Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-08-04
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS

Madame E. p Knight went yesterday
to her old home in NARROW to spend a
few weeks .acatlon.
A. w. Truax has acted as lay reader
at the services of Emmanuel church for
the past two Sundays in the absence of
the rector.
Miss Frizzel, the district nurse, return
ed Tuesday from her months vacation
spent in Prince Edward Island. She has
relieved Miss Lundwald, who took her
place.
The place of Rasley c. Bdwell, cash
Ter of the Vermont Farm Machine COM
pany's office who is on an extended va
cation at Sunapee lake is taken by j. II.
Whitney.
Miss Nellie Burnett, who has been en-
ployed in Claremont hotels the past few
months, came home recently i'll with APP
pendicitis. She has improved somewhat
but will be taken within a few days to a
Burlington hospital for an operation,
The Dorothy Lewis company, which
has been this week playing to good
houses at Barber park, will begin Monday
a weeks engagement at Rutland, and
next week the troupe of which Miss Alice
Lawrence is the star will take the place
here.
Next Monday the new wrapper factory
of the Pollard Manufacturing company
will be opened for business in the Conant
block on Canal street, and it will even
tually employ about 80 girls, giving en-
ployment to a class that were deprived of
work by the closing of the Casein COM
pany.
Contractor E. 1. Kilburn has begun
work upon an important contract for the
erection of the Stafford Memorial town
hall building at Wallingford, VT, it being
a gift of the late A. p Stafford of that
NTr I
as superintendent of the work. which is
to be completed by March 1906.
The last employees of the Casein COM
pany, which two years ago was employ
ing a large number of workmen, We're
discharged Tuesday, except a few who
are cleaning up the buildings. The board
of trade are in communication with some
firms who wish to occupy the plant with
other kinds of business and possibly it
will not long be idle.
The sessions of the states prison in
vestgatng committee which were held
the first three days of this week at
Judge Allbee's Office in Centennial block,
were attended by as many of our cit
liens as could easily find room in the
small Offices and proved interesting,
sometimes exciting. Gov. Bell was in at
tendance during most of the sessions.
The local driving club will have another
meet tomorrow at Lowell park and some
BOCQ racing Is promised. A special train
will be used to take the visitors up, the
same as two weeks ago. Thirty horses
are entered in the different races. The
special train will leave at 100 and re-
turns at G. Interest in good horses and
their development is more in evidence
here this year than any year before.
Rev. c. w. Jackson is absent upon his
vacation and there will be no services at
the Baptist church next Sunday. Pastor
Leavitt of the Universalist church is also
absent and that church will be used by
the Congregational society, whose church
edifice is undergoing repairs, and in the
absence of Rev. j. I. Stocking his place
will be taken by Rev. F. B. Harrison OF
. Brantford, Ont. Father Reynolds of ST.
Charles's church was i'll last Sunday and
mass was performed for him by Rev.
Father Eugene Cray of Barre, who hap
pened to be visiting his parents here Mr.
and Mrs. John Cray.
The negligence suit to recover $40, 900
damages for the loss of life has been
brought against the Casein company OF
Rockingham by H. w. Spafford of Rut-
land as administrator of the estate OF
John ]. Bomhower. Bomhower, who was
employed by the company, was killed July
20, 1908, while cleaning a mixing machine
The power was turned on while he was
thus engaged and he became entangled
in the machinery and was killed. 1t is
claimed in the writ that the defendant
company Is Responsible lndSmucn as II
failed to employ competent workmen and
a suitable and safe place for its employees
to work in.
The care taken by the state of Massa-
chusetts in relation to stamping out the
scourge of brown tailed moths is shown
in the fact that as soon as the sensation
al statements made in Boston papers re-
garding the pest having appeared here
came to the notice of the chronological
department of the state Prof. A. H.
Kirkland of that department sent his as
sistant to Bellows Falls to investigate the
story. He came Friday and interviewed
all who had been in any way connected
with the story and then examined all
parts of the village where the unfounded
rumors had located the pest but stated
emphatically that there was not a scin-
tilla of evidence to show there had been
one of those moths found here this year
The result was gratifying to our people
who feared there might be cause for the
statements.
Charles White, a well known barber
formerly employed by S. d. Hartman
here, was arrested in Keene Monday
morning and brought to Bellows Falls to
answer to a charge of burglary and theft
He left here during the night a year age
last March, taking with him various
tools from the shop where he was en-
ployed, and which he entered after the
shop was closed that night. He also took
goods owned by various people about
town, including ]. ]. Fenton, Hatch &
Bellows, and a sum of money which he
secured possession of from the millner
Mrs. Pauline Howard-White, whom he
had induced to marry him only a few
days before. White was brought before
Justice F. B. Pingree by States Attor-
ney Ryder Monday afternoon and a
small portion of the evidence was shown
resulting in his being held in the sum OF
*5CO' which amount he was unable to
raise. He was taken to Jail at Newfane to
await the September term of court