Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-08-22
BILE money into this vicinity every


lumber of the Walter Blake house on
South street, is approaching compile
ton, it being now in the painters
hands. Houses are being erected at
Gageville by Eugene Weston, John
Black and s. L. Daggett. These,
with the other building operations /
mentioned in these columns, show the |
steady growth of the village. as none |
of them remain empty, the larger part |
being rented before being completed. |
A fire alarm from boxes 25 and 26 |
Friday morning about $50 called near
ly the whole department out to ex-
tinguish a small blaze in the house
on the New Terrace at the head of
School street hill, owned by s. L.
Stuart. Considerable. trouble was ex-
perienced ringing in an alarm, re-
sultlng in the ringing in of alarms
from both the boxes on the New Ter
race and the one at the corner of
School and Atkinson streets. The
fire was slight and was caused by an
oil stove.
FALLS. ....S
Tuesday evening was the flag, or
rather rag, raising of the Clement
party. The band, with small boys,
congregated in the square about Z
o'clock, when a brown cotton banner,
with Clement and Agan's names print
ed across it in black letters. was
strung up with a few feeble cheers.
The crowd then adjourned to the opera
house which was well filed with men.
women and boys who were attracted
to see the only Small. j. H. Busby
presented A. p. Childs, who walked
around the table for about 80 minutes
and talked to himself in a monotone
as though he was ashamed to be there,
after which he sat down, much to the
relief of the audience. j. H. Busby
then introduced the Rev. Sam Small,
who entertained the audience with
stories and witty sayings for an hour
and half.
The final arrangements for the grand
| Labor Day celebration here Sept LIST
have nearly all been made. They
| include a parade of the uniformed
| labor organizations of the village at
9 a. m; field sports as follows: run
ming broad jump. running high jump,
pole vault, putting twelve pound shot,
sack race, pipe and potato race; picnic
and clam chowder lunch at noon; a
"non-partisan" address by Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, at go; and an address by
Geo. E. Mcneil of Boston, the Grand
Old Man" of the labor movement. at
$50. 1t is announced also on the
posters that "Mr. Roosevelt will be
accompanied by his famous secretary.
Mr.. Cortelyou." Base ball and foot
ball games are being arranged. The
cleared field of Russell park has been
engaged for the day by the labor
organizations and there all the events
will be held. Band concerts and
dancing will be enjoyed all day and
during the evening.
Bellows Falls is in danger of los
ing a new industry which might cas-
lily be brought here if any public eff
fort was made for it. The Los An
| geles Olive Growers association an.
nounce its intention to establish a
bottling house somewhere east of the
Rockies. c. w. Butterfield, brother
of its president, living here in Bel.
lows Falls, asked them to come here
This they were willing to do, provided
Bellows Falls was willing to make
some inducements to make it worth
their while. No effort in this direc
ton has been made and it now seems
as though they might establish theiI
bottling house at Chicago. Mean
while, Mr.. Butterfeld is using his
best endeavors to increase the sale
of the olives from this association
through the large wholesale houses
AS a local advertisement, he has dis
tributed free samples of the olives anG
of the olive oil to many of the house:
of the village. They are a fine grade
of goods and are sold much below
other brands.
| Work was begun Monday morning
on the foundations of the addition t
the buildings owned by the New Bel
, lows Falls Building association anC
occupied by the Vermont Farm Ma
!; chine company. The new buildin.
| is simply an addition built to thu
south end of the main building anC
is to be of brick, three stories high
, the full width of the main building
and about fifty feet in length. Thi
addition to the equipment of the Yer
> mont Farm, together with the new of
. fee building built last spring, will
make a material increase in the capa
city of the shop. The large engin,
and boiler, installed a number OF
years ago, has proved inadequate 70
/ lHe dIuOuHI vi power required by Jn'
present size of the shop. and for sew
, eral months past the company hav,
been hiring about so horsepower o
the Electric Light &, Power Co., whicl
: is utilized in different parts of tn,
! shop by small motors running singl,
machines, or groups of machines.
new boiler and engine will be neces
STATED by the additions to the plan
now in progress. The building OF
erations are under the charge of Con
tractor Kilburn.
A citizens meeting was called Mon
day evening to arrange for the enter
tainment of the presidential part,
] September LIST. The following com
' mittee was elected: G. w. Osgood
, chairman; w. c. Belknap DR.. Z. r
, Campbell, Edward Barry, ]. ]. O'Con
= nor, o. M. George, j. F. Alexander
M. R. Lawrence, Rev. j. II. Reid. G
! r. Wales, G. Fl. Babbitt, d. O'Connor
H. d. Ryder, p. e. Griffin, ]. P. Riley
F. G. Pierce, James H. Williams, H
: w. Hutchins, B. Cannon, jr., G. H
Robb, Cushing Adams, H. H. Church
i w. G. Smith, ]. c. Day, Rev. ALFRED
Hammett, NJ. H. Ray, George NJ. Cory
, c. H. Gibson, DIR. G. H. Gorham and D
, H. Cray. On Wednesday evening tn,
committee met and organized with c
w. Osgood chairman. p. e. Griffll
, secretary and Dr. E. R. Campbell
treasurer. G.. r. Wales was appoint