Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-22

/ 'e'i'T' 90 llu'l VI IlOIC IMAM last year.
\ team of Bellows Falls bowlcrs are
| in keene this afternoon, where they are
| llned up against Rutland team at the
! Brunswick alleys
Company f is having a benefit enter
| tainment of moving pictures in Union hall
Tor the purpose Of replenishing the
| treasury An entertainment given last
night will be repeated tonight.
There were f26 births recorded in the
! town in 1906, as compared with 100 the
year previous. There were 40 marriages,
! as compared with 81 i'm 1905, and 90
/ deaths compared with rs in 1905
| Rodney Ober, go one of the Older resi-
| dents of the town. died at his home in
/ SaNtons River Friday. He had spent his
whole life in the vicinity of Saxtons River
| and was man highly esteemed by all
| who knew him.
William u. Hayes who has been at
! work the past six weeks in the pine
| forests of Quebec and Ontario. north of
| Ottawa. stopped with his parents here a
| few DAYS during the past week He left
for Asheville, North Carolina, Tuesday
afternoon.
NJ. Holmes & Co have become settled
| In their new quarters i'm the south half
| of the Otis Arms building during the
! week. and the store which the firm va
Gated in the north half is being made
| ready for the occupancy Of Mason Bros
for their musical trade. which will be
removed from the Barber building on
Henry street extension
Gardner T. Wheeler has resigned his
position as baggage master at the local
station and the place is being filed by
h. A. Codding. Mr.. Wheeler is obliged
| to make a change on account OF his
| health, not having fully regained his
strength since his recent severe illness.
He is employed just now by the r. & NJ.
road in Springfield, Mass.
DR. NJ. c. Donovan Of Rutland recently
| established himself as an optical special
ist in Bellows Falls, taking rooms over
the Gates garage on Westminster street
Mrs. Donovan has been critically I'll at
their rooms during the past week and
was Saturday night operated upon for
appendicitis by Drs. James +. O'Brien and
DIR. John T. O'Brien, the latter Of Green
field.
The basketball team of Co f have
been defeated twice the past week: Fri
day evening in Union hall by Dartmouth
10, score 16 to 10, and again Tuesday
evening at White River Junction. score
IS to "A. At White River Junction the
team was so unfortunate as TO lose @S5
which was stolen from the boys room at
the hotel and no trace has yet been found
of il.
Conductor n ]. Woodfal who runs a
passenger train between here and Boston,
was housed all last week with an attack
of the grip. but resumed his run Monday
His son, Guy. who is baggage master
also between here and Boston, was in
jured while on duty last week and has
been in a Boston hospital. gaining rapidly
His injury was a severe cut upon one arm
caused by breaking a window in his car
The annual check list of voters has
been printed and posted during the past
week and contains tho NJ 1910 =
ers. The civil authority OF the town
will meet at the town clerks Office Sat
urday at 10 a. m. for the purpose OF
making any corrections in the list. The
BIS" lead in number. 159. The SIS
have 1879 and the "W's" have 1888 There
are Is of the name of Cray, all descend
ants of Eugene Cray, who came here from
Ireland many years ago and died in 1905
OF those on the list OF that name, five
have the name Eugene. There are q
Smiths" on the list, but they comprise
many families. not related.
Tuesday evening Wheeler's Bellows
Falls band held their annual election OF
officers, choosing f. p. Taft manager and
leader. G. B. Wheeler assistant manager
and director and A r. Smith secretary
and treasurer. The band now has II.
| full complement OF 20 men and Is in
hourishing condition. Some disappoint
ment was expressed over the village fail
ing to make the annual appropria ton o.
$500 for outdoor concerts as in recen
years, but the members all express loyalt!
to the organization and 1t Is probable tn,
! village will have as good a band as IT
former years but when used II will have
to be paid for, which is as it should be
The members cannot be asked TO devot,
their time and furnish all the funds too
! for the benefit of the public
Theophilus Holt, with one exception
the oldest person in the town of Rocking
ham, celebrated his cath birthday ami
versary Tuesday al his home in Saxton
River. He was born in 1918 and came Il
Saxtons River in March, 1895, and, will
the exception of two years in the thirties
has been a resident of the town conJinu
ously since For many years he was ont
of the owners of wooden mills al Cam
bridgeport and SaXtons River. He is &C
tive and as clear in his mind as n mucl
younger man. His eldest daughter 4
the wife of DR.. II. d. Holton of Brat
tleboro. The person who exceeds Mr.
Holt in great age is Mrs. Crissan'
(BaleYJ Whiting, widow of John d
Whiting, who lives with her daughter
Mrs Henry Weston. on the Upper Mead
| ows, She was born March 90, 1911. anC
so will be 90 next month. She also re
| tains all her faculties to a remarkable de
gree and is able to do a large amount o
| homework.