Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-09-30

The Valley fair tickets sold at Bellows
Falls this year numbered 426 Last year
the number was 35l.
Tonight occurs the annual meeting and
banquet Of the Young Mems club of the
congregational church
Miss Mary Spofford went Friday morn
Ing to Nashua, y. H.. where she viii be
the guest Of the family Of Col Edward
G. Osgood some weeks.
Fred Short. an employee Of the repair
department of the Boston & Maine road
was seriously injured while working
under car in the North Walpole yard
Friday.
Two Bellows Falls women died las
week at the Rratteboro Memorial hos
pital, Miss Mabel Martineau and Kath-
crime J.. Hogan, both well known local
mlliners.
The annual excursion to New York via
the Rutland road ami Hudson river
steamers Will occur Wednesday. October
y, and the Boston excursion from that
road will be the same day.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
OF the Vermont Valley railroad is To b.
held next Wednesday at the National
Bank of Bellows Fails. John II. WI
liams is clerk Of the corporation.
Next Friday the annual inspection. pa
rade and BAH Of the fire department will
take place. Various contests have been
arranged for the day. Maynard's or
chestra of Keene will furnish music in
the evening.
Among the licenses TO hunt wild game,
issued this year at the town clerks Office
four are to ladies' They are Miss Ger
trude a. d. Jakway, Miss Mary T.. Land
fear, Mrs. Dallas f. Pollard and Mrs
Bertha NJ. Gillett.
Judge Charles II. Robb of Washington.
| accompanied by his wife and son, came
from their summer home at Falmouth
last Thursday evening and have been
here most of the week They will go to
Washington within a few days
Charles ]. O'Nen of North Walpole
was elected a member of the Democratic
state committee of New Hampshire at
! the convention held in Concord last week.
| He was in attendance, as was also Will
liam II. Kiniry, as delegates from Wal
| pole.
b. c, Mason has leased the residence of
| i. s. Hayes at No. Green street, occu-
pied the last two years by the family of
| Superintendent NJ. O. Edison, and Mr.
Mason and family are already moving
! from the house of w. w. Slate on Oak
street.
A collision occurred in the yard of the
Fitchburg road a little above the engine
house Tuesday morning about O'clock
| between n freight train and a switch
engine. Three train men We're more or
less hurt two being taken TO the hospital
at Keene.
King Solomon's Temple lodge of
Masons conferred the third degree last
Thursday evening and the occasion was
made very pleasant and interesting
About 80 members of the order were
present at the Masonic temple, and re-
freshments were served after the work
was completed.
Work has begun this keek in earnest
upon the erection of the new Polish
Catholic church building at the corner
of Green and Williams streets. The con-
tract has been taken by Builder Frank
Coniff of Rutland 1t is to be similar in
many ways to the ST. Peters church in
North Walpole and will cost approx
mately $4,000.
Augustus II. Pratt, "a, died Saturday
evening in his home on Russell street. He
was a veteran of the Civil war and had
| carried bullet in his head more than
40 years, received at the battle of Fred
ericksburg, He was a corporal OF Com
pany !, 2d Regiment of Vermont Volun-
teers, and has been in feeble health for
a number of years.
Joseph Fortier, who lives at No. As
| Bridge street, while on his way to his
work as section man of the Boston &,
| Maine railroad Saturday morning, tried
| TO jump on a moving freight car near
the Fitchburg bridge. His foot Slipped
ana went under the wheels and was
| terribly mangled. He was at once taken
to the Memorial hospital at BrattIeboro
ana later adviees are to the effect that