Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-19

Inc drug STORE Formerly OWneu ny ~. n
Wheeler is to be sold at auction Tuesday,
Jan. %, at ? P. NJ The store was closed
late in October.
The wife of Charles H. Rich, who was
formerly employed by the F. b. F. grocery
company, is seriously i'll at their home in
Worcester, Mass.
c. H. Sawyer and wife left Boston
Thursday for their winters stay in South
ern California. They go via Washington
and New Orleans.
Albert o. Day and wife will leave here
Monday for Denver, Colo, where they will
make their future home. They go for ben
eft to the health of Mrs. Day.
The Burnett lunch rooms in the south
end of Farr block have this week been sold
TO Patrick j. Keane of Keane q Harty.
Other parties than Mr.. Keane will run the
business.
The union meetings of the churches have
been continued this week at the Methodist
church under the direction of Rev. DR..
Cooper, although the audiences have been
much smaller than last week.
Frank G. Day, who went from here re-
Gently has been elected as president of the
Christian Endeavor society connected with
ire Mass, where he now resides.
Post-office Inspector II. S. Willis was in
town last week and went over carefully
the routes of the proposed mounted car
riers at the north and south ends of the
village to ascertain the advisability of
granting the petitions.
Herbert j. Keene, a former foreman of
the Fall Mountain Paper company, is a
popular candidate for election as street
commissioner at the annual village meeting
next Monday night, and is receiving many
pleasant words of commentator.
The voting list for Monday nights an
nual meeting contains 925 names as printed,
but will be largely increased when the
changes and additions are made Saturday
afternoon by the bailiffs. More than the
ordinary number of omissions were uade
this year.
Two old and prominent physicians of
this vicinity have been seriously i'll for the
past few weeks, and little hope is enter
tanned of their recovery, DR.. A. p Rich
ardson of Walpole and Dr. E. H. Pettengill
of Saxtons River. Both are we'll known
and highly esteemed in all this locality.
E. P. Clifford, the well-known passenger
engineer between here and Fitchburg, is
seriously i'll at his home on Green street.
having submitted to a delicate surgical
operation about week ago. DR.. Prouty of
Keene was here at that time and perform
ed the operation, and has the patient now
in charge, with a good chance of entire re-
covery.
At the morning service in the Universal
list church Sunday Rev. Alfred Hammett
spoke of the church finances and of the de-
fciency which existed, asking for subscrip-
tions to pay the debt, which amounted to
$500. The response was most gratifying,
over $1,000 being pledged in a few minutes.
There were six individual subscriptions of
over 800 each.
In addition to the detailed report given
last week by The Phoenix of the income of
the post-office, it is of interest to know the
balance of profit above expenses. OF the
gross income of $14, 443 70, $50S9. 0S was
paid for local expenses and the balance of
S9354. 80 was deposited with the assistant
United States treasurer in Boston, to the
credit of the government.
Ernest R. Ball, who has for some wears
run a candy and ice cream store on the
western side of the Square, has this week
filed petition in insolvency. He has been
a Woodworking, honest and upright young
man, who has the sympathy of all who
know him. His store has passed into the
hands of George B. Wheeler, who held the
mortgage, and Mr.. Ball will seek employ
ment elsewhere.
An adjourned annual business meeting of
the stockholders of the National bank OF
Bellows Falls was held at their banking
rooms Monday afternoon. The regular
semi-annual dividend of five per cent was
declared, and the following directors were
chosen; James H. Williams, John H. Will
liams, Hugh Henry, Lavant NJ. Read and
Preston H. Hadley. James Fl. Williams
was reelected-as president and Preston H
Hadley as cashier.
A large gang of men, under L. j. Royce,
of the Canal company, are at work widen
ing the entrance to the canal Just above
the Rutland bridge and dam. Since the
canal was built, 108 years ago, there has
been projection of land and rock from
the main land on the west side that has Sc
riously affected the passage of the water
into the canal. Nearly 20 feet of this
projection is being removed and a substan
tial wall put in to retain the bank at that
point.
The night express train north over the
Boston & Maine road, though shown by the
time table to make connection for Rutlan d
seldom does so, leaving large numbers Of
passengers stranded here much to their dis
gust Officials at the station estimate thil
as happening two-thirds of the time thil
winter. The same unpleasant experience
occurs frequently with the day trains, as
they will wait only few moments for tn,
Fitchburg trains if at all late. In contrast
to this the Rutland trains always wait il
the Boston & Maine trains are late, mo-
having failed to do so this winter.
Last Sunday afternoon an alarm of f r,
was caused by large blaze in the WOOD
shed back of Towns hotel. The shed il
situated directly over the end of the tun
mel through which the trains of the Boston
J q Maine all pass. The shed was we'll filled
with kindlihg and large amount of excel
sior in which the new furniture recently
put into the hotel had been packed. Evi
IDENTIFY spark from a shifting locomotive
which had passed under number of times
had worked through the cracks and SCI
fire to the excelsior. When the department
| reached there the flames were STREAMING
up nearly as high as the hotel, but it wal
| quickly subdued, and with little loss.
Lieut.. Waite @. johnson, who is JUS
now the commander at Fort Ethan Allen
is a son of William II. johnson, who wa
many years prominent business man o.
Bellows Falls and in company with the lat,
George H. Babbitt in the firm of johnson
q Babbitt. They owned what is nov
Pierce's pharmacy, the insurance business
now conducted by Eugene S. Leonard anC
were agents of the American and United
States & Canada Express companies
| Lieut.. JOhnson WAS a mamhar of the Var