Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-04
RIBBONS.

and kept open house Monday evening.
Cards and music formed the entertain
ment and refreshments We're served. The
old year was watched out and the new
one welcomed by the party in royal style.
Andrew NJ. Darling, a well known COM
positor of the Times Office some years
since, died Dec "a I'm the Massa chusetts
General hospital in Boston. He had been
employed the past six years upon the Bos-
ton Transcript He leaves a wife. a mar
ried son, and two young daughters. The
interment was in Lexington. Mass.
The many friends of DR.. and Mrs. Chas.
F. Meacham took pleasant notice of the
18th anniversary of their marriage at
their home last Friday evening 4 party
of about 40 called and had an evening
of enjoyment in social intercourse music,
exchange of greetings and upon their
departure, substantial remembrance of
the evening were left with the couple
\ small fire was discovered Sunday
afternoon in the basement of the photo
graph studio Of p n. Goddard near the
stairs. 1t had started from a nod OF
hot ashes and had gained some Roadway.
An effort to ring an alarm from the box
at the corner of Hotel Windham was UNI
successful, but a line of hose was laid
and the fire eXtinguished with only a
slight damage.
The new directory Of this town and
North Walpole is being distributed this
week. The number OF names contained I'm
the last directory issued covering the
same territory was 1867, while the new
one gives 1895. 1t is possible that the
new owners, the H. \. Manning company
of Springfield, Mass. win hereafter issue
this directory annually instead Of ben-
nially as heretofore.
The local lodge of Knights of Pythias
have elected for the coming year the fol-
lowing officers: Chancellor commander
G. d. French; vice chancellor, A. II.
Alvord; prelate, II. G., Chandler; master
of work, E. NJ. Hall; keeper of records
and seals, j. A. Bush; master of finance,
\. a. Whitaker; master of exchequer,
G.. A. Goodell; master of arms. F. H. SAN
born. The installation will be held this
evening.
During the funeral of the late Wyman
Flint last Friday afternoon places of bust
ness on the square We're very generally
closed. The honorary bearers We're John
T. Moore. u. H. Allbee, II. c. McDuffee
George r. Wales, II. p. Bancroft, and
DR.. f. r. Campbell. The bearers were
old employees of the Wyman Flint & Son
company-Alfred Godsoe, John Murphy,
Eugene Foster William Ashcroft, Will
liam Provost, and Nicholas Powers
EX-State's Attorney Charles Batchelder
of Windsor county came to Bellows Falls
and established an office about a wear
ago He remained here until June. when
he suddenly disappeared, and although
search has since been made for him 10y
his father and other friends, 1t is not
known here that any trace of him has
| been found His office furniture and
books that were in the Office room oc-
cupied by him over Goodnow Brothers
4 Pearsons store have been attached and
will soon be sold at auction by Sheriff
A. II. Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. d. ]. Reynolds Of South
| Charlestown had a serious smash-uI
| saturday afternoon at the Bellows Falls
end of the new steel bridge As they
came to the Vermont end of the bridge
the horse became frightened at an cleo.
trio car and ran toward the north. The
occupants of the sleigh We're thrown out
Mr., Reynolds struck against a tree ana
was picked up unconscious. He wa,
| badly bruised, and had a deep cash cut
over his right eye. He was able to bC
| taken to his home Wednesday and 1t (.
not thought that his injuries will b,
| permanent.
| The Come Eat "A Lunch, which was
! burned out by the fire of Christmas morn.
! ing in Harris building, has established
| itself again and is doing business in the
| quarters formerly occupied by the MILL,
| merry store of Mrs. c. II. Shepardson or
Westminster street The Bellows FAN.
bakery, C. w. Stuart proprietor, the cigal
factory and lunch room of Exner &
Holmes, and the barber shop of James e
| Byrne, are each doing business at thei
old stands in the damaged building thii