Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-17
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.

Miss Lena Miller spent Easter with
Miss Lula Lewis in Brattleboro.
Next Tuesday evening Denman Thomp-
| son will be here with his "Old Home
| stead"
The Junior concert and dance Monday
| evening was a very pleasant and sue
| cessfu affair
The Bird club has secured Schuyler
! Matthews to deliver a lecture this even
/ ing at the Congregational church.
Miss Helen Ryder has been substituting
in the fourth grade a part of this week
for Miss Miller, who has been Ill.
The first of the series of hearings upon
the applications for licenses will be held
Monday afternoon in Banquet han.
Carrier Fleming appeared on the
street Wednesday with n fine mail wagon
which has occasioned favorable COM
ment.
NJ. ID. Jackson is moving his jewelry
store from the Otis Arms block on Canal
street into the old Granger block on
| Westminster street
Miss Mildred Young spent Easter with
her sister, Iva, in Springfield Mass.
Miss Iva is studying in library school,
fitting herself to become librarian.
Henry o. King of Claremont was in
town over Sunday,visiting his sister, Miss
Gertrude, who returned last week from
n winters stay in California.
Miss Marion Clark, daughter of DR.. c.
T. Clark, who is attending convent
school in Burlington, has been visiting
her parents here the past week.
Valedctory honors have been awarded
to Miss Mary NJ. Barrett and salutatory
to Miss Grace e. Sargent of the gradu
ating class of the High school.
S. d. Mcleod is the latest applicant for
a license to sell liquor in the Elk pool
rooms in Maynard block. This makes 10
applications and our town is entitled to
but six.
Wheelers laundry was shut down the
latter part of last week, and until Tues
day of this week, while a new and larger
boiler was being put ill., nearly doubling
the capacity of the laundry.
The choir of the Baptist church, as
sisted by that of the Universalist church,
will render the Resurrection and As
cension from Emanuel" by j. Elliott
Trowbridge next Sunday evening.
Morton G. Wiley, b. F. H. S. 90, now in
the superintendent office of the Boston
Elevated Railway Co.. spent Sunday with
his parents on the Upper Meadows, re-
turning to his duties Monday afternoon.
The Durham Brothers shoe store has
changed hands, it having been bought
by Harold A. Hatch and II. N. Bellows,
both for some years employees of the
firm. The firm name will be Hatch &
Bellows.
Several friends of Principal Parsons
are expected from Woodstock this af-
ternoon to attend the lecture by Schuy-
Ter Matthews this evening. and to go on
the walk of the bird club tomorrow
morning.
A large new store house for coal and
heavy hardware has been begun by the
Howard Hardware company near the To-
cation of the old Boston & Maine round
house on the island just this side of the
Island House.
Prof. Ansbach will give an entertain
ment in Union hall April 2ith on "Mirth,
Magic and Mystery" illustrated by
sleight of hand performances under the
auspices of the ladies union of the Con-
gregational church.
The Bellows Falls Gun club held their
annual meeting Tuesday evening and
elected officers The first shoot of the
season will be held Saturday afternoon,
and the shooters will alternate each
week between Friday and Saturday.
A special meeting of the order of
Knights of Columbus will be held next
Sunday and special trains will be run.
One will run the whole distance from
Burlington and it is expected that $50 or
800 members of the order will be here.
A fight occurred at the Mountain House
in Drewsvile Sunday night and in ad-
dition to blows with fists. which were
freely INDUCED in there is evidence of
knives having been used, and it is ex-
pected that number of arrests will fol-
, | low.
, The annual meeting of the Young
| Mems club was held in the Vestry of the
Congregational church Tuesday evening.
The following officers were elected:
President, ]. A. Pearson; vice president,
A. r. Smith; secretary and treasurer,
Frank Knight
Ned c. Roy and Alan Finlayson, en-
ployed respectively in the drug stores OF
Mrs. S. T. Andrews in this village and
that of C. C. Davis in Walpole, were two
the examinations of the state board OF
pharmacy at Rutland last week.
The body of Sherman NJ. Davis, son OF
the late Marvin w. Davis, was brought
here from Rutland for burial in Oak Hill
cemetery Monday. Mrs. Davis accom-
panied the body and went Wednesday TO
Hoyoke. Mr., Davis died last January,
but owing to the illness of Mrs. Davis the
= burial was delayed until now.
The post Office department has denied
the petition asking that the outer doors
D of the post Office be kept open Sundays
and holidays. The petition was signed
by practically every patron of the Of
flee who is in business here. Those hold
ing boxes cannot reach them on Sunday
except during the hour the general de-
livery is open.
Mrs. Christopher L. Rice, whose illness
was spoken of in last weeks paper died
. at her home on Centre street Friday
I night The funeral was held in Imman-
uel church Monday afternoon, with
burial in the church yard She is sur
e vived by a husband and nine children,
three daughters and six sons, who will
deeply mourn the loss of kind, loving
wife and mother.