Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-03-14

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is still confined to the house and un-
able to attend to any business.
Rev. Father Corcoran, formerly of
North Walpole, now of Hillsboro
Bridge, has been the guest Of Rev.
Father Reynolds the past few days.
The mills. all of which were stopped
a portion of last week by the high wa
ter. resumed work gradually the last
of the week and all are running as
usual now.
But very little damage to the high
ways in this town was occasioned by
last weeks flood-nothing beyond the
expense of cutting out the cakes of
ice at several points.
Two boys were put in the lookup
for a few minutes Monday afternoon
by Chief Thompson for snow balling
men working at the wood room of the
International company.
F. A. Whitney, lately employed by
the Casein company, will assume the
proprietorship of the Commercial
House April 1. H. H. Graves will go
to New York at that time.
II. D. Ryder was in Hanover We'd
nesday evening, where he acted as
chairman of the board of judges of
the prize speaking which occurred
among the Dartmouth students.
The series of evangelistic meetings
of the past two weeks closed Friday
evening. and Mr. Price. who has made
very favorable impression, went
Saturday to Middleboro, Mass.
Chas. d. Capron has secured a po-
sition with Marshall Field & Co. of
Chicago, and expects to go there
April 1. He has been with j. j. Fen
ton & Co., clothiers, the past eight
years.
Bradford Academy has been admit.
ted to the Connecticut Valley Inter
scholastic Athletic association and
will compete at Windsor next year
with Windsor and Bellows Falls High
schools.
The purchase of the interest of Mr.
Newman and his son in the firm of
Newman & Pollard, dry goods, has
practically been completed by Mr.. Pol
lard, and it is expected he will manage
the store alone in the future.
DR.. and Mrs. G.. H. Gorham enter.
tanned the physicians of the village
and their ladies Friday evening, and
Saturday evening a party of young la
dies to large number were enter.
tanned at the same hospitable home
The monthly meeting of the ladies
union of the Congregational church
will be held in the vestry next Wed
nesday evening, the supper being
given by Mrs. Upham. Mrs. Liver.
more, Mrs. White, Mrs. Henderson
and Mrs. Leighton.
The lecture of Jacob Riis at the
opera house next Tuesday evening on
'Tony's Hardships" is being looked
forward to with much anticipation by
the members of the Woman's club and
their friends. An error has been made
in some notices of the date 1t is
Tuesday, the 18th.
l.. H. Stearns of Gilsum was in town
Wednesday. He sold his residence on
Barker street to H. II. Church. super
intendent of the Casein company. Mr.
Church will occupy the first story and
Chas. Roider will move into the new
house of F. A. Moore. George Webb
will remain in the other tenement.
A. F. Winnewisser has bought the
three story block on Rockingham
street opposite the Rockingham no
tel, known as Maynard block. He
purchased it of Mrs Hatch who is now
in the West. He made the trade as an
investment. not for the purpose OF
moving the New York Racket store
there.
A. F. Minis. who had been in failing
health for some time, died in a SAM
tarium in Burlington Friday morning
The body was brought to his home
in North Walpole that afternoon. and
the funeral held yesterday Mr. Minis
who owned considerable property in
Bellows Falls and North Walpole
leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs
Almon |. Bolles.
The services throughout the day
next Sunday at the Congregational
church are to be devoted largely to
music. The pastor will preach in the
morning upon this as a subject, and
in the evening Prof. George Blakeley
will present the cantata, "The Daugh
ter of Jairus." He will be assisted by
a large chorus, and by a number OF
well known soloists.
E. H. R. Green, president of the
Texas Midland railroad, announces
that he will equip his road with a new
system of wireless telegraphy, upon
which he has recently secured a pa
tent. The experiment is to be watch
ed with much interest by other rail
road managers. Mr.. Green's father is
still very i'll at the family residence
on Church street, with no prospect of
recovery.
The Bellows Falls Trust company
has secured twice the amount of the
authorized capital stock, and will
start off with a capital of 100000 and
a surplus of $4,000, instead of the $50
600 as per the charter. The books are
closed and the organization is to be
completed next month and the new
banking institution is expected to be
ready for business during the months
of May or June.
The death of Judge L. S. Walker at
his home in Grafton Tuesday night
came as a personal loss to hundreds
of the older residents of the north
part of the county, and particularly
at Bellows Falls. His close connec-
ton with the legal business of Wind
ham county during the past so years
has given him many friends here His
only son, Edward L., of this place, was
with him at the time of his death.
No successor has as yet been de-
cided upon by the school board for
Submaster Flints place, although two
parties are under discussion. Miss Ida
F. Glover has resigned her position
as teacher in the fourth grade to take
effect at the close of the present term.
1t is probable that Miss Florence
Goodhue of Westminster West who