Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

| miles" When this route was established
a few years ago, the salary was but $500
per year and when the expense OF the
| two horses necessary was paid IL left but
little margin to pay for the work done.
This evening the scholars OF the 7th,
| Sth and 9Th grades will have an interest
| ing concert in Assembly hall. the pro-
| ceeds to be used in the purchase of pic
lures for the different rooms in the
building. It is under the direction of
| Superintendent Merriam
Hotel Kimball. at Saxtons River, which
| has been the past year under the manage
ment of Landlord Shepard of Hotel Wind
ham and the two run together by means
OF the connecting street railway. has now
| been leased by George W. Cate of Fall
| River who has already taken possession
The annual high school concert Friday
evening was decided success in every
way and merits fully the praise that is
being given It. 1t shows the musical
talent of the pupils of the schools of
| Bellows Falls to have been well Guilt
waited and the possibilities for the fu-
ture are of the greatest.
The annual drive OF logs of the Inter-
national Paper Co., coming from the wild
Ammonoosuc in New Hampshire, began
accommodating in the boom during the
day Sunday The large drive OF the Con-
necticut River Lumber Co. Is some dis
lance behind this drive this year, from
the longer distance that it comes
The matter of lack of postal facilities
between Burlington, Rutland, Bellows
Falls and Boston has been complained
of to the post office department and has
resulted in a betterment. The complaint
was that the night mail train leaving
here for Boston at 230. and reaching
Boston at a. m, did not secure deliv-
cry of its mail in that city until after
noon, while that reaching Boston a half
hour later via White River Junction and
Concord caught the first delivery, ena-
bling orders TO be filled the same dav.
Investigation showed the cause to be lack
OF clerks on the Fitchburg division, so
that the mail could not be worked out
before reaching Boston in proper man
ner' while this lack did not exist on tine
other line. The result of the kick" has
been that an additional clerk has been
put on the train passing through here
and that the mail will reach Boston par
ties and those in its suburbs at a much
earlier hour hereafter.
The village of Drewsville is troubled
over its postal facilities and wide va
rience of judgment as to what is best for
the greatest number is expressed. The
once is small one, paying about $50
per year. II. b. Putnam formerly a
Bellows Falls merchant, has been post
master many years, but recently resigned,
and no suitable person has been found
VINO VIII take II. The village could prob
ably be better and more promptly ac-
commodated by rural free delivery from
Bellows Falls than otherwise, but this
would bring the income into another
state, to which Congressman Currier OBJ
1eets. The nearest New Hampshire Of
fees from which 1t could be served are
Walpole and Charlestown, each farther
distant than Bellows Falls. Neither one
have as good mail facilities as this viii
lage could give, and it is a question
whether the people of Drewsville will be
subjected to inconvenience to crafty the
wish of not disturbing congressional
lines. Bellows Falls wants the business.
as do each of the other offices mentioned,
but the argument of best facilities and
shorter distances is with Bellows Falls.
Meantime mail addressed to Drewsville
goes to the Alstead post office.