Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-18
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

Grange held Tuesday evening.
]. C. Day is in Boston in attend
ance upon his brother, Dr. f. L. Day,
who is i'll in hospital there.
DR.. and Mrs. A. w. Gorham of Ded-
ham. Mass, are visiting at the home
of Dr. Geo. Gorham on School street.
The Young Mems club will hold a
banquet next Friday evening. The
principle speaker will be Gen. John
G. Mccullough.
"Florodora," which has become so
we'll known in the past few months,
has a date at the opera house for
Thursday evening, April "a.
The local court of Foresters gave
very enjoyable dance in Union hall
Friday evening of last week and net
ted a goodly sum for their treasury.
Several members of the local branch
of the United Irish League were in
Keene Sunday assisting in the or
ganization of a branch of the order
in that place.
DR.. E. R. Campbell was elected
president and DR.. ]. S. Hill one of
the censors of the Windham County
Medical society, organized in Brattle-
boro Tuesday.
Miss Ingenue Fassett, who has been
in Boston through the winter devoting
herself to the study of the violin, re-
turned to her home Tuesday for a
short vacation.
The electric road intend to begin
running cars on the summer schedule
about May l. They are now running
the extra car Sundays and pleasant
days when the traffic seems to warrant
it.
Aristide, 3, son of Frank Massucco
died at his home on Wells street early
Monday morning and was buried from
st. Charles church Tuesday morning
with interment in the old Catholic
cemetery.
A special corporation meeting is
called for Saturday evening in Ban
quet hall for the purpose of seeing
whether the corporation will vote to
sprinkle the streets again this year
and if so, to provide money therefor.
The old building on Rockingham
street occupied for many years by H.
o. Whitman as a carriage shop, is this
week being torn down. 1t is under
stood that a new building will be
erected in it's place sometime this
spring.
Charles H. Yale's Devils Auction
played at the opera house Wednesday
evening for the seventh time and yet
the house was just as well filled as
each time before. This performance
is very popular with Bellows Falls
people.
building is being erected in the
rear of the house occupied by F. B
Phelps on School street for an auction
business to be carried on under the
firm name of Thompson & Phelps
A. H. Thompson and F. B. Phelps
having formed a partnership for thai
purpose.
Miss Helen Guild returned Saturday
evening from Boston, where she has
been visiting for two weeks and at
tending a conference of musical kin
dergarten teachers. Miss Guild ha.
made a great success of her kinder
garten here and is much interested il
her work.
The season at Lake Sunapee fol
Bellows Falls people opened this
week, a number of people from here
already having their cottages open
Each year Sunapee grows more ant
more popular, but Lake Rescue in thu
town of Plymouth, VT, bids fair t.
become a rival within a short time
The rooms in the north end of Suite
block occupied by E. |. Kilburn a.
offices and as living rooms, are beins
entirely remodelled, all entrance from
Westminster street having been Gu
off. When the work of plastering ant
tinting the walls is completed, Mr.. Xii
burn will have a very pleasant HON,
as well as pleasant Offices.
A force of men are again at worl
for the New England Telephone {
Telegraph company putting in new
lines throughout the village. A larg
number of the trial telephones put il
by Manager Burr of the local exchang
changed to the regular list, and sew
eral new ones added, largely increas
ing the number of subscribers of tn
exchange.
A priest of the Polish Catholi
church from Manchester, N. H., was il
North Walpole Monday and Tuesda
for confession and communion of tn
communicates of that church in Be
lows Falls and North Walpole. Their
are at present about 40 families o
Polanders here, little over 100 pei
sons. Ten immigrants from tina
country struck town about two week
ago.
The following officers of the Bir
club for the coming year were cleo
ed at meeting held the first par
of the week: President Mrs c.. A
drich-Ames; vice-president, Mrs. G.. +
Gorham; secretary, Mrs. 2. H. Allbee
treasurer. Miss Mabel c. Whitten co
lector, Miss Ida Glover committee o
bird walks, Miss Frances Osgoo(
Miss Gertrude Hayes, Mrs. Walter F
Black, Rev. j. H. Reid, George Welcl
The Choral Union are working har
preparing for the concert to be give
by them in the opera house Tuesda
evening, April 49, Bellows Falls pei
pie have asked often for more HON
talent work and the union are to Civ
1t to them in this concert. The mi
sic is to be almost entirely along tn
sacred line and to be rendered larg,
ly by Bellows Falls singers. e.
change tickets went on sale this wee
and may be obtained of the member
of the union