Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04


Dartmouth '02, called on friends in
town Tuesday. Mr.. Banning was
class poet at the graduating exercises
at Dartmouth.
Lewis A. Day has moved from Fred
Saker's house on Williams street to
Oscar Halls house on Kings field.
Mr.. Halls family will move to Clare
mont where he is employed.
Miss Elizabeth Dixie of Auburndale,
Mass, a teacher in Kimball Union
Academy who has spent the past week
with friends here, went Monday ~
Brattleboro for a few days stay.
George w. Upham, a graduate Of the
High school two weeks $50, was IN
Boston last week, taking his examina-
lions for entrance to the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology.
The Bellows Falls & Saxtons Riv-
er Street Railroad company received
Tuesday two so horse power motors
which will probably be used on two of
the summer cars heretofore used for
trailers.
A. NJ. Macleod, who for some time.
has been substitute clerk in the post
office. and a local agent of the New
York Life Insurance company, began
work July 1, as regular clerk in the
post office.
L. Bernard Stebbins of Northfield,
who last week graduated from Nor
witch University, called upon friends
in town Monday on his way to assume
duties in a civil engineers office in
Worcester.
The putting on of new postal car
over the Rutland railroad into Boston
by the night trains, which was ar
ranged some months ago so as to be-
gin July 1, has been indefinitely post
poned by the department.
Supt. Holton of the electric road an
nounces a basket picnic at BARRIERS
park the Fourth. An interesting
program, consisting of track athletics,
base ball, dancing in the pavilion,
theatrical performance and display of
| fireworks has been arranged.
That part of the Wilson block form
erly occupied by G. E. Capron, tailor,
is being remodeled and somewhat i'm
proved by the addition of new doors
and three new windows for the new
bank E. l. Kilburn is doing the
wood work and John o. Spring the
brick work
| John p Blanchard, who lives on the
old terrace, caught a pike just below
the coating mill of the international
Paper company Tuesday night which
weighed 1914 lbs. and measured SO
| inches in length. 1t is reported that
Mr.. Blanchard and his pike had a
rather lively time. He sold his catch
to VIM. McClarey.
| Ior,oe D1eb1, ond
| Cecilia Stebbins were married Thurs
| They left on the noon train north for
Troy, Saratoga, Glens Falls, and
other points in New York state. Mr.
Busby is a popular employee in the of.
| fee of the Cacein Company of America
and a graduate of Bellows Falls High
school class of 1900. Mrs. Busby s
home was in Grafton.
Four American teachers, who left
Cebu, Province of Cebu, in the
Philippines, for days outing, June
10TH have not been seen since, and II
is feared that they were murdered by
natives. Louis A. Thomas and John
Wells, two of the missing teachers
are graduates of Vermont Academy
and also of Brown University. They
| are COuSluS ABOUT 81 years Olu edCN
and both lived in Providence.
The Lorraine Company, which play.
ed at the rustic theatre at BARRIERS
park last week to the entire salts
faction of the theatre-going people OF
this place, will remain during the rest
of this week. The company has pre-
sented several pleasing comedies and
comedy dramas, among which are "In
Honor Bound" "a Royal Prisoner >
"The Two Orphans" Under Two
Flags" and where am I At?" 1t is
evident the local manager, ]. E. Bros
nahan, knows good thing when he
sees it, and is anxious to have Bellows
Falls treated to first-class plays at the
very low admission price.
Local interest in county politics centres
mainly in the active contest made by
their friends in behalf of u. II. Allbet
and II. d. Ryder as candidates for judge
of probate. Both have strong support
| NJ. r. Lawrence is brought forward by
his friends as a candidate for the sena.
torship but the sentiment of the towr
as a whole is apparently favorable tC
John L. Divoll. Tomorrows caucu:
will settle the question of support Sc
far as the action of the people is con