Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-07-15
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Dee returned
Monday from their wedding trip. They
are living at Al Henry street.
Mrs. George Gale of Natck, Mass,
visited briefly at George o. Guilds, en-
route to their summer home at Sunapee
lake.
F. H. stoughton post C. A. r., and
associate members, will hold a picnic
at Barber park the second week in Au-
gust.
Miss Eva Knowton Of Brattleboro re-
turned Monday from a two weeks vaca-
ton and resumed work in the town
clerks office.
The daughter Of E. E. Ferguson, of
Claremont is i'll with typhoid fever in the
home of her grandmother, Mrs. e. w.
Brown. Her mother is caring for her.
The annual convention of the under
takers of Vermont will be held here
in the knights Of Columbus Hall Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday of next
week.
Mr. and Mrs. c. f. Howard have re-
Gently opened their cottage at Blodgett's
Landing Sunapee lake, and Mrs How
ard will remain there during the sum
mer months.
The canvass for the new issue of the
Bellows Falls directory which has been
in progress two months is now completed.
The book will be ready for distribution in
a few weeks
Bert E. Merriam Of Hackensack, N.
j., formerly superintendent Of the Rock
ingham schools, was in town from Fri
day to Tuesday on his way to his summer
home in Gilmore.
Henry p. Sweet, who has for the last
year and a half lived at No. School
street has recently bought the Muzzy
place in North Westminster and will
move there in the course of month.
Miss Flora NJ. Davis of Henry street
has been spending the past week In
Brattleboro Mrs. Sherman NJ Davis of
Minneapolis has been spending the time
with Miss Daviss mother, Mrs. Marvin
w. Davis.
Mrs. George Underwood, who has been
spending several weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs Booth, returned Tuesday af-
ternoon. Wednesday morning she fell
on the stairs in her home and sprained
her ankle.
Dr. and Mrs. A. p. Pratt and son, Rob
ert. went yesterday to York Beach, Me,
to stay two or three weeks. DR.. Pratt
will preach here July 81, and then go to
Silver Bay, Lake George, to stay two or
three weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Pollard spent last
week in Bethlehem at the hotel owned
by William S. Durham, formerly Bel
lows Falls business man. On their re-
turn Saturday Mrs. Pollard stopped at
her old home in Hartland
Extensive repairs were made Sunday
on the water power plant of the Fall
Mountain Electric Light and Power com
pany, a gang of 20 men being employed.
The current was shut off a part of the
day in all parts of the village.
Miss Emma Webb who recently sold
her residence on the corner OF Atkinson
and Henry streets, went this week to
Salmon Falls, N. H., to remain several
weeks. Her plans are not completed, but
she expects to keep her home permanent
ly in Bellows Falls.
An alarm was rung in from box L
Sunday morning at Ills, smoke being
issuing from a tower in the wood mill
of the International Paper company. The
fire proved to have been caused by spon-
taneous combustion, but was put out in
less than five minutes by the use of the
chemical.
George o. Matt, a stenographer in the
Vermont Farm Machine company's office
who last winter took the civil service ex'
animation in Rockland, received notice
Tuesday that he had been appointed q
stenographer in the war department ir
Washington, d. c. He and Mrs. Matt
leave for their new home next week.
The Misses Marian Clark and Marjorie
Winnewisser assisted by Miss Prudence
Gibson. volinist of Charlestown, gave {
recital in the Congregational church Fri
day evening. Miss Clark proved her
self a fine reader and Miss Winnewisse1
that a years training under a goot
teacher in Boston, added sweetness Il
what was already a fine voice.
A meeting of the subscribers to thu
capital stock of the New Industry com
pany was held in banquet hall Monda!
evening, when a corporation was formed
to erect the building asked for by thu
Interocean Shirt company The sub
scriptlons to the capital stock have beer
satisfactory although there is still op
portunity for others to show their gooC
will.
The Bellows Falls baseball team con
tnues it's winning record. The new pro
fessional team from Keene was defeated
in Keene Wednesday 80. Mayo al
catcher and Conelly as pitcher formed
the Bellows Falls battery. Mayo caugh
and Parkman pitched Saturday when tn
Winchester, n. H, team was taken int
camp To. Bellows Falls batted freel,
in this game, getting IS hits, Thompson
leading with three. The Greenfield
Mass, club will be here Saturday.
Union services of the First Baptist an
First Congregational churches which vii
continue through the remainder of Jul
and August, were begun at the Baptis
church last Sunday During July tn
services will be held in the Bapais
church. Rev. John Ward Moore vii
conduct them July II and "a; Rev. A.
Pratt on July 81 During August the ser
vices will be held in the Congregations
church. August Rev. Asher Anderson
d. D., will preach; August IA Rev. r. W
Roundy of Hartford, Conn; August
Rev. ]. w. Moore; August 2S Rev. A. F
Pratt These services will be held onl
in the morning.
The Ware correspondence in tn
Springfield Republican Tuesday contain
ed the following: 1.-THE school committe
met yesterday afternoon with Superin
tendent G. w. Cox and filled three va
cancies in the corps of teachers. One o
these appointments was made necessar
by the resignation recently received o
Miss Angie G. Allbee of Bellows Falls
Vt, as teacher of science. This resig
nation was received with much regret
as Miss Allbee in her four years of ser
vice made a fine record. She Is to assis
in the scientific department at Noun
HOlyoke college, her alma mater, an
pursue further her studies at the sam
time"
Three bicycles were stolen Saturda
within a few hours, and only one ha
been recovered. Deacon John o. Sprin
left his wheel near Barnard Bros, stor
in the forenoon and when he returne,
for 1t 1t had disappeared. A small bo
happened to see a Polish boy about 1
years old ride the wheel toward the tol
bridge, and he followed and overtool
him, recovering the stolen property blu
the Polish boy escaped. Within an hou
bicycle owned by a son of ]. j. Fentol
was taken in front of the national banl
and another owned by Post Office Clerl
Plouffe was taken from near the entranc