Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-15
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

Franklin Falls yesterday and will remain
until next week.
A sunhower entertainment will be given
by. the Sons of Temperance in their hall
Monday evening
Pliny Fisher, father of Mrs. Clark
Chase, died Sunday at his home in West
minister at the age of 90.
DIR. Waterman has opened an office in
the Whittle house at Westminster and will
be there every afternoon from to 6.
N. G. Williams has been in Rutland
this week in attendance upon the annual
meeting OF the Vermont Sugar Makers
association.
At the Columbian Whist club Monday
evening prizes were won by Mrs. Mortimer
Davis and w. W. Greene, and the BOBBY
by George F. Davis.
Prof. A. B. Crawford gave an interest
ing address at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms last
Sunday afternoon, taking for his theme
the old adage, manners make man."
Chas. F. Underhill, the well-known i'm
personator, will give a reading in the opera
house Wednesday, Feb. 8, under the aus
pieces of the Junior class of Bellows Falls
High school.
At recent meeting of the local branch
of the Milk Producers union W. w. Barry
of Saxtons River was elected president for
the ensuing year, and John P. Holmes of
Walpole, secretary.
Mrs. Holley came up Tuesday evening
to open her classes in china painting
These occur from to every afternoon
until Saturday, in the millinery parlors of
Mrs. L. Gates Hadley,
The F. B. F. Grocery company received
a carload of salt from the Worcester Salt
company. The train was started from
Silver Springs Wednesday, when President
elect Mckinley pressed the button.
The Mt. Kilburn Wheel club are plan
ming to give ball eally in February. We
know this will be no exception to the gen.
eral rule of delightful social events for
which this club is justly renowned.
T. B. Newman and family of Alstead
have moved into their new house on Burt
Place. 1t is a very handsome and commo-
dious dwelling of colonial style, and is at
the junction of Burt Place and Centre
street.
Miss Myette Newell, former stenogra-
pher at the Vermont Farm Machine com
pany's office, has returned to her duties
there, after an absence of about year,
part of which time was spent at Vermont
Academy.
Wales's dry goods store was closed Fri
day afternoon, out of respect to Miss Lu
Ranville, whose funeral the clerks attended
in a body, as did her class in the High
school, that of '95, and her Sunday school
class of little girls.
The Owl club presented the Irish come
dy, "Finnegan's fortune" in the opera
house last evening. This was no excep-
ton to the general rule of excellent plays
which this club has given, and demonstrat-
ed that we certainly have talent at home.
The skating on both Minards pond and
the Connecticut is excellent and is being
enjoyed by hundreds of young people dali
", 200 or 800 at time on the river being
not infrequent in the afternoon and even
ing. Skating parties are much in vogue.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the National bank was held Tuesday
and the following directors were chosen
j. 81. Williams, Hugh Henry, Horace W.
Thompson, John II. Williams, Henry F.
Arms. Nothing but the regular routine
business was transacted.
B. A. Putney gave his Bellows Falls
friends decided surprise last week, when
the announcement was made of his mar
rage, on Tuesday, to Mrs. Lydia A Liv-
ermore of Lexington, Mass. However,
they have recovered sufficiently from the
shock to extend heartiest wishes for future
happiness. Mr.. and Mrs. Putney have
gone to Jacksonville, Fla, for the winter.
C. W. Butterfield has put new heating
apparatus into his greenhouse on School
street, and is using one section of it al
present for raising plants and slips. He
has also started seeds for the summer
trade. By the middle of next month he
will heat the remainder of the lighthouses
to start his early vegetables, of which he
will carry full line. The earliest will be
cucumbers, radishes and lettuce.
The Foresters of Court William French
gave their annual concert and ball last
Friday evening in Union hall. Music was
furnished by Brigham's orchestra. The
hall was deliberately decorated with ever.
green and the mounted heads of deer, max
ing a very picturesque setting for the
bright scene. Immediately after the con.
cert the ball was "set rolling" by the grand
march, led by Miss Kate Mccarthy ant
W. j. Mccarthy. About 70 couple partic-
ipated in the festivities, which were
crowned by an elaborate supper served in
the dining rooms of Towns hotel
The Standard Oil company has erected
in North Walpole, on brick piers L or Il
feet high, an immense storage tank with q
capacity of over $4,000 gallons of kerosene.
They have, within a week or two, placed a
very snowy tank wagon on the delivery
route, furnishing dealers and consumer
both sides of the river. 1t delivers in Bel
lows Falls Mondays, and goes to neighbor.
ing villages in the vicinity the remaining
days of the week. The storage tank is To-
Gated near a side track, and the oil i:
pumped up into ii from the cars, and is
run from there into the wagon by gravity
making a cheap and easy method of han
ding, either in large or small quantities.
The concert by the Amphion quartet
Monday evening was pleasant affair. Mr.
Gorham, the leader, and Mr.. Hindes are
not strangers to our people. The former
was Westminster West boy, and has al
ways been deservedly popular here. In his
solo he was enthusiastically received and
was obliged to respond to an encore. Mr.
Hindes has a rarely sweet voice. He was
q graduate in '95 of Vermont Academy
which institution sent a delegation, which
formed a goodly portion of the audience,
TO welcome him. A pleasing novelty was
the reading of Miss Ethel Bristol, the thir-
teen-year-old daughter of Prof Bristol OF
Vermont Academy. Her childlike sim.
plicity of manners and charming presence
won the hearts of her hearers. Miss
jackson was pianist and rendered piano
solo and encore in an able and charming
manner. Mrs. Wilder sang in her own
inimitable way, which can find no equal
in this village. The ladies' union of the
CONGREGATIONAL church. under whose aus