Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-06-19
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

day from a vacation Of two weeks in
West Sumner, Me.
good number of townspeople have
attended commencement at Vermont
Academy this week.
Invitations for commencement June
26 have been issued this week by the
senior class of the High school.
Four and a half inches of rain have
fallen here in the past ten days, as
recorded by the instruments of A. II.
Brown.
Rev. C. w. Jackson was one of the .
Judges at the Fuller prize speaking |
contest at Vermont Academy Tuesday |
morning.
c. W. Osgood spoke in Cambridge /
port Sunday morning and in Brookline /
In the afternoon, the pastor of the two /
churches being absent.
The annual convention of the Wind
ham and Bennington counties associ-
alton of the Universalist churches,
will occur at Bellows Falls June 1890
The vacation season at Lake Rescue
is opening this week and a number
of Mr.. Carpenters cottages will be oc-
cupied during the coming week or
two.
The representatives, of Emmanuel
church who attended the annual con-
vention of the diocese at Rutland this
week were H. p. Bancroft and John H.
Williams.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society of the Con-
gregational church was held at the
home of Mrs. Angie Vaughan on South
street Friday.
A strawberry grown upon the
of A g
shown on the street this week that
had attained the enormous size of
14A inches in circumference.
Mr. and Mrs c. w. Osgood, n. G.
Williams and Mrs. B. E. Merriam at
tended the annual meeting of the
Windham County Sunday School asso-
citation in Townshend Tuesday.
Mrs. John j. Hallenbeck and her
grandson, Andrew H. Heermance, who
have been spending the winter in Bel
lows Falls, left Monday for Arlington,
N. Y, where they expect to spend the
greater part of the summer.
Miss Grace E. Sargent, the saluta-
torian of the graduating class of the
High school, will not be able to take
part in the exercises, owing to mild
case of scarlet fever, which has de-
veloped during the past week.
The closing exercises of the rural
schools, which were held Friday in
the old church at Rockingham, passed
off satisfactorily to those having them
in charge. a large number of the pu-
pills and their friends being present.
Miss Elizabeth Dixie of Auburndale,
Mass, will come today from her work
at Kimball Union Academy, for a visit
of two weeks with the family of L. S.
no will ttrith ION,
row to Takiteezee lodge, Lake Rescue.
In the growth of the village of
North Walpole and it's business in
dustries, comes the establishment of
a regular law office. A room in the
new Russell Memorial hall has been
taken by Joseph A. Madden of Keene
who is there one day in the week
The logs of the Connecticut river
drive have begun to arrive in the
booms above the dam. A small boom
filled with the International Paper
company's logs gave way Monday
owing to the high water, and passed.
over the dam, but only a very few es
capped.
Geo. w. Cook of Haverhill, Mass.
who many years ago was treasurer o.
the Vermont Farm Machine company
last week was a petitioner in bank
ruptcy in that city, with large liabil
tiles. This makes the fourth time Mr.
Cook has liquidated in bankruptc!
since 1898.
Next Sunday, the annual visitation
of Bishop Bradley of Manchester vii
be made to st. Peters church in Nortl
Walpole. Mass will be celebrated a
$3.50, and high mass at 1920, with
sermon by the bishop. A special mt
steal program has been prepared an
EXner's orchestra will assist A elias
of over 80 will be confirmed at the sci
vice at p. m.
Work is progressing rapidly thi
week at the corner of South and A
kinson streets, in demolishing the oil
buildings and removing the lumbe
yard which has for so many year
been an eye-sore. DR.. A. L. Miner ha
the plans drawn for a new resdenc
and barn on that corner that will be
great improvement. He expects to b
able to occupy it during the comm
fall.
S. ]. Cray feels somewhat aggrieve
that he was not granted a secont
class license, which he applied for n
Gently, to be located in the rear of hi
grocery store on Westminster stree
Mr.. Cray says some of the prominer
citizens of the place urged him I
make the application, and he was gil
en- to understand by at least one
the board of commissioners that theI
would be no objection to it.
A very pleasant social of the Chri
tian Endeavor society of the Congr
gational church was held in the pa
lors of that church on Monday eve
ing After enjoying ping pong an
charades for a short time, ice crea1
and lemonade were served to about 4
Christian Endeavorers and the
friends. A lawn party had bee
planned for that evening, but We
changed into this on account of raj
The Odd Fellows Memorial day VIZ
observed last Sunday, when the mer
bers of that organization and the r
bekahs listened to an excellent Sc
mon by the Rev. c. W. Jackson. De
egations were sent to each of the ceI
eteries to decorate the graves of Il
dead, but owing to the rain storm. Il
organization as a body did not a
company them. Next Sunday the Sa
tons River lodge will observe the d.
as Memorial day. The local lodge hi
been invited to participate in the &c