Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-12-20
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

visiting several friends in town this week.
Miss Bessie Dickinson will go to New
York Monday morning for the purpose of
spending the holidays with her father.
Christmas trees will be attractions in
the various churches on Tuesday evening,
in most cases accompanied by exercises
by the children.
Mrs. Henry A. Titus is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. II. w. Mitchell. Mrs. III
tus is an old resident of Bellows Falls
who now lives in Milford N. II.
S. w. Wilder, jr., remembered by many
Bellows Falls people as chemist for the
International Paper company, was the
guest of Mrs. Edwin Arms this week.
E. G. Osgood, state president of the
Christian Endeavor Union, has been in
Boston this week, attending a meeting of
the trustees of the international union.
The walls of the new three story and
basement office building of the Vermont
Farm Machine company are completed
and the roof is being laid. 1t will prob
ably take most of the winter to COM
plete the inside finish.
A. f. Minis, a prominent resident of
North Walpole, has been in a sanitarium
at Burlington since last May under treat
ment for a nervous trouble. Reports re-
ceived from him do not indicate any
material Improvement.
tai car service between Alburg and Bos-
ton on the night trains each way over
the Rutland and Fitchburg roads, mem
toned last week, has been fixed definitely
by the post-oflice department as July l.
Cyrus Chilson, a trainman of the Fitch
burg road, who has been i'll here several
months with rheumatism, was taken last
week to the Mary Fletcher hospital In
Burlington for treatment Members Of
his family will be out of town during his
absence.
The various stores of the village COM
menced Wednesday evening their annual
week of open evenings. They are all in
holiday attire, many of the windows be-
ing unusually fine. Many extra clerks
are employed, some stores having as high
as fifteen clerks
e. c. Burnett, who has been in the
lunch room business in Bellows Falls
several years married Saturday night
at Chester Miss Eva Parker of Caven-
dish. Mr. Burnett expects to establish
himself in one of the leading lunch rooms
of the village shortly. The newly mar
ried couple are boarding at Mrs. Hodges's
in the Maynard block for the present.
Curtis E Davis is obliged by illness to
be out of the post office, where he is head
clerk. His place is being taken tenn
porarily by the substitute clerk, a. NJ.
Macleod, who has been for the past few
weeks in Cavendish, ProctorsVille and
Ludlow, as agent for the New York Life
Insurance company in the employ of their
general agent for this vicinity, l.. S.
Hayes.
A Middlebury item says: Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Shepard and daughter of Keenc,
n. H., arrived in town yesterday after
noon, where they will remain until about
Jan. l. when they will go to Bellows Falls
to take charge of Towns hotel" 1t is not
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pancy before March or April, but 1t is eX-
pected that Mr.. Shepard will come here
in January.
a very pleasant social was given in the
parlors of the Congregational church
Tuesday evening by the Christian En-
deavor society in connection with the
church. The principal attraction was
mock Christmas tree, presided over by
an extremely genial Santa" in the per-
son of j. A. Hunt. Popped corn and
homemade molasses candy were served
later in the evening.
At the close of the weekly rehearsal of
the Choral Union Monday evening Clar-
ence Dana Mooney, pianist, gave short.
informal recital at the request of the
chorus. 1t is with regret that the union
learns of Mr.. MONEYS proposed removal
from this vicinity Jan l. necessitating his
loss as accompanist for the union.
Mrs. f. G. Osgood has an exhibition of
water color paintings in Pierce's phar-
macy this week, closing tomorrow night.
She has several very fine pictures this
season.
Another old resident of Bellows Falls
has passed away during the past week.
John Bustead, who has lived in Bellows
Falls since 1862, died at his Green street
home Friday night and was buried from
st. Charles church Monday morning.
His death was the result of paralytic
shock which occurred Thursday morning.
Mr.. Bustead emigrated from Ireland in
1852 and lived ten years in Westminster
and Saxtons River. He was a very COM
petent stone mason. His wife died sew
eral years ago leaving five children.
Criticism has been expressed freely by
those doing teamng on railroad street.
past the railroad station, at the con-
dition in which the Rutland railroad left
it's track crossing the street there for
the purpose of forming union with the
Bellows Falls and Saxtons River Street
railway line. Much of this criticism has
been aimed unjustly at the electric road,
which has had nothing to do with putting
this track in or keeping the crossing well
graded. The manner in which the tracks
were laid there has increased the former
bad condition of the street.
The ice in the Connecticut river broke
at an early hour Sunday morning and
passed over the dam mere curing the nrSt
of the week. 1t was not very thick and
caused no damage. The ice in the smaller
streams, Saxtons river, Williams river,
and Cold river broke up the week before,
but these streams were not fully cleared
until the severe storm of Saturday night
The Connecticut is still high, although
not high enough to seriously inconven-
fence the mills. The mill men rejoice at
the prospect of having no lack of power
during the remainder of the winter,
The announcement that the Rutland
railroad would spend $1,00O,000 in improve
ments, was read with great interest here.
1t is probable that portion of the mill
lion may be expended in the erection of a
new and more commodious passenger sta
ton here. The transportation committee
of the board of trade are making every
effort to bring the matter to the atten-
ton of the public well as the officials
of the railroad. The petitions asking for
improvement in this regard have been
signed by a number of hundred citizens
and If numbers of names are of any
effect whatever, the petitions ought to
bring the desired result.
The double track laid last summer by
the Boston & Maine railroad, between
this station and Westminster, has been
| in use a few weeks. 1t is all in perma-
nant condition with the axpantion IF tho