Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-24

poisoned by contact with poison ivy, and
both hands have been out of commission
since then.
j. l.. Savage has bought the b. \. Put
ney house at the corner of Green and
Oak streets occupied by George Andrews
and II. NJ. Amadon.
Mrs. ]. T. Ridden and two children
have been spending the past week in
Plymouth. Mass. and are this week visit
ing in the vicinity of Boston.
Lorenzo Richardson of the Richardson
shoe store was in Boston Tuesday in con-
sultaton with surgeons regarding re-
cent serious injury by fall.
Mrs. s. c. Fleming is entertaining her
son. Henry G.. of Memphis a few weeks.
Mr. Fleming is president of the Union
Railway company of that city.
Mrs Hetty Green and daughter, Sylvia,
have arrived from New York and are put
ting their residence on Church street in
condition for their occupancy during the
summer.
| An exciting game of base ball was
played Saturday betVeen the employees
| of the Vermont Farm Machine company's
| Office and the Casein company resulting
in defeat of the latter.
y lady has been appointed substitute
clerk in the Bellows Falls post Office,
Miss Eleanor Carruthers having passed
civil service hearing here.
The temporary lookup in the town hall
building proves insecure for the keeping
of prisoners. George Rice, confined for
intoXication. broke out this week and sue
ceeded in getting across the river to free
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Mark A. Arnold of St. Louis, a grad
uate of Bellows Falls High school, 1902.
! has been i'm town this week calling upon
old friends. He is having a two weeks
vacation from his duties with a mercan-
tile firm of that city
Another 4th of July shooting accident
here promises to result fatally. Charlie
Vincent who received n wound from a
| pistol is much worse and Is in a
dangerous condition. Another boy died
last week of lock-jaw.
The attractions at Barber park this
week have been of an unusual merit,
particularly the Maud Hillman company
in the Duchess Du Barry " Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. Manager Bros
nahan is making especially good hits in
his selections.
The excursion advertised from Spring
! field and Charlestown last evening, to at
tend the band concert and opening of
/ the Corner Drug store, was patroniZed
| by very large crowd, it being under
stood that from Springfield alone 800
tickets were sold.
/ DR.. C. S. Clark has this week moved
into the dwelling of Ned Pierce on Burt
Place where Principal NJ. w. Downing
| formerly lived, and George Crippen is to
move into the tenement vacated in A. N
/ SWANS house on Hapgood street upon
their return from the beach.
The Bellows Falls Gun club has voted
to hold a tournament in August, and to
! buy a loving cup and other prizes. The
| club will conduct a tournament next year
under the auspices of the International
| Shooting association. Thirteen contest
/ ants made excellent scores at the range
Monday.
Tuesday afternoon a fire alarm from
box PIP located at Derby & Balls shop
called the department to a small blaze
in the dwelling of w. E. Parsons adoss
the street The fire had worked its way
and the damage was much greater by
water than from the fire.
In the general Encouragement and pro-
motions of Boston & Maine railroad OFF,
Gals, Roadmaster T. j. Cree has been as
signed to the White Mountain division
with headquarters at WoodsVille. Mr.
Cree will move his family within a few
days. He came here last April and has
lived in a house owned by Barney Can
non on Cherry HILL having charge of the
roadbed from Brattleboro to Windsor.
Rev. James NJ. Gregg, a young man
who has recently accepted a call to
preach at Pittsfield, Mass, occupied the
pulpit at the Congregational church last
Sunday. Next Sunday Rev. III. NJ. God
dard of West Concord, n. H., formerly
of Ludlow, VT, is to preach. The church
has not as yet learned the decision of