Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20


sion about five years.
Deacon II. c. Johnson is i'll with grip.
Schools close next Friday for the
spring recess.
Mitchell Vassar and family spent Sun
day in Springfield, Mass.
Mrs George H. Gorham is suffering
from severe attack of grip.
Mrs \. n. Swain is severely i'll with
capillary bronchitis and pleurisy.
Mrs. E. G. Osgood and daughter,
er, Mrs Roswell Farnham, in Bradford.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Hayes have been
spending the week in Boston and
vicinity.
Mrs George Muzzey, who has been i'll
at her home in Berwick, Maine. is con-
valescent.
Mrs Roswell Farnham of Bradford is
with her daughter, Mrs. Il. c. Osgood,
to remain a few weeks.
Bishop Hall visited Emmanuel church
last Sunday and preached at both morn
ing and evening services.
Mrs l.. G. Hadley has been in New
York this week attending millinery open
ings and buying spring goods.
Mrs. C. T. Clarke is spending a few
days in Burlington where her daughter,
Marion is in convent school.
The Bellows Falls Bird club has held
two business meetings this week and
will resume its field meetings at once.
Miss Grace Harlow of Keene was a
guest over Sunday with the families
of Mrs, IL. B. jackson and L. S. Hayes.
The Y. P. S. c. E. of the Congregation
al church give a "good-luck' social in
the church parlors this evening, at 7.45.
Rev. Mr.. Cooley, pastor of the Con-
gregatonal church in Littleton, n. H.,
preached at the Congregational church
Sunday.
c. W. Laoaree, a former well-known
real estate agent will reopen an agency
in the office of the Labaree Medicine
company.
C. II. Osgood of Boston, travelling sales
man for the Arlington mill entire wheat
flour, spent a few days with his father,
c. w. Osgood.
The electric road went on double car
schedule Monday morning, and the cars
are now running on almost the same
hours as in the summer.
Neil Burgess's County Fair is al
ways popular with local theatre goers
and, as usual, attracted a very large
audience last Friday evening.
Mrs. Jessie Booth and daughter, Mil
dred, return tomorrow from Montpelier
where they are. respectively, teacher
ana pupil IN the puDlc SCHOOLS.
A unique affair will take place this
evening at the home of Mrs. j. G. Day
in the form of stocking social" un-
der the auspices of the w. c. T. U.
AT a business meeting of the Congre-
gational church held last evening the
resignation of Rev. j. II. Reid pas
tor was accepted to take effect April l.
The board of license commissioners
for this town, as appointed by the select
men, are James II. Williams, j. p. Riley,
and John F. Alexander, the latter be-
ing from SaXtons River.
Thomas Walsh is tearing down the
dwelling owned by him on Westminster
street partially destroyed by fire on the
evening of Dec. 8. He contemplates
building several small houses on the lot.
George 1. Whitney. the popular clerk
in the Boston & Maine railroad office
here, has resigned his position, to devote
his entire time to life insurance. c.
H. Waite has been appointed TO fill the
vacancy.
Harry *. Clark, who has been en-
ployed several months by the Vermont
Farm Machine company, will go to
Springfield, Mass, next week to enter an
automobile factory Mrs Clark will al
so go next week.
Members of the Woman's club who are
interested in nature win meet Saturday
d
Osgood to organize class in nature
study which will probably be continued
through the summer months.
The play Down in Dixie" was present.
ed by the Criterion club of North Wal
pole in William a. Russell hall last
Tuesday evening. The house was pack
ed to its utmost capacity and all were
unanimous in praise of the presentation.
The old Bellows Falls High school
"a lxat IA taat1 xIrhi &c ,,1a,F Inn
under the name of the Bellows Falls
Athletic club was victorious over the
Keene High school team in the William
A. Russell hall at North Walpole last
Thursday to the tune of AZ to I.
The dramatzation of Count Tolstoi's
novel, Resurrection" will take place
at the opera house Friday evening
March 81. The novel is a strong one
and has created a good deal of stir in
the novel reading world Bellows Falls
people will be glad of the opportunity
to see it staged.
The annual sale and supper of the Bap-
fist ladies was held in banquet hall We'd
nesday afternoon and evening, and it
was success in every way. The fancy
table was presided over by Mrs. F. II.
Mark and Mrs. Earl p Stevens and the
candy table by Mrs. c. w. Jackson and
Miss Florence Young, while the supper
was in charge of Mrs. NJ. II. Ray.
A reading room has been opened on
the third floor of the Suter block by the
Vermont Farm Machine company for
the use of its employees. In town like
this, where so large a proportion of the
population is composed of young men
without homes, there is a great need of
such an establishment, especially with
the prospect of the saloon element in
the future, If more men and firms real
lied the danger a good Y. NJ c. A.
would be equipped and run as a bust
ness precaution, if for no other reason
very pleasing musical and literary
program was given Wednesday even
ing, March is, in odd Fellows hall un-
der the auspices of Fall Mountain
Grange. The program included read
ings by Miss Nellie Newton, a gradu-
ate of the New England Conservatory of
Music, vocal solos by Mrs. John Thayer
and Miss Rena Ramsey, and instru-
L.,antal L.,i,sIa y.