Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-10-28

old home at Gisum.
Mrs. Edward Kirkland will go Monday
to Providence to attend the annual meet
ing of the Woman's Board of Missions.
George II. Bowker, formerly connected
with Towns hotel. now operating hotels
at Holyoke and Meriden, Conn, spent
Sunday in town among old friends.
Wheeler's Bellows Falls band will give
a spectacular opera entitled The Grand
Parada at the opera house the last of
November for the benefit of the band
treasury.
The Junior class of the high class has
decided upon a concert by the Dartmouth
glee club Nov IL. and a canvass for the
sale of tickets is being made by members
of the class.
Rev. L. 0. Sherburne is giving a series
of interesting lectures upon the Bible
each Tuesday evening following the meet
ing of the Epworth league. This week it
was upon the book of Revelations.
The water tank and tank house belong
ing to the Boston X Maine railroad in
North Walpole, were destroyed by fire
Sunday evening. 1t is thought that the
fire caught from a defective smoke stack.
An interesting game Of foot bah was
played at Barber park Saturday between
the Bellows Falls high school team and
the Springfield high school team. re-
sulting i'm "A victory for the local boys in
"A score of - to 0.
Thursday evening, Nov. 3, is the date
chosen by the executive committee of the
Bellows Falls board of trade for their
annual banquet, which will be op-n to the
ladies. The banquet will be furnished al
the Hotel Windham and the speaker will
be Col. Albert Clarke of Boston.
good delegation of Christian En-
deavorers from both the Baptist and the
Congregational societies was in attend
ance upon the state convention this week
at Springfield The delegates chosen by
| the Congregational society were Misses
Flora Lowell and Mary Searle.
Rev. Francis Chase. 49, for the past %
years rector of the Episcopal church in
| Scarsdae n. Y, who died last Friday,
was the son of Bishop Chase of New
| Hampshire and was born in Bellows Falls.
He was educated at Trinity college. He
| had filed pastorates in Concord and
| Charlestown, n. H., and birmingham,
| Mass.
| A canvass OF the town for purpose of
ascertaining how many copies of a his
! tory of the town of Rockingham can be
! sold, II one is published, is being made
under the direction of the town history
| committee, of which A. N Swain is
| chairman The results thus far are very
| encouraging for the enterprise, and sub
| scriptions are being received for many
other parts of the country from former
| residents.
The total income of the Bellows Falls
& Saxtons River Street railway for the
year ending June 80, was $ls.S52, and the
| operating expenses were $lS,447. The in
come from different sources was as fol-
lows: From 155.625 passengers carried
Sl5,T2; freight, slS27; express, s493: mails
$i5l The capital stock of the road is
100000 the funded Indebtedness, $4,000
and the total cost of construction and
equipment amounted to $4,000
rf,lrlo
meeting at the high school building yes
terday afternoon upon the subject of the
stamp system of savings for the children
of the public schools. Some years since
one of the grade teachers had n system
of savings bank books through the me-
dunn of which many scholars were in
duced to make their first savings, which
is shown by investigation to have been
persisted in by the pupils through other
sources in some instances. and the ques-
ton of some general system applicable
| to all is under discussion.
A number of the recent Blakley ex-
| cursion party to the st. Louis exposition
had an enjoyable evening at Hotel Wind
ham Monday evening. and presented j..
H. Blakley with an elegant charm en-
graved est, Louis 1901 as a token of
their appreciation of his efforts in behalf
of their enjoyment at that time. A
souvenir roster of the party and remem-
| brances of the occasion CURLY told in
| type were presented to each present and
a banquet was enjoyed by the party at s
o'clock Speech making and stories fill
ed the time until a late hour.
Friends OF the family learn with much
regret that Rev. Arthur Dascomb, young
| est son of the late pastor of the local
| Congregational church, has recently been
forced to give up the ministry owing to
a throat disease The disappointment to
Mr.. Dascomb and his family is great as
he had been an enthusiastic and talented
preacher and looked forward to a sue
cess based upon years of preparation. His
last pastorate, which he left two weeks
ago to take up numbering business in the
Indian territory, was at Austin, Mimi His
older brother, Harry, is pastor of a church
in Huron, Mich.
Something of the extent to which the
changes in the business of the Casein
Company of America are affecting Bel
lows Falls may be seen from the fact that
two years ago the company were employ
ing in their manufacturing department
225 people, and in their Office AS. At the
present time there are but 65 in the man.
ufacturing department and eight in the
office. No one has been appointed as SUI
perintendent of the manufacturing de-
partment in the place of Herbert II
Church, who resigned two weeks ago
Manager Durham overseeing that in ad-
dition to his other duties, assisted by w
w. Allen.
A notice has been served upon the
committee in charge of the work of rails
ing the dam at Minard's pond, for in
creasing the water supply storage, signed
by the residents on the Webb Terrace anC
localities lower down, warning them, and
through them the village corporation tina
they shall hold them responsible for any