Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-03
BELLOWS FALLS.

by the Rockingham town clerk during the
year 1898.
Rev. ]. H. Reid has been ill since Mon
day, but not with the grip as he had that
some weeks ago.
Last Friday night one-half the school
year was passed. and next Friday night
will complete half of this term.
Wallace White is out the past few days
for the first time for two weeks, having
been housed with the popular epidemic.
C. w. Osgood addressed Christian En-
deavor convention at Norwich Wednesday
evening returning home on the night train.
The DR.. White block on George street
has been sold to O. F. Swift of Springfield,
Mass, for $500 by the j. A. Eaton real
estate agency.
j. G. Day has been confined to the house
the most of the time the past week with the
grip, and his daughter, Elizabeth, has the
whooping cough.
Rev. Mr. Dodge was not able to supply
his pulpit at the Baptist church last Sun
day as he had hoped. In his absence G.
w. Cox occupied it.
The Westminster club held 'ladies'
night" Tuesday evening Mrs. Charles H.
Gibson won the ladies' prize and Frank g..
Flint the genUleman's.
Deacon c. w. Osgood will speak on
"Treasures Hid in the Sand" before the
Park Street club of the Park street chur CHI
in Boston tomorrow evening.
Mr.. and Mrs George Dow, who recently
returned from their bridal trip, are board
ing with Mr.. Dow's parents at the corner
of School and Atkinson streets
The woman's missionary society of the
i L. I
H. Reid at the parsonage this afternoon,
The subject of the meeting was Smyrna.
The Christian Endeavor members of the
Baptist church are to have their annual
sleighride to Putney this evening, where
they will take supper with the Putney soci-
ETY..
V. n. Deming, formerly employed here
in the railroad ticket Office, and who is now
running as postal clerk between Boston and
New York, was in town portion of this
week.
A number of Walpole and North Wal
pole people attended the state ball at Con
cord last week, and D. L. Linton, agent of
the Boston & Maine road here, was also
there.
A. A. Halliday is announced to give an
address on "Home Marketing of Fruits" at
the annual meeting of the Vermont Horti-
cultural society, to be held in Bennington
Feb. 81 and %.
Last Sunday evening the Christian En-
deavor society of the Congregational
church met with the Christian Endeavor
society of the Baptist church in honor Of
Christian Endeavor day.
The trial of the case against Conductor
Wyman of the Rutland railroad for taking
up a mileage book handed him by mistake
by passenger, is set for Tuesday forenoon
I&assnfs'ce of Charles Fl. Robb.
A son was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs.
W. NJ. Edison of New London, Conn, and
the local paper says that &c. E. Capron
wears his new honors as grandfather with
becoming dignity"
The ladies' union of the Congregational
church will hold their annual apron sale in
the vestry and parlors of their church Feb.
%. 1t is expected there will be "some-
thing new" connected with it,
1t is to be ladies' night at the Mount
Kilburn Wheel club this evening, the first
of a series. John Denison, Harley H.
Chandler, Harold Shedd, w. E. Boutelle
and H. E. Bidwell have the affair in
charge.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. (Severance) Peters, widow
of the late Frank Peters, who died at Win
chester, N. H., last week Wednesday, is
survived by two sisters, Mrs. A. NJ. Jewett
of this place and Mrs. A r. Lucas of ST.
Johnsbury.
The sophomore and freshman ella sses of
the Bellows Falls High school enjoyed a
sleigh-ride to Springfield Friday evening
taking supper at the Adnabrown. They
were accompanied by few members of
the senior class.
Miss Charlotte Day is to sing alto in the
choir of Emmanuel church in the place of
Mrs Fred Bissell, who has resigned. Mr..
Bisselrs duties as engineer calling him
elsewhere, they expect to make their home
at some other place.
Considerable interest was manifested
here in the progress of the Brattleboro fire
Wednesday, a number of those citizens
/ who had telephones and knew the locali-
ties endangered, keeping watch of its
progress by telephone.
An epidemic of whooping cough seems to
be raging among the children of the village
many being out with it in the primary
grades of the schools In very many
cases they are children who have previous
ly suffered from the grip.
Rice's Comedians entertained, in the
opera house Monday and Tuesday evenings,
audiences of small size The season for
entertainment has not been a success To-
cally this year, the people seemingly pre-
ferring to remain at home.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
church held what was known as a "pover-
ty social" Wednesday evening, and much
amusement was created by a number of
unique costumes and signs of poverty.
The fines for "boiled shirts" were not nu-
merous
The new dwelling built for Chief-of-Po-
lice Thompson on the brow of the Old Ter
race is enclosed and the work is being rap
idly pushed by Contractor st. Croix. A
new dwelling being erected on Hyde street
is also showing rapid advances the past
week or two.
The Woodstock association of the Bap-
fist Young Peoples Union, which was held
at Ludlow Tuesday afternoon, was attend
ed by these delegates from Bellows Falls:
Mrs. w. o. Kemp, Mrs. j. X. Thayer, Mr..
and Mrs. K. @. Fairbank. 1t was the mid
winter meeting of the association.
Father Cournoyer, for. five years the
parish priest across the river, previous to
1885, died last week in Berlin Falls, N. H.,
where he had been located since leaving
here. He had been extremely popular
with all classes while at Berlin Falls, and
at the hour of his funeral nearly every
place of business in the village was closed
out of respect to his memory.
The senior classes of the Claremont and
Keene High schools are to be the guests
this evening of the senior class of the Bel
lows Falls High school at Towns hotel