Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-30

G. W. Osgood was in Burlington Wed
nesday.
1. B. Newman has been housed the last
two weeks with an attack of grip.
Dr. and Mrs. Gorham have spent two or
three days in Boston during the past week.
Gen. w. H. Gilmore of Fairlee spent a
portion of the day Saturday in Bellows
Falls.
Geo. l.. Leonard came up from New
York Friday night and stayed with his fam
lily here until Monday night.
Henry A. Titus of the Fitchburg road
has been dangerously i'll the past week
with pneumonia at his home in Milford,
N. II.
Allen Boynton of the Frank Adams grst
mill is recovering from three weeks at
tack of grip, having been able to be out
Sunday for the first time.
Mrs. s. P. Danforth of Royalton came
to Bellows Falls Wednesday afternoon to
spend the remainder of the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. L. S. Hayes.
The boiler power of the Vermont Farm
Machine company is being doubled by the
addition of a new 70 horse power steel
boiler, necessitated by the increasing bust
ness of the concern.
Mrs. g. Vivian White has been ill three
weeks with grip and Mrs. Wallace White
is convalescing from an attack of the same
disease. Miss Ruth White has sufficiently
recovered to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Wilder, ir., enter
tanned few friends Monday evening in
honor of a number of holiday guests who
were stopping in town, a pleasant and
social evening being enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G.. Day of Everett,
Mass, spent Sunday at Ludlow and Mon
day at Bellows Falls. Mr. Day went to
Boston Tuesday morning and Mrs. Day
has spent the week here with friends.
A wreck occurred on the Fitchburg road
near Walpole Wednesday afternoon. A
portion of the freight train left the rails,
requiring a wreck train from here and the
road was not clear so the evening train
from Boston reached here about 10 o clock
DR.. j. W. Keyes, who about 10 years ago
practiced dentistry here and went TO some
point in the West, has recently established
an office in Boston at $50 Huntington
avenue, his present card reading ~. w.
Reyes, D. N. D., Christian Scientist"
The skating on the river has been ex-
cellent nearly all the past week and has
been literally patronized. A number of
days there have been as many as 300 on the
river at time and trips have been made a
number of miles up the river. Much en-
joyment has resulted.
The annual meetings of the various or
CARNATIONS of the Congregational church,
including the ladies' union, the church it
self, the annual supper and roll CALL oc-
Cured last evening, and was largely at
tended. The report of the officers showed
very substantial and prosperous condi-
ton, and augurs well for the coming year.
The post-office of Bellows Falls passes in
to the hands of Barney Cannon, jr., next
Monday. He has been assisting in the of
flee the most of the last month, getting his
handon the ropes again. 1t is Just four
years since Mr.. Dow took the office,
and he has made a very satisfactory of
fetal. He has no definite plans for his
future.
One day last week little son of P. NJ.
Beaudry, who works for the Fitchburg
railroad and lives in North Walpole, was
so severely burned by fire communicating
from a stove that he died within a few
hours. The parents were absent at the
time and number Of children were play
ing together about the stove when the ac-
cidsntAl lighting of the clothes occurred.