Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-09-16

The high school football team will open
| its season at Barber park tomorrow,
Saturday, afternoon at 3.15 against New
port high school
Last evening Amity Rebekah lodge
celebrated the 59th anniversary of the
/ establishment of the order in odd
Fellows hall. Miss Emma Giles of Lud-
low, the state president, was present
Superintendent Of Streets j. Il. Law
renee has an important work on hand in
| the construction of a new sewer line on
Atkinson street from South street to
School street Henry e. Bean is directing
the work Of % men in making the eXca-
walton.
Prof and Mrs. T. n. Chase came to
Bellows Falls Friday, and they are
guests of Mr.. Chase's daughter, Mrs
| Edward Kirkland They spent the sum
! ircr at York Beach, and they are intend
! ing to spend the winter in Washington
and other cities in the South.
Albert NJ Shlpman, who represented
the town of Westminster in the leg.sla-
| ture of 1906 and who lives here is a
candidate for the position Of door-keep-
! er of the House at the coming session
| He is receiving hearty endorsement for
| the place from a large part Of the citi-
zens of this end Of the county.
Ray Rand, who is ASSOCIATED with his
| father in the management Of the livery
! stable on Bridge street. was taken to
/ Brattlcboro last week and an operation
was performed upon him at the Memo
/ rial hospital for appendicitis He is re-
/ ported as making a good recovery. and he
| expects TO return home I'm three weeks.
detail of the following eight men
! from Company f left Sunday for the
state range at Northheld 20 compete
/ Wednesday ana Thursday for the Ceuteu-
/ uial trophy cup and prizes i'm gold aEgre-
hoy Cor 1
Mark. Coruorals r. H. H.ndcs and +. H.
/ Rhodes. Musician r. j. Patterson Pri-
| Yates +. T.. Blake. 5. r. Russell J. 4.
Russell and 7. b. Winnewisscr.
An annual examination for clerks and
carriers of the Bellows Falls post office
| VIII take place Saturday. NOV. 3. There
/ are frequent vacancies in the corps Of
/ local clerks and carriers that are filed
from these civil service lists oct ! is
the last date upon which applications for
! this examination can be made to the local
secretary of the first civil service dis
uiet, William \. Mcdonald, Of the Bel
lows Falls post office.
The audiences at the first PLAYS which
have been put on at the opera house thus
far this year have not been as large as
the quality of the plays would warrant.
Last Thursday evening paid I'm Full"
was here. ana Monday evening Beverly
of Graustark" gave an exceedingly inter
/
Man on the Box from Harold McGrath's
| popular novel. Will come. with John
/ Mechan as the leading character Seats
20 on sale this evening
Laurie u. Cox. Bellows Falls high
school. 1900, son of a former local super
intendent of schools, George w. Cox.
| was married last week Wednesday nj
Henniker, y. H.. to Miss Gretchen Smith
Sanborn of that place. After leaving
Bellows Falls young Cox graduated from
Harvard university and has followed the
profession of landscape gardner in New
York city and has been in Bellows Falls
but few times, but is pleasantly re-
membered by many Of the citizens, par
ticularly his schoolmates of those early
days.
Mrs Henry w Porter of Is Forest
street reached home Monday evening
with her daughter after having spent
seven weeks abroad. during which tim,
they visited Mrs Porter's old home in
Scotland They sailed from Boston and
landed at Liverpool, and spent th,, time
at various places in Scotland. including
Edinburgh and Glasgow, spending the
larger part Of the time with a brother IN
Glasgow. On the return trip they sailed
direct to Boston from Glasgow. They
7 had delightful weather and a pleasant
: trip each way.
, Vermont academy opened Tuesday al
, of students Some changes have beer
made during the summer to accommodate,
the new boys. The academy became ex.
clusively boys school with the openinl
of the present term. Edward Moore
b. S, Norwich university will hay,
I charge of the lower school. Other new
: members of the faculty are Luther r
Smith, University of Vermont, English
! and Latin; II. b. Kelley, Dartmouth
French department; Frederick Wood
e lock, Boston public schools manual train
ing
: The local attorneys We're nearly all il
: Newfane at the opening of court Tuesday
: There are only a few cases of local i'm
\ portance to come before this session
: | There are two divorce cases, those o
Mrs. Lewis c. Lowell VS.. her husband
and DR., Edward r. Campbell VS. Mrs
! Campbell. George f. Welsh has been tn,
, local member of the grand jury in ses
! sion there this week, and Henry NJ
: Weeden Of Rockingham and Cecil X
{ Hughes of SaXtons River have been tn,
only petit jurors at court from this
: town, two others having been excused
from service,
r Mrs Sarah Holden, So one of the oldes
! residents who had lived i'm Bellows FALL
! since 1870 and whose husband. Nathan
t lei c. Holden, died in 1855, died at hel
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