Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-05
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
BELLOWS FALLS


Miss Lillian Ordway of Boston is spend
ing week or two with Mrs. win Eaton.
lthiel Lawrence, father of j. d. Law
renee, proprietor of Towns Hotel, is crit
ically i'll.
The ladies If the Baptist society will
give supper at their veStry next Wcdnes-
day evening.
Mrs. Perry Mrs. Sumner Howard, Mrs.
J. A. Bush attended the Relief corps con
vention at Montpelier.
Mrs. c. f. Meacham and daughter have
returned from Philadelphia and are staying
for the present in Westminster
There will be a meeting of the Bellows
Falls club at Towns Hotel ON Tuesday,
Feb. lG, with dinner at =. NJ.
f. l.. Walker of Walker n Holden, is
named as the executor of the will of the
late Hon. John l.. Butteried of Grafton.
Three young men from this place who
treated a horse in brutal way at Walpole
were lodged in the lookup there last Satur-
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Osgood left home
Monday for a weeks trip to New York
and Washington, and perhaps to Rich
mond, Va.
The grocery store of David Savage was
broken into Sunday night, and quantity
of cigars and candy taken. Entrance was
made through a rear door.
Between II and II o'clock Wednesday
night fire alarm was sounded from box
81. The fire was a slight blaze i'm Frost's
block, which was easily eXtinguished.
Miss Matte Smith was one of the speak
ers at the young people day celebration at
the Greenwood Memorial UniversaliSt
church at Marlboro, y. H., last Sunday.
The employees of Osgood ~ Barker took
their annual sleighride to Chester last sat
urday where they had turkey supper at
Hotel Fullerton, returning in the evening.
Fifteen couples attended
c. l.. Mayne, the new superintendent of
the Tunnel and Cheshire divisions of the
FitchRurg road, was in town Friday. He
was formerly the superintendent of the
Chicago ~ Atlantic road.
Rev. ID. l.. Sanford. rector of Emmanuel
church, has been very i'll with grip and
pneumonia. He is now thought to be i'm
proving. A brother of Mr.. Sanford will
officiate Sunday in his place.
The three-days' fair of Division No. 2}}
of the order of railway conductors has
been held at Union hall this week, closing
last night The entertainments consisted
of music. etc. and closed each night with
a dance.
About five O'Clock yesterday morning
the Central Vermont wrecking force were
ordered out to 90 to Bartonsville, where
the night freight was derailed by a broken
wheel. Trains were delayed nearly all the
morning.
The Claremont Advocate says that w.
II. Barney of South AcwOrth drew 20 tons
of hay in nine loads from Langdon to Bel
lows Falls i'm December. The trips were
made on wheels with one pair of horses
The last load weighed 400 pounds net
George r. Russell was in Rutland last
week in attendance upon the meeting Of
the executive committee of the Horse
Breeders association, that committee de
Gliding upon Rutland as the location of this
years meeting instead of White River
Junction.
Lewis Olcott, 90 years old. one of the
oldest residents of this town, died at his
home in Rockingham Sunday. He was
brother of the late Elias Ocott of this
place and uncle of Oscar ID. Olcott. His
funeral was held Wednesday, Rev. j. f.
Fullerton officiating.
William Hale, who died recently at the
home of his son-in-law in Essex, was a res
ident of this town years ago. He was the
oldest active civil engineer in the state
He was engaged in the survey of the Rut-
land and LamOille and Burlington diviS-
ions of the Central Vermont railroad.
A. A. Halliday, who is winning so many
prizes with his White Langshans at the
poultry shows this winter, came off with
flying colors at the Central Massachusetts
exhibition at Worcester, Mass, last week,
irlc - Il ie
played. Mr. Halliday was awarded the
five first and other premiums.
The locomotive j. II. Williams of the
Rutland road has been within few weeks
withdrawn from the main line and is to be
changed to "A coal burner. This is the last
wood burner on the road. or any road run
ming into Bellows Falls, all now using coal
This is significant of an important change
in railroad methods within a comparatively
few years.
Beginning last Monday morning all re-
pairs necessary upon cars of the Fitchburg
road, while in transit, are being made here
instead of at keene as heretofore, the
shops built recently on the other side of
the river being used for this purpose Sew
en- or eight men are employed in this de-
partment, where only two have been here
tOfore, and the same number have been
thrown out of employment at Keene.
Prof. Simpson increases in popularity
with our people and his pupils every month.
No pains are spared by him to give his pu-
pills the widest range of practical knOwl-
edge to be had. He took the graduating
class and other pupils on a trip through
the electric light station one evening last
week, giving them full information as to
the principles which govern the system.
instruction in typewriting has been taken
up this term, and two machines have been
placed in the High school building.
Miss Hand, who has for some years been
engaged in school work in Utah under the
charge of the New West Education society
of the Congregational churches, spoke at
the Congregational church last Sunday in
the interest of her work. At three O clock
she spoke to the ladies of the village at the
Methodist church on the social and home
Influences of MOrmOnism. She proved a
deeply interesting speaker, delineating the
experiences and difficulties that are met
with, and telling of the great advances be-
ing made in the education of the children
of that territory who have been so sadly
neglected many years. In the evening she
spoke again to a large audience at the Con-
gregational church. She arrived from her
field of labor on Saturday, and is to spend
some time in the East, lecturing in the in
terest of the funds needed by the society to
more fully carry out the plans and work.
Few of our people who have not been to
the south AZ. Of the village since the be-
giniag OF work on the new Westminster
bridge appreciate the magnitude of the