Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-07

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and the fourth, ice cream. These were in
the care of young ladies of the parish.
The blackbird pie afforded great amuse-
ment for the children, the blackbirds being
black parcels hidden in a crust of bran
Each package contained a present.
J. c. Clair of Boston is at home i'll with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. White spent Thanks
giving in Boston.
Madame Weston has gone to Worcester,
Mass, for the winter
The Black Crook plays at the opera
house Monday evening.
f. p. Ball is on his annual business trip
through Maine and part of New Hamp-
shire
Sherman Davis of Minneapolis spent
last Sunday with his mother, Mrs. NJ. w.
Davis.
Swifts studio at the upper end of the
Square is at last completed and open for
business.
DR.. E. S. Allbee is taking a course of
lectures and clinics at the postgraduate
medical college in New York.
A chicken pie supper will be served in
the vestry of the Universalist church next
Thursday evening by the gentlemen of the
society.
The Daughters of Rebekah have decided
to give a series of assemblies this winter.
The first was held in Odd Fellows hall last
week Friday.
Hoyt's play, "The Texas Steer" was
greeted by good sized audience at the
opera house Saturday evening. All his
plays are wen received here.
Miss Farnham of Boston and William
Farnham of Rochester, n. Y, aunt and
brother of Mrs. Edward Osgsod, have been
spen, ing few days with her.
Henry Davis has bought beautiful
Scotch collie to take the place of Leo, the
fine mastiff, which was so badly injured
some weeks since that they were obliged to
kill him.
The Bellows Falls club held their second
meeting last Monday in the parlors of
Towns Hotel. During the evenings paper
on George Eliot was read by Mrs. E. k.
Campbell.
There has been some skating on SaXtons
river, but the last snow spoiled that, and
the prospect of more this season is rather
scant unless we should have thaw sutli-
cient to make away with the snow.
Some talk has been raised of building an
electric railway between this place and
Springfield, and a charter has been granted
by the legislature We hope it will amount
to more than that concerning the SaXtons
River road.
The plans for the new hotel in Lovells
block have been revived, and Bellows Falls
will soon be in possession of another fine
hotel. With a rear entrance on Canal
street it will be very convenient for the
travelling public.
Miss Helen Kenyon of Mortified, this
state, who has been employed in the milli-
merry rooms of George Davis, the past two
months, finished her work there on Mon
day She is spending the week with Mis-.
Dow at Mr.. Derby's.
Mr. Barber, after the injury to his arm,
occupied his place in the choir of the Con
gregational church for few Sundays, but
has again injured it so that he has been
unable to be present for the last two Sun
days. The first Sunday Mr.. Wilder sang
for him and last Sunday c. II. Osgood.
Mr. and Mrs. T. n. Chase left on Mon
day for Atlanta, Ga, for the winter. Mrs.
Chase has spent the summer with her
daughter, Mrs. Edward Kirkland, while
Mr. Chase has been with the quartet from
Atlanta university in their concert tour,
now and then spending little time here.
Among those who spent Thanksgiving
in town are: Scion Gray of Worcester,
with his mother, Edgar Carruthers of Nor
witch University with his parents, Joseph
Hackett of Brattleboro with Mrs. Bridget
Hacllett, Waldo Edison of ST. Johnsbury
with c. f. Capron, Mrs. Redding of
Amherst with Mrs. f. w. Hanks.
At meeting held at the Methodist
church Wednesday evening officers for
their Sunday school for the next year were
elected: Superintendent, E. E. Ramsey;
assistant superintendent, L. S. Northrup
secretary, Miss Emma Moore; assistant sec
rotary, Nellie Richardson; treasurer, Mrs.
c. l.. Wheeler; librarian, l.. S. Richardson;
assistant librarian, Edwin Baker.
Many of the stores are already putting
on their holiday attire and preparing for
the Christmas campaign. The fancy goods
department in the basement of TuXbury d
Stones has been stocked anew, and pre-
sents lively appearance. The Christmas at
traction in one of the windows of j. G. Day
& Co. will be novel representation of
Brooklyn bridge, constructed of CASTLE
soap.
Among people from out of town, who
spent Thanksgiving here were Mr.. and
MIS- Ddy VI LuulOW Will IuelT SUI frank
Dan Howard and family of Keene with
Mrs. Towards mother, Mrs. Adams; Mrs.
Danforth of Royalton at L. S. Hayess;
Frank Hapgood and family with Mrs. FL
bridge Hapgood, Mr.. Hapgood's mother;
Walter Whitman and family of Keene with
DR.. Whitman; Chauncey Adams and Wal
ter Smith at their homes, and Arthur Das-
comb with his mother.
Although not large audience greeted
johnson Bane, the celebrated guitarist at
the Congregational church last Monday
evening" the concert was a decided success,
unsteady speaking. Although his render
ing of the most difficult selections was
highly appreciated he had the same crti-
cism as to Bellows Falls audiences which
has been accorded them before-namey
they are not enthusiastic. That they can
be so, was proven by the greeting given
Miss Sawyer in the rendering of her num-
bers, especially in the singing of "The
New Jerusalem"
The Bellows Falls correspondent of the
Burlington Free Press writes GA young
man claiming to hail from Boston and Civ
ing his name as John Hill has been for a
few weeks past in the employ of John O.
Spring as plasterer. Early last week he
stole his rOOm-mate's watch Hill at once