Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-01-06
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

from stay of several months at their old
home in Tconderoga, NY.
The officers of the Womans Relief corps
Tor the year 1899 will be installed in Grand
Army hall tomorrow evening.
The new pastor of the Universalist
30, cnurcn, Rev Alfred Ham nett, will be in
.o~s stalled Wednesday of next week.
lin, Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Reid and two chill
~ dren have been i'll with the grin the past
Az week, but all are now convalesoent
~, The students who were home eron .bA
Ger various colleges and theological seminar;es
for TsSe holidays have returned to their
work,
e bank and places of business we're
closed Monday, observing the day as a
New Years holiday. The mills were not
shut down.
There are good many cases of the grip
and hard colds in the village. 1t is to be
hoped the fashionable distemper will not
get the hold here that it has in many
: places
Miss Florence Young one of the assistant
teachers in the High school, has been i'll
with the grip and was not able to be in
school the early part of the week, and only
part of the day since then.
Mrs. @. H. Sawyer and her daughter,
Mrs. 8. W. Welder, jr., have been in Bos-
ton the past week with Mrs. Sawyer's
brother, William A. Russell. Mr. Russell
is In very poor health and will soon go
South.
Charles f. Smith, who was on the repair
ship Vulcan, before Santiago, is at his home
here on a fhrlohgh of two weeks. He
1l'on, hopes to go to the Philippines but will not
- "ee know in regard to it until his leave of alb
'G sence expires.
A fire alarm was sounded from box 421
Monday afternoon about o'clock. 1t
proved to be chimney burning out in
house on Barker street. There was no use
for the one piece of the fire apparatus
which responded to the alarm.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos H. Brown observed
their golden wedding Tuesday, Jan. 3, at
their home on Henry street. The family
a of his son, F. H. Brown of Wellesley, were
present Mr.. and Mrs. Brown have been
residents of Bellows Falls 90 years.
} The Bellows Falls lodge, No. 90, l. o. o.
{ F., held its annual meeting Thursday even
ing of last week. The following are the
! newly elected officers: n g., E. E. Gould;
V. G., Ernest w. Parsons; secretary, E.
W. Trask; P. s., c. E. Davis; treasurer,
H. S. Gray.
Thomas Tehan died at the Soldiers Home
in Bennington, early Monday morning.
] He was II years old and had been in the
4 home two years and a half. Mr.. Tehan
had lived in Bellows Falls nearly 25 years.
Walpole 25 years before coming here.
d. Miss Addie Parker has been promoted
IN from the fifth grade in school building No
nee 3 to the sixth grade in the High school
ut p building taught last term by Miss Harris
Nil Miss Parker has taught here more than ten
ureh 1, years. Miss L. E. Stearns of Townshend
Mass, takes the school which Miss Parker
10, was bft.
uest AdrOn account of the illness of the pastor,
cnpl a Iencipal Ellery of Vermont Academy sup
lers from absent at the Congregational
er ~ church last Sunday morning He took for
his subject the Power of Moral Pur-
- pose," using as his text Daniel l., s, Dan
n, lei purposed in his heart" He showed the
n necessity for every young man to have a
purpose in life.
d The "watch" meeting held at the Metho-
n dist church was we'll attended. A service
I, was held in the early part of the evening
, with a sermon by Rev. DR.. Rowland of
!. Springfield. Mrs. F. P. Ball, through Rev.
!, F. w. Lewis, presented to the trustees of
!, the church picture of Mr.. Ball, which is
: to be hung in the church parlor. On be-
. half of the trustees E. E. Ramsey express
ed thanks for the gift
mi The New England Order of Protection
on held its annual meeting at John A. Bush's
Friday evening Of last week, electing the
~, following officers: E. R. Ball, warden; Mrs
Thel. y A. Bush, vice warden; John Lawrence,
II.
o terrified, corresponding secretary; S. F.
, Robinson, chaplain; F. E. Newell, guard
ian; E. E. Ramsey, sentinel; L. L.. North
b rup, trustee for three years.
g George E. Buemond, 81, died at his home
on Canal street Tuesday, after an illness of
v, two days. He was English by birth, but
e had lived in Rockingham the most of his
DE- life and the last 10 years or more in Bel
We lows Falls. Two of his sons, John and
I. Henry, live here, another, George, in Rock
ob ingham, and one, Edward, in North Wal
,res pole. Ms. John Shuttleworth, his daugh-
~ ter, lives in Providence, R. l.
Az ! The week of prayer has been observed
AZ Fly the Congregational, Methodist and Bap-
10 fist churches by union meetings. Meetings
-ss were held Sunday and Monday evenings in
az the Congregational church, Tuesday and
r., Wednesday in the Methodist church, Thurs
nfic day and Friday at the Baptist. Cottage
at prayer meetings were held Tuesday, Wed.
NJ nesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at
"a Dea. G. w. Osgood's, Mrs. NJ. l.. Bowers's
y,, Mrs. NJ. H. Gorhsm's and N. G. Williams's
Barney Cannon, jr., assumed his duties
O. as postmaster Sunday morning. James L.
n2 Hackett, who has been connected with the
anc,s Sfice clerk for more than ten years, has
ID O reslgheu his postum: GURUS " Davis,
oT has succeeded to the position as head clerk
made vacant by Mr.. Hackett's resignation
w. A. Mcdonald, who has been in the Office
more than two years, has the position left
vacant by Mr.. Davis and Charles Tulley
lay takes Mr. McDonalds place.
1eorg Those who about the square early
beeTuesdAy morning were startled by the
s. cries of a man sitting out Of a window in
athe third story of Towns Hotel so that hii
n feet hung the jet The alarm was
q given in the hotel and he was persuaded
tRro return to his room, instead of jumping
oerout as it seemed as if he had meditated do
u. IL. Il. q
g. probably be carried to an asylum, as he is
rVihought to be insane. He is Michael Scan
uslon, and came here from Chester on tn,
might train Monday. He seemed to fee
that he was being pursued by enemies. HI
las brother, Jerry Scanlon, living in tn,
yroflace.
I. Bert ]. Simonds and Miss Ella F. Spauld
Arsng were married at the home of the BRIDE