Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-09
Bellows PalIs.

&c Owing to an Increased amount Of vor.
| during the holidays our Bellows Pals cone.
spondence has been rather slim during then
month. but We hope now to make thi, de.
partment Of more interest than ever to tloss
who care for news from this vicinity Tie
present year we expect to increase the worth
Of our paper in this department over vlath
has been during the past year and we think
it has compared more than fayorably With
any ether paper in the county outside Of Bel.
lows Falls. Our endeayors will merit a large.
ly increased circulation in the north part o,
the county. and we doubt not We shall receiy.
it,
"A few Sundays ago, at the Episcopal
church, during the service, the rector thought
be smelled smoke, and during the singing bv
the choir he stepped into the vestry room 70
see what it was, and found quite fire in
progress there it having taken from the stove
to waste paper in the coal bod, and from tina,
to the carpet, and it was under good head
way. He succeeded in subduing it witLou.
an alarm, and reappeared at the proper time
before the congregation with no signs Of
fright, and the audience never knew Of the &C.
currence.
The next day after the escape recorded
above, about noon, fire was communicated
from the furnace in the High school building
TO the floor above and got q good start be.
fore being discovered The alarm was given
and both hose companies responded yer,
promptly, but their services were not needed
as the janitor and principal had succeeded il
putting the FIRE out.
Christmas Day one of the large show
l. Al.
store was broken by young man fooling il
front. One named VIM Kiniry threw a piece
of coal through it, breaking the window and
a large cut glass show bottle just inside The
contents Of the bottle injured large number
of albums and fancy goods in the window,
so that the young man had bill Of about $50
to pay.
E. H. Wilson has gone into business
with T. Z. Bullock manufacturing toys The
firm was formerly L. Bullock Il Son, and
they have been doing a very large business
in the wood working shop of the Canal Com
pany during the past four years.
H. C. Lane, Esq, Of Westminster comes
here every Monday morning and holds JUS
tce court in the Office of j. D. Brideman
As a whole, holiday trade has not been
so large in our village for years as during the
season just closed. There was never so fine
a showing Of goods in nearly all lines.
-SleigLing never was better and number
of sleigLing parties are talked Of, only one
having as yet been decided upon. That is to
Grafton next week Wednesday.
The Fall Mountain Paper Co. lost very
efficient foreman in the death of Paul W.
Bunker which occurred two weeks ago.
A large party of Masons, with their Ia
dies, going from here Friday to Keeue 10
attend the annual reunion of the Co-...-.lsut
Valley Masonic Union. Everything prom
ises party equal, if not superior, to any
year before.
&C. c. Caldwell for many years baggage
master between here and Boston for the
Cheshire railroad, has been appointed as con-
iuetor on the Monsdnoek railroad since the
Cheshire has taken a lease of it, His run is
10 be from Winchendon to Peterboro "Char-
icy has been popular here, and many friends
will wish him success in his new position.
A Bell telephone has been placed recent.
y between the brewery of Walker, Dewey.
Blake Co. and E E. Dewey's saloon. dis
ance Of about miles, and il works finely
C. NJ. Blake has purchased the dwelling
If Mrs Aaron Arms on Bridge street oppo-
site the Island House for 81, 800, and is to
axe possession in the spring
A brother Of the late John Geer succeeds
'tillInan Buss in the care of the toll bridge.
Union meetings being held during
he week of prayer by the Methodists aud
1ongregatioualsts, at the latters church
The Vt. Farm Machine Co. expect to
occupy their four-story brick manufae-
DRY sometime during the month of February.