Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-05-25

arranged to hold a strawberry festival in
their vestry next Wednesday afternoon and
evening. During the day and evening ice
cream will be served or sold in quantities.
Supper is to be from 80 till Z, the total
proceeds to be devoted to the expense of
lighting the church.
The pulp mill burned near Middlebury
Tuesday night was not the one in which
the Fall Mountain Paper company or A.
II. Fisher are interested, as was at first
thought to be the case by some. One
owned by these parties, known as the
Green Mountain Pulp company, is located
a mile or so further down the river.
w. W. Slate returned Saturday from a
weeks trip to Washington, where he was
called to be present at the trial of a suit he
brought while he was living there, for
damages to property which he owns there
by the building of a block partially upon
his land. He was successful, getting a YER
dict for a larger amount than he had offered
to settle for.
There were SO representatives of the
Christian Endeavor societies from Bellows
Falls went to Springfield Friday, notwith-
standing the serious storm, and they return
ed about midnight, having had a very en-
ioyable trip. On the way home the severe
thunder storm made it lively for a time,
lightning striking a tree within sight of
some of the teams.
Superintendent Cooper, of the New Eng
land Home for Little Wanderers of Boston,
will come to Bellows Falls, Monday, June
/, with number of the little waits endeav-
oring to find good homes and adoption for
them. These children are taken by the
home, given a term of careful training
there, fitting them to 60 into any family,
then they are found permanent homes in
this manner.
The room on the School street stairs, re-
Gently occupied for storage of fruits by w
5. Durham, has been leased to W. F.
Martin, who is fitting it up as an eating
house and night lunch room. Mr. Martin
has been running the night lunch cart in
the Square the past winter for Mr. Flagg
who owns it, and who has now come back
to run it himself. Mr. Martin now is ar
ranging an opposition night lunch.
Considerable interest was evinced at the
depot yesterday noon over Chinaman and
his American wife who took dinner here
on the up train. 1t was supposed to be the
pair who were married at Springfield,
Mass, the day before, but turned out to be
Yung Wing and wife, formerly of Hart
ford, but now employed at Burlington as
interpreter for Collector Smalley. They
had been to the wedding at Springfield,
being named among the prominent guests.
The listers expect to have the personal
property schedule for the town figured up
and completed next week. 1t is thought
the result will show a material falling off
this year in amount, which was 81 ,024,-
600 last year. This is similar to the re-
ported experiences of many other towns.
caused by closer figuring of the assets and
debts by the citizens, and in our village it
is estimated that there may be as many as
200 less poll-taX payers this year. This
represents the floating population of single
men, who, with business somewhat dull,
have gone to other points. AS a whole,
the result in Rockingham will not be as
bad as the average towns of the state.
Mrs. Hetty Green still keeps her legal resi-
dence here with us, giving in $4,000 of
personal estate for taxation. By so doing
she evidently avoids the higher rates of
other localities, although the amount paid
on here seems paltry.
Next Sunday our local Grand Army post
will attend divine service at the opera
house as usual at 2:30 p. NJ, Rev. L. E.
Marggraf preaching the sermon and nearly
all the other pastors of the village taking
part also The exercises of Memorial day.
Wednesday, will be of about the usual
order, the orator being Hon. J. L. Martin.
at the opera house in the afternoon and at
Fuller hall at SaXtons River in the fore
noon. Details of the Grand Army will
visit all the cemeteries of the town during
the day, ending with the principal service
in Oak Hill cemetery at o'clock. At
SaXtons River the president of the day will
be Prof. c. T. Snow, with J. F. Alexander
as marshal. At Bellows Falls the presi-
dent is to be L. H. Allbee and the marshal.
F. G. Pierce. Transportation for all those
who wish to 60 to SaXtons River will be
furnished, the teams leaving the Square at
o'clock. Our post will also decorate the
graves at Westminster and Walpoe.
Considerable fun was had at the depot
Monday over a trunk which was here a few
hours, between the trains, decorated and
placarded as belonging to a newly married
couple. The couple were here also and
paid little heed to the trunk or any thing
else. A peculiar circumstance was the
mixing up of checks, the baggage man at
Rutland having given the check for this to
Boston commercial man, it being checked
to Boston as his, while his trunk was
checked for Windsor instead. The man
happened to notice his trunk taken out
here instead of remaining in the car for
Boston, which led to the investigation be-
fore it was too late, and the brides ward
robe delivered to him in Boston. The rail
road men told a good story of another
couple at Middlebury who started the same
day and took the precaution to send their
trunk ahead, checked through to Walling-
ford, but the friends had found it out and
when it reached Rutland it bore in addition
to the usual horse shoes, ribbons, ETC., this
information, eve are on our wedding trip.
We leave Middlebury on May %, at 9 "a
A. NJ, and have sent our baggage on ahead
of the procession" Below this were Sc
curely tackled the cabinet photographs of
the pair, and the trunk remaining some
hours in the Rutland depot, the railroad
men who had gathered to See the happy
couple had no difficulty in identifying
them, and the couple were much surprised
at the interest, of which they were the
centre