Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS

Hattie F. Benson has been appointed
executriN of the will of her late husband,
Dexter Benson, Of Rockingham.
T. T. O'Brien is a candidate for the
Office Of county clerk made vacant by the
recent death of J. H. Merrfeld.
Bellows Falls lodge, No. %. l. o. o. F.,
has the management this evening Of the
popular fraternal play. David and Jona-
than" at the opera house.
The Mummy and the Hummingbrd'
is to be the attraction at the opera house
next Wednesday evening, under the man
agement Of John +. Brosnahan.
The will Of the late George +. Ball
named his mother, Elizabeth NJ. Ball, as
executrix, and +. L. Walker and T. T.
O'Brien have been appointed commits
sioners
The Truax Printing company has
passed into the hands Of A. W. TruaN.
His brother, Wilbur y. Truax. who estab-
lished the business, is now located In
Brockton Mass.
The pulpit of the Methodist church will
be occupied Sunday by Rev. r. +. Buss.
d. D., Of Burlington, financial agent for
the University Of Vermont and pastor Uf
the local church over 40 years ago.
w. \. Sargent is critically i'll at his
home on Westminster street. having suf-
fered a severe paralytic shock last Thurs
day night. He has been many years an
employe Of the Derby & Ball snath shop.
The annual meeting of the Rockingham
Town Sunday School association will be
/ held In the Congregational church sun
day at Z p. m. Prof. St John Of the
/ Hartford school Of pedagogy will give two
/ lectures, at and p m.
There will be a meeting next Sunday
| at u O'Clock of the United Irish league
/ at a. O. H. hall to make arrangements for
I a large public meeting upon the occasion
Of rL a-fs ETn1 lie q ftaf1l ord
Hazelton. one of the Irish ENJOYS to the
/ United States in the interests Of the home
| rule cause Of Ireland.
The fund Of the senior class Of the high
school for the Washington trip mas now
| reached about $3.50, and the junior class
/ for the purpose next Monday evening
/ They have engaged Marc the magician
/ and entertainer, who will hold forth at
| the opera house that evening.
Pasquale Baldassarre, a former we'll
/ known business man. is located now In
/ Wiliamstown. Mass. where he is hand
/ ling a large gang Of Italian labOrers en-
gagged in making underpasses under the
lines OF the Boston * Maine railroad sim
liar to the work carried on by him in
North Walpole a few years ago.
The local company OF the Vermont
| National Guard has organized a first class
. basket ball team and been practising for
will have match game with the team Of
| Company r Of Mortified Both these
/ teams are In excellent training and an
/ interesting game may be looked for. A
dance is to be held after the game.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar w. Hart were the
[ recipients OF numerous Courtesies and
CongTa tulations last Saturday evening at
their home, Old Terrace street. 1t being
the occasion of the 25th anniversary OF
their marriage. They were presented
with a box containing solid silver tea
and desert spoons. the gift OF members
Of the Methodist church and other friends.
Frederick w Bancroft Of Boston has
been a guest OF John II. williams a por-
ton OF the past week. He was scheduled
10 give one Of his lectures for ..le ben
eft OF the Klifa club at the Billings IL
brary in Burlington on Friday evening
but on Thursday he wired the club from
here that he was Ill with laryngitis ard a
postponment to a later date was ne
! cessitated.
A. VI. Richards the Rockingham street
butcher last Saturday took down the
large buffalo that has hung in front Of
his market for some weeks and has this
week been serving his customers with
delicious buffalo meat The hide and
head Of the animal prove TO be among the
finest taken in many years. The ANNA
weighed about 1900 paunds instead OF
1900 pounds as first estimated.
Three new members OF the board Of d.
rectors Of the National bank OF Bellows
Falls were elected at the annual meeting
of the stockholders Of that Institution OF
uesday-George r. Wales and +. :
Leonard OF Bellows Falls. and Lucius c
Richardson OF Westminster. The othe
members OF the board, re collected, arr
|; Hugh Henry OF Chester, James II. Wi
liams, John II. Williams, and c. +. Rob
eTtson.
sr-t .4ray 20 -,
has arranged for a play entitled Bach
elor Hall" to be given in the opera hous
Feb. $ The cast will include a r. futile
+ j. Piper. \. W. TruaX, Ernest Bowen
Lieut. D. F. Pollard. Capt A R Smith
Thompson. Henry Holmes A r. Smith
Madeline Babbitt, Grace Williams. Mar
l. Holmes. and Rena OBryan. The pla
promises to be one Of the leading event
! OF the season.
Arrangements have recently been mad
for consolidating the Paper Makers an
. the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Work
/ ers unions, the two local union organ
/ izations Of the paper making industrie
in this town. II is expected that the eigh
hour tour system OF labor will be in
, / augurated within a few weeks by tn
Interna tional Paper Co. Efforts hav
been made to induce the independent mill
: to establish the same schedule, and
will probably be done.
The livery stable on the square TOT
. merly owned by II. S. Frost, now by +
h w Trowbridge, lost a team Saturda
night A man and woman came to tn
= stable and hired a team for an hour 10
a short local trip. and did not return
n Sunday and Monday Mr.. Trowbridge b
( the aid Of the telephone. kept officers
surroundings towns watching for the ril
= Word was received Monday night that IN
}. team turned up in Keene late Saturda
- night having been left at Desmond
stable by the man and woman, who prob
!. ably continued their trip toward Bosto
= by train. Mr.. Trowbridge went TO Keen
Tuesday and drove the rig back here, fee
n ing he had gotten out Of the scrape prett
well.
The following appeared in the Bosto
Globe under date of Jan. as a despatc
from Bennington: The marriage
Lieut.. Fred Sherbourn Morrison, V. y. C
10 of Bellows Falls and Miss Mabel Niol
I Holt occurred at her home late this after
| noon. None but relatives and intimat
e friends were present. Rev. D. W. +
/. Washburne OF Middlebury oflciate'
n There were no attendants, The date 81
a lected was the 10th anniversary Of tn
o birth of the brides father and the 81:
anniversary of the marriage of her pal
t ents Among the out-of-town poop
present were Harry and Carl Morrlso