Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-17

Mrs. Edward Osgood and little daughter,
who have been at Mrs. Osgood's home in
Bradford for three weeks, returned yester-
day.
Ray Jackson, the young son of NJ. d.
Jackson, has been quite i'll the past week,
being threatened with pneumonia, but is
better now.
A French clairvoyant named Madame
Francis has established business here in
Bellows Falls, having headquarters at j.
Z. Byrnes's on Canal street.
George O. Henry of Providence, K. l.,
formerly a well known merchant of Bellows
Falls, has established purchasing agency
in Providence and advertises for orders.
MI Henry is well known here and per
fectly reliable.
The comic opera Wang did not at
tract a large audience to the opera house
Saturday night, but they gave an excellent
entertainment in every way. The small
audience was evidently owing to the large
number of entertainments being given Just
now.
Barney Cannon, jr., in behalf of Slough
ton post, g. A, R.. has arranged with Rev.
o. S. Davis, Phi. D., of Springfield TO de-
liver the Memorial Day address here the
coming year. DR.. Davis is well known
and popular with Bellows Falls audiences,
and the post show their good judgment
in this selection.
The school directors have arranged to
have the schoolhouses in the village all
thoroughly disinfected during this vacation,
with the new fumigator, form-aldehyde
gas. This is as matter of precaution, not
because OF any serious amount OF disease
here, there being but two cases of diph-
liberia. IAN ounce of prevention" etc
Hon. Adna Brown of Springfield is to
come here next Monday evening and give
the practical talk at the y. NJ. c. A.
rooms. His subject is 10 be Jerusalem as
l saw it, giving an account of his recent
trip through Palestine, which he took with
what was known as The Congregation
alst Party" organized by the managers
of the newspaper known by that name,
published in Boston.
The third lecture of the regular Bellows
Falls course, that by Prof. Denote upon
the Harp of the senses, was held in the
opera house Tuesday evening during the
worst rain storm of the season A fair
audience, considering the night, was pres
ent and was more than pleased. 1t was
one of the finest lectures ever given in the
village and was profusely illustrated by the
lantern. Sixty students from Vermont
Academy came down, Notwithstanding the
storm.
Work upon the highway bridge in the
edge of the village of SaXtons River is
progressing rapidly, and it is expected that
it will be ready for teams to cross in about
three months if the weather is favorable.
The selectmen opened Monday the bids for
the furnishing of the iron structure. These
had been made by the various bridge com
panies and the contract was awarded to
the Berlin Bridge company of Connect
cut. The price to the town is to be $3.50,
besides the abutments and grading to reach
it in its new location, which is about so
rods this side of the old wooden one, which
was condemned.
Friends of Dr. George O. Webster, for
merly of this town, read with great inter
est a statement in The Phoenix several
weeks ago to the effect that he had re-
ceived an appointment as dentist to the
Emperor of Germany, a position said to be
worth $4,000 a year. He is evidently to
be assistant TO the court dentist, Judging
from the following from the St Adams
Messenger; DR. George O. Webs ter has
changed his plans for his departure for
Germany to the extent that he will cease
practicing dentistry IN this city Christmas,
and will sail as soon after that date as pos
sible. He and Mrs. Webster will 60 direct
ly to Paris, and there he will have charge
of DIR. Spaulding's office for ten weeks
while Dr. Spaulding goes to St. Peters
burg to operate on some members of the
royal family. On his return DR.. and Mrs.
Webster will proceed to Berlin, where
they will make their residence, the doctor
being assistant to the leading dentist of
that cityT