Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-22

Arthur Coolidge has been very i'll for
the past two weeks with grip. but at
the present time is convalescent.
\ social will be given this evening in
the parlors of the Congregational church
by the Christian Endeavor society.
ferences with the Bellows Falls plant.
but it is not positively known what will
be the outcome of such a general up
| heaVal.
The date of the production Of Esther"
which has been rehearsed for many
weeks by the w. c. T. L., has been set
as Feb. 90.
y meeting of the civil authority of the
town for the abatement of taxes will be
held at the town clerks office saturday,
Jan. 30, at 10 a. m.
y Pit Party" and chatting dish supper
will be given by the Young Mems club
of the Congregational church on Monday
evening in the church parlors, it being
ladies night with the club.
\ large party of the Masonic fra
ternity from Bellows Falls went to Al
stead Tuesday evening and attended the
annual district meeting and banquet OF
the order that was held there.
The marriage engagement is announced
of Principal Walter d. Parsons to Miss
Boynton, a teacher in the High school of
/ Woodstock. from which school Mr. Par
]
/ The basket ball team playing under the
name of the Bellows Falls Athletic club
won a game Friday evening of last week
| over the Company | team of Brattleboro
on the local floor by score of IS to +.
/ Fred Newcomb of Barnard, who has
been employed as colporteur by the Yer
/ mont Bible society several years, and
/ has been at work in Brattleboro, called
on friends in town the first of the week.
/ Mrs jeanette c. Houghton. 81 wife of
/ y. II. Pierce died at her School street
home Sunday morning, after severe i'll
ness with brights disease. Mr.. and Mrs
Pierce came here from Athens about four
years ago, and she leaves many warm
friends in both places.
The January meetings of the state
! board of agriculture will be held In
Grange Hail. at Rockingham. Friday
January %. the sessions beginning al
1870 a. m. and 100 and 40 p. m. The
sessions will be under the Craftsmanship
of c. ]. Bell. secretary of the board.
The annual report of the corporation OF
| Bellows Falls has been distributed among
/ the tax payers this week and shows g
total expenditure in 1903 of $50 06l TO- as
against $l7.S9223 in 1892. The bailf:
recommend a tax of p cents for genera
purposes and % cents for the highway
department.
The lecture at the opera house Tues
day evening by Dr. Thomas T. Green
on The Key to the 10th Century" wa.
greatly enjoyed by the very large audi
ence present Dr. Green was brough
here by the Womans Club, and the re
cepts from the lecture go towards de
fraying the expenses of the district nurs
now engaged by them.
The debate al the High school building
Monday evening. under the charge of tn
Young Mems club of the Congregations
church. on the question, Resolved. Tha
labor unions have thus far been detrl
mental to the best interests of the PEG
pie" was decided by the judge in tn
affirmative. The debaters We're: Afiirma
tive p. II. Miner and Frank Knight, an
on the negative, V. y. Deming and a. c
Smith
The B. F. II. S. basket ball team ha
played two games during the last week
one Saturday evening with the Cobb
Academy team at New Lebanon, n. II
resulting in score of 80 to 6 in favor O
our opponents and Monday evening the
defeated the Vermont Academy team a
SaXtons River with a score of % to 2
The 3. 2. II. S. team playing the forme
of these games was composed mainly O
substitutes, only two of the regular tear
playing.
Following the removal of the genera
offices of the Casein company to Me-
York on Jan. l, Gushing Adams, genera
manager of their local plant, togethe
with A D. Charles, John Regnier, II. +
Church, and II. A, Summers, heads c
various departments of the office an
shop, have resigned their positions, leaN
ing w. F. Bradley as the only depar
ment head remaining. Marcus Allen, 6
the head of the company's Chicago offiC
has also resigned. 1t is expected thf
the company will fiji these places as 500
as possible, not making very great di
The death of George Wellington, S
a former well-known wooden manufa'
turer of Cambridgeport, occurred in Boz
ton on Jan. 8. Mr.. Wellington owne
and run the extensive mills at Cambridge
port from about 1875 to 1885, employing
large number of men and women. Sin(
the sale of his property there, which VIZ
subsequently burned, he had lived
Boston He leaves a brother, Georf
Wellington, of West Swanzey, N. II
and two sons, George Fred Wellington
Chelsea, Mass, and Walter Wellington
Boston The two latter We're well know
in this town % years ago