Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
BELLOWS FALLS
New Buildings. New Business. and Othei
Improyemeuts i'm ISpI


been one of prosperity and growth to our
village The growth las not been large.
but of substantial and prosperous kind.
Business in all its branches has been good,
and our citizens as a whole look back upon
the results Of 1891 with pleasure. Among
the most important Improvements have
been the purchase and improvement Of the
water power at the lower end of the village
by Guild d Wetherbee. and the promise of
considerable more of the same sort in the
same locality during the coming year.
Their large new mill is approaching com
pletion and will be adding its quota to the
daily product of paper within few weeks.
The extensive snath works Of Derby d Ball
are running again with an added capacity
of about 30 per cent above what it was be-
fore their buildings were burned down in
the summer. Both buildings and machin-
cry are much better adapted to the bust
ness than the old. Among the busy wheels
under the hill numerous small improve
ments have been made in the buildings
and facilities for manufacturing. so that
more manufactured paper and pulp, of an
improved quality has been made each
month. The power in the old five-story
Vermont Farm Machine company's build
ing has been entirely remodeled, and the
building itself is being transformed into
another sulphide pulp mill which will more
than double the product Of that rapidly
increasing adjunct to the manufacture of
paper. and which also enters into the man
ufacture Of many other articles of daily
use.
By far the largest addition TO the business
of our place has been the erection of the
extensive machine shop by e. W. Osgood
Il Son on the Island House property across
the street from the Vermont Farm com
pany's new works. The largest investment
of new capital was made here, and the re-
suit is probably the best equipped shop for
general machine work in New England,
with the manufacture of paper and pulp
machinery of all kinds as a specially. The
future of the old Island House itself is not
yet determined it standing vacant and in
the same shape as for the past 80 years.
In manufacturing lines it is safe to say
that at least S2lj. 900 has been invested
during the year, without making any great
show except in the cases of Guild Il Weth-
erbee and OsgoOd d Son. The Fall Noun
tain Paper company have spent large sums
in remOdeling and improving their mills,
as have other manufacturers.
In the line Of mercantile buildings no
new ones have been built this year. but
many have been improved. prominent
among them being the block Of II. W.
Suter next north Of the bank, now occu-
pied by II. VI. Amadon. jeweler, and Cady's
confectionery store. The first floor was
entirely remodeled, making two as hand
some stores as there are in the square. But
few dwellings have been built, and the de
mand for tenements during the whole year
has been large. Capital might be invested
in this line with profit w. \. Hall is
erecting a fine house on the corner of West
minister and Hapgood streets which will
be an ornament to our town and compare
favorably with any we have. 1t is to be
ready for occupancy early in the spring
Carroll \. Moore moved some months ago
into the remOdeled j. II. Williams house
on Henry street. which has the appearance
of a new and elegant residence, much i'm
proving the looks of that part Of the village
Many other material Improvements would
be noted by an absentee of a years time
and the unquestionable verdict would be
that all signs pointed to a year of steady
prosperity and growth, without any signs
of unhealthy booming The death rate of
the year has been slightly higher than the
year 1890, but is not yet mp to the average
| New England town. We have the reputa-
milton of being one of the most hcalthful To-
penalties in our country.
Geo. Leonard Of New York spent Christ
mas at home.
Louis Wilson has been quite i'll with
grip and rheumatism.
W. f. Rowell has moved into the up
stairs tenement in the Dewey house on
Henry street.
Amity lodge, No. :, Daughters of Re
bekah, gave their second annual masq ueradc
ball at Union hall last night
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell of Manis-
tee, Mich, are spending the holidays with
Mrs. Mitchell's parents Mr.. and Mrs Wy
man Flint
Miss Winnie Ball is studying painting
in Philadelphia with Miss Farwell, former
ly teacher in Lasele seminary at Auburn
dale, Mass.
Ernest /. Green, who has been employed
on the Cheshire and Fitchburg roads. has
been transferred from Keene to the Fitch
burg local freight office at this place.
Geo. !. Whitney has taken the place in
the store of Stone. TuXbury d Co. made
vacant by Chas. Allen. Mr. Allen left
for his new position in Marshall Field d
IS, in Chicago, last Friday.
The post-ofiice clerks were kept busy
through the Christmas holidays, As they
always are, though the amount Of mail
was not quite as heavy as in some years.
Fifteen special sacks came in Thursday
noon.
A chore boy at the Fall mountain mills
was badly choked and pounded by an EN-
plOye of the mills named Hammel one
night this week. The Overseer returned
soon after the affair, and after some words
an officer was summoned and Hamme was
arrested. On the following day he was
fined 50 and costs.
Among the extra clerks in the stores dur
ing Christmas week were Mrs. Lizzie Rus
sell at Chase's, Bertha Capron at j. f.
Pierce's, Alice Cannon at A. F. Winnie
wisser's, Hattie Ladd, Mrs. Geo. Whitney,
Mrs. Lockwood at Days, Frances Adams
at Welch's, Annie Dow and Maud Hap
good at Stone d TuXbury's.
Rev. J. n. Emery, who was for several
years pastor of the Universaist church,
and who went from here to Atteboro,
Mass, is now pastor of large and infiu-
entail church in Bridgeport, Conn. The
Daily Union of that city mentions a SER
mon preached by him on "JOhn Murray,
the founder of Universalism in this cOun-
try on the 2lst inst, and lit was listened
TO by very large and appreciatiye audi
encen
This is from the local column of the
Rutland Herald: X. NJ. Spaulding has
taken contract to furnish the Fall Mount
ain Paper company of Bellows Falls with
1000 cords of pulp wood, but expects to
cut 20O0 cords, and will take it from sta
tions all along the line of the railroad to
Ludlow. For the last few DAYS he has had