Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-08

Miss Mary A. Read is temporarily tax
ing the place of the assistant in the
Walpole high school, Miss Whitney. who
is i'll.
The state board of agriculture will
hold institutes at Rockingham next
week Friday and at Saxtons River on
Thursday, the 21st
A bill has been put before the New
Hampshire Legislature to incorporate the
village of North Walpole, and it will
probably become a law.
\ sleghride to Chester was given Fri
day night by the high school students
and participated in by some over 80
supper at Hotel Fullerton was followed
by a dance,
Mrs. Hctty Green has been in Boston
during the past week contesting the pay
ment of bill presented 10 her of &c.
600 for professional services by Attorney
5. l.. Whipple.
The Fall Mountain Light and Power
company lighted the Unitarian church
in Walpoe for the first time last Sun
day evening, the church only recently
having been wired.
Rev. Jay T. Stocking of Newton, Mass.
who preached last Sunday a. Amherst.
! Mass. went home via Bellows Falls and
spent Monday night with a number of his
old Pensioners of the Congregational
| church.
| Miss Marie Mevina Parrot of Williams
/ street, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
/ PARROT, was married at the Baptist
/ parsonage in Keene last Saturday to
/ William Floyd Cleveland Of st. Johns
| bury. The officiating clergyman was Rev.
| Joseph Walther.
Percy Ricard formerly a foreman of
! the Vermont Farm Machine company,
| now of Montreal, married here Tuesday
Margaret Sullivan, graduate of Bellows
| Falls high school, 1896. They left on the
night train for Montreal, where they are
to make their future home.
Trains have been sadly disarranged on
| all roads the past week but the Fitch
burg had the greatest trouble Tuesday,
! owing both to the snowstorm and to a
| wreck that occurred near Waltham. The
| passenger train due here at 9.35 a. m.
did net reach here until about and the
mail ald flyer came in soon after.
One of the most delightful occasions OF
the season was the subscription dance
at Union hall Monday evening, under the
patronage of Mrs. John II. Williams,
| Mrs e. S. Leonard, Mrs. George r.
Wales and Mrs. f. L. Thompson. About
| 100 couples were present, the decorations
were fine and the buffet lunch served in
the hall was a delightful innovation
The new board of village trustees
elected Monday held their first meeting
| of Police Thompson, and Mcdonald, his
assistant The old board of special Off
GERS were reappointed. Fire department
! chief ]. II. Gateley, was reappointed
and the appointment of street commits
sioner was held open until next meeting
| the old incumbent acting until some ac-
ton is taken. 1t was found necessary to
authorize a loan of $500 to meet in
| debtedness accumulated during the last
few years until the taxes are collected
Rev. Chauncey C. Adams, a Bellows
| Falls boy who has been pastor of the
| Hinesburg Congregational church the past
| three or four years, has resigned that
position to accept the pastorate of the
| Congregational church in Essex Junction
| which he will assume March l. He
| graduated from the high school here In
| 1892, from Dartmouth college in 1896, ano
Chicago Theological seminary in 1900
| He has held pastorates at Port Byron
ILL.,, and at Hinesburg and supplied the
Franklin VT, church some months and
has made an enviable record in each
place. Many local friends are pleased
at his advancement. He was one of a
number of young men who were led into
the ministry through the teachings OF
the late Rev. ]. Ellsworth Fullerton Of
the local church.
The barn of George B. Wheeler, ada.
cent to his residence on the corner OF
Westminster and Hapgood streets, was
seriously damaged by fire Friday night
The cause is entirely a mystery. Fire
originated near the head of the stairs
leading to the hay NOW, possibly from
some smokers pipe or cigar, and had
gained considerable Roadway before
Fred Clark, who sleeps in the building
was awakened. He at once loosened the
horses on the first floor and then aroused
Mr.. Wheeler and tried to ring in al
alarm at the corner of Westminster and
Atkinson streets, but only the bell OF
the Methodist church responded, thu
whistle machine proving defective by thu