Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-09

Among the lecturers of the Woman's
! club for the coming year will be DR.
Russell p Conwell, Henry Turner Bailey
| and Dr. Charles Eastman
Mrs. Gardner T. Wheeler has been taxi
ing the place of Miss Bessie THOMPSON
In the Boston Maine freight office dur
| ing her two weeks vacation.
During the absence of Mrs. Lula Parker.
who is spending month in Westminster
| and Claremont, Miss Addie Iandon is
organist at the Baptist church.
The Lorne Elwyn Co. have been playing
TINS week at Barber park, 1t being the
second visit here this year. The May
Hillman company will return next week.
The school board have decided upon
Monday, September 8, as the date of
! opening the fall term of public schools,
| instead of the previous week, as mad been
| expected.
Charles Bradford is detained from his
work in Harriman's barber shop. He is
suffering from abcess on his foot
caused by an injury received in dismount-
ing from his bicycle.
Gen N. G. Williams was appointed
vice president Of the Valley Fair last week
| by President Pierce, to fill the vacancy
| caused by the death of the late T. Nell
son Hastings Of Walpole.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Underwood started
| this morning upon a carriage drive
v.
| their objective point being Wardsboro
| where they will visit a few days.
Miss Florence Sherburne returned Fri
| day evening from a visit of a month at
the home of Miss Lillian Brown in Shell
don She served in her usual place at the
| organ of the Methodist church Sunday
Rev a. p. Pratt exchanged pulpits last
| Sunday with Rev. Mr.. Whitcomb of
| Westminster, and the previous week with
Rev. L. II. Ballou of Chester He goes
to the seashores of Maine next Monday
for two weeks stay.
George c. Drolette, son of Joseph Dro-
lette of this village, who is EMPLOYED by
NJ. Zundel, local junk dealer is in Spring
field, Mass, where he will answer today
before the courts for an alleged assault
upon small girl in that city. He has
been held for some days under $1,000
bonds.
In the breach of promise case of Irene
Massucco VS.. Dominica Tomasi which
was decided against Mr.. Tomasi several
months ago, when $4,000 damages was
awarded has been heard by the supreme
court the past week, the decision re-
versed and the cause remanded for an
other trial
There were II arrests in Bellows Falls
during July by the police department,
and of this number seven were for dis
turbance of the peace. six for drunken
ness, one each for larceny, obtaining
money under false pretenses and assault
Ten paid fines assessed. and seven went
to Newfane.
Walter l.. Mains circus drew a fair
audience both afternoon and evening
Tuesday and gave a very satisfactory
show Most of the circuses the last few
at some distance from the centre of
Bellows Falls, but this one pitched their
tents on the Morgan meadow at the north
end of the town.
Rev. L. Olin Sherburne of the Metho-
dist church, who was offered the position
of Vermont agent of the Bible society
last week, has not as yet decided the
question. He has steadily refused in re-
cent years the position of presiding elder
on account of its requiring his absence
from home so great a part of the time
and he hesitates at this time for the same
reason
d. p. Neyland & Co. lost a pair
of work horses Tuesday morning, for
which they had recently refused $500
They were being used in drawing ferti-
lizer from the basement of the Bridge
street livery stable where there was a
steep incline on the bank of the canal
They were unable to draw the heavy
load up, and il pulled them back and the
cart went over the bank into the canal,
drawing the team with 1t. Both horses
were drowned before they could be extri-
Gated.
William d. Hayes, who on July l was
placed in charge of the United States
planting station at Pocatello, Idaho, is
just now temporarily acting supervisor in
charge of the Raft River Cassia, Port
| Neuf and Pocatello national forests, or
as they were formerly called "reserva-
tons" He recently declined an offer of
the forest service to spend three years
in the Philippines at a salary of sl40O per
annum and all expenses, which would in
clude trip around the world but he
preferred his present position in this
country.
A current item this week in the state
papers is to the effect that ID. f. Barrett,
who died recently in Washington was
the youngest captain in any Vermont
regiment during the civil war" at age of
%. Bellows Falls had the youngest
colonel to take a regiment from Vermont
during the war. Col. Edwin II. Slough
ton, for whom the local Grand Army
post is named, was a Bellows Falls boy
who organized and drilled the Fourth
Vermont regiment, and was appointed
colonel in 1861 at the age of 20. The
regiment took part in many of the battles
and he served with such distinction that
he was promoted to be a brigadier gen
, eral Nov 8. 1862. when but "a years old.
He was captured by the rebel captain,
Mosby, March 9, 1868, and confined in
Libby prison until May, Z, 1868. from the
fully recovered. He died from consump-
ton Dec. %, 1868.
William w Felt of West Rutland has
been spending some weeks with his
cousin, Miss Emma f. Webb Of Atkinson
street. Mr. Felt was born in this town
and worked as a carpenter in this village
over so years ago. He is a brother OF
Wells w Felt, an early owner of the old
| Bellows Falls Stage house, and later one OF
the best known hotel men in the West
owning various hotels in st. Louis. Mr.
r Felt recalls many of the residents here
of half a century ago and talks interest
ingly of them and of local conditions al
that time.
! Rev Father Reynolds Of st, Charles's
church has throughout the strike taken a
strong position from his pulpit that the
, men should return to their work He
published a long article last week in the
local paper taking the same position ano
: placing the matter and his reasons in q
very reasonable light. His position has
caused much feeling upon the part OF
some of his congregation, and this week
a committee from the local union, COM
posed largely of his Pensioners, answer
! him also in the local paper, each making
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