Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-11-09

William A. Russell, president of the Bel
lows Falls Electric Light company, is on a
business trip to England.
Miss Ruth Thayer leaves Monday for
New London, Conn, where she will take
course in stenography.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Congregational church hold the first social
of the season in the church parlors this
evening.
o. L. Perham, who went to Putney a
year or 30 ago to live on q farm, has de-
cided to return to Bellows Falls and will
occupy one Of his houses on Green street.
The monthly meeting of the grade teach
ers of the town occurs this afternoon in
room G of the High school building. The
topic for the afternoons discussion is obs
cipline."
The following ladies have been in Boston
this week in attendance upon the annual
meeting of the Womans Board of Foreign
Missions as delegates from Vermont: Mrs.
John H. Reid, Mrs. L. s. Hayes, Mrs. @.
w. Osgood and Mrs. N. G. Williams.
Miss Annie Dell Fletcher, daughter of @.
L. Fletcher, and A. A. johnson, an EN-
ploye of the Bellows Falls bakery will be
married on Thanksgiving eve at the home
of the brides parents on Atkinson street.
They will make their home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fletcher.
The Bellows Falls friends of Miss Mabel
Gary, who was for several years a teacher
in our graded schools, will be glad to learn
that she has recently received an appoint
ment to a much better position in the fifth
grade of the Cambridge, Mass, schools.
Since leaving here, Miss Gary has been in
an eighth grade in Everett, Mass,
The international Paper company is
building a new storage vault near the chem
ical pulp mill in which to keep the stock of
sulphur. 1t is built of brick and is of 900
tons capacity. The storage of 80 large an
amount in the main building of the mill was
objected to by the insurance companies,
being considered an addition to the fire
hazard.
EIdon Fleury, who has been a number
of years in the division office, is just now
visiting his parents in Swanton. He has
an excellent position offered in the Buffalo,
| N, Y, offices of the Northern Despatch
| TRANSPORTATION company, this being a line
of steamers for freighting through the
great lakes. Many friends here regret his
leaving Bellows Falls.
Cornelius Davis, 2S, who lived at Sax
ons River, and was section foreman of c
electric road, died very suddenly of heart
disease last Friday morning, having been
as well as usual the evening before. The
funeral was held Wednesday and the cleo
trio cars were draped in mourning during
the day. He came here from New York
state. He is survived by a wife and son.
Only slight progress is being made with
the seriously delayed drive of logs. But
few have arrived and the extra force OF
men secured to draw them out have been
put at other work. The company fear
freezing weather will hold the logs in the
ice and they will lose them in the spring.
AS the value of the drive is about $75, 900,
the outlook is somewhat dubious.
The construction and repair force Of
men employed by the international Paper
company is about the same as for the past
three or four years, viz, "a men. A mum
Der of important improvements and repairs
have been made the present year, but lit
tie extended construction which makes q
show. The force of men employed in thil
department indicates the company as more
than keeping their plant here good.
Two interesting addresses on the sub
isct "Aids to Right Living" were giveI
Ia the vestry of the Universalist church