Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-04-06
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

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Monday with friends in Brattleboro.
Mrs. Gates Hadley has taken the agency
for the Gale Floral company of Spring
field, Mass
George F. Evans has begun his annual
delivery of Minard's pond ice to his Gus
toners.
y. G.. Williams and p. L. Kimball were
registered at the Cheshire House at keene
Monday.
Mrs. W. " Wilbur has filed with the
probate court the will Of her late husband,
naming her as his executor.
II, A. Phelps was at White River June
ton two or three days this week apprais-
ing damages to store buildings burned last
week at OlCott Falls.
Fast day is observed quite generally here
today, many of the stores being closed
This evening there are to be union services
at the Baptist church.
A reception is to be given by the Bel
lows Falls club next Monday evening at
Towns hotel 1t is expected that GOV.
and Mrs. Fuller will be present
B. c. Buxton went to West Chesterfield
Monday to set in operation creamery
which the Vermont Farm machine COM
pany have been fitting up there.
Joseph Parker's house near the Catho-
lie cemetery is nearly ready for occupancy
by him. G. II. Allbee's new house oppo-
site A. H. Fishers is being plastered.
The roads in all this vicinity are becom-
ing settled and bicycles are being used
more than any year before. \ large num-
Der of new riders are seen this season.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Dow spent last Sunday in
Brattleboro with the family of Rev. A. J.
Hough. Miss Mary Hough accompanied
her on her return for a visit of few days
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. West have left the tene-
ment occupied by them during the last
year in Mrs. Aaron Arms 5 house. and are
boarding with Geo. X. Russell, Mrs. Vests
father.
Rev. Mr.. Jewell of Wilmington, Del,
will preach at the Methodist church next
Sunday, and Rev. James F. Albion of
Fitchburg will occupy the desk of the
Universalist church.
1t is understood that j. o. Smith of
Keene, n. H., has been appointed agent
for the Singer Manufacturing company,
covering quite an extensive territory, with
headquarters at Bellows Falls
Union Fast day services will be held at
the Baptist church, beginning at : o clock.
A noon-day prayer-meeting is to be held
by the young people of the several churches
in the vestry of the Congregational church.
The old parochal dwelling bought by
Barney Cannon and moved on to his lot
back of Cherry street, is being finished up
into a neat tenement. He has four car
penters at work under charge of II. A.
Phelps.
Rev. Mr.. Diverty of the Methodist
church has moved this week back to his
old conference territory in New Jersey, in
which it is understood he will remain per-
manently, taking a regular appointment
for the next year
Our citizens were saddened by the uneX-
pected news of the death of Rev. W. y.
Wilbur at SaXtons River, who for many
years has been highly esteemed by all who
knew him. He is of the class our town
can i'll afford to spare.
L. T. Lowell, I'd, has had large amount
Of lumber drawn to the steam mill lot at
the north end of Green street to be used
in the erection of large barn at the place
occupied by his son Lewis on Atkinson
street Work is already begun upon it.
The quarterly meeting of the town sun
day school association, postponed on ac-
count of the Neal Dow anniversary, is to
be held in the Baptist church at SaXtOns
River next sunday evening at o'clock
The Christian Endeavor societies of the
Baptist and Congregational churches and
the Epworth league of the Methodist
church hold a union meeting at the Con-
cregational church next Sunday evening
at o'clock The eventide service is to
be used; theme, THE new era
To-, hr,x
30 about half-past eleven Saturday night,
caused by the debris of the old stock house
on the island blazing up again, it not hav-
ing been fully eXtin guished since the fire
of just a week previous. \ line OF hose
which had been kept on the spot put out
the fire before the arrival of the depart
ment.
The old Wentworth house at the corner
of Green and School streets has been re-
modelled into four small tenements, only
one or two of which are as yet occupied.
This is the old residence for so many years
occupied by Col. Wentworth, and his old
friends, to whom associations have en-
deared it, dislike to see it put to use so
plebeian.
Mrs. George Bacon left here last week
Thursday for Albuquerque, \. NJ, for a
stay of six moaths, or: perhaps a year,
with the family of Rev. \. W. Alger, for
merly pastor of the Baptist church here.
Mrs. Bacon's health is giving her friends
much anxiety, and the separation from her
family is with the hope that the climate
may benefit her She was accompanied
as far as White River junction by her hus-
band and to Chicago by her mother.
A large audience greeted George Riddle
and the Boston Philharmonic SeXtet club
at the opera house last Friday evening.
This last number of our lecture course
was surely equal in interest to any preced-
ing number. The reading of Shakspere's
"a Midsummer's Night Dream by Mr..
Riddle, was listened to with the utmost at
tention. His utter abandonment of self
in portraying so naturally the characters of
the play was the key to his justly earned
success. His support, the SeXtet club,
added much to the effectiveness of the
readings.
The trustees of the library held their
annual meeting Monday, when A. n.
Swain was reelected vice president. DR..
j. S. Hill was chosen secretary, A. n.
Swain, H. D. Ryder, Dr. f. II. Pettengill
book committee, and Miss Nellie Adams
librarian. Resolutions were passed upon
the death of NJ. w. Davis, who was a
member of the board. A file of the Bel
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