Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-03-15

Bishop Hall will make his annual vista
| ton to Emmanuel church Sunday and a
| large class will be confirmed in the even
| ing.
The senior class of the high school will
| hold a food sale in the assembly hall of
! the building tomorrow for the purpose of
| augmenting the Washington trip funds.
Mrs. f. l.. Ranville returned Friday
from five months stay in Freeport Me
Lynn, Mass and other places, and has
begun keeping house again at 29 School
street.
John w. Wright, one of the older citi-
zens of the village, who has been spend
ing the winter in Athol and Holyoke, has
returned here and is now visiting in
Grafton.
change of time on the Fitchburg
road, taking effect next Sunday, starts
the Sunday afternoon train from here to
Boston at 1.55 instead of o'clock as
formerly.
John G. Patterson, who for ii years has
had charge of the Thompson Basin farm,
has resigned his position, having bought
a farm in Putney, known as the Marshall
Pierce farm. He will move there April
Edward Barry, who for some months
was employed in the printing office of
e. L. Hildreth & Co., at Brattleboro, and
has recently been with p. II. Gobe here,
went Monday to Woodstock where he has
a similar position
State Superintendent of Education NJ. s.
Stone has requested the Bellows Falls
schools to arrange Tor sending to the
jamestown exposition an exhibit of art
work, and the preparation of the samples
has been begun during the past week. 10
II. a. DERRICK, who has lived here a
number of years and had the position of
route agent of the American Express
company, has been transferred to the
Boston general offices and will remove
IN the near future. He left Bellows Falls
Monday.
The annual inspection of Company Z
has been set for Friday. of next week the
I'D, and the boys are making preparations
for the event The public are invited to
witness the inspection, which is to be I'M
der the direction of a regular officer of
the United States army.
A settlement of Bellows Falls people
are gathering at Mount Clemens. Mich
to get the benefit of the medicinal baths
there. Among them are F. H. Rabbit
and family who went a week ago, Gard
ner T. Wheeler who went Tuesday, Miss
Alice Jennings, and Herbert S. Gray will
go within few days.
Fred Campbell of Westminster West
lost valuable horse last week by an
accident that occurred on the crossing of
SaXtons River road. A load of wood was
overturned and the pair ran with the
front runners of the sled. One fell and
was dragged by the other until its leg
was broken in three places, necessitating
killing it,
National Bank Examiner Frank L. Fish
of Vergennes and Bank Examiner Luther
A. Cobb of Island Pond were in town yes
terday and the day before upon their Off
ciai rounds of the state banks. Mr. Fish
took the opportunity to deliver a very in
teresting lecture upon Abraham Lincoln
at Vermont academy Wednesday evening
and member of citizens went out from
here to hear him.
Ernest R. Ball, who was so seriously
injured by falling and breaking the bones
OF one leg last September and who it
had been feared would have to lose his
limb, is gaining slowly and is so he
gets about the house little on crutches
at the present time, but it will be some
months before he will be able to resume
his work in the Office of the Fall Mountain
Electric Light & Power company.
The ownership of the "Model Press "
the new job printing establishment To-
Gated over the Gates garage. has changed
during the past week by Henry F. Spit-
Zenberger buying Saturday the interest
Of his partner, Henry F. Gould, and Mr..
Spltzenberser is now the sole owner The
coy" pliSnIheIit mas secured good patron
age locally besides making a speciality of
printing scenic post cards for different
localities in New England
: A fire alarm Friday evening about 7.3O
.(o9k the department to a brisk blaze that
was IN progress in a shed adjoining the
placksmiths shop of the Bellows Falls
machine company on the island Fire
mad communicated from a bar of hot iron
which had been cut off in the shop lust
before the workmen left, and the piece
had been careIessly thrown out into the
shed The shed was nearly DESTROYED
peIore the department got in their work
but the property loss was not large Ad-
joining as it did the main shops of the
company it might have been a disas-
uous matter had it occurred in the night.