Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-29

some months lived in Bellows Falls and
managed here the business of the Cres-
cent Tea company of Springfield, Mass
has removed his headquarters to that
city and will direct the business from
there, being in Bellows Falls and vicin-
ity four days every two weeks. He has
been in town this week.
Miss Marion Clarke is at home on ac-
count of the holidays, having just re-
turned from a week in New York state
with the Schubert male quartet. Miss
Clarke is reading with great success I'M
der the Management of the White enter
tainment bureau of Boston and is al
ready booked for an entire season next
year under the same management.
Edmund NJ. Powers. 10, of North Wal
pole, a plumber who has worked in va
rious places in Bellows Falls died sud
denly in his home Friday morning. He
had been i'll only since the Sunday pre-
Vious. He had worked the last three
years at the paper mill of the Moore &
Thompson company. He was a son of
Nicholas Powers, a long-tim resident
here
The family of John Barjonis, a Greek,
who has lived in the rear of the Derby &
Ball snath shop, moved to Keene last
week. This family has been in the lime
light at different times on account of re-
ports of suffering from lack of food and
clothing. In November a child died and
the authorities made it plain to the man
that unless he cared for his family bet
ter he would be sent to the work house
and made to work and his family taken
to the town farm. This has resulted in
his migration.
The Christmas tree exercises in the
different churches were largely attended
as usual. Those of the Congregational
church were held Friday evening, those
Of ha Ro or
and those of the Methodist and Unver-
salist churches Monday evening. All de-
nominations, including the Episcopal and
Catholic, had special observances Sun
day, both morning and evening, and the
music was unusually fine Springlike
weather prevailed with bright sunshine
and no snow, and the thermometer
ranged from So to As during the day.
The report of the town clerk. made
yesterday, of the vital statistics of
Rockingham for the month of November
shows: Births 10, of which four We're
females and nine males; marriages nine,
of which in five both parties were resi-
dents of the town, two neither were resi-
dents and two one party was a resident;
II deaths five of which We're females and
six males, The average age OF the per-
sons who died was SO years, the oldest
rs and the youngest three months. The
usual residence of one was Boston, and
one Westminster, with nine residents of
this town.
The hospital committee of the Bellows
Falls Woman's club during the last week
have received a gift to their fund OF $500
from Mrs. Aaron Arms of School street.
Some months since Mrs. NJ. L. Bowers
donated $500, and the local knights of
Columbus contributed s50010, and these
with many smaller gifts have swelled the
available fund to about $4,000. Aaron
Arms was a prominent business man
here many years, his last years being
in 1877 at the age of As years. His widow
has since lived in her residence at
10 School street, and their only daughter
lives in Brattleboro.
William A. Doyen, a man of whom
little is known locally, has leased the Ho-
tel Rockingham and will take possession
Monday. The building is being thor
oughly renovated and improved. The ia
cilities for lodging travelling men here
have been entirely inadequate for the
past few months since the Rockingham
average of more than 1t could accommo-
date the nights of the middle of each
week when commercial travellers are nu-
merous. Several nights from two to six
commercial men have had to go to
Springfield on the night train, and else
where, In order to secure lodging. The
re-opening of the Rockingham will be
welcomed.
Mr.. and Mrs, John P. Riley left here