Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
BELLOWS FALLS

generally.
The ladies of the Episcopal society gave
a supper at the parish house Thursday
evening.
Thomas Mclaughlin had one finger
crushed i'm calender at the Fall mountain
paper companys mill recently.
Another North Walpole liquor seller,
Fred G. Doolitte, was brought before JUS
tice Holmes at Keene last Saturday and
paid fine of S24.26.
There will be meeting of the Helping
Hand society at the parish house this
evening at which the rector desires full
attendance, as he has some suggestions to
make in regard to their work.
Mrs. J. c. Day. who has been seriously
i'll for four or five weeks, is still very i'll,
but is thought to be holding her own
and possibly gaining little. DR.. Frank
Day of Boston was called last week in con-
sultation with DR. Whitman.
Mr. and Mrs. C.. w. Osgood are in at
tendance upon the meeting of the Ameri-
can Board at Pittsfied, Mass. Mr.. Osgood
was last year made a corporate member,
taking the place of the late Hon, Frederick
Billings of Woodstock.
Mrs. Margaret Hawkins of Fall River,
Mass, has been spending few weeks with
friends here and i'm Rutland, and was the
guest while here of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Hapgood. Mr.. Hawkins has been here
this week and returns with Mrs. Hawkins
to Fall River today
Wednesday morning while workmen
were shingling the roof of Mrs, Huntley's
house on Cherry street, a staging on which
two men were working fell, throwing the
men to the ground. One man had leg
injured and the other had his head badly
cut and his arm hurt but no bones were
broken.
On and after next Sunday the post-office
will be open from $3.50 to 10:30 A. NJ. in
stead of from u NJ. to p. VI. as formerly.
The change in the hour will be convenient
for village people, but not so much so to
those coming from outside to attend
church. However, it is change to which
all will soon become accustomed.
The officers of the Young Mems Inst-
tute for the coming year are: E. &. Os-
good, president; Frank Day, vice presi-
dent; Percy Deane, secretary: A. j. Holley,
treasurer; c. H. Sawyer, DIR. Kirkland, c.
w. Osgood, board of managers.
At the fair to be held by the hook and
ladder company next month. handsome
trumpet will be voted to the most popular
popular railroad man running into Bellows
Falls. The lantern and trumpet are on
exhibition in the window of Henry Ami
dOn's jewelry store.
The following from the Argus is of To-
cal interest, Miss White being a graduate
of st. Agnes Hall and well known here:
"'La Petite Amercaine,' the serial story
Just completed in the ST. Adams weekly
Messenger is from the pen of Miss Geor-
gia daughter of Rev. Homer White. The
story has attracted favorable notices from
the state press the style being easy. grace
full and finished, and the production is
credit to its young author"
This despatch from Lancaster, \. H., to
the Boston Globe last Saturday has local
interest: "At a special town meeting, yes
terday it was voted TO exempt from taxa
ton for period of 10 years, any paper
mill plant that might be erected on the
site of the Lancaster paper mill, burned
Oct. 6. The working capital was also eX-
empted from taxation. This action of the
town assures the building of a new and
modern mill by Cauger ~ Sullivan, to cost
$40, 900 to $4,000, and to be ready for OPP
Grafton in February next"
ID. X. Barry and his daughter, Mrs. Hell
en- jackson, gave reception last Friday
evening AT InelI GeSlutl't Oh AlhlllSOl
street in honor of Rev. Y. F. Carter of
Concord, \. II. Mr.. Carter was for many
years the wel-liked pastor of the Congre-
gational church, leaving here Il years ago
for Quechee, where he had charge of a
church for several years. OF late he has
been living in Concord and supplying a
church in that city.
Rev. J. E. Fullerton of the Congregational
church will give a series of lectures TO
young men at that church on Sunday even
ings, beginning next Sunday Following
this course of lectures there will be one
given with reference to young women.
The subjects of the first course will be:
The young man at home.
The young man and his associates.
The young man and himself.
The young man as boss or hand.
The young man and his first $1,000.
The young man and his wedding
The young man in the church.
The young man in politics.
The electric fire alarm system is, to put
it mildly, unique and peculiar" When
the whistle sounds, the bell wont, and
when the bell sounds the whistle wont.
At its best it is doleful sounding affair,
as suggestive of funerals as of fires. For
the last six weeks series of trials have
been given the alarm which have "cast a
gloom over the entire community" Gen
orally the bell sounds and the whistle fails,
but at the trial last Friday afternoon, by
way of variety, the bell struck two or three
times and then gave it up exhausted. 1t
is a question whether the old way of run
ming through the streets crying fire was
not fully as etfectual as the present elabo-
rate system, for which the tOwnpays $500.
William Smith of Athens came here
Tuesday with $50 which had just been
paid him, and after taking dinner with two
or three young men at a restaurant, hand
ed one of them, Charlie Bissell, roll of
$62 to pay for the dinner Bssell paid the
bill and instead of returning the rest of the
money handed Smith a roll of paper. The
money was then divided among the men.
Bissel and Blake were arrested, and at the
preliminary hearing held Wednesday were
put under $500 bonds for appearance at
county court The men had been drinking
and disclosed on F. b. Bosworth. Bos-
worth and the clerk in his store We're ar
rested for selling.
Personal.