Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-10-25


day, with burial in st. Charles cemetery.
The first meeting for this season of the
Bird club was held Wednesday evening"
| There were only seven present but they
were sufficiently enthusiastic to make up
for the small number. Mrs George II.
Gorham was elected president to take
the place of Miss Eunice Foster who has
left town. Various plans were talked
over for the coming year, but no very i'm
portant business was transacted.
Patrick j Keane and Miss Katharine
70. Finn were married yesterday morning
at o'clock in st. Charles church. Both
are well known locally. Mr. Keane is the
owner of the Boston shoe store and of
Keane's lunch room, while Miss Finn is
the daughter of Mrs. H. B. Hewitt and
has spent nearly all her life in Bellows
/ Falls. After their return from a two
weeks bridal tour to be spent in Buffalo
and Philadelphia, they will make their
home at 70 Rockingham street.
The local sportsmen started out Mon
day so as to be in good deer regious by
the time the law went off on Tuesday.
Several of them have been in the town
of Plymouth Calvin T. Sherwin went
into Plymouth Monday afternoon and
was to meet there, Tuesday, a friend
from Rutland, and the two were to
spend the ten days of the open season
above Plymouth Union. ]. II. Blakley
anu DT MOTIlSOu worked tnelT way INTO
the depths of the Plymouth forests Mon
day, and started out Tuesday morning a
daylight after game, with what result
remains to be seen.
The Choral Union had the largest and
best chorus ever gathered at their re-
hearsal Monday evening at the High
school building. The great lack of men
came the nearest to being made up that
il ever has, as there was present the
& o. In ba Of 40
union. A business meeting was held dur
ing the evening. at which the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, II. +. Hamilton; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. f. G.. Flint; secretary, w. e.
Stockwell; treasurer, Stephen n. Searle.
a music committee was appointed, of
which Miss Alice jackson was made
chairman, while II. +. Hamilton was APP
pointed chairman of committee to draw
up a constitution and bylaws for pre-
sentation at a future meeting of the
union.
Rev. c. r. r. Dodge of the Baptist
church. at the close of his sermon last
Sunday morning read to his conErega-
ton his resignation of a pastoratc which
began II years ago last May. The reig-
nation Is to take effect on or before the
first of January, and is understood to be
absolute During his pastorate here Mr..
Dodge has entered deeply into the So
lage, and has become very deservedly
influential in each. on coming to Bel
lows Falls he found small. weak
church, but during his pastorate. he has
made 1t large, strong one. lie has be-
come a decidedly popular pastor much
beloved by his people, and is held in the
highest esteem by all with whom he has
come in contact This was strongly
shown by the immediate effect upon his
congregation when they came to under
stand the full meaning of the letter as
severing all ties which have been such
happy ones, and by the universal ex-
pressions of regret from all classes Of
people.
The board of baliffs have during the
past week made a new and very advan-
tageous contract for electric lights for
the village, covering five years from the
first of August. Three years ago three
years contract was made, which was
much less advantageous than the new
one. Previous to that time, the contract
had been made from year to year, for
some time. Now that the Bellows Falls
Electric Light and Power company are
entirely to rebuild their plant as soon as
the auxiliary plant is in disable shape,
they have felt it necessary to know
something what to depend upon for a Sc
ries of years. For this reason the presi-
dent and principal owner William A. |
lNuSStll' came 10 bellows rails the last |
of the week, and the negotiations result
ed in the five-year contract being closed |
Ihere are at the present time seven arc I
lights in the village which burn all night. !
for which the price has been Sl20 per year, I
and this is now reduced to 500. There F.
are IS lights upon the other circuit which I
have been supposed to run until the car
bons burned out which varied from 70 /
until , o'clock. Now the contract pro- .
Vides that all on this circuit shall run
until O'Clock in the morning each night, B
and the price for these is reduced from
SO per year to so each There are 70
large incandescent lights in various PARTS /
OF the village, upon which the annual
rental of $15 remains the same The re-
suit of the new contract is a net reduc-
ton in the cost to the corporation for
the lights of 1880 per year and one cir
cut is to run more hours. thus giving the .
village better service. The engine for ,
running the dynamos of the AUXILIARY !
plant is not yet in place and 1t is being |
so much delayed that II is more than |
probable the work upon the water power !
plant Will not be commenced until |
spring. The original contract stated that |
the steam plant was to be ready for use |
June l. The necessity for it's completion /
at that time did not arise. as the water |
for other power has been so much better |
than is usual during the summer and the |
time was extended greatly. Until very |
recently, however 1t was expected that |
II would be in running shape this fan. |
A serious delay was also experienced |
from the impossibility of getting the en- !
CINE sooner on account of the strike
among the employees of the Amalgamated |
Steel union.