Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-10

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ago.
owen E. Murphy, a former well-known
Bellows Falls boy, who now lives in
Arizona, is a Justice of the peace in that
state and was elected recently to the
office of county recorder of Cochise
county.
A. A. Halliday, the well-known local
fruit grower, has been appointed by Gov.
Mead one of the delegates from this
state to the national horticultural con-
gress to be held in st. Joseph, Mo-, Nov.
2S to Dec. 2.
Father Wilde. formerly priest of st.
Peters church, was in town Friday call
ing upon some OF his old parishioners.
He had been in a Manchester, N. II.
hospital several weeks and intends going
soon to Florida to spend the winter.
Ar organ rectal which was much en-
joyed was given in the Methodist church
Tuesday evening to a fair-sized audience
by Prof. r. H. Brigham of Northampton,
assisted by Miss Lottie NJ. Smith of
Fitchburg. The proceeds go to swell the
fund for repairs on the church.
The Walpole Inn at Walpole village
was closed for the season this week by
the proprietor, A. NJ. Mills, who has had
a record-breaking patronage during the
past summer, particularly of automobile
parties. Mr.. and Mrs. Mills will spend
some time in Woodstock, this state.
All III lIdIStllltllS " NV PttC'''
annual exhibition of the Connecticut
Valley Poultry association were com
pleted Tuesday evening at a meeting OF
the directors and members. Twenty-one
new members were added, making the
total membership 81. The exhibition Will
be held in Union hall Dec. b, 9 and l.
The narrow escapes of persons from
the dreaded bullets of careless hunters
begin to be reported here. Monday
morning b. c. Mason, who lives on the
New terrace near the line of woods on
Oak hill, found a bullet which had pass
ed through one of his doors and, striking
a brick or stone, had become fiattened.
Prof. Carl Northrup, formerly of this
place, who is teaching in Waterbury,
Conn, underwent a surgical operation
for the removal of his tonsils Monday,
and had a narrow escape from bleeding
to death, it being six hours before the
flow of blood could be stopped. Mrs. c.
f. Meacham is with her daughter, Mrs.
Northrup.
Thomas ]. brisbane, who for some
years has driven the fire department
team from the Oak street station and
who lived over the station, died We'd
nesday of tuberculosis after many
months of severe suffering. A brother
is dangerously i'll with the disease at the
old homestead of his father, Dennis D.
brisbane, just south of Bellows Falls in
Westminster
a college bazaar will be held under the
auspices of the branch Of the
smith Students Aid society, in the va
cant store of the Edward Arms building
tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon. Tea and
chocolate will be served and flowers and
delicious homemade food and candy will
be for sale. The proceeds will go toward
e%ndowing a free bed in the college hospi-
tai at Northampton.
a union missionary institute will be
held here Tuesday. The afternoon ses-
sion will be held in the Baptist church
and the banquet and post p|randial speak,
ing will take place in the Congregational
church in the evening. Several speakers
will be on hand. The various churches
of the town will unite to make this a
unique and successful rally of all the
women's missionary organizations in Bel
lows Falls.
DR.. Edward r. Campbell, who has
been in poor health for the last year,
was taken Saturday with indications of
heart failure, which caused his friends
considerable anxiety. 1t was decided
to move him to the New England sani-
tarium in Melrose, Mass, for a few
weeks and DR.. O'Brien accompanied him
there Sunday. Reports received since
then show him to be gaining in strength.
Edward j. Howard of 16 Centre street,
a railway postal clerk between Spring
field and Newport, married Miss Nellie
Keefe Of 81 Atkinson street in st. Charles
church here Monday. They will live in
a new house bought recently by Mr..
Howard in Kings field. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Father O'Brien.
The couple We're attended by Miss Anna
7. Howard, sister of the groom, and
Lieut.. John w. Slattery of Norwich uni
versity.
r. A. Hussey, formerly a barber here
and in SnXfnng piNsnr 10 nAu nrnYrtnta,
of the Peoples cafe in the town hall in
Chester. He was married two weeks age
to Miss Mary Walsh, who had managed
the cafe three years. on Friday evening
the newly married couple gave a recep-
ton and dance in the town hall which
was attended by a large number of the
Chester citizens, who gave them many
expressions of good will. A Bellows Fails
orchestra furnished music.
The Connecticut Valley Poultry asso-
citation is making elaborate and extensive
preparations for the second annual poul.
try show in Union hall December 5 and
Z. The $500 challenge cup to be awarded
year by year to the exhibitor scoring the
most points is now on exhibition in the
window of Collins and Floyd's jewelry
store. The Brown Leghorn club of Yer.
mont will make its headquarters her,
during the exhibition. remium blank:
and entry lists may be secured of A. T
L lNlNt, pclO"S rams. L. u. 1TOlA MAJ
been elected superintendent of the show
. Timothy j.. Shea, a practising attor
ney of Syracuse, N. y, and probation
officer of that city, a son of Mr.. anC
Mrs. Jeremiah Shea of 81 Green street
this place, was married to Miss Margar
2 ct Gertrude S~canlon, daughter of MI
and Mrs. ID. u. Scanlon of Syracuse OF
Thursday morning in st. John tn
Baptist church, in that city. The brida
couple will be at home to their friend
after January at 500 Alderman avenue
e Syracuse. Mr.. Shea was a member o
the class of 1904, Bellows Falls higl
v school. A younger brother from her
attended the wedding.
II. l.. Pitcher, who ran a local res
0 taurant and lunch room under the nam
= of Cometa lunch on Westminster stree
, a rev years ago, Is now proprietor of
lunch room in Burlington under the sam
name. He married in Troy, n. Y, las
week Miss Edith Kinville. an employe q
his Burlington restaurant. They sur
prised their friends and patrons by thei
return from an excursion as man an
wife, The Burlington Free Press thu
- comments: lover the d%oughnuts and cot
y fee cups Cupid perched himself and she
: an arrow that hummed over the cookin
- range and cash register and hnall
pierced the heart of Mr.. Pitcher. benin
the desk"
The lecture on forestry under tn
. auSDiceS of the WOman's cluh Tuesda