Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-30

| Texas Woman's Press club.
The best looking. largest, and most con-
| veniently arranged night lunch cart that |
| has ever been in Bellows Falls began bust |
mss ia the square Tuesday night. 1t has |
! been in service few months at Rutland, |
and is said to have cost $1,000. 1t is |
owned by George Parker Of AthOl, Mass.
| It's sign reads "Winlsor Cafe
It is expected that the Keene Light
! Guard will visit he muster at Chester
! during the eucampment OF the Vermont
81. Idiprs there. Il is their plan TO make
! the TRIP on bicycles, if the consent o:
. hose officers Of the state having the mat
ter in charge can be gained. The battal-
! ion is drilling each day on their wheels
for the purpose Of the trip.
A man hired a bicycle Tuesday after
noon of G.. L. Sherwin and did not return
! it until yesterday causing Mr.. Sherwin
| considerable uneasiness. as be only engaged
| it for an hour or so. 1t turned out that he
went up TO Springfield (Vt.) to avoid ar
rest by officers from Keene, and as soon as
he knew they had returned to Keene he
returned with the bicycle and paid the
charges, including the cost of hunting for
it.
Editor W. G. Belknap returned Wednes-
| day from a two weeks vacation. Some Of
his friends are proddng him with jokes
over having misunderstood a train man
calling out "Deerield," and supDosing it to
be Greenfield he got off there to attend the
| O'Neil trial one day last week. After the
train left he found the walking rather
muddy for the four miles to Greenfield, ar
irving there just too late to take in the
trial.
The funeral of S. G. Fleming was held
Monday afternoon from Emmanuel church,
Rev. ID. l.. Sanford officiating. His only
brother, Chas. X. Fleming of New York,
and three sisters, and his two sons from
Memphis and Little Rock were present.
A number of nephews were also in at
tendance, and the managers of a number
of the leading hotels Of the country, with
whom Mr.. Fleming had been associated.
DIR. Gale of BrattlebOrO, who is an old
friend Of the family, acted as one of the
bearers.
Several young men assembled on the
grounds back of the Island House Tuesday
evening, armed with shovels and accom-
panied by dump cart, ready for an hour
or two's work, the work being to grade
the ground ready for Y. NJ. c. a. athletics
This evening the use Of three dump carts
has been promised and it is hoped that
every young man, who expects to avail
himself Of the privileges of these grounds,
will be there ready TO do valiant work. c.
w. Osgood has very kindly given the use
of the ground.
The first shock of Springfield electricity
was received here Monday afternoon when
the electric road, in drawing an extra wide
coal car over their line, broke a telephone
pole, mixing the wires. The full force of
; the railroad dynamo was received here over
., ,.-ir
: five local exchange wires. 1t was several
hours before the exchange was in working
order again. Manager Burr went to
, Springfield Tuesday and required the man
. ayers of the road to make such changes as
r would render a recurrence of the accident
5 impossible.
Saturday afternoon a whole section of
: shelves on one side of Dunham's City
: Market, heavily weighted with goods Of all
V kinds, fell over into the middle % the
room, destroying from $50 to 500 worth
of stock. The escape was narrow one
> Of three clerks from being caught under
. the falling structure. They We're called
y Just before the crash to another part Of the
> store, from the meat cutting bench just
; under the shelves. Mr.. Durham, who has
! been i'll with typhoid fever for several
1t weeks, is out again and able to spend a
part OF eacn udS AT Ine market.
We bid fair to be well supplied with
= lumber dressing mills with the one Frank
r Phelps has on the island, l.. II. Church
IL Co.'S at the south end of the village and
9 the new one of II. +. Cox on the south
5 side of Williams street. Mr. Cox hopes tC
get into his shop next week. The engil,
d and boiler are already in place and th'
h other machinery is expected TO be here be
l. fore the end of the week. The buildin!
is of good size, well constructed anC
r adapted for his business. All these shop
a are very busy owing to the large amour
!. of building which is being done both side
l., of the river.
James Maynard, teacher al Kurn HattiI
! Home for boys, came here last SUNDAY
:, morning accompanied by several of III,
=, boys and the financial agent Rev. G.. ii
h DeBevOise The morning service of TIN
- Universalst church was devoted to the in
, terest of the homes. Mr.. DeBeyoise, Mr.
* Maynard and the boys took part in tn,
10 services, which were made very interesting
, The audience were brought to a much bet
'e ter knowledge of the work and needs o
these institutions by the clear explanation
e given. A liberal contribution to the worl
Ly was made at the close of the services
)r Bellows Falls people are urged to visi
" these homes, particularly the boys home
If and see the practical results being attained
The Atlanta university quartet, whicl
u so many Bellows Falls citizens remembe
IN so pleasantly, is making it's fourth tou
u, through New England, singing and speak
III ing in behalf Of the university in churc he
IL and at summer resorts. T. n. Chase an
his son, John Chase, have acted as thei
IS advance agents, making appointments 70
us them up to September l. The quartet
to in charge of George A. Towns, instructo
n in the scientific department of the uni
er vers.ty, from which he graduated in '04
They are at Bar Harbor now, going frol
is there To other summer resorts on tn
II Maine ami New Hampshire coasts. Whit
n Mountains, Hudson river and Lake George
)f After Sept l it is their int -ntion to visi
to churches in New York, Massachusetts
ST and Connecticut.
The storm on Friday of last week wa
m perhaps the most severe here of the sea
n son The electrical part of 1t continue
n about four hours, though the rain too
ng some short recesses. For a few moment
there was a very hard wind, which dan
be aged the trees in various parts of the vi
lage, laid the corn, etc AT one tim
mt large hail stones fell. Lightning struc
us in North Walpole and in various Otht
ct places not far away. Three washouts o
al the Fitchburg railroad occurred at or nea
lie WalpOle, delaying the o'clock train unit
he 1880. The terraces and avenues in Ga
ra Hin cpmatprv wora oulliad somawhat q N