Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-13

Weeden of that city. Mr.. Smith is step
son of N. G. Williams and was a popular
young man in his school days here.
Rev. F. w. Raymond of Hamilton, N.
Y, occupied the pulpit of the Congrega-
tional church last Sunday. lie is a grad
uate Of Amherst college and of Yale Theo-
logical seminary, at the latter in the
class with Rev. Rodney w. Roundy of
this town.
The monthly report of the meetings of
the bailiffs discloses the fact that the
funds of the corporations are entirely
exhausted and that if the regular eX-
penses of the village are to be kept up a
special meeting will have to be called to
raise money for the purpose.
Madam IIadley of South street has de-
cided to close her residence the coming
winter She will go next week to Lowell,
Mass, where she will spend the winter
with her daughter, Mrs. c. f. Grover.
Mrs. Lila Gates Hadley has taken rooms
on South street with Mrs. Folsom and will
take her meals with Mrs. Angie II.
Vaughn.
The following is from the Woodstock
Age Miss Jane Picard daughter of
Mrs. Murty Picard and Mr.. Otis Haselton
of Bellows Falls, were married Saturday
morning (Sept. 800 at o'clock, at the
Catholic parsonage, by Rev. E. c. Drou-
hin. They left by the morning train for
Bellows Falls, and are at present residing
in Foxboro, Mass, where Mr.. Haseton
is employed"
Albert H. Chandler, treasurer of the
Trust company, married Wednesday even
ing Miss Ada Edwards at the brides
home in Richmond, The bride is well
known in Bellows Falls, having been a
stenographer in the office of the YER
mont Farm Machine company some years.
After a brief trip they will begin house
keeping in the NJ. +. Davis's tenement on
South street.
During the high wind of Wednesday
night one of the largest and most shapely
elm trees in the village was broken off
at the butt, which was nearly three feet
through. 1t was located on School street
in front of the brick dwelling formerly
owned by Otis b. Arms and nothing about
the tree had indicated weakness. 1t was
decayed almost it's entire size, the sap
passing through a space only three
inches thick on one side.
The present registration of the high
school is as follows: Post graduates, q
seniors 80; juniors, 90; sophomores, 80;
freshmen, SO; total, 1856. Although there
were 1856 enrolled last year, the daily
attendance never went higher than 1862 or
1853, so there is an actual gain in at
tendance of two or three. The senior
class is the largest in the history of the
| high school. The freshman class also is
record breaker there being about so
students in the class this year. The pres
ent junior chass has probably suffered the
greatest loss The class last year num-
bered 40
The printing of the history OF the town
of Rockingham will be begun next Mon
day by Frank S. Written of Lynn, Mass,
who has the contract 1t is expected the
work will take several months before the
books can be delivered to subscribers.
Mr. Written will be in town tomorrow in
I Of q
town history committee in relation to the
general plans and illustrations of the
! publication. Mr.. Written is a man who
| learned his printers trade in the Bellows
Falls Times office and has an extensive
! plant in Lynn, Mass, Where he has lived
many years He is the city printer Of
| Lynn.
Henry G. Fleming, president OF the
! Union Railway company of Memphis,
] Tenn, who has been spending the past
week with his sisters, Mrs. Burnside and
! Mrs Barker returned to Memphis yes
! terday accompanied by his wife, who has
been in Bellows Falls since July /. Mr..
! Fleming passed his boyhood days here,
! attending school, and in 1870 graduated
| from Williston seminary, Easthampton,
! Mass. He became a civil engineer and
! since 1871 has been engaged largely in
! the construction of a number of the most
| important western railroads He was in
/ the construction department of these
| roads continuously until 1880, and since
that time has been in the construction and
| operating departments of a number of
different lines. He comes to Bellows
| Falls nearly every year and enjoys re-
calling the Bellows Falls and its associa-
tons of 40 years ago.
The bridge commissioners of Vermont
| and New Hampshire, whose meeting in
| Brattleboro was reported in The Phnnix
last week, had a session here Thursday.
II. a. Perry of Walpole gave figures of
| the cost of the Walpole- Westminster
bridge which was freed in 1870, and +. A.
| Bolles of this village presented the figures
OF similar accounts concerning the towns
| of Rockingham and Walpole. Much Of
! the discussion was with reference to the
disproportionate burden which has been
| thrown upon Walpole, which joins in sup
porting three bridges, while one of them
the old toll bridge, is used but little by
people of that town, the traffic over it
coming from Alstead, Langdon and Ac-
worth. The general sentiment of the
towns of Rockingham, Westminster and
| Walpole seemed to be in favor of having
the states reimburse them to some extent.
This feeling is especially strong in Wal
pole, where the citizens all think they
have more than their share i'm maintain
ing three bridges. so near each other
In the United States court at Rutland
Wednesday a case that had been on trial
a number of days i'm which The Inter-
national Paper company was the defen-
dant was decided in the company's favor.
Joseph Henry of North Walpole who was
employed in the mills here, an Dec. 2s,
1902, had the fingers of his left hand
badly mutilated in a buzz planer He
brought suit against the company claim
ing the planer to be in imperfect working
order, and as it was defective and he an
inexperienced hand, the company was
grossly negligent The company met the