Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-03
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.


Mr. and Mrs. John II. Williams presented
their infant son for baptism at Emmanuel
church last Sunday.
Miss Jennie Church Of the telephone
exchange returned to her post this week
after two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Hetty Green went to New York
Monday afternoon on matters of business
needing attention previous to Sept. /.
A pet dog owned by c. /. Aldrich at the
depot had his head taken off by passing
train at the station one day last week.
The six dwellings built by John 4. Bros
nahan near the snath shop are being com
peted this week. and all are rented
The annual visitation and confirmation
will occur at Emmanuel church oct this
year, at which time Bishop Hall will be
here.
Mrs. Reed and daughter OF Newtonvlle,
Mass, formerly a homeopathic physician
here, have been in town the past week and
called on many old friends.
The Windham county Sunday school
convention is to meet at the local Methodist
church Wednesday, Sept. 10, and a large
number of delegates are expected.
F. II. Rabbit, OF Albee d Babbitt, is
taking an extended trip with his family
through Lake Champlain, Lake George,
Saratoga, New York city and Boston.
Rev 5. II. Webb of Providence, who is
spending his vacation here with his broth
ers, Carleton and Joshua, preached at I'm
manuel church Sunday morning and even
ing.
c. W. Osgood went to Lyme, " H.,
Wednesday, where he addressed Sunday
school convention in the evening. He is
today in Harrisville, n. H., for the same
purpose.
An improvement this week at the depot
is a large and well-arranged blackboard
for bulletining the arrival Of trains, placed
near the ticket office window, and lettered
for each road.
Miss Gertrude Hayes and Master vii
liam assembled Ascutney mountain last Sat
urday. They have been spending the past
week near the base OF the mountain in the
town Of Windsor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Chase are taking an
extended trip to New York, Philadelphia,
and other points They will take in also a
number of well-known summer resorts be-
fore their return.
Rev. F. W. Lewis, of the Methodist
church, speaks this evening at the Congre-
gational church preparatory lecture on &C
count Of Mr.. Fullerton not feeling able be
cause of recent illness.
The attendance from here to the Clare
mont musical festival, which has been held
the past three days. has been very good,
about 20 in all being there at different
times, some all the time,
f. l.. Vaughn. chief engineer of the
Worcester Mass, fire department, and his
wife are spending some days with the fam
lily of Geo. Underwoo !. Mrs Vaughn is
a sister of Mrs. Underwood
The brick veneered block on Rocking.
ham street being erected by c. F. Maynard
is up two stories, and work progressing
on the third. He has ii arranged for two
stores on the ground floor
The new tenement house of Wymar
Flint on South street has this week beer
occupied for the first time by +. B. Smith
down stairs and the upstairs tenement by
II. G. McDuffee, who has lived some years
on Green street.
Miss Catherine Keife, formerly of oul
graded school, has secured the position a.
vice principal Of the High school of Somer
set, KY. where she will be located here
after. Her health is much better thar
when she left here,
A death from diphthera occurred in tow
Saturday, it being the lS-months old sol
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scanlon. TIL
body was buried at an early hour SUNDAY
morning, and 1t is not probable the diseas'
will spread further.
Mortimer F. Davis gets through hi
work as clerk in the plumbing store of W
II. Bodine & Co., next Monday, and is 4
be succeeded by Ernest r. Ball, who ha
for some years been cashier of the Boston
d Maine freight office.
The repairs upon the Commercial Hous
were not completed so that Mr.. Pollard
could open on the first of the month as in
tended. He has had the entire insid
painted and vanished. He expects to b.
able to open IL tomorrow.
Mrs. Alkaline Ball, who has taught in
strumental music here for the last AS years
is to spend the winter with relatives il
Chicago. She expects to go soon afte
October l. For II years she was organis
at the Congregational church,
John Hassett, who is building the new
house near DR.. Gossein's, will be able I,
occupy it in about six weeks. His fou
children are TO enter the public school
here next week, coming over from Nortl
Walpole each day until the family move.
A. A. Halliday and A. +. Lamb ar
each picking immense quantities Of plum
this year. They are marketing them at 81
cents per peck Mr.. Lamb estimates hi
crop at over 80 bushels, and Mr.. Hallada,
has a much larger amount from his trees
The Boston & Maine railroad compan,
announces a round rate trip of 81 between
Bellows Falls and South Londonderry 70
those who wish to attend the soldiers
reunion Sept. s. Proportionate rates vii
be given from other towns between Below
Falls and Brattleboro.
j. G. Clair, formerly connected with tn
railroad offices here, and for some tim
past in the Eastern service of the IllinOi
Central company, became, Sept l, tn
New England agent of the company, witt
headquarters at AZ Devonshire street, Bos
ton. Congratulations to him on the pro
motion.
But three fire alarms have occurred thi
year so far in our village, and but Sigh
loss for each One was from a kerosen
stove in the Canal street lunch room, on
for a slight blaze on the roof OF the oil
laundry building, and there was one Sigh
fire at the mills, probably not 500 tota
loss in them all.
John j. Collins of North Walpole, ma
chine tender for the Fall Mountain Pape
company, has bargained for the purchas
of the dwelling on School street ownel
successfully in late years by n. II. Farr
George A. Brown, Mrs. Bowers, and MI
Swift of Springfield, Mass. Mr.. Collins i
~ oOD,a there IN live In the near futurp