Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-07

Mrs. Edwin Holden OF Walpole village
died there yesterday morning.
The Christian Endeavor societies of the
congregational and Baptist churches held
their annual election last night
The employees of Halls paint shop and
lie Vermont Farm Machine company an
had a.holiday Thanksgiving day.
Mrs; c. L. Barber and her mother
Nellie 3. Fassett, have taken rooms at
Mrs. Ida Blood's for the winter.
Ex-Mayor George H. Gurnsey, who re-
Gently died in Montpelier, will be remem-
bered as he planned and built st. Charles
church.
The family of C. w. osgood left Tues
DAY morning for Brookline. Mass, where
Mr.. Osgood has taken a furnished house
for the winter.
The two-story tenement house on
Brown street owned for some time past
by Or. Frank Whitman, has been bought
Mr.: Baldwin of Newport, who trained
the boys of the Bellows Falls High
school athletic club of '9S, spent Sunday
with friends in town.
H. E. Lake is holding reduction sale
of pianos and organs. in the store for
merly occupied by the late c. l.. Barber,
which will continue until Jan. /
Notice has been given of the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Ma
tional bank of Bellows Falls, which will
be held at the bank Jan. 8, at 100.
The gentlemen who are attendants
church are to be entertained this evening
by the pastor at his residence on South
street.
Mrs. Edward G. Osgood and daughter,
Elizabeth, returned Wednesday from a
two weeks visit with her parents, ex-
Governor and -lrs. Roswell Farnham, at
Bradford.
The Vermont Farm Machine company
advertise for a number of competent tin
smiths of experience Their works are
being pushed to fill orders and special
workmen are required.
Edwin Burnette, formerly in the employ
o. the f. b. r. grocery company who has
has. within a few days. sold his lunch
Soom and is at home here again.
A little more mending has been done
to the old railroad station. This time
lC was the roof. 1t seems a pity that ii
cannot be the entire station. "All good
things come to those who wait, and
surely Bellows Falls people have waited
for a station.
George H. Dickinson, recently of the
Atlanta Journal, is with Harper Brothers.
he has recently been offered the mana
gership of the Bennett-Mackay cable COM
pany. Mrs. dickinson and the children
are at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Alrs. George Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred d. Butterfield of
Derby Line are vis,,.ng IN town They
spent Thanksgiving with Mr.. Butter
fields sister, Mrs. George w. Kimball.
Washington, Cuba, Mexico and Cali
fornia, where they will remain until May.
During some of the late heavy rains
the sidewalk on Westminster street, over
the railroad opposite the residence of
n. N. SWAIN slid off. curing the past
week a derrick and other machinery for
relaying the wall have occupied nearly
all of the street at that point.
Superintendent Lord, Principal Down
ing, Miss Bemis and Miss Campbell at
tended the annual meeting of the Connec-
ticut Valley Teachers association at
West Lebanon, N. H., Friday and Satur-
day Principal Downing was elected
chairman of the executive board.
A football game at the park Thanks
giving day between what purported to be
Bellows Falls High school on one side,
and alumni of the same on the other side,
drew a small attendance. but held the
boards for over two hours, despite the
wintry atmosphere. The alumni won the
game to 0.
AS Henry Bowtell was going down
flight of stairs in the back part of Towns
hotel early one morning in the latter part
of last week he stumbled and fell head
foremost the length of the stairs. He
was badly shaken up and bruised, and
has been obliged to keep his bed for sew
eral days since.
Among the teachers who spent Thanks
giving out of town were the Misses Das-
comb in Westminster; Misses Foster and
Baker in Keene, N. H.; Miss L. f.
Stearns in Townshend, Mass; Miss Eva
Fuller in Charlestown. N. II. and Princi-
pal Downing accompanied by Mrs. Down
ing in SwanZey, N. II.
Frederick L. Barker, a resident of Bel
lows Falls for the past rs years, and an