Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-16

rear truck of the freight motor taking
the wrong track in passing over the
switch. Fortunately, no one was in
iured and the damage was sustained
by the front of the passenger car.
Senators Proctor of Vermont and
Spooner of Wisconsin were in town a
short time Monday morning on their
way to Groton, where they will enjoy
a few days fishing, as the guests of
S. L. Griffith of Dandy. From there
they will go to the Corbin game pre-
serve near Newport, N. H., Of which
Senator Proctor is one of the lessees.
The next game will be played
against Hinsdale next Saturday at
$50 at Russell park. A large attend
ance is especially desired at tomor-
rows game, as it is expected to be
one of the hottest games Of the sea-
son, and an especially large guarantee
was necessary to secure the Hinsdale
team. The boys are not in the game
for the money, but they do wish to
pay expenses.
Newton d. Clark, Bellows Falls
High school '91, and Dartmouth '95,
whom the Bellows Falls people remem-
a
grade in the old High school building,
married last Friday morning in Putney
Miss Grace Isabel Prouty, daughter of
Deacon Charles e. Prouty of that
place. Mr.. Clark has recently been
appointed principal of the High school
in Plymouth, N. H., in which place
he will live.
Following are the leading commit
tees appointed at the meeting Of the
w. G. T. U. Monday evening for the
state convention, which is to be held
in the Methodist church here the first
week in October: General, Mrs. E. w.
Parsons, Mrs. B. E. Foster, Mrs Geo.
e. WEIGH; entertainment, Mrs. Emma
L. Putnam; lunch, Mrs. j. T. Dodge;
decoration, Mrs o. W. Kemp; music,
Miss Alice H. Jackson; reception at
trains, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Day and the
pastors of the Congregational, Metho-
dist, Baptist and Universalist churches.
The International Paper company's
upper log chute in North Walpole has
been closed and the contractor who
has introduced the new and more eco
nomcal way of raising the logs by
derrick and overhead carriers will
build a larger carrier, capable of lift
ing ~ or IS logs at a time. He has
received from the International Paper
company the contract for raising the
remainder of the logs from the river on
this carrier and the one already in
operation by him between the one put
in by the company itself last June and
old log chutes.
The work of grading for the double
track of the Boston & Maine road be-
tween here and Westminster is com
pleted. excepting by the Church and
Weston farms. Double track has been
laid the larger part of the way and
is now being used by the construction
trains. The poles Of the New Eng
land Telephone company are being
placed in their permanent position,
and the wires are being strung to take
the place of the cable which has been
used for several months. Work is
also being pushed on the dry bridge
at the Westminster station to take the
place of the grade crossing, which has
always been there.
The street railroad company has
been engaged this week in painting
the lower part of their poles white as
often as it is found advisable for the
cars to stop, beginning at the car barn
and continuing to SaXtOn's River.
This will enable the cars to make
much better time than heretofore. as
they were always asked to carry pas
sengers clear to the very house want
ed, thus often necessitating four or
five stops, where now there will only
be one. Here in the village the old
rule applies, of stopping only at the
street corners. 1t has not been decid-
ed yet whether the poles will be
painted through the village.
Work was begun the first of the
week, placing nearly all the telephone
lines along the principal streets within
the limits of the village in cables. 1t
has been rapidly pushed. Gables are
already in on Westminster street, up
front terrace hill, and along SaXtons
River street to the store of F. ]. Hall
& Son. A cable has also been strung
from the pole by the residence of Mrs.
Edward Arms on School street, be-
tween that street and Henry street, to
Atkinson street. Other long lines of
cables will be put in in the near fu-
ture, thus bringing about an almost
complete reftting of the local eX-
change at the time of entering the new
rooms in the block over George B. ALL
bees store.
Howard Parker, who came here
few years ago and engaged in work
ing out his own invention of a vacuum
paper dryer at what was then the
Osgood & Barker machine shop, and
later was employed by their success
ors, the Bellows Falls Machine Co., as
superintendent, will leave town with
h viii let will 10
Nashua, N. H., where Mr.. Parker will
be engaged in working out several
new inventions for simplifying the
present method of making paper. This
change will be regretted by many
friends whom they have made while
here. as few people in so short a time
identify themselves so closely with
the social, religious, business and Sc
cret society sides of our village life.