Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-06-14


dress skirt and an apron string, with which
the child had undoubtedly been strangled,
was tied tightly around its neck. Dr.
Allbee examined the body, and said the
child had been dead about As hours. The
mill is located Just over the line in West
minister, and the authorities of that town
were notified and are at work upon the
case.
Mrs. E. NJ. Curran of Holyoke, Mass,
is in town.
S. S. Washer, the baker, who disap- |
peared several weeks ago, has returned.
Mrs D. A. Guptil, nee Nutting of Mont
peler, is visiting her mother and sister in !
this village. /
Miss Harriette Lyman of Royalton is
spending the week with her friend, Miss
Gertrude Hayes.
The Baptist society will give lawn
party at the home of W. Fl. Ray Tuesday
evening of next week Come one, come
all.
Prof Chaplin and Miss Goodrich will re-
tain their positions in the High school
next year. Mr.. Osgood and Mr. Clarke
have resigned.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Osgood were in at
tendance upon the annual meeting of the
Vermont Congregational churIhes at Ben
nington number of days tni'tweek
W. A. Truax left on Wednesday and
Mrs. TruaX yesterday for their summer
cottage at Highgate Springs, for a stay of
about two months.
At the annual convention of the Wind
ham county w. G. 7. L. held in Newfane
Thursday and Friday, Miss Carrie Smith
of this place recited in very pleasing man
ner "The martyred mother"
About fifty members of the l. O. o.
visited the cemeteries last Sunday, it being
their Memorial day, and the graves of
their deceased members were decorated
with flowers.
A pleasant evening was spent by the
class of '96, High school, at Rev. j. E. Full
lerton's Friday of last week, Misses Ethel
Fullerton and Susie Roundy entertaining
their classmates.
G. W. Osgood was chosen a delegate to
the national convention of Congregational
churches to be held in Syracuse, n. Y, in
October, at the state convention at Ben
nington this week.
Rev. E. E. Marggraf and E. r. Ball have
been in attendance upon the meeting of
the Black River association of Universaist
churches held in Ludlow this week, Mr..
Marggraf delivering an address,.
John Damon, salesman in the market
of W. S. Durham, while grinding Ham
burger steak Monday morning, caught the
third finger of his right hand in the sausage
grinder, taking large part of it off.
The listers have completed their work,
and their report, which has been filed,
shows the value of real estate to be 50, $751;
$40 and of personal property S1,096, Ill.
There are 11S6 polls and tax of $40, 502
will be raised.
Rumor says that young man from Keene
is making arrangements for starting a new
Bellows Falls paper, to be published in
Keene, and will contain, besides items of
news, views of prominent places in and
near the village.
Claus Olandt, member of the interna-
tional committee of the Y. M. c. A, and
secretary of the German department, spent
Wednesday night with friends in town.
Mr.. Olandt is also secretary of the states of
Vermont and New Hampshire.
Mrs. Frank jenkins of Penn Yam, n.
Y, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Edward
Osgood. Mrs. jenkins will be pleasantly
remembered here as Miss Lizzie johnson,
a student at St. Agnes Hall at the same
time Mrs. Osgood was a member of the
school,
A party of about 10 has been formed TO
make a weeks trip through Nova Scotia,
leaving Bellows Falls July %. Stops will
be made in Yarmouth Annapolis, Halifax,
Grand Pre- and Digby, and the excursion
will be under the personal supervision of
Conductor Woodfall.
The examinations in the various schools
have been going on the past week, and as
a whole they show the schools in a very
efficient condition. The graduating exer-
cises of the High school will take place in
the opera house tonight, the graduating
class consisting of II members.
Mrs. r. H. Blair, Misses Hattie and Jo-
sephne Blair attended the wedding of
Thomas Hathaway Rogers and Miss Ger
trude Estelle McMasters at Springfield
Mass, Wednesday evening. Miss Hattie
Blair PLAYED the wedding march from Lo-
hengrin as the bridal party entered and
ooh, Promise Me" during the ceremony.
Lyndam L. Durham of the firm of Dun
ham Brothers narrowly escaped serious
accident while riding bicycle to the store
Tuesday morning. He collided with a
rapidly moving team and was thrown on
the pavement. He was unconscious for a
time. Aside from the effects of several
bruises and a severe shaG.Hg up he has
recovered.
The log drive of the ca !ecticut River
Lumber company has arr d and is pass
ing here at the present t. The camp
of the log men here now lbers about so
men, who will be here sevcr'l weeks. The
water is about medium height now, neither
very high or low, but they are wishing for
an increased pitch in order to get them
along rapidly.
Mr.. Temple, the gardener of Rev. DIR.
Dickinson at Westminster, is taking
charge of the landscape gardening of a
number of our village lawns this year and
is making decided improvement in the
general effects. AS landscape gardener
Mr.. Temple has few equals, and the advice
given by him as to the laying out of grounds
is of great advantage.
For the first time, perhaps in fifty years,
the old church at Rockingham was the
scene of wedding festivities on Wednesday
The bride was Miss Olive A. Adams of
Charlestown, N. H., the groom, William
B. Prouty of Chicago, ILL.,, who runs a
Pullman car between Chicago and Los
Angeles. About 20 of the family friends
were present. This church is said to be