Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-24

Miss Agnes Elmendorf, for many years
a teacher in the Bellows Falls schools
who has taught. in Portland, Me, the past
| year, has accepted a position in the Ben
nington schools for the next year.
The rustic theatre at Barber park will
! be opened Memorial day for the season
| by the May Hillman company The COM
| pany has been here some weeks rehears-
! ing and promise to excel their great
| success of last season here.
| Capt c. f. Burnham has been in Bur-
! lington most of the time during the
last two weeks, having a law suit in
| Chittenden county court with his former
partner. His counsel has been Charles
Williams and Capt G. H. Thompson of
| Bellows Falls. The jury disagreed.
! Arrangements are being made by the
| Christian Endeavor societies to attend the
meeting of Black River union in Chester
| next Monday and a number of delegates
will go. one of the principal speakers
will be J. Dexter Hyde, recently a mis-
sionary in the Congo Free state. The
I state secretary, Miss Grace Young of Fair
! Haven, and Rev. Mr. Cronkite will also
be among the speakers.
Byron A Robinson, B. F. H S 81 has
just returned from a trip to Panama as
civil engineer for the government and
tells interesting details of the extensive
work upon the canal in which he has
been engaged. He has been gone about
two months and was accompanied by
V. *. Nash an engineer known locally
in the construction of the SaXtons River
electric road.
Mrs. Thomas p. Marston of Minneapolis
died in that city April Z. Both she and
her husband were former residents of
Bellows Falls, Walpole and Charlestown,
where Mr. Marston was widely known
from his connection with the hotel and
railroad business, He was at one time
manager of the Island House. They re-
moved to Minneapolis in 1885 and have
lived there since. She is survived by her
husband and three children.
Charles NJ. Stanley, employed by Nor
cross Bros. of Worcester, Mass, was ar
rested here Wednesday upon a charge of
| injuring the auto of John E. Babbitt
near Fitchburg, Mass, Sunday. It was
claimed that he passed the machine of
| Mr.. Rabbit in such a manner as to
crowd Mr.. Rabbits machine into the
/ ditch and injure it to the extent of $50.
| Mr.. Stanley was on his way to South
! Royalton and plead not guilty to the
charge, leaving collateral with the officer
to guarantee his appearance later for
trial. He had some of the Norcross fam
lily with him in the car.
Next Sunday evening being the last
service at which Rev. c. w. Jackson of
the Baptist church will ohiciate previous
~ HIS ISliiONdl " NlOuldHdt lNe METHODIST
Congregational and Universalist churches
! will give up their evening services and
join with the Baptist congregation in
bidding Mr., Jackson a "Godspeed" in his
new location. A farewell reception will
be rendered to Mr.. and Mrs. jackson in
the church parlors Tuesday evening, to
which the public is invited, and in which
number of speakers from Bellows Falls
and elsewhere win take part.
Joseph E. Sylvester, 60, died at his home
in North Walpole Monday, and the
| funeral was held in St. Peters church
! yesterday morning. Mr. Sylvester was
a Frenchman, born in Canada. He came
here from Cavendish in 1879, having
worked for the Fall Mountain and In
ternatonal Paper companies ever since,
most of the time in charge of the men
engaged in painting about the mills He
was member of the Grand Army and
his face will be missed in the procession
next week for the first time in 25 years.
He was a genial man of good Judgment
and of executive ability.
Ernest r. Ball, who went a week ago
to the Boston hospital TO have the casts
removed from his leg and hip, has re-
turned. The condition of the leg is much
improved from what it was when the
casts were put on a month earlier. and
they were replaced again for another
month. He is now able to walk about
town with crutches and is warmly greeted