Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-29

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out of there. The rock which is being
blasted out by the electric road near the
Boston q Maine round house is being used
to build the retaining wall in front of the
new dwelling of G. H. Burr.
C. W. Osgood attended the funeral of d.
L. Moody at Mortified Tuesday.
The annual meeting for election of Off
GERS, and the annual roll call of the Con-
gregatonal church will be held next week
Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Sawyer expect TO
spend the remainder of the winter in
Southern California, leaving Boston about
the middle of January.
Mrs. Frank Baldwin's adult dancing
class here in Union hall, now numbers 81
in addition to the childrens class which
meets Saturday afternoons.
John Flavin has moved his family and
barber shop to North Walpole His shop
has been located in the second story of the
Howard block during the last few months.
Rev. DR.. o. S. Davis of Springfield, who
is we'll and favorably known in Bellows
Falls, has accepted call to a church in
Newton, Mass. He will leave his Spring
field pastorate Feb. /.
! The subject of Rev. Albert Hammatt at
the Universalist church Sunday morning is
to be "a Dream of the Twentieth Cen
fury" We wonder if he will argue that
the dream is to begin in 1900 or 1901.
A slight fire occurred Sunday about noon
in +. 9. Winnewisser's store. A lighted
match thrown by some smoker ignited the
combustible goods in one of the show win
dows, and before those near by could put it
"a. L l.. r
Superintendent E. f. Ramsay of the
Methodist Sunday school was the pleased
recipient of a topical Bible of a unique de-
sign on Christmas. 1t was from the mem
bers of the school as testimonial of many
years of faithful work in its interest
change has been made in the schedule
of the cars on the Springfield electric road,
a car having been put on to leave Charles
town at about 11;l5 P NJ, or connecting
with the night train north from here. Ex-
cept when an extra car has been run it has
not been possible to go to Springfield by
that train.
The water in Minard's pond is now only
eight inches above the pipe at the intake,
making it about two feet lower than it was
ever known before. The pond is frozen to
a depth of about six inches and the water
coming into the pond from the Farr brook
is spreading itself upon the top of the ice
and freezes as fast as it comes.
The office of the Vermont Farm Machine
company has been entirely remodeed and
many changes have been made which add
to the convenience of the office work
which is large. The lady stenographers
have been given rooms on the second floor
and the large room on the first floor, for.
merly occupied by the full force of clerks
has been divided up into smaller ones tc
accommodate and systematic the work Of
each.
. Two of the finest passenger coaches in
, New England have this week been placed
on the line between Rutland and Boston
passing through here. They were built by
the Wagner Palace Car company for tn,
Rutland road. They are the first of /
large number ordered for through servic,
from. Boston over the new extension of tn,
r Rutland Canadian, Ogdensburg & Lower
. Canada through route to Chicago.
C. Day & Co. report the larges
. Christmas trade of any year since the!
opened here 90 years ago Their store ha
. been crowded every day for the past two
weeks, and the holiday trade is continuing
during this week to an unusual extent
This is also the experience of most othe
stores in the village, the aggregate of al
: being much larger, probably, than in an!
: former year.
1 Tuesday evening the discussion of tn
! Young Mems club was upon the question o
whether the present war with the Boer
was justified. The audience was well en-
tertained by the disputants. The verde
= of the board of judges upon the merits o
the debate, as we'll as upon the main ques
r ton, was that it was not justified In thu
audience there were but three voting tina
the English were in the right. The ar
= rangements for the next debate are in tn
s hands of special committee, of which N
= g. Williams is the chairman.
At Halls paint shops at the south end o
: the village the employees to the number o
5 over 100, united in presenting useful Christ
mas gifts to Superintendent H. H. Churcl
and to Gushing Adams, manager. This in
= dustry is rapidly growing and becoming al
t, important factor in the life of the village
i although because of the product being sol,
elsewhere, much of it being exported, ou
, people know but little of it except througl
:, the employees. The stock from which tn
/, product is manufactured is also brough
}. here by railroad.
3 A pleasant reunion of the class of 81
u Bellows Falls High school, occurred Fri
< day evening of last week at Towns hote
9 and II of the original 10 members wer
= present. A social hour was passed in tn
: parlors of the hotel and at about O. 30 a
Q sat down to banquet, after which f. II
= Burr, acting for President Harry w. Nc
y Kinnon, called upon various members 70
f remarks. A very pleasant feature of tn
s occasion was the fact that their old prin
+ cipal, A. B. Crawford, happened to com
to town that day, and was able to be wit
: them, making the affair much more enjoy
: able because of the surprise.
= The water supply in Minard's pond hs
n not improved at all during the past wee
It and it is as low at this time as at any tim
Q in all the past years. There seems to hav
y less rain fallen in the water shed whic
Q supplies it than in all other places in til
y vicinity, and the water seems to be slowl
+ falling, although fair stream is runnin
: into it from the Farr brook pipe. Th
= water commissioners have erected a pun
d house near the intake, it being fnishe
!. Tuesday night. A boiler has been put
d place, and the big pump which they hav
: hired from Holyoke is in the building an
It can be put to work in a short time If n,
i cessity requires. Without doubt the M
: cessity viii come unless rain or meltin
N'aow lips out the supply.