Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

1t is expected that Bishop Hall will visit
Emmanuel church the first Sunday in
Lent, March 4.
Rev. W. !. Todd, former pastor of the
Methodist church in this place, but more
recently of Springfield, was united in mar
riage Jan. 2, at Sugar Grove, Ohio, his
present pastorate, to Miss Laura McAllister
of South Ryegate.
An exhibition of the different cereals of
the Old Grist Mill company has been held
at the store of the f. b. f. grocery COM
pany this week. Coffee and the different
cereals have been served, and loaf of en-
tire wheat bread given to all purchasers.
The evangelistic services, which have
been held by the Baptist, Methodist and
Congregational churches for two weeks,
closed Sunday evening. Rev. A. L. Coop.
er, who has had these meetings in charge,
returned TO his home in Randolph Mon
day, and is now conducting similar services
in Middlesex.
Henry A. Titus of Milford, N. H.,
spent Sunday here with his daughter, Mrs.
Herbert Mitchell. He has for the last four
years run passenger train for the Fitch
burg road, between Aver junction and
Milford. 1t was pleasant for his old towns
people to take him by the hand again.
Mrs. Titus is expected to visit Mrs. Mitchell
next Sunday.
G. l.. Aldrich who was the former pro-
prietor of the candy store recently, owned
by +. R. Ball, has been in town this week.
The present expectation is that he will re-
turn to Bellows Falls to live and that he
will go into the store in some capacity
either as proprietor or take the charge of
1t for George B. Wheeler. Miss Lena
Devaul, who assisted him, is also here.
Mrs. Olive Thorn Miller will lecture at the
Congregational church under the auspices
of the Bird club Monday, Feb. 5. The lee
ture will be illustrated by the stereopticon
in charge of Rev. j. E. Farrow. The club
invite as their guests the pupils of the High
school. Miss Mary Mann Miller, her
daughter, lectured twice before the club
last year in the parloTs of Mrs. G. w.
Osgood.
j. d. Blakeley has leased the Office
rooms in the rear of H. D. Ryders Office,
over Wales's dry goods store, and has fitted
them up conveniently for showing the
working of his new "Washington light"
This new invention is selling rapidly for
lighting stores, halls, mills, and other
rooms of large arear. The light is mex
pensive and compares closely to the ordin-
airy arc lights. They are of 2O0O candle
power, and he now has some smaller NOV
able hand lamps of 1900 candle power.
They are proving an excellent selling
device. Mr.. Blakeley has the agency for
the whole of Vermont.
Sportsmen have been having great sue
cess in fishing through the ice in Lake
Warren the past week, a number of parties
having secured fine strings of pickerel.
An effort is being made to have this lake
brought under special law of New Hamp-
shire, by which fishing through the ice in
lakes and ponds may be prohibited by the
state fish commissioners, if they see fit to
do So Eight different sheets of water in
Cheshire county are already prohibited.
the only one affecting probable visitors
from here being Stoddard pond, to which
large numbers of Bellows Falls fishermen
go summers, but it is illegal to fish through
the ice, there.