Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-10-21

Miss Helen Britton of Windsor is the
guest of Miss Gertrude Hayes.
About 22j excursion tickets were sold
from this station to Boston Wednesday.
Alonzo Mack and his bride were the
guests of his father few days ago.
The annual inspection, parade and ball
of the Bellows Falls fire department is in
progress today.
Wallace White has been in New York
this week on business for the Osgood 4
Barker Machine shop.
Miss Frances Osgood goes tomorrow to
Yarmouthport, Mass, and other points
near Boston for stay of several weeks.
Thomas j. Sbaughnessy, 80, has been
chosen vice president of the college dra-
matte society at Holy Cross at Worcester,
Mass.
Mrs. VIM. B. Danforth of New Haven
and Mrs. NJ Magiff of St. Adams have
been the guests of Mrs. L. S. Hayes this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Flint and their
children will spend the winter in Lake
wood, n. j., to which point they come this
week from Milwaukee.
DIR. A. j. Parker and family have gone
to their new home in Chicago and Oscar
f. Hall has moved into the doctors dwell
ing on the old terrace.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Wright return
ed Wednesday afternoon from two or
three weeks visit to different points in
Washington county.
Richards Brothers is the style of a new
meat market firm which takes the business
of the late f. W Richards. They are
brothers of the latter
Tuesday dozen or more freight agents
of the Boston & Maine road were in town
and took dinner at Towns hotel, the guests
of local agent D. W. Linton.
Mrs. Emily Villas Parker of Chicago,
who has been spending the summer with
her father on School street, is to return to
Chicago next week, accompanied by her
son.
A number of local merchants were vic
timized last week by another fraud. This
time he played the ole of an advertiser on
paper bags and took the money, but did not
deliver the bags.
Misses Katy Kane and Maggie Galway
have recently returned from their visiting
trip to Ireland, having been gone some
months. Two or three of their friends re-
turned with them.
AluOu L. Dulles WAS one VI Juo SUCCESSFUL
candidates for admission to the Vermont bar
who took examinations at Montpelier last
week. He was one of the II who had a
mark of over so, and was therefore on the
honor list.
The meat market of w. S. Durham
& Co. received a thorough overhaul
ing, painting and cleaning on the inside
yesterday and last night, work being con-
- Ill, H.,
ing. 1t looks as fresh and clean today as if
entirely new.
Rev. j. H Reid has already moved some
of his household goods into the new. parson-
age which has been erected for him, the
building being practically completed. He
will not begin keeping house there, how
ever, for week or more. Mrs. Reid has
been in Boston this week buying furnish
ings.
The Boston and Albany Freight Agents
association held their annual meeting here
Tuesday. Agents from all points of the
system were present and at the meeting an
informal discussion was held relative to the
better ment of the freight service. At the
close of the morning session a dinner was
served at Towns hotel,
Richard Irwin, a well-known express
messenger running for the past 35 years or
more through Bellows Falls on the Burling-
ton and Boston run, estimates that in the
discharge of lis regular duties on the train
he has Travelled over 1850, 900 miles. Ev-
cry one whose duties call them to the sta
ton feel that his is one of the most famil-
lar faces to be seen there year in and year
out.
Since the new High school building was
occupied the bell which has done duty 80
many years on the old building has been
used. still remaining in the cupola of the
old building. Last Friday Janitor Snow
rallied a number of the High school boys
assist him and he moved the bell into the
tower of the new building, running the
rope down into the office of the principal,
so it now makes its official calls from the
new building