Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-16


necticut river
George Upham is spending the week in
Charlestown.
N. G. Williams and family are spending
few days in the White mountains.
A number from here attended the field
day exercises at Kurn Hattin last week.
c. T. Grout and son returned Saturday
from Boston, where they spent several
days.
Rev. and Mrs. Jay T. Stocking are
spending the week in the White noun
tains.
Dallas F. Pollard has moved this week
to his new house on the extension Of Burt
place
Miss Mary Slader of Providence, r. l.,
is the guest of Mrs. NJ. l.. Bowers on Hap
good street.
Lyman Howes moving pictures, ia
vorte entertainment with Bellows Falls
audiences, will come to the opera house
Sept "a
Rev. j. II. Reid of Walden, n. " for
merly pastor of the First Congregational
church, was the guest of n. G.. Williams
Sunday.
The Wallace White house at the corner
of Atkinson street and Burt place is un-
dergoing repairs. 1t will be occupied by
II. V. Durham.
September "a has been decided upon for
the annual parade and inspection of the
fire department The program of the day
will be as usual.
A C. Rice will return the last of the
month to his studies in New York uni
versty, which were discontinued last fall
on account of i'll health.
George E. Page jr, is ill at the home
of his parents on Atkinson street, with
acute indigestion, of which he has had
several serious attacks during the past
year.
Mrs A. NJ. Hallenbeck, who with her
grandson, has spent the past two winters
at the home of l.. S. Hayes, has rooms
this season at l.. Y. Clifford's on School
street.
A larger number of students than usual
have come this year from Charlestown to
the Bellows Falls high school Among
them are Philip Brooks, Ruth Symonds,
Misses Bond and Miss Prudie Gibson
At a recent meeting of the local order
of odd Fellows, Past Noble Grand L. w.
Trask was presented with an emblematic
charm of the order, as a token of the es-
TEEN in which he is held by his asso-
GATES
Mrs. Albert Shipman died suddenly from
heart disease Tuesday morning at her
home in Gageville. She leaves her hus-
band and one daughter. Miss Jennie
Shipman, a teacher in the Bellows Falls
high school,
Rev. Mr.. Leavitt, the new Universalist
pastor, will occupy the apartments in the
Blake double house on South street, to be
vacated by w. F. Bradley, who has a
position with the Rowland Pulp and Pa
per company al Rowland, Me.
The crowded condition of the first and
second grades in No. school has been
partially relieved by placing the second
grade in the room with the third, under
Miss Sylvia Powers. Miss Hastings has
the entire first grade, numbering about
go children.
The lawlessness of school children has
long been remarked in this village. and it
has seemed unwise that it should so long
be overlooked. In the arrest on Mon
day of ten boys for stealing pears from
the grounds of Mrs. ]. F. MacLennan, it
Is hoped that the widespread rowdyism
will receive permanent check
The many friends of DIR. Edward Ellery
will regret his removal from town in con-
sequence of his appointment as professor
Of chemistry in Union college. Schenec-
tady. He left Saxtons River Tuesday.
No selection has been made of his sue
cessor as principal of Vermont academy.
Charlestown correspondent of the
Springfield Reporter had last week the
following item of local interest Mrs. Het-
ty Green, the lady of many millions,
dined at the Mansion House recently, and
is endeavoring to negotiate lease of her
Bellows Falls residence to Mrs. Symonds.
Fred E. Newell has bought house and
lot In Gageville. He plans to move his
family from their present home on South
street next month, and will spend the
winter in the house recently bought In
the spring he will build on the adjacent
lot for himself and rent the present
dwelling.
The Windham County Sunday school
association held its annual meeting in the
Methodist church here Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Among the principal speakers
were President l.. NJ. Keneston, West
Brattleboro II. S. Cowell, Ashburnham,
Mass, and Rev. f. NJ Fuller, field secre-
tary for the state.
The private school, started by Mrs. w.
w. Sawyer at her home on Atkinson
street, opened very promisingly with IL
pupils and is filing a need in this COM
munity which has long been felt. Mrs
Sawyer is an instructor of great ability
and will share the confidence of both
pupils and parents. She is assisted by
Miss Olive Prentice.
hearing was held in VIM, A. Rus
sell hail. North Walpole, Wednesday
morning on the petition of the citizens
of that village for a railroad freight
and passenger station to be placed or
that side of the river. The railroad com.
missioners reserve their decision until q
future date. 1t would seem that, with
the prospective accommodate fol
crossing the river, passenger depot is
scarcely necessary,