Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-05-24


ed to bring mirth to the most solemn
person, also is booked for next week
Tuesday.
Miss Cora NJ. Chase of estminster
began work Monday in the Office of l.. >.
Hayes.
A civil service examination for clerk
and mail carrier will be held at the post
office June 22d
Miss Marion Wilson, who has been
with her mother N New Jersey, returned
for the summer Saturday.
]. E. Keefe has begun work erecting a
barn in the rear of his house on the cor
ner of Oak and Atkinson streets.
Considerable work has been done this
week filming in and grading the new
street in what was formerly Morgan
field now called Laurel avenue.
Cadets Barker and Burr of Norwich
University came on their wheels to
ClaremoIit Friday the meet and then
took the rtain for their homes here at
Bellows Falls. They returned to their
studies Wednesday.
Mrs. King has finally decided to make
the changes in Union bloCn which We're
spoken of in these columns a few weeks
ago the contract for the changes has
been signed, and the lease with the Ma
sonic bodies made Work will be begun
Immediately upon it,
\ little interest was caused the first
Of the week by a sJecple jack whom the
International Paper company mad here.
stringing new guy wires on the iron
stack over the boiler i'm the sulphide mill
Few people expressed desire to eX-
change jobs with him.
The last of the logs Of the first urve
of the International Paper company
reached the pooms here Sunday The
large drive of the Connecticut River
Manufacturing company was released
from the boom above Wells River Mon
gay, and ,ne logs are accommodating in
their booms here. None have yet been
| allowed to pass over the falls but will
I in a day or two.
Byron A Robinson, b. F. H. S. 81.
spent Sunday with friends i'm town His
parents are living at Hartand, to which
place he went Monday. He is employee
by the American Bridge company in the
territory covered ~ what was formerly
the Berlin Bridge company. His duties
are as a civil engineer, and he travels
all over New England lie expects to
spend par of the summer in Nova
Scotia.
Michael Maloney was struck by the
eleven o'clock train Wednesday evening
WINE ne was crossing the Boston u
Maine bridge and in consequence lost
| one arm at the elbow and part of one
| foot. He was carried to DIR. Ridden $
! office an there cared for. Maloney is
an employee of the Interna onal PAPER
( company, and was returning from North
Walpole in a half intoxicated condition
| when the accident happened
The first dance of the season at Bar
bers park was given Tuesday evening
pf IA vii
lage. The attendance was as large as
Coulu be comfortably accommodated in
the pavilion and about s15 was cleared,
The new offices of the Casen company
of America at ,Ae lower end of the viii
lage were dedicated Monuay evening by
| very pleasant reception and dance.
About 175 invitations were issued and 50
couples enjoyed dancing unlh a late
hour. The company is certainly to be
| congratulated on their improved quar-
ters
Fire started Saturday morning about
nine o'clock in the basement Oh George
b. Allbee's plumbing establishment on
Canal street from spontaneous combus-
ton. 1t made rapid progress for a few
minutes, breaking out in the narrow
stairway leading to ,e Office of the New
England Telephone q Telegraph COM
panY the dress makers shop of the
Misses Scott and several tenements in
X.
The girls employed i'm the first two places
had narrow escape as the han was
rapidly filled with smoke. Several were
carried out in a faintng condition.
Those in the tenements escaped by lad
ders on ,ue back side of une block. The
flames were soon eXtinguished but not
before they had done damage enough to
Mr.. Allbees stock so that he advertises
| a fire, wafer and smoke sale" this week.
A very pretty wedding occurred Mon
day evening, when ass Bertha Capron,
formerly stenographer in the insurance
office of Eugene S. Leonard, and Fred
erick w. Burbank, with the Internal
tional Paper company, in Boston, We're
united in marriage. The ceremony was
performed in Emmanuel church at 8
o'clock, Rev. d. l.. Sanford officiating.
Mrs. II. Elliott, who presided at the
organ, rendered a very pressing program
for half hour before the appointed
time, when the bride entered upon the
arm of her father, Charles Il. Capron,
of Boston, Albert II. Chandler Charles
Z. Capron and Henry Capron, and the
maid of honor Miss Margaret Burbank
of Boston. MSS Burbank was very be-
comingly gowned in white silk null,
and carried roses, wnhe the bride wore
white crepe de chine, and carried lilies
of Inc valley. The groom was attended
by Guy Capron. The church decorations.
which were mple but effective, We're
entirely of apple blossoms with a few
palms. The ceremony was followed by
a quiet reception at the Rockingham to
a few relatives and friends of the two
famiies. Mr.. Burbank was at one time
in the pay masters department of the
international Paper company's local
plant, anu las many friends here, while
the bride, who has spent nearly all her
life here, was deservedly popular in all
circles.