Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-04-27
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

Dennis brisbane was in Rutland few
days the first of the week.
George H. Babbitt and his wife are en-
joying a two weeks trip to various south
ern points.
Charles L. Wheeler and his wife have
returned this week from an extended visit
to their son in Auburn, N. Y.
The Bellows Falls Gun club is holding
today its second shoot of the season at
its grounds south of the village.
Miss Anna Harrington, former teacher
in the High school, has been visiting Mrs.
II. B. Jackson and Miss Jackson.
John A. Bush and Ernest Ball have
been in Burlington this week attending
the annual meeting of the New England
Order of Protection.
Wednesday and Thursday evenings Ora
hams Blackville society entertained fair
sized audiences in the opera house, they
being a large company of colored min
strels.
The family of George S. Grout, the ex-
press messenger, will next week move to
Springfield, Mass, because of a change in
his regular run, that brings him there, in
stead of at Bellows Falls.
The date of the annual banquet of the
Young Mems club has been arranged for
Friday evening of next week. Charles A.
Prouty of the interstate commerce COM
mission will be one of the speakers.
A. G. Moore, of the Moore e Thompson
Paper company, is just getting about the
village after a second serious illness dur
ing the winter. Mr.. Moore's health has
been poor for the past two or three years.
Capt. w. II. Taylor is somewhat i'm.
proved in health and has been able to ride
down into the Square once recently. He
has been confined to his residence the most
of the winter with serious heart disease.
Rev. John II. Reid is expected to return
today from New York where he has been
in attendance upon the ecumenical council
the past week. His pulpit was supplied
last Sunday by Rev. G. o. Day of Boston,
The total enrolment of scholars in the
schools of the town this year on Feb. /,
was 1928, of which 971 were in the Bel
lows Falls schools. The number is 81
more than shown at the same time last
year.
George B. Allbee, with some of hi:
plumbers, has been at work this week neal
Windsor, in the home of Winston Church
ill. The electric arrangements of the
house are being entirely overhauled ant
improved.
N. S. Brockway and his sister are a
| Sunapee lake for the season. Mr.. Brock
way is usually the first to open his cottage
in the spring and the last to close it in thu
fall, no Bellows Falls resident enjoying thu
months spent there with as much zest a
he.
Patrick Keane is 10 have stairs put il
at the rear of his restaurant on Rocking
ham street, with an entrance from Cana
street. He is aiming to make his dinin,
and lunch rooms first class in every way
and to arrange them for the best accom-
mediation of his patrons.
The family of Fred BARLEY, formerly o
this village, but who have been inmates o
the town farm for some time past, hav
this week all left the state except the TIVE
boys who are in the industrial school. Tn
number remaining upon the farm now i
10, smaller number than usual.
A move is to be made in the right direC
ton by the bailffs and street commission
ers this summer, that is an effort to keel
the Square in more Clearly condition. A!
refuse will be cleaned up every morning
and everyone is asked to assist by no
throwing papers and other things into tn
streets.
A wedding occurred at the residence O
Mrs. F. P Hadley on South street Wednes
day afternoon, the contracting parties be
ing a brother of Mrs. l.. Gates Hadley
Benjamin F. Gates of Boston, and Mis-
Margaret Mamie of Waltham, Mass. Rev
D. L. Sanford was the officiating clergyman
nnripn tho Maf6Ol;ct
held here Rev. Geo. Z. Deuel. of Montgomer,
was taken i'll at the home of Willis Ober il
Gageville, and has been unable to return
to his home until this week. His wife hai
been here caring for him and they wer,
able to leave for home Tuesday, havin,
spent day at the Methodist parsonage OIL
their way.
The fish market on Rockingham stree
has again changed hands, F. A. Pennocl
of Littleton, N. H., having recently bough
it of A. E. Virgins, in whose possession
it has been only few months. Mr.. Wig
gins has also sold his interest in the Com
mercial House to F. j. Palmer, formerly
proprietor of the American House in Bur
lington. Mr.. Palmer took possession
Tuesday of last week.
The Bellows Falls Electric Light com
pany is TO move its offices from the seconC
story of the International Paper company
office into the second story of the ole
Conant building on Bridge street. TIL
offices are to be finely adapted to use, ant
will be much more accessible to custom
ers, who have always found it hard worl
to find the office in its old location. Thu
first story is being occupied by r. II. Ram
say as a store for the sale of doors, sasl
and blinds, and glazing shop.
The high water of the past few week
has cut large slice of the meadow lanC
from the farm, known as the Jerry Evan
farm, located on the Connecticut river jus
north of Williams river. The farm is own
ed by John L. Divoll and number O
head of cattle owned by him were swep
away. But little damage has been don,
elsewhere in this locality by the high water
The mills are nearly all running again nov
and the water is rapidly falling. The high
est point reached was ~ 81 feet above tn,
dam.
DUMMERSTON.