Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-02-02
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

Rev. Albert Hammatt's subject next
sunday morning is to be David Harum. -
F. G. Pierce has bought three tenement
houses and q cottage at the north end of
the village Of Louis Demaris.
One of the fine teams of John w.
Flini's ran away last Saturday, the horse
running nearly The whole length of the
village and demolishing the sleigh on At
kiusun street.
AmOu l. Boles was chosen as trustee
i'm bankruptcy in the case Of f. II. KIM
ball, iusolyent. and A. II. Thompson has
been appointed in the K. X. Ball case in a
similar capacity.
The trustees of the David r. Campbell
Legacy fund report S743 25 distributed to
the poor of the town out of their annual
income of $500 year, leaving a balance
of $50. - on hand at the close f.the year.
The subject Of Olive Thorn Miller's
birl talk next Monday evening is to be
"S-ven Ages in the Life OF a Bird" and
it will be illustrated by over 100 stereop-
ticon pictures, they being handled by Rev.
j. f Farrow.
The travel talks each evening this
week at the Baptist church, given by Prof
Robert A. Gibbs, are being very popular.
and are drawing good audiences. His
pictures are excellently taken and the en-
tertainments are of an interesting and
instructive nature.
William Wilder, who owned the steam
mill in which the boiler exploded last
week, and who was somewhat injured.
was former resident of Bellows Falls.
being a son of John Wilder of Cambridge
port w. S. Moultrop, who was iled,
was also a former resident and well known
here.
A grand concert and ball is to be given
Feb p, under the auspices of Holy Cross
commandery of Knights .Tempar The
Masons attending are at liberty to in
vite guests to attend, whether the guests
are members of the fraternity or not. and
it is expected to be one of the leading
events OF the season locally.
One OF the iron Orders for the electric
railroad bridge at SaXtons River reached
here a few days ago and was started for
Saxtons River, being drawn by four pairs
of horses. As it weighed over II tons the
Westminster selectmen refused to trust it
upon the bridge across the river about half
way out and it was stopp ID until the bridge
could be strengthened by supports under
Meath 1t was delayed some days, but has
now reached its destination and the rest of
the bridge is on the way.
Leon j. Ball, who in former years was a
member of the Bellows Falls High school,
and is now the head stenographer in the
otii,e of the Vermont Farm Machine COM
pany, is to open a school of stenography in
the High school building next Wednesday
evening at $50 Mr.. Ball is a young man
who stands high in the estimation of all
who know him, and as he is a thorough
master of the art himself, it is probable he
will be successful in teaching it to others
1t fills a need of our village which has long
been felt.
Hon. A. n. Swain has had large mum
Der of replies 10 his interesting query as
to surviving men who voted for Birney in
1910, but when they are sifted out the
most of them have decided they did not SC
vote. He now has only three voters whom
he considers as well authenticated in thai
respect, and today forwards to the Mont
pelier journal the results of his efforts in
detail. 1t is a matter in which Mr.. Swair
has been much interested, and the public
will be under obligations to him for the
effort he has put forth.
George b. Wheeler, who owns the Bal
candy store, and Albert Derby, who owns
the n. A. Wheeler drug store, expect &c
combine their two lines of business anC
run them under a joint ownership. The
drug stock will be moved into the SuteI
block, where the candy store now is, anC
will be made the leading branch of thu
business, a complete stock of drugs beins
put in as soon as a competent druggist can
be secured to take charge of it. The candy
and ice cream department will be made
secondary, and is to be in the charge of G.
L Aldrich and Miss Lena Devaul, both o
whom we're employed there a few years
ago.
The auditors of the town are calling fol
their reports from the various department.
of town business about a week earlier than
in late years. A number are already in
the hands of the printer. The report O.
the cemetery commissioners for Oak Hill
cemetery will show smaller income dur
ing the past year from the sale and care OF
lots than for a number of years. Tn,
sales have brought in but 1926 IS and th'
care of lots and grading has netted S15S..
25, which, with the 1926 appropriated by
the town for this cemetery makes S71C
which the commissioners have had to use,
and their expenditures have amounted t
$703l6 In the report for 1898 the cost o.
the new entrance arch, 1898 90, swelle
the expenditures to about Sl2l5.
Miss Mary Worrall of Bartonsville dice
here at the home of her uncle, +. K. Shedd
on Rockingham street Saturday evening o
typhoid fever. The death is a particularly
sad one because of her youth and brigh
prospects TO the fur tuTe. She was grad
ute of the local High school in the clas
of '9j and had taught since that time. A
the time she was taken sick she was teach
ing in Brandon, having only two week
more of the term before her. She was t.
have been married to a Brandon youn
man in three weeks, and was to live il
Brandon, their home being nearly read
for occupancy. She was sick only abou
three weeks, being taken sick while at he
work and coming here for care. Her fun
eral was from the Baptist church Tuesda
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