Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-03-03

been added to the check list and 35 have
been removed. The final meeting of the
board will be held tomorrow afternoon
and evening.
Charles H. Nichols moved his family
last week from the tenement which he
had occupied several years in w. II.
Grswod's house at 10 A Atkinson street
to the dwelling owned by Mrs. Allbee on
George street.
The Bellows Falls high school debating
society had for its subject Friday even
ing, Resolved, that towns and cities
should own their public utilities" and
the contestants were Harold -. Snow
who won the debate for the affirmative
and Wilbur =. Ferguson, who spoke for
the negative.
At various places in Bellows Falls the
Springfield fire alarm was plainly heard
about $50 p. m. Saturday, and as II
sounded a long time 1t caused much in
quiry and many fears that a serious fire
was in progress there. 1t was found by
telephone that 1t was only test of the
apparatus and that no fire had occurred.
In the high school the honors this year
fall to the following pupils: Valedictory,
Katherine NJ. Prouty; salutatory, Flor
ence /. Stickney; honor in commercial
subjects, Charles Edward Sylvester;
honor in English, Ruth E. Bowen; honors
n. n
securing honors this year are from the
commercial course
\ no-icense rally will be held Sunday
evening in the Congregational church,
to be addressed by Warner A. Graham
of the law firm of Ryder e. Graham.
There will be also a similar meeting in
SaXtons River at the same hour, DR.. A.
p. Pratt and II. C. Bacon of Bellows
Falls will speak, also Prof. Tilinghast
and Prof. Hill of Vermont academy.
A meeting looking toward the proper
observance of the 150th anniversary of
the organization of the town OF Rock
ingham was held Tuesday evening at the
office of f. L. Walker. The first town
meeting was held $50 years ago this
month. committee, consisting of presi-
dent of the village trustees, T. e.
O'Brien, j. c. Day, E. l.. Walker, ]. C.
Dennson and ]. II. Blakley was chosen
to take the matter under Amusement and
arrange for some public meeting for fur
Their discussion and arrangements.
A fine horse for the use of the fire
department at headquarters has been
bought the past week from George F.
Gilman of Brattleboro, and he is already
in service. The purchase price was 1926
and he makes good match for his mate.
"Ttge." The name given the new horse
is Tom and he replaces Dick" trans
ferred to the street department The
village trustees are continually adding to
the efficiency of the department, and we
have as good an equipment, as far as
horses go, as can be found easily any
where.
The report of DR.. f. S. Albee, health
officer of the town, shows that during the
year 1910 there were reported two cases
of diphtheria one of which was fatal
six cases of scarlet fever. of which one
also was fatal, four cases of measles, five
of German measles. IS of chicken pox,
five Of mumps, eight of typhoid fever,
one of which was fatal. and eight cases
of pneumonia requiring quarantining
The total number of places quarantined
was AZ, and IL places were fumigated.
There were 90 deaths, including nine still
births. Excluding stillbirths, the average
age was Sc years, 10 months and % days
The principal causes of death were:
apopleXy IA, diseases of heart and blood
vessels 10, pneumonia 3, diphtheria |,
scarlet fever /, consumption 2, typhoid
fever l, diseases of kidneys 5, diabetes
millitus S.
The Bellows Falls Woman's club pre-
scented. Friday evening, THE oxford
Affair" to a fair sized audience in the
opera house. The audience gave the
amateurs hearty welcome and much
applause. 1t was a decided success from
Il 'IlIldHCldl StanOpOlnt, out the BeneIdI
opinion was that the acting was worthy
Of much better play. The cast of
characters was as follows: Phyllis Ash
ton, Mrs F. T. Bradsh; Dorothy Howe,
Miss Marion Pierce; Mary, Mrs Jay L.
LiVermore; Miss Margaret Oxford, Mrs
p. H. Hadley; Miss Sophonia Price. Mrs
George p. Bolles; Mrs. Jack oxford, Mrs.
II. F. Kelley; Ellen, Miss Flora Frost
Mrs Zachariah Barnstable, Mrs. A. NJ.
MacAleese, Mrs. George Bolles was es-
pecially good az Miss Sophonia Price,
who asplred to SHAKESPEARE. Mrs A. NJ.
MacAleese caused much merriment as
Mrs, Zachariah Barnstable. The singing
of Mrs Herbert Kelly and Miss Marion
Pierce was much enjoyed.
Mrs. Lucy Gertrude OHyde) Sheafe. 70
daughter of the late Colonel Russell HYDE
of Bellows Falls died in her home in
Derby Line, Jan. 30. She was a resident
of Bellows Falls when a young woman,
the family having moved here from Gull
ford in 1894. She was married here to a
young local attorney, Col. Nathaniel
Tracy Sheafe, in 1SiS They removed to
Derby Line in the fifties, where Mr..
Sheafe died in 1898. Colonel Hyde, Mrs.
Sheafe's father, died here in 1855. A
unique record of marriages performed by
Colonel Russell Hyde during the so years
ne was a justice of the peace here re-
Gently has come into the possession of
the town clerk, the number being about
$50, and the ties range from 1899 to 1870
AS the laws in those years did not re-
quire records of marriages to be kept
by the town clerk it will be seen readily
that the record contained in this we'll
kept book is of great value. Early resi-
dents we'll remember both Mrs. Sheafe
and the family Of her parents.
Little interest In the outcome Of the
yes and no vote in regard to license In
this town Tuesday is apparent. To any
unprecedented person who has been much
on the streets during the years of both
license and no-license in Bellows Falls 1t
Is plain that during the last two years
when we have been dry" there mas
been much less intoXicatton upon oui
streets, and the record of the police de-
| partment shows it. We have cleaner
and more attractive village, and much
money that before was spent IN saloons
has gone to pay family expenses, If the
| town should vote yes Tuesday it will be
| because those who are most in favor o
| good citizenship do not take the trouble
to go to the polls and register their judg
ment by their vote, or, otherwise eX
| pressed II Will be because the apathy o
the best class of citizens who take it 70
granted the town will vote no as durlni
the last three years, Following are tn
majorities given in the past: 19O3 We
22i' 1904, no 60; 1905, no 16; 1906, yes SO
1907 yes, 80; 1908, no 200; 1909, no 1886