy.
The Bellows Falls Drug was formed in 1925 by Daniel P. Thompson and Elmer S. Sanborn and in 1933 it became a Walgren store, one of the largest chain drug stores in the world, with Mr. Thompson as manager. This was originally the Fuller Drug Store, the largest in town, owned by Arthur Fuller who also owned another similar store in Chester, Vt., and who was president of the Vermont Drug Co. which opened in 1908 to manufacture veterinary medicines. A best seller was "Labaree's Horse Medicine," concocted in Mr. Labaree's barn on Hapgood Street. But the hoof salve smelled so bad that the neighbors complained and they moved the manufacturing up to the Labaree cottage at Lake Sunapee. It was a thriving venture for awhile and signing the papers of incorporation were Labaree, Dallas Pollard, E. L. Walker, J. H. Blakely and I. B. Newman with capital amounting to $15,000. It was backed by good business men who thought they knew a good thing when they saw it. But it was of short duration and Walgren's closed, too, about 1939 and Arthur Elias opened his Dutch Treat Restaurant there. In 1943 the Royal Fur Store of Keene opened a branch on the same place, moving up from the Crayco building, but in 1947 closed its ready-to-wear department, continuing the fur sales and storage with the Jack & Jill Shop.
The Whelan Drug in the Crayco block was opened by Duane Aldrich, registered pharmacist formerly with the Bellows Falls Drug and in 1935, with United Cigar Stores. In 1940 the store was enlarged, taking over the space previously used by the Crayco Restaurant.
GARAGES AND FILLING STATIONS. For many years Frank DeForge was a prominent businessman in Bellows Falls with an interest in several projects. About 1910 he was running a fish market and garage, both behind his home on Atkinson Street, which he carried on for some time. Later he built the garage owned by Taylor Motors, Inc. which became Royal Motors, Inc. in 1955. In 1918 DeForge was selling paper covers with which to wrap your car up for the winter, a sort of tent in which it would hibernate until spring, a startling idea until you remembered that few car owners had private garages in 1918 and that only a few foolhardy folks would dare to take their cars out in the winter anyway. In 1920 he leased his garage property to G. L. Fifield who later bought it. Mr. DeForge also went into the cement block business beside his garage with Philias Grignon. He went to Florida but returned two years later, going into the automobile business in Rutland
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with his sons, Olin and Thoburn, both now deceased. For some years he also ran the Knotty Pine Restaurant near Pittsford, Vt. He married Ethel Wheeler in Bellows Falls September 21, 1904. He died a year or two ago in Rutland. John D. "Dan" Taylor, bought Fifield's garage in 1937 and moved in that spring as Taylor Motors. Until 1947 he sold Fords then had the agency for Dodge and Plymouth. Royal Motors includes Douglas Bieniek, President; William H. Zielinski, Vice President and John Stark, Secretary-Treasurer.
Joe Murray took over the Sinclair Station at the corner of Atkinson and Rockingham Streets in 1939 and the same year Leon Swift took over the Central Filling Station at the corner of Henry and Atkinson. A new Esso Service center opened in August, 1940 with John Stone, manager. In 1949 another landmark disappeared to make room for a gas station when the 135-year-old Morgan homestead was razed and replaced by the Tydol station managed by Kenneth Cota. Although some remarked that "what this town needs is NOT one more garage," time marches on. In 1918 the DAR considered buying the property but lack of funds and popular interest prevented it.
Smith Auto Company bought a lot for a garage in 1923 at the end of the Arch Bridge and in 1926 built a large building on Tuttle Street from land originally part of the Ryder estate, to house used cars for overhauling and refinishing. Costin's Garage is on the site of the Royce house which was moved back to Williams Street, now occupied by Dr. Goldman. Henry Porter bought the Buick station which was built for Arthur Fuller and in 1929 installed the first electric pump in town, to the amazement of his customers. Cray's Chevrolet Garage was built in 1930.
The garage operated by William Manning, started out in life as the C. & O. Tire and Battery, operated by Eugene Cray, E. F. and B. P. O'Connor. It was in the old Cote & Frost building and later moved to Rockingham Street where Morrison's Watch Shop is today. When Wheeler's Laundry was torn down in 1926, it moved to that location where it is today. As the C. & O., they carried the mail up from the depot to the Post Office along with their other duties. The O'Connors went into partner- ship in 1922, dealing in Good Gulf products until the partnership was dissolved in 1949. James Healy of North Walpole and Michael Kane of Bellows Falls, both long-time employees of the O'Connor garage, went into business for themselves in 1937, renting the Esso station on the same street. Today they are in the furnace and stove oil business only, at 116 Rockingham Street.
BUSINESSES IN BELLOWS FALLS, 1955
ACCOUNTANTS: William Wright, Bliss & Lawlor
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND POTATOES: Hardy Merrill
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ANTIQUES: Mrs. Edith Bolles
AUTO ACCESSORIES: Rockingham Auto Co., Walter Olbrych; Western Auto Associate Store, Joseph Murray; Firestone, James Capron
BANKS: Bellows Falls Trust Co., Robert C. Clark, President; Windham National, Samuel Hutchins; Vermont Savings, Francis E. Romano, manager
BAKED GOODS: Brillant's Bakery
BELLOWS FALLS CO-OPERATIVE LOCKER
BEVERAGES: Jack Reese, distributor of malt beverages
BOTTLED GAS: D. K. Monier
BARBER SHOPS: George Capron, Alfred diBernado, Leo Michniewicz, John Hollar, Stanley Marino, Lucien Messer, Clifford Smith
BEAUTY SHOPS: Agnes' Beauty Shop, Mr. and Mrs. Orma Davis; Dot's Beauty Shop, Mrs. Dorothy Doyle; Helen's Beauty Shop, Helen |Drew; Lyon's Beauty Shop, Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Lyons; Rachael's Beauty Shop, Mrs. Rachael Noyes
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES: Bragg Lumber Corp, Lagenbach; Noyes & Whitehill
CABINS: Long View, Stocker Bros .; Whippoorwill, Arthur Edwards; Fran's Drive-In, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott; Dutch Oven, Ernest Fairbanks; The Maples, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brown
CATTLE: Brooks' Sales Stables, Mr. and Mrs. John Trotter CHILDREN'S SHOP: Jack & Jill, Mrs. Kathryn Belknap
COBBLERS: James Emilo; Grippo's, Mrs. Belinda Grippo CONVALESCENT HOMES: Bellows Falls Inn, Mr. and Mrs.
Jay Graves; Terrace Convalescent Home, Mr. Chauncey Markham
CORDS & CABLES: Lagenbach and Schade
DAIRIES: Idlenot, Frank Bartlett, distributor; Bellows Falls Co-op. Creamery, Clark Bowen, manager; Edelstein, Thomas V. Slobodnyak
DRUG STORES: Bellows Falls Drug (Whelan's), 'E. P. Cray, owner, Duane Aldrich, manager; Shaw's Drug, Everett Shaw; Kane's Drug, Edward J. Kane
DRY CLEANERS: Bertrand's; diBernardo's
DRY GOODS STORES: E. S. Whitcomb's, Inc., Bert Tidd; Reliable Bargain, Irving Slater; Square Yard Shop, Mrs. Etta Harlow
ELECTRIC APPLIANCES: Appliance Outlet; Dave's Gulf Service Station; Fenton & Hennessey; John Crowley,
FARM MACHINERY : Hardy Merrill
FLORISTS: Halladay The Florist, Dana Halladay
FUELS: Connelly Fuels, John Connelly; Hymie Miller, Cota & Cota, Hartford Oil Co., Kane & Healey; E. P. Cray, dis- tributor of Texaco
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GAS STATIONS: Good Gulf, David Costin; Ray's Esso, Ray W. Brown; Gulf Station, Edward Bartlett; Atlantic, Sher- man B. Manning; Amoco, Frank Huntley; Shell Station, Robertson; Kane & Healey; Richfield, Keene Oil Co .; Sunoco, Whippoorwill; Socony, Smith Auto; Mobile Service, Stan Hummer
GARAGES: Maurice Costin, E. P. Cray, Chevrolet; Earl Os- good, John E. Farr, Smith Auto Sales, Wade W. Smith; Royal Motors, Douglas; Flanders', Missing Link Road
GIFT SHOPS: Fletcher's News Shop, John Fletcher, Jr .; French's Gift Shop, Marion French; Windham Hotel Gift Shop, Olive Whitcomb, Leola's Knick-Knack Shop, Mrs. Leola Mullin; Country Candy Shop, Mrs. Arthur Edwards; Stephen Belaski, Missing Link Road
GRAIN: Frank Adams Grist, E. Gerald Adams; Checkerboard, John P. O'Brien; Sunshine Feed, Park Mellish, Jr.
GROCERY STORES: Bellows Falls Village Market, Louis Andrews; Fred S. Clark, IGA; First National, Square, Leroy S. Haskell and Francis S. Sartorio; First National, Atkinson Street, Francis J. Reagan; A. & P., L. Lloyd Thompson, Fred Dion; Benny's Groceries, Benjamin Gordon; Gould's, Harold Gould; Henry St. Market, Alexander Mileski; Charles Jurkiewicz; Economy Market, Anthony Karpinski; Boston Cash Market, Tony and Leonard Lisai; Louis Marre; Meatland; Sanitary Market, Frank Shaugh- nessey, John Gallagher; Sully's, John Sullivan
HARDWARE: Howard Hardware, Charles Ford; Noyes & Whitehill, Gordon Noyes and Kermit Whitehill; Alfred diBernardo
HOTELS: Crayco, Katharine and Paul Cray; Rockingham Hotel, Robert F. Siano; Windham Hotel, J. Emerson Kennedy
INSURANCE: Hadley Ins. Co., Preston Hadley; Carl Parker, Phoenix Mutual; Walker Ins. Co., Natt Divoll, Edward Toomey
JEWELRY: N. O. Cote; Morrison's Watch Shop, Natt Morri- son; Dan J. Bosworth
JUNK: M. Cohen, Harry Gordon, Sam Miller, Earnest Simoneau LABORATORIES: Donald Thomas
LUGGAGE: J. J. Fenton, E. S. Whitcomb, Inc., Army & Navy LUMBER: Bragg Lumber, Lagenbach; Thomas Hanifin MACHINE SHOP: Chamberlain's, Ralph Boynton
MEN'S WEAR: J. J. Fenton, George Page, Army & Navy, Reliable Bargain
MONUMENTS: Adams & McNichol, Mrs. Ruth Hay, agent NEWSDEALERS: John Fletcher, Jr., Windham News Shop, Depot Cafe, William Barbieri, Nick Fiorey
OFFICE SUPPLIES: Nelson Faught, Mt. Kilbourne Paper Co., Reginald Switzer
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PAINT AND PAPER : Bragg Lumber, J. J. Capron (Firestone) and hardware stores
PLATERS: Connecticut Valley Platers, William Handley
PRESSES: Model Press, David A. White; Rockingham Press, Manning Co., Fred Wilson manager; Palisades, Mrs. Nahum Chesley; Vermont News Corp., Roland Belknap
PLUMBING AND HEATING: W. H. Bodine & Sons, Maurice McAuliffe, Prentiss Haines
PRODUCTION CREDIT: Russell Carpenter
RADIO AND TV: Bellows Falls Cable (TV), George Story, Oliver Orvis; Doe's Radio Service, Charles Doe; E. & G. TV, George Story, Oliver Orvis REAL ESTATE: Carl Parker, L. C. Lovell, Walter C. Hadley, Ralph Bresland, Stanley Griswold
REFRIGERATORS: W. H. Bodine & Sons, D. K. Monier, hard- ware stores
RESTAURANTS: Depot Restaurant, Armstrong Co., Mary C. Largess; The Chimes, John Goutas; Star Restaurant, Mike Gelatis; Miss Bellows Falls Diner; Stairway Restaurant, Mrs. Dora Walsh; The Highlands, Peter Nicholas; Esther's Place, Miss Esther Barry; Windham Hotel Coffee Shop, Gordon Jacobs; Fran's Drive-In, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott ROOFERS: Lucien Ufford, George Dexter, Janciewicz & Son SHOES: Endicott & Johnson, Joseph F. Henty; Dick's Shoe Store, Mrs. Albert Dick, Russell Sargent; George Page SECONDHAND SHOP: Mrs. Ruth Hay, Sam's
SPORTING GOODS: George Page; Fletcher's News; Hardware stores; Rockingham Automotive, Frank Olbrych; Western Auto Associate Store, Joseph Murray ; Firestone, Jim Capron TIRES RECAPPED AND REPAIRED: James Bradshaw, Cheever Tire Service, Louis Cheever
TOYS: Fenton & Hennessey, Howard Hardware, Firestone, J. J. Newberry, Noyes & Whitehill
THEATERS: Interstate Opera House, Raymond Kiniry, Manager; Belmont Drive-In, Stocker Bros.
TRUCKING: Rugg's Express, Albert Bushey
VARIETY STORE: J. J. Newberry, Paul Salstead
WOMEN'S SHOPS: Beth Bishop, Mrs. Robert Bishop; Cham- berlain's, Mrs. Winnie Schade; Colleen's Dress Shop, Mrs. Veronica Whitcomb; E. S. Whitcomb, Inc., Bert Tidd; Franklyn Shop, Mrs. Fannie Gordon; Reliable Bargain, Irving Slater; Silhouette, Mrs. Helen Carr; Royal Furriers, outlet store at Jack & Jill, Children's wear, Mrs. Preston Belknap
MANUFACTURING-PAPER MILLS
Moore & Thompson Herbert L. Moss, Supt.
Green Mountain Paper White "
Frederick Vogel -
Roberson Paper Co.
Sam Lewis
Standard "
Kenneth Kent
Hudson Pulp & Paper
Jacob Mager
CHAPTER V
TOWN, VILLAGE AND FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
MINARD'S POND. The story of the Bellows Falls water supply is a long one since the first pipe was laid from Minard's Pond in 1848 by a private corporation called the Bellows Falls Water Company. It took over two years to lay the pipes and gave residents their first change-over from the old well system. Land was bought in 1904 and 1906 but not until 1910 did the village purchase land adjacent to the Pond and water rights in the Farr, Ellis and Webb brooks from L. T. Lovell and set out 4,000 white pine seedlings north of the Pond which it added to with more trees, in 1914. In 1910 W. J. Webb sold all rights to the Ellis brook and by purchasing the Ellis farm as well, for $2,500 and later, land owned by Lewis Lovell and W. H. Gris- wold, the entire watershed around the Pond was under village control. Stanley Griswold tells about driving up to his father's land when he was a boy, with a mule and wagon and how the sudden and unseen braying of the mule once frightened some Polish berry pickers so that they rushed screaming from the woods, praying to all the saints, sure that the black imp of Satan himself was on the hill.
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