Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-04-14

urday, called there by the sudden dea tn
of the mother of Mrs. Williams
George B. Blake, the Boston & Maine
yardmaster, is taking a months we'll
earned vacation. He started Wednesday
on an extended trip through the West
At the meeting of the Woman's club
Tuesday afternoon, seven delegates were
elected to represent the club at the annual
meeting of the American Teachers asso-
citation.
Father Corcoran of Hillsboro Bridge
formerly of North Walpole, has received
the appointment of priest of the parish
at Rochester, N. H, succeeding Rev.
Father Brady
Oscar e. Hapgood, formerly in the di-
vision office of the Boston & Maine rail-
road, but lately in the office of the In
ternational Paper company, has gone to
keene, where he has a position as book
keeper in the Beaver Mills
Fred N. Young of the Bellows Falls
Machine company went Wednesday morn
ing to Clayville and Brownsville, N. Y.
in each of which places he will set up
machinery which the machine company
has been constructing here for some
months.
Through the agency of the Woman's
club The Ladies' Of Crawford, Mrs. Gas
Kills well known story, will be presented
to the people of Bellows Falls Tuesday
evening, April rs. The cast will include
the best dramatic talent of the club and
the event is being looked forward to with
much interest.
known to it heretofore. Considerable in
terest is being exhibited upon the disputed
question whether it will ever be possible
to fill the pond to the new height which
is 1--WE feet above the old level, and par
ticularly as the village voted a year
ago to raise it ten feet, but the committee
stopped at five.
Minard's pond is filling rapidly at the
present time, the height of the water
now being about seven feet above the
pipe at the intake. The height of the
water above the pipe when the water
flowed over the dam previous to its being
raised last year was nine feet and four
inches. At the present rate Of filling 1t
Will soon begin to fill above any level
Gen. N G.. Williams, who returned from
the inaugural ceremonies i'll, has been
confined to his room and to the bed nearly
all the time since. During the past week
he has bedn able to ride out a few times,
and hopes soon to return to his desk in
the office of the Vermont Farm Machine
company, as well as his important place
as chairman of the state committee which
is investigating the penal institutions
Daniel f. Beasley, for some years a
well-known business man, who during
the year when Rockingham had license
held the license for bottled goods. died
at his residence on futile street Sunday
Sunday morning. The funeral was held
from ST. Charles church at O'Clock
and was attended by the various
secret societies of which Mr.. Beasley was
member. The body was taken to
Keene for interment.
The residence on Henry street. built
some years ago by Fred II. Rabbit, has
hNy II
VIII occupy 1t about June 1, or as soon as
Mr.. Rabbits new residence on the cor
ner of Henry and South streets is COM
pleted. The tenement on South street
which has been occupied by Mr.. Davis
has been rented by e. II. HENDERSON, a
travelling man employed by CHM & Co,
publishers of Boston
Rt. Rev. Alexander Vinton, bishop of
western Massachusetts, visited Emmanuel
church Tuesday, and in the evening de-
nVered an interesting sermon to a large
audience, although the night was an ex-
ceedingly stormy one. In the absence OF
Bishop Hall he conducted the confrma-
ton service to a class of four This
visitation Of Bishop Vinton was expected
to occur last Friday evening but was
unavoidably postponed.
II. D. Ryder was panied to learn of the
sudden death Sunday morning of Austin
II. kennerson a member of the firm of
CHM q Co., publishers, OF Boston. They
were classmates of 10 at Dartmouth and
the warm friendship of college days had
been cultivated during the succeeding
years He was so years of age. Mr.,
Ryder Joined the funeral party here We'd |
hesday noon and went to Barnet Vt |
where the interment took place. Mr.
HENDERSON left a widow and one son.
Edward H., a graduate of Dartmouth in |
the class of '03, who is known to MANY |
Bellows Falls residents.