Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-13
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.
The Union Picnic Tuesday,


BARRIERS park was the scene Tuesday of
an event the like of which has not occurred
in this town since the Centennial year,
when a union Temperance picnic" of the
entire town was held in Pine grove, which
was then of quite pretentious proportions,
and a delightful place for picnicking.
Tuesdays event was a union picnic of the
Sunday schools of Bellows Falls and Sax
tons River. 1t is estimated by some that
fully 1000 people visited the park during
the day-some fix a lower figure. The
larger portion of the number arrived be-
tweens 10 and IL o'clock, and just before
l a bountiful collation. was served upon
tables in the grove beyond the pavilion.
During the afternoon the swing, croquet
and ball games provided amusement for
the young people, while the more mature
and sedate enjoyed renewing old acquaint-
Rnces and making new ones. Although
there were one or two slight delays in the
running of the cars, as a whole, people
were loud in their praises of the manner in
which the crowd was handled by the cleo
trio road.
The library will be open again Monday,
after having been closed for two weeks for
repairing and re-cataloguing of books.
Iuo TOOm VI bue
house has been closed and the lower floor
will be used for Office and store purposes
while the upper floors will be used for lodg-
ing rooms.
Lyman H. Church, who has been at
Wells River the past two years running
basket factory for the late Warren Moore,
came back to Bellows Falls Tuesday, the
factory having been burned last week.
h. Al
Church place between Bellows Falls and
Westminster, was struck by lightning dur
ing the shower of Thursday afternoon and
burned to the ground, with a horse which
was in it.
Two young ladies advertising the hair
tonics of the seven Sutherland sisters have
been at Pierce's Pharmacy this week,
Their hair, whether naturally long and
heavy, or made so by the tonics they adver-
tise, has been the envy of the ladies'
The concrete sidewalk in front of Towns
hotel has been relaid this week All
through the town main walks are being re-
laid and new ones put down, and the grass
ground between the sidewalk and the
streets regarded. This in connection with
the cleaning up of Russell park makes
quite 'housecleaning" for the village.
Miss Effie A. Clarke, graduate of the
High school in '95, and later a teacher in
Athens, and Walter S. Pierce were mar
ried Wednesday noon at the Atkinson
street home of Mr.. Pierce's brother, Nell
son II. Pierce. The wedding was a pri-
vate one, and was followed by reception
at $50, to which few of the most init
mate friends of the family were invited.
A swing staging, upon which James
Donaldson and Thomas Lee, two painters,
were working Monday at Fred Saker's
house on Williams street, fell 20 feet to the
ground. The men struck on a fence and
on the pavement and both were badly in
jured. Donaldson had a leg broken and he
sustained internal injuries. Lee escaped
with a sprained ankle, cuts and bruises
The men were employed by Chandler &
Porter. Donaldson formerly lived in Rut-
land.
The Concord, N. H., Gun club match
with the Bellows Falls Gun club on the
grounds here yesterday did not come off
The shoot arranged called for a strictly
Concord club team of 10 men, but on arri-
val here it was found that Woodruff of the
Wellington Gun club was included in the
Concord delegation. Bellows Falls offered
to shoot the match and bar Woodruff and
shoot with eight men to a side. These Of
fers were refused by Concord, and the aft
ernoon was given up to sweepstake shoot
ing.
Few people are aware of the existence of
the Bellows Falls baseball club, which was
formed short time ago with G. A. Bow
tell as manager and ]. E. O'Brien as secre-
tary. Club rooms have been hired over
Pierce's pharmacy. 1t is expected that
games will be played every Saturday on
the BARRIERS park diamond. The game of
last Saturday was with the Claremont
nine, and was won by Bellows Falls to 1.
The game tomorrow afternoon is with a
Keene nine and bids fair to be even more
exciting than last weeks game, as Keene
has gotten hold of such men as Quinlan,
late of Brockton, as catcher, and Stack
pole, late of the New England league, at
pitcher. Bellows Falls has gotten Chap.
man of Princeton, as catcher, and McDer-
mott of the Eastern league as pitcher.
The local men on the team are Conway,
Stolworthy,. Richmond, Davis, Campbell,
Warner and Brooks.