Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-25

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Mrs. John Flint has as a guest her sister,
Miss McGeoch of Milwaukee, Wis.
L. S. Durham is entertaining his father,
S. W. Durham of West Paris, Me.
Miss Alice Jackson was called to New
port, \. H., to sing at funeral Tuesday
Oscar Cast is in the drug store of j. f.
Pierce, as clerk in place of Charles How
ard, who is i'll.
The ladies of the Episcopal church will
give turkey supper in the parish house
Thursday evening next.
The young men of the Congregations
church served an oyster supper in the YES
try of their church last evening.
Mrs. NJ. E. Wardner and her son Rupert
of Brattleboro attended the funeral of
Charles Wardner here last Friday after
noon.
A reception, with light refreshments, is
to be given the Y. NJ. c. A. delegates in
the Congregational church parlors early
Thursday evening.
The Bellows Falls foot ball team went to
Ludlow Tuesday afternoon and played the
team there. The result was a victory for
the Bellows Falls team.
The Universalist church was crowded
Sunday evening at the harvest concert Civ
en- by the Sunday school. The concert was
very interesting, and showed faithful work
on the part of those having it in charge.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kibbie, John A.
Bush and w. W. Allen have been in
Greensboro this week attending the annual
meeting of the Sons of Temperance, repre-
senting the local lodge. They left Tuesday
noon.
W. c. Belknap, editor of the Times,
was admitted to the practice of law before
the supreme court last week. His admis-
sion was by virture of former one in an
other state. This adds another to the le-
gal fraternity of our town.
Miss Nellie Davis and Miss Gertrude S.
Hayes were sent as delegates from the
Congregational church to the Vermont
Sunday school association, at st. Johns
bury Wednesday and Thursday. No dele
gates were sent from either the Baptist or
Methodist churches.
Ed Stapleton went to Waltham on Con-
ductor Woodfalrs train Tuesday morning
as a third brakeman, the large number
going on the excursion necessitating so
many extra cars. Two hundred and nine
ty-One excursion tickets were sold at this
office for Boston that day.
Mrs. Frank Pierce and Mrs. Eugene
Leonard entertained about IS of their lady
friends at hearts party, in the home of
Mrs. Pierce last Friday afternoon. The
first prize was won by Mrs Carroll Black,
the second by Miss Nettie George, and the
BOBBY by Mrs. S. L. Bennett.
An old-fashioned supper and entertain
ment was given by the Methodist church
Friday evening of last week. Carrots and
trunks were ransacked for clothing of an
cient date and the result was, one felt that
he had stepped back into the early part of
the century on going into the vestry.
c. W. Osgood spoke at the quarterly
meeting of the Rockingham Sunday school
association at Cambridgeport last Sunday
evening upon "How to study and teach the
lesson to an adult class" About twenty
from the three schools in Bellows Falls,
connected with the association, were pres
ent.
The boys find it rare sport to step into
the entrance to the vestry and parlors of
the Universalist church and Just 'press
the button" and out go the lights, leaving
those gathered there in darkness. The
"fun" is all on the side of the boys, how
ever, it being hardly looked upon in that
nghI by others.
A game of football between the local
team and team from Hanover was played
on Kings field Friday, resulting in a score
OF "a 10 0 in favor of Bellows Falls.
1t was advertised as the Dartmouth team,
and most of those who went to witness the
game supposed it was until the game was
well along. 1t was not a college team, but
came from the village of Hanover.
The entertainment committee for the Y.
M. G. A. convention next week, have not
yet succeeded in obtaining quite enough
places of entertainment for the delegates.
They hope to be able to do so, however, as
Bellows Falls people are not usually lack
ing in hospitality to any organization which
comes to them for entertainment, and it is
not believed they will be now.
A small book store is to be opened by the
Farther Lights society of the Baptist
church very soon. These books are de-
signed for the holiday trade, and will in
clude books particularly appropriate for it,
recent publications, and Sunday school