Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-24

Vermont Farm Machine company for
good many years, has resigned his position
and goes South for the winter early in No
vember accompanied by Mrs. Day. He
has no definite plans, as to his future bust
ness, but they do not expect at this time to
live here. They have both made many
friends in Bellows Falls, and being deeply
interested in every good work will be
missed by all classes.
The 2jth anniversary of the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. l. S. Brace was the occasion
Saturday evening of pleasant gathering
in the vestry of the Baptist church, and
the presentation to the couple of a purse
containing a substantial remembrance from
their friends. This was presented by Rev.
Mr. Dodge with appropriate remarks,
among which was the statement that ar
engagements had been made so the grocer
and coal men would call around with fur
Their solid tokens the next morning. Light
refreshments were served to the party dur
ing the evening.
The farm Just north of Bellows Falls,
which was for some years owned by Hon.
| VIM. A. Russell, and known as the Fall
Mountain Farm, lately owned by VI. ii.
Ray, is to be sold by public auction to-mor-
row, together with the stock and farming
tools Mr.. Ray has recently built a very
desirable residence in the village and
wishes to give up farming wholly Few
! farms in the Connecticut valley are under
better cultivation, or are better adapted to
all varieties of crops than this 1t ought to
find a ready sale as it is an opportunity
seldom seen in this vicinity, to get a cen
trally located place.
The large fve-inch steel driving shaft
under the Fall Mountain Paper company's
engine room, No. (. broke Monday fore
noon. entirely disabling that section Of the
mills until Wednesday night. This shaft
run the beating engines that furnish stock
for four or five machines, and their stop
ping in turn stopped the coating depart
ment owing to lack of paper. kilograms
were sent to Boston, new shaft was forged
Monday that reached here by express Tues
day noon, and by Osgood . Bankers ma
chine shop running all Tuesday night the
shaft was dressed and in place Wednesday
night. The break caused a more serious
stopping of manufacture than has occurred
with the company for a long time
A deaf mute, NJ p Boseley, a resident
of our village, started Tuesday morning for
! Washington, D. c., where he is to enter
| the National college for deaf mutes and re
ceive four years training in higher edu-
cation He is about 10 years old and grad
uated from the American Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, Conn, last
| June. His record there was of the best
1t is now expected that he will attain the
degree of b. A., and his course will be
watched by his friends here who are in.
terested in him and who have assisted him
thus far. Congressman Grou has in
terested himself in the young man, and it
is through his influence that it is possible
for him TO go at this time. His father is an
employee of the Fall Mountain Paper com
pany and lives on Wells street.
The 4th annual meeting of the Vermont
| Pharmaceutical association was in session
here Wednesday and Thursday, proving to
be one of the most interesting and beneh-
cial of any yet held Twenty-fiv members
sat down to the banquet at 9 o'clock We'd
nesday evening at Towns hotel Much en-
thusasm was shown at the helpful re
suits of the new state laws regarding phar-
macy in raising the otandard Of the profess
! sion. The association was entertained
| Wednesday evening by the Westminster
| club. Yesterday afternoon the association
was addressed 10y Prof. Scoville of Boston
his topic being well handled throughout
| The following officers for the coming year
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president; VIM. Root, Brattleboro. first
vice president; \. f. Walker, St Johns
bury, second vice president; F. W Pierce,
! Chester, treasurer; II. \. Chaplin, Brattle-
boro secretary
Hetty Green stories are very numerous,
| hut an entirely new one comes in the so
cety correspondence from one of the most
| fashionable resorts in America, as follows:
Mrs. Hetty Green, famed as the richest
woman in America the woman who can
| give Russell Sage lessons in finance and
beat him at his own game, has entered
society," to which she has hitherto been a
stranger. She was presented on Tuesday,
in company with her daughter, at NJ IS
Leary's afternoon tea at Newport. That
society will receive her with open arms
| goes without saying. Mrs. Green is per-
| soma grata. She is not only rich, but well
| born, and those who know her best say
| that when she chooses to drop the cloak of
her eccentricites she can be a charming
and interesting woman. 1t is understood
that Mrs. Green's present incursion into
unknown realms is taken for the benefit
of her daughter Mrs. Green herself
would much prefer the society of the
Chemical bank, where as in fortress she
wages successful war against the sharks of
speculation. At Tuesdays function she
was quietly gowned and was retiring and
| transformations in manner"