Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-10-24

willing to join, without delay, in any
satisfactory proposition to remedy the
difficulty.
Mrs. John H. Reid is Ill and in the care
of a trained nurse.
Louis Robertson will leave soon for two
weeks shooting in the Maine woods.
The High school has formed a glee club
which made its first appearance during
the teachers convention this week.
Horace w. Thompson. of the paper
mill firm of Moore & Thompson, has
been seriously i'll three or four weeks.
The class in child study Of the wo-
mans club met for the first time Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Albert
Hammatt.
The Bellows Falls band will have a
series of dances in Union hall every two
weeks during this winter. the first to be
given this evening.
Next Sunday will be George Blakely's
last one at the Congregational church.
and In view OF that fact an extra musical
program will be rendered.
Miss Elsie Bristol. teacher OF the eighth
and ninth grades, High school building.
has resigned and returned to her home.
Mrs. +. B. Pmgree has taken her place.
Miss Gertrude King. who has been in
Lynn several weeks with Mrs. Carroll
Moore and Miss Arms, has returned and
opened her house for the winter. Miss
Carrie Guild will spend the winter with
her.
The ladies' union of the Congregational
church has just sent a valuable box to
Tenn. few weeks ago one of the build
ings of the school was burned and many
things were lost in the fire.
Col. Edward G. Osgood was elected
president of the Vermont Christian En-
deavor Union for the sixth consecutive
term at the recent meeting. With the
exception of two intervening years. he
has held the Office for the past ten years.
The Choral Union held its first rehears-
al Monday evening. Mr.. Nelson, the
leader, said at the close. 1T was the
most successful opening rehearsal 1 ever
conducted The members were very
enthusiastic and confidently expect a sue
cessful winters work
Mrs. Douglas, who has roomed with
Mrs. Morrison two or three years. died
Monday after an Illness of several
months. She came here from Barre
with her husband. the superintendent in
moving the tracks of the Boston and
Maine railroad below the tunnel.
Mrs. e. P. Knight fell and broke her
arm little way below the shoulder re-
Gently at Fairfax, Va, where she went
after attending the Grand Army en-
campment in Washington. She will not
be able to come home for several weeks.
and then her son, DR.. e. w. Knight will
go to Virginia to accompany her.
About 80 OF the Poles living here and
in North Walpole held a meeting in st.
Peters hall Sunday afternoon. The
matter of having a Polish priest, whom
they can understand was discussed.
This movement has the approval of Rev.
Father Wilde. There are about 40 fami-
lies who would be ministered to by such
a priest
There is rejoicing in the closing of
the coal strike and in the thought that
we may have coal again after a little.
There is more wood in Bellows Falls at
this time than in many years, and the
strike has been a bonanza to the farmers
who had wood to SELL dry hard wood
fitted for the stove selling readily at IS
to $40 per cord.
A press despatch from Washington yes
terday announced that Francis II. Burr,
B. F. III. s., '9S. son of Charles H. Burr,
manager of the local telephone exchange,
had qualified in his examination for APP
pointment as second lieutenant In the
army His appointment is as a civilian.
He was chosen because OF excellent rank
In Norwich University this year.
Fred ]. Wright, the young proprietor
of milk route running in here from be-
yond Saxtons River was surprised at
his home last Friday evening by a party
of a dozen or more of his young friends
in our village. II being his birthday an
niversary. The party went out by the
electrics and spent very pleasant even
Ing, returning on the last car.
Sixteen members of the local United
Irish League were in attendance upon the
first national meeting of the organiza-
ton held In Boston Monday and Tuesday.
The league has a very strong and active
working body in Bellows Falls, its mem
bers being awake to appreciate an OPP
portunity to alleviate the unfortunate
conditions in the mother country.
The 51st anniversary of the establish
ment OF the local lodge Of Odd Fellows
was appropriately observed last Thursday
evening. Nearly 200 members of the
order and the Rebekahs were present.
Music was discoursed by the Stoddard
orchestra and the principal address of
the evening was made by Hon. Samuel
rage or Woodsville, former grand mas
ter OF the New Hampshire grand lodge.
The Times job printing office. owned
by II. B. Davis the past six years, has
been sold to Philip H. Gobie, who has
run similar office in Lebanon, N. H.,
the past two years. and Charles ]. Dix
OF Brattleboro. Mr.. Dix was formerly
employed in the e. L. Hildreth & Co.
office In Brattleboro, going from there
TO White River Junction. He has been