Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-03-28
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

w. B. Carpenters family moved yes
terday into the rear tenement house
owned by w. H. Griswold on Atkinson
street next No 8 school building.
A special service will be held in the
Universalist church Friday evening at
7.30 by the Universalist and the Con-
gregational churches. observing Fast
day.
Mrs. Perley l.. Kimball has been
very sick with pneumonia at West
Newton, Mass, where she was visiting.
1t is thought she has passed the dan
ger point
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Johnson of
Manchester Roads, N. H.. are expected
here in April to make their home for
the present with their son. II. c. John
son on Burt place.
A meeting of the subscribers to the
stock of the Bellows Falls Trust com
pany will be held in the Office of Il. l..
Walker April 81, for the purpose of
electing a board of directors
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Harrie W. Shepardson. a
weaver, of Rockingham. His liabilities
are $644.S7, and his assets S139, of
which everything is claimed exempt.
Mrs. George Dickinson and family.
who have been spending the past year
or two with Mrs. Dickinson's mother;
Mrs George Evans, went to New York
Wednesday, where they will make
their home with Mr.. Dickinson.
A fire alarm from the box on the is
land called out the department Mon
day noon to attend to a small blaze in
a shed in the rear of the Vermont
Farm Machine company's shop. The
damage to property was very slight
c. w. Osgood will speak at the Bap-
fist church Sunday morning on THE
Claim of Christianity to the Faith of
Mankind in the Resurrection" in the
place of Rev. c. r. b. Dodge. who is
suffering from the after effects of the
grip.
Joseph b. Farley. a former superin-
tendent of the Fall Mountain Mills
here died at his home in Farley. Mass,
Wednesday night of last week. from
the effects of an operation for appendi-
citis. The funeral was held Monday
in the Universalist church at Orange.
Mass.
The sugar social given at the Con
gregational church Tuesday evening
by the Young Mems club was largely
attended, the club netting about Sl5
from the sale of new sugar A very
pleasing program was rendered during
the evening. consisting of literary and
musical selections by local talent.
p. T. Clair, for several years pre-
vious to 1895 a clerk in the clothing
store of f. G. Pierce. and II. +. Bid
we'll Mr. Pierce's present head clerk,
have formed partnership doing bust
ness under the firm name of Clair &
Bidwell in West Derry, ~ H. having
bought out the clothing store of c. w.
Abbott in that place. Both are Bel
lows Falls boys and have the best
wishes of their many friends here.
/ Peter Porter, 90. laborer living on
the Lowell terrace. fell down a flight
of stone steps leading to his house
/ Tuesday, receiving injuries that result
! ed in his death. He was found lying
! concious but unable to move and eX-
animation showed, his neck to be dis
located. 1t is a curious fact that with
in few years Porter is the third mem
Der of his immediate family to meet
death by accident and in each case
/ by a dislocated neck
/ Hotel Windham. formerly known as
/ Towns hotel, has had good trade since
Tuesday, when patrons were first ac-
cepted. 1t had been the intention of
! the new proprietors to have a formal
opening of the hotel the last of this
week or the first of next, but early in
! the week patrons begged so hard to
be taken in that gradually the house
has been opened up Wednesday. the
second day that public meals were
served. over fifty dinners We're sold.
Bellows Falls has at last got that
which has been so badly needed for
years, really first class hotel.