Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

fare is ST. from here.
Frank Massucco, the Italian who was
fined last week for keeping liquor with in
tent to sell, and whose trial for actually
selling was adjourned until this week, was
brought before Justice Williams Monday
and plead guilty to one offence, being fined
S19.S5, which included costs.
The town farm has at the present time
only nine boarders, a somewhat smaller
number than usual. OF these Bellows
Falls furnishes three, Capt. Walter Taylor,
Miss Clark, who was formerly housekeeper
for Sanford Granger, and Miss Leach,
daughter of the late jeremiah Leach.
A. II. Brown, who keeps accurate record
of the rain fall says the fall in July was
the largest since 1850. This year it
amounted to II rs inches. In the month
Of June between seven and eight inches
fell, which is also an extremely large
amount, or about 20 inches in the two
months.
George f. Page has rented one tene-
ment in the new dwelling he is building
on Spring lane to NJ. A. Durkee, who will
begin housekeeping as soon as the house
is finished p. l.. Kimball, who has the
foundation in place for another new house
on Spring lane, is not to build this year as
he intended.
Eugene S. Leonard has rented the tene-
ment, in the second story of his residence
on Atkinson street to II. A. Robertson,
who has been living with his father, +. r.
Robertson, in the Moody house on Atkn-
| son street. Mrs. f. K. Roberts on, who
! has been spending some time in California,
returned recently.
Steve Tyrrell, who has for some months
run a lunch counter on Canal street, has
! taken a lease of the Walpole House in
! North Walpole and will take possession
next week. He has sold his business on
| Canal street to Messrs. EXner Il Holmes,
! two live young men who will make a sue
cess of it, without doubt.
The electric cars from Springfield began
| to meet all trains at Charlestown station
| Monday, except the freight trains, and that
night the stage coaches were withdrawn.
Both Springfield and Charlestown people
| feel great satisfaction in this completion of
the road. In many ways il will be a direct
benefit to Bellows Falls.
Wednesday afternoon three log men
came up the river driving and leading 20
! horses which had been used by the Con
necticut River Lumber company's drive,
which has been safely doomed at IIolyoke.
The men and horses camped across the
river that night and went north yesterday
to 90 to work again in the woods getting
out next years logs.
The Indian camp at the south end Of
the village, which has been entertaining
Bellows Falls people for the last two weeks,
was broken Tuesday morning BY the aid
of a number of local truck teams il was
moved that day to Chester, where the In
dams are to be for the next two weeks as
one Of the side shows to the annual mus
ter of the state militia.
The experiment of sending to the schools
Of South Carolina for colored girls as
house servants is proving a success here at
Bellows Falls in most instances, although
in some localities it proves the opposite
There are now about dozen here, all of
whom have been here for some months,
proving fairly satisfactory. Only one OF
two have gone back TO their homes.
A case of diphtheria has developed in
the second house north OF the Methodist
church on Atkinson street. A daughter
of George Hale of Cambridgeport was thi;
week taken i'll there at the home of hel
aunt, Mrs. Cass, and the house has beer
strictly quarantned. There are a larg,
number of other families in the same hous,
and some anxiety is felt as to the results.
Rapid progress is being made by tn,
members of the Y. NJ. G. A. on grading
and preparing their athletic grounds for
the sports Of the summer and fall. From
two to ten young men have been at work
there each evening the past week, will
teams, wheelbarrows and scrapers, and III,
surface is nearly completed. The boys ar,
taking great interest in the matter, beng
ready to prove their interest by their work
The fishing in the Connecticut river il
better than for some years. Some fin,
pike and bass are often taken. Week be
fore last Thomas Maloney caught pix,
in the rear of Halls paint shop which
weighed a little over 10 pounds. Las
week Morris Hayes caught a six-pounde
at the same place, which is little nortl
, of the mouth of Saxtons River. The has
are quite plenty, but not as large as tn
, pike.
, A large audience greeted Rev. F. W
, Lewis at the Methodist church Sunda
/ evening, when he gave very interestin!
/ account of his recent trip to the interna
tional convention of the Epworth League
] at Toronto. His account of the conven
ton and influence for good which are sur
! to grow out of it, we're very interestin!
and show a wonderful growth in the in
terest of the world in Christian work, par
ticularly in this branch of it.
Nothing has been learned from an
source as to the identity of the body of
man found two weeks ago in the Connect
t cut river near the north line of this town
i 1t was badly decomposed and buried a
once under instructions of the seectmen
!. The only inquiry as to it was received thi
0 week from st. Johnsl ury. A man ha
been missing from there some months
+ but there was nothing to connect, or dis
y connect, this body with the missing one.
. A party of 16 Saxtons River people VIII
s expected to take the early morning excur
o sion train to Boston last Friday at > &c
n missed their reckoning in some manner
and only Just reached the opposite end o
/. Depot street in season TO see the trail
O draw out of the station. 1t was a very ex
n asperatng ''getting left for them, afte
the early rising and consequent great eff
G fort upon their part. They had to hav
II their excursion "in their mind that time
i The details of the trip of the Keen
a Ligl Guard to visit the muster at Cheste
next week are completed. They leav
!, Keene during the afternoon of Thursda
q and camp that night on the plateau in tn
rear of A. F. Nims's residence across th
= river, starting early Friday morning fc
> Chester, where they will spend that day
:, returning to Keene Saturday. Arrange
II ments have been made with H. D. Aldric
! to cater to the company while they al
II here. The Fuller Battery expect to cam
: near the Vermont Academy at Saxto1
! River Sunday night on their way to Che