Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-11-18

land the l., H. Church land and the Thomas
Walsh property. Then the whole parcel was
jaeded 10 the Vermont Valley railroad company.
II Is understood that the purchase is to furnish
the railroad company with additional room Tor
side track and yard purposes, ana 10 maze up
that ro,rpany to the Fitchburg railroad on the
other side Of the river. The rapidly increasing
business of all the roads centring here make ad-
ditional land for each an imperative necessity,
and the great question is where u can De iQunu,
The FltChburg, particularly, would at once Dul1
n large local freight station If land could DE hau
this side Of the river, and the company have even
discussed somewhat building the other SIDE OF the
river, which would be very announcement Tor an
our business interests, especially as long as the
bridge il not free. A number of important
changes in arrangements about the railroad
yards are practically decided upon, tins being one
Of the first steps.
Very great interest is felt in Geo. KEENAN, s lee
ture, which occurs this evening.
Rev j. F. Howard of Ludlow preached at the
Universast church last Sunday
Mrs Chas. II Sawyer has spent portion oil
this week in Boston, returning lhursuay auer'
noon.
Quite a large number Of our young men will
attend the Harvard-Y Yale foot ball contest at
Springfield Saturday
The iron work of the new bridge across the
canal is nearly all in place, and It is expected 1t
will be passable now within few days.
az and l." a comedy, is billed for the opera
house next Monday evening, with Geo. 7 Mur-
D
cal assistant manager.
Rev. c. II. Farnsworth Of the Methodist church
exchanged pulpits last Sunday with the pastor oil
the Congreg ational church, and VIII next sunday
exchange with the Baptist pastor
Officer Mcclure from Brattleboro, assisted by
deputy from the same place, Taded the billiard
saloon Of I'd. Fields on westminster street es'er-
day, but without finding anything contraband.
John o. Spring, our contract mason, lost quite
a sum of money one day last week, 1t having
been stolen from his coat pocket. Suspicion
points to the guilty party, and steps are being
taken to get at the facts.
The Bellows Falls club, to the number of nearly
60, sat down to supper at Towns motel last Mon
day night Those present speak in the highest
terms of the entertainment given the organiza-
ton by mine host Lawrence.
The pastor of the Methodist church has the
past week moved his family from the old parson.
age to the new one, which has been in process OF
erection the past year. All friends Of the society
congratulate them upon the Improvement made.
The grocery store of Wyman & Hodge has been
reiipened since the recent fire. The adjustments
made by the different insurance companies inter
ested were, Wyman & Hodge S3lO, Blue store,
clothing, $3.50, j. c. Day Co., 500 and 1857 on
the building to Mrs. King.
The many friends of Daniel X. Barry win re-
greet to learn that his health has declined so rap
idly in the past two weeks as to render II extreme
~ doubtful if he ever gets out AGAIN lie is very
low at present, and likely to pass away at any
time, thus removing another of the older resi-
dents of our town.
Monday VIM. Campbell was fined S. and costs
ton, who is said to hail from st, Johnsbury, was
fined $1l.01' for the same offence. He stopped
a train here in passing through and became
disorderly. with the result named, and not hav
ing the money to pay the fine, was taken to the
workhouse
last Friday evening nearly 100 couples attended
the annual concert and ball of Division No. 2, A.
o. of Hbernans 1t was held in Union hall and
music furnished by Beedle's orchestra of
Keene These annual parties of this organization
are each year becoming more popular among our
Sh-A mPrlIan
with much pleasure.
Wednesday evening of this week the local tribe
of Red Men chartered special train and large
number of them went TO Keene to attend meet
ing of the order there. They report very large
number present The different degrees were
worked by delegations from titchburg and Lynn.
The tribe here is one of the largest and most pros
porous Of any in the vicinity.
Our town records show that in 1172 vote was
taken by the town to pay to four mel, who had
advanced the money for the town, the sum of
$780, the same being in full payment for cost of
living of the town minister and his family for the
preceding six months. Perhaps present pastors
would look upon that amount as small to support
family at the present prices OF living
Mrs. Henry A. Titus of Somerville, Mass, is
spending a few days this week in the family of
A. n Swain. There is always warm spot in the
hearts of our old residents for Mr. Titus's family,
he having been a resident here since 1855, till last
wear, and nearly all the time having been spent in
the service of the Cheshire railroad He now
runs the flyer" between here and Boston.
Fred l.. Amadon, v hose jewelry store here is
the direct succession of the old established store
of Leander Amadon, having purchased the inter
est of Timothy Sullivan in the paper mill at Ian
caster, N H. is to close out his business here and
put his time wholly to the paper manufacture,
with James A. Cauger. The closing out of the
store IN Gray's block will make quite change in
the jewery trade of our village.
All the grocery stores in town agree to close
during the whole of Thanksgiving day. Union
services Of the churches are % be held at the
Baptist church in the evening, in which nearly all
the pastors here will participate. The Central
Vermont railroad are TO sell roundtrip tickets
over all their divisions, good for three days, for
fare one way, so there need be no lack of a
chance to properly observe the.day.
Thanksgiving will be marked here by the young
people of the Catholic church in the giving at the
opera house of an Irish drama entitled ''Sham
rock and Rose" The proceeds are for the bene
fit of the fund for parOchia dwelling
which is being erected near the church on Cherry
street. The seats go on sale at Pierce's pharma
cy Saturday evening. p NJ Baker of Brattle
bOro is to assist in the entertainment with Irisf
national songs.
The annual fair of the Mt. Kilburn mission cir
Gle of the Congregational church, which was held
last evening in the vestry, proved a success in ev
cry way. The receipts at the door were about SIS
the supper about $36, besides the sales which will
swell the amount TO over 500 probably Among
the attractions of entertainment those of THE
family album" by Mrs. A. j. Holley representing
"Jerlsha Dow" and the Band box brigade
marshaled by Miss Alice Shaw were especially
enjoyable.
VIM RUSSELL father of VIM A. Russell is so al
to be about his residence after his severe illness
some months ago. but owing to the nfrmities o.
age does not go out. AS a keen business man o.
early days he retains his interest in everything Of
public veal whether 1t be of village national af
fairs, and an hours chat with him never fails L
bring to mind matters of interest to older inhabi
tants of Bellows Falls, especially memories of tn,
primitive way In which paper and wood pull
were manufactured here when the industry wa
first established, he being pioneer in that indus
try
The offices of the treasurer Of the Fall Mountain
Paper company Were yesterday moved into thei
new rooms in their building. They are conven
iently arranged on the same floor of the building
in which the other offices have always been, anC
are in the location formerly occupied by the ship
ping department The cutting machines hav,
been moved from the second story of the building
that story of the Office building is not at present L
be finished off as was formerly intended.
Rev. Marggraf of the Universalist church did
handsome thing Tuesday evening in inviting
society of the boys of his church, known as tn
Pry club, to an evening dinner at the Commercial
house Twenty-four plates were laid and TN
party sat down at eight After very enjoyable
dinner the post prandial exercises of the evening
were presided over by Edwin Bush as toast
master, twenty one of the boys responding in
happy manner to the different sentiments, CLOSING
at a late hour Each of the boys was prepared
for his part in very pleasant way, closing witt
Harley Whitmans, which was toast to thei
host, Mr. Marggraf,
Before Municipal Judge Swain, Thursda,
afternoon, Charles Reed was fined $50 and cost
for vagrancy and picking travellers pocket a
the depot Wednesday niRht Not being able {
raise the cash he went TO the work house for 10
days. He was a stranger here and would not tel
where he hailed from, hut in connection
with VIM. Burke, who was at the same session o
the court fined 50 and costs for drunkenness
their residence was made as at Brattleboro by Ii
D. Ryder he thereby getting even with State
Attorney HIT who prosecuted, and who las
summer charged gang Of wandering negro law