Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-08-18

spending a two weeks vacation at Lake
Sunapee.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Walker left Mon
day afternoon for sojourn of a week or
two on Cape Cod
Miss Edith l.. Ray returned Wednesday
from six weeks stay at Cape Cottage,
near Portland, Maine.
Mrs Walter Perry and daughters, Miss
Grace Perry and Miss Mabel Perry and
Miss Edna Gibson are at Spofford lake
for an outing.
Edward Barrett, superintendent of the
International Paper company's mill here,
went to Gens Falls Tuesday evening on
a business trip.
Warner A. Graham and Louis e. Will
son left here Sunday afternoon for trip
in Nova Scotia. They expected to go by
water from Boston.
Mr. and, Mrs. j. C. Day returned last
week from a three weeks vacation spent
at different beaches along the Atlantic
coast and at Providence.
The Windham County association of
the G. A. r. will hold a business meeting
at Barber park Thursday, Sept. T. They |
will be the guests of e. II. Stoughton |
post.
George b. Allbee has decided to sell his |
extensive plumbing business, There are |
| two plumbing stores in Bellows Falls and |
each seems to be doing a lucrative bust
ness.
Arthur S Allen of Hartford, Conn, is
| spending the week at the home Of NJ. II.
| Ray on Rockingham road. Mr.. Allen was
connected with the Vermont Farm Ma
| chine company during the winter and
| spring of 1910.
| a. NJ. Bragg of this village has con-
| tracted to erect a 25-foot addition to the
| Masonic building in Alstead. He began
| his work with a large force of men Mon
/ daV mOrnipu iS In ia of cd n nd
| ready for occupancy by Nov 10.
| Guy a. futile, son of Principal A. L.
| futile of the Bellows Falls high school,
| has been elected principal of the Hope
| dale, Mass, high school for the coming
year. He has been principal several
| years Of the high school in Proctor
William D. Hayes of the United States
Forest service, who has been spending a
| two months vacation in this locality,
| will leave Tuesday on his return to his
experiment station on the side of Pixies
| Peak He is accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Gretchen.
| Samuel J. Coolidge has accepted a
| position this week in a machine shop in
Gardner, Mass. If he likes the place and
the business he expects to move his fam
| lily there. Mr.. Coolidge has been a life
| long resident of Bellows Falls and owns
| desirable home on Cherry street
DR.. A. L. Miner has bought during the
| past week a Ford runab bout of the c. S.
| Gates garage. Five of our local physi-
| clans now own machines. When the re-
| cent list of automobile owners in the
state was printed Bellows Falls was
] credited as having &C. This number has
| been increased probably since to about 70.
George f. Sherman, who assumed the
| management of the Brooks House in
Brattleboro Monday, is a hotel man well
and favorably known in this locality
) For many years he had been proprietor
of the Wentworth at Walpole, five miles
l from here, and large circle of friends
will wish him the greatest success in his
new position.
: More than half of the mills are shut
down owing to the scarcity of water
| Probably less water is flowing past Bel
, lows Falls now in the Connecticut than
at any other time in recent years. and
| the decrease in manufacturing is proving
a serious burden to the average work.
man, as well as to the owners of the
| different mills.
| | Wednesday afternoon a large sized
stranger clothed in light gray suit sue
ceeded in passing three counterfeit soc
| pieces at different stores in this locality
| The matter was reported to the chief-of
, | police, but the stranger not located.
The coins were lead and an extremely
poorly executed counterfeit of the Can
adam coin Of that denomination
Sergt Harold H. Cady Of Company E
: has been at Fort Ethan Allen the past
week as one of a delegat ton of % picked
: men OF the Vermont National Guard.
Sergeant Cady is the man picked from
Company f as its best marksman to pre-
pare for the national rifle competitor to
be held later In the season. From the 23
men II will be chosen to represent YER
mont in the national competition.
A freight wreck occurred Monday even
Ing at the upper switch on the Rutland
line in the Bellows Falls yard. 1t was
In the nature of side-swipe between
a heavy freight train and cars being
D moved by the local switching engine. A
| wrecking train was ordered from Rutland
Y | and the northbound sleeper over the Rut-
y | land road was delayed until a little after
2 O'clock meeting the down sleeper here.
The Boston & Maine railroad have a
;, | large force of men at work building n
much larger turn table near their engine
: house on the other side Of the river A
a | large amount of concrete is being used,
and the turn able will be one of the lar
gest in this section of New England 1t
. Is understood that when II is complete ed
the company will build larger and more
II modern engine house than ever has been
used here.
Last Sunday Rev DIR. Kloss Of st.
Louis occupied the Congregations pull
g pit, Next Sunday Rev W. III. Mouseley
~ OF Rockland Me-. will preach. There
We're no preaching services In the Baptist
J. or universalist churches. Rev. Mr. VIII
n son of Emmanuel church occupied his
e desk, having been called here for the
i Blake wedding the day before, and SC
D. relieved the lay reader who Is officiating
during Mr.. Wilson'S month of vaca ton.
: gang OF men are putting in the foun-
ID dalton for the abutments and piers OF
e the new steel Sullivan Railroad bridge
q across the Connecticut. and they have
~ had large pump al work many days
throwing an eight-inch stream OF water
In from the eddy of the river below the dan
e. into the river above the dam at the heat
d. of the canal The water in the Connec
In ticut Is 50 low and the new concret,
lie dam so perfectly tight that no watel
m passes through or over the dam, all beinl
lie used by the mills. This allows thu
Or pumping out of all the water that hai
A. always settled or passed under tn,