Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-14

well as usual the night before, put Wnen
called by Mr.. Burnett in the morning he
was found to be dead. He was carpen-
ter and had lived here % years. He
leaves one son, william, Of Bennington.
For the use of the good roads excursion
of members OF the legislature and mem
bers of the board of trade of Windham
county last Saturday, three cars went
from here. They were those owned by
Gen. N. G. Williams, George H. Rabbit.
and Representative r H. Babbitt, and
they carried the members from this end
of the county. Those who went report
an exceedingly pleasant and instructive
trip.
A number Of friends of the contracting
PARTIES went to Castleton Tuesday and at
tended the wedding of Arthur MacAleese
and Miss Helen V. Farr, which took place
| at the home of the brides uncle that even
| ing Both are well known locally. the
| groom being an employe Of the Boston Il
Main railroad. living at Hapgood street,
| and the bride during the last three or
| four years has been a popular teacher in
No. school building.
| Nearly two years ago an old saw mill
owned by w. c. Beede, located in the
| village of Houghtonvile, was burned
| under very suspicious circumstances, so
| much so that insurance companies re-
! fused to pay the loss. Mr. Beede then
| lived in Brattleboro. He was last week
| indicted by the grand jury at Keene on a
| charge of setting fire to farm buildings
| in North Hinsdale. where he has lived
during the last year or more
Rev. Harry ~ Dascomb, son Of a former
! local Congregational pastor. and who has
| been located for some years at Grinnell,
Iowa, has recently accepted call to the
| First Congregational church of Cleveland,
Ohio. and has already taken up his work
| in that city. His father. Rev. a. 3.
Dascomb, was pastor Of the Congrega-
| tional church here from 1879 To 1880, liv-
! ing during the entire time in the village
OF Westminster where he died Jan. T.
1895.
For three or four weeks the electric
road has had to carry by" where the
new sewer is being laid along Atkinson
street, cars coming up to one side OF the
! ditch and passengers transferring to
another on the other side. The work on
the sewer has progressed so far that the
track has been relaid, and cars are pass
ing now as usual. The sewer will be com
pleted in "a few days, it having been laid
with cement all the way between School
and South streets.
Hugh Hogan, 49, died in the Cottage
hospital in Lawrence, Mass. Tuesday
morning and the body was brought to
Bellows Fails Wednesday for burial yes
terday in the old Catholic cemetery Mr.
Hogan was born i'm Putney. but he had
lived In Bellows Falls since childhood
! lie nal Detu IN Lawrence rev years
| following the business Of a horse train
cr His father lives here, also a brother
Edward, and two sisters, Mrs. Edward
] Barrett and Miss Anna Hogan
Deacon c.. W. Osgood, accompanied by
| Mrs and Miss OsEood went to Boston
Monday morning for "a stay of two weeks
/ or more Mr.. OsgOOd Is in attendance
this week upon the national council OF
/ Congregational churches IN session there
as a delegate from Vermont Rev. 4. Z
Pratt. Mrs Pratt ana Mrs Mary !.
Bowers are among those also In attend
ance upon the council. The pulpit Of Or
Pratt viii be occupied next Sunday by
Rev. George +. Lawson Of Vermont acad
envy.
An immense piece of iron. WEIGHING
so tons, for the new bridge at West.
minister. passed through here one dan
, I recently loaded on five nat cars upoi
: which it rode by an ingenious mechanism
When IL came to unloading at West
, minister and getting 1t to the location
over the river it was found TO he "a large
! | engineering problem than had been tx
pcctcd, and but little progress had beer
, made in the removal toward the rive
/, after some days The bridge is all com
5 ing in larger pieces than is usual in sucl
| uuderta kings.
The Womau's club held its first meet
! ing Of the season Tuesday afternoon 30
odd Fellows hall. Among the matter
e ! Of business discussed was the need of NOR
t | available rooms I'm which to hold Tn,
e meetings this year and the desirability O
e ! Banquet han FOR the purpose was fav
orably considered. Many Of the ladie
| feel that climbing two flights Of stair
to reach the hall used last year is {,
| much effort II was decided that tn
= | club issue a new cook book at once III,
e ! proceeds OF which will form the nucleus
q of a fund for establishing a cottoge hos
S pital in Bellows Falls. an institutlo,
V | much needed