Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.
The Facts About thelPresence of :Diph-
liberia in the village.

The Facts About the1Presence of .Diph-
iberia in the village.
During the past few; days three houses
ave been quarantined by the board of
health, owing to diphtheria, those of Rev.
f. w. Lewis, Rev. d. l.. Sanford and Geo
Olmstead, the latter being on Westminster
court. The number of children afflicted
with it are respectively two, one and three
This makes total of five houses under the
ban at this time. Inquiry develops the fact
that thus far this year there have not been
any where near as many cases of diphthe-
ria in this village as there had last year up
to this time From June to December last
wear there was total of 80 cases. More
stringent measures regarding quarantine
are being required than ever before, and
there seems little danger of its becoming
epidemic. There is considerable wild talk
on the street regarding it, but the fact is
that until within a few days there have
been only few isolated cases which have
yielded readily to treatment and almost
every one has been very light. Although
it is an unpleasant visitor to be hanging
around as it does, vet it is hoped it will not
extend to any great degree Bellows Falls,
as compared with almost any other village
of its size, can point with pride to its i'm
munity from this, or any other serious cpl
demic, and to its extremely low death rate
for the past % years. The bailiffs are hav-
ing the sewers flushed once in a while in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of the
state board of health, but it does not seem
to be done with as much frequency andre
ularity as it might. They are requiring
changes in plumbing in many buildings but
examination of facts show but few places
that the disease has shown itself where
there can be found the slightest defect in
sanitary arrangements. More cases have
occurred in dwellings where the most mon
ey had been spent upon plumbing, than in
houses where seeming defects have been
found. Nor does the disease confne itself
at all to the school children, or seemingly
traceable to that source, although some of
the afflicted ones are from the schools. The
village officers are making a close study of
the matter I'd all will be done that is pos
sible to keep it at the minimum. There
seems to be no cause whatever for alarm.
John L. Divoll of Rockingham is executor
of the will of the late Oscar D. Ocott.
H. d. Ryder has a new student in his
law office, H. P. Conway of Oldtown, Me,
who graduated from Dartmouth last June.
Miss Nellie Cudmore, young lady living
near Cold River and having many friends
in this village, died Sunday after linger-
ing illness of consumption.
Congressman VIM. w. Grout was in
town a number of days last week, the
guest of his secretary, Charles Circuit, at
the home of Barney Cannon, jr.
Phillip ST. Croix has sold his new house
on the Old Terrace to Bruce Babcock, who
will occupy the lower tenement f. w.
Barnard will occupy the upper tenement.
Mrs. j. f. Fullerton is to &c ezec1Tor Of
the estate of her late husband. She adver-
tises for sale the valuable library of Mr..
Fullerton, and is disposing of it in numbers
to suit the purchasers.
Alexander L. Brown has bought of
Henry G. Lane the dwelling on Barker
street occupied some years by Mr.. Brown,
who is a foreman in No. engine room of
the Fall Mountain Paper company.
Photographer Swift has this week moved
his travelling picture gallery from Proctors-
vile to Ludlow and set it up for the winter
there. He has been absent with it for
some weeks, but is now located here in
Bellows Falls permanently.
Newton Beers gives dramatic recital in
the opera house next Friday evening, COM
ing here under the auspices of the senior
class of the High school. He will charac-
terize in monologue Trowbridges comedy
of 'Roger, the Vagabond.
The new dwelling of Dennis Flavin on
Cherry street has been enclosed this week
and is being pushed rapidly to completion.
That of Barney Cannon, ir., standing near
it, is to be occupied the first of next week
by l.. L. Northrup and j. H. Chapman.
The schools outside of the villages of Bel
lows Falls and Saxtons River all closed
Wednesday for a two weeks vacation,
while those in the two villages will resume
their sessions again next Monday, contin-
uing two weeks longer before the vacation.
Hon. Adna Brown of Springfield, who is
to give practical talk here Dec. 90, at the
Y. NJ. G. A, upon Jerusalem as l saw it,"
visited Nansen, the explorer, at Burlington
last week and wrote vivid account
of his impressions for the local paper of
last Saturday,
James F. O'Brien has this week resigned
his position as organist of the Congrega-
tional church, which he has held for the
past four years. During the first three
years he was absent only two Sundays and
is an efficient musician. His resignation at
this time is because of i'll health,
Rev. Charles H, WaSnourne of Falmouth,
Mass, preached last Sunday at the Con-
gregational church. Rev. A. V. House of
New Salem, Mass, preached the week be-
fore, and DR.. Charles b. Rice of Boston
two weeks before. No regular supply has
been arranged as yet to supply the place of
Mr.. Fullerton.
O. w. Fletcher, the merchant who COM
mitted suicide Sunday at North Chester,
was formerly in the grocery trade here for
a number of years. He occupied the store
in the Barry block on Westminster street
which is now occupied by Francis Rey-
nolds. He was an uncle of Charles l..
Fletcher, our tailor, and brother of Hon.
George l.. Fletcher of Chester.
Dennis Flavin, who drives the delivery
team for the grain store of j. Wilson &
Co., has a record for steady employment
which can be equalled by few. He has
been continuously employed for "a years
by the same firm, and in that time has new
er lost a days pay Although he has some
times been absent a day, or a longer time,
he has always been able to work over time
enough so his employers have kept his pay
up regularly.
Five new subscribers have recently been
added to the telephone exchange. The
stores of F. G. Pierce and Clark Chase, the
insurance Office of Eugene S. Leonard, the
dwelling of H. O. Leonard and Bert Brig
ham on the Holland farm near Walpole
and the Westminster club rooms. The
workmen have had to entirely rebuild a