Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-10-28
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS



started to apply the brake when the
brake head, of which he had hold sud
denly came off, letting him fall from the
car in front of 1t. He was caught be-
tween the platform and crushed some
what and then fell under the wheels
Doctors Hill, Allbee and Ridden were
called and although he was known to be
very badly injured it was thought best
to take him to a Rutland hospital at once.
The road placed n locomotive and car at
their disposal and a clear track was
given them so the run of SO miles was
made in GO minutes, including a stop of
nearly 10 minutes at Chester. The un-
fortunate man never rallied during the
night Such accidents strongly empha-
size the need of at least an emergency
hospital here and this one will add in
terest to the present effort being made
by the Woman's club to raise money for
a cottage hospital in Bellows Falls.
Mrs James Mcdonald of Brooklyn is
visiting her father, John " Keefe, on
Atkinson street
Miss Dorothy Day went yesterday
morning to Nashua, where she will be a
guest of Miss Elizabeth Day until Mon
day.
L. S. Hayes was reelected curator for
Windham county of the Vermont Histor
ical society at its annual meeting in
Montpelier last week.
Mr.. and Mrs c. w. Osgood returned
Monday evening from Nashua, n H.,
where they had visited in the home of
Col. E G. Osgood on their way from the
Congregational meetings in Boston.
The furniture and all property of the
late Bonheur club were sold at auction
Saturday evening and the receipts were
$3.50. The organization has been aban-
doned and the rooms in Gray's block have
been closed
Those from Bellows Falls who were in
Montpelier last night to attend the gov
ernors ball were Mr.. and Mrs. F. II.
Rabbit, Mr. and Mrs Herbert F. Kelley,
Gen. and Mrs y. G. Williams and Mrs.
Josephine II. Arms.
Wheeler's Bellows Falls band went to
Charlestown Wednesday evening and
played at n Republican rally, at which
the candidate for governor, Mr.. Bass, was
one of the principal speakers They re-
port an enthusiastic and interesting time
with a crowded hall.
John II. Gately. formerly well known
locally as chief of the fire department and
superintendent in the mills of the Inter
national Paper company, left Tuesday for
Vancouver. b c.. where he will he as
sistant superintendent Of a large paper
mill.
Mrs. c. L. Barber and her friend, Miss
Gowing returned Monday evening from
n two weeks trip to new York city and
vicinity. Previous to going to New York
and on her way there Mrs Barber went
to Dedham, Mass. with her mother, Mrs
James Brown, who is now visiting an
other daughter there.
Miss Katherine L. Hogan of "a Green
street was married to Edward Francis
Mccarthy of North Walpole by Rev
Father Reynolds Monday morning in St
Charles church. Mrs. Mccarthy Is a
member of the millinery firm Of Hadley
& Hogan on Westminster street and Mr.
Mccarthy is a brakeman on the Rutland
railroad.
Rev A. P. Pratt and w. c. Smith have
been in Bethlehem, n. H, the last two
weeks, staying at the hotel owned by
w. S. Durham formerly of Bellows Fails
Mr. Pratt returned Saturday and occu-
pied his pulpit Sunday. He went to Beth
lehem again Monday and will return
home tomorrow Mrs. Pratt and their
son are with her parents in Winchester,
Mass.
At l o'clock yesterday Miss Harriette
]. Macdonald, daughter of Daniel d.
Macdonald of 100 Westminster street
was married to Pearl Forest Dyke OF
Springfield, this state. Rev w. r. Dav-
export performed the ceremony in the
home of the bride They We're unattend-
ed. Mrs Dyke is a reader of local note
and Mr.. Dyke is an inspector in the
machine shop of the Fellows Gear Shaper
company. They will live in Springfield.
Arrangements have been made by the
forestry committee of the Womans club
for an illustrated lecture Nov. 10 in the
assembly hall of the high school building
by State Forester A. F. Halves of Bur-
lington, and the same committee have ar
ranged for an exhibit upon forestry lines
to be made at once in the public library
on Westminster street The exhibit is the
same that has been shown at various
fairs and in other towns of the state. and
1t is said to be one of much interest.
Representative F. II. Rabbit seems to
be making good at Montpelier as evil
denced by the many complimentary ref
erences to his work by the state press.
Mondays Montpelier Journal had the
following: Mr.. Babbitt, the member
from Rockingham, talks like a man who
knows precisely what he seeks to ac-
complish and he made an excellent i'm
preston on the House Friday in his dis
cussion of the matter of demurrage. He
gives excellent promises of making a very
useful legislator"
Guy. L. Fifeld of Sc Henry street was
married the afternoon of Oct. 20 by Rev.
A. C. Wilson in the local Episcopal
church, to Miss Olive A. Bourne of Man
chester. Mrs Fiheld has been a steno-
grapher in the office of the Vermont
Farm Machine company some time She
will stay time with her parents in
Manchester. Mr.. F1feld has already gone
to Grand Falls, Newfoundland where he
has employment in the paper mill erected
by Superintendents Riley and Gately OF
this place. Mrs. Fifeld will go later tc
live in Grand Falls.
Editor and Mrs w. c. Belknap return
ed Tuesday from a two weeks trip to
Providence City, Tex, where Mr.. Bel
KNAPP has invested in farm" thus en-
titling him to become a member of the
Grange, His farm of 80 acres Is located
at a point midway between Houston and
Galveston, and he has completed arrange
ments for introducing various kinds OF
fruit on extensive scale As an in
vestment he looks at 1t optimistically
because of conditions which indicate
Providence City as becoming a "city OF
tomorrow" They went by steamer from
New York to New Orleans, taking about
four days, and returned by rail
Representatives OF the Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance union have thoroughly
canvassed this village the past week fol-
signatures to a petition to the present
legislature asking the enactment of q
prohibitory law. While many signatures
have been secured as can always be
done for petition for almost any pur-
pose, many have refused because of the
very evident fact that so far as Bellows
Falls is concerned the present law has
operated to make the village and all this
vicinity much nearer prohibition than II
ever was possible to do under the mos
stringent prohibitory law. If the decrease
and control of the liquor traffic is What
liz desired by temperance people, the
judgment of a great majority of the citi
zens or this locality is that 1t has beer