Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-28

several representatives OF the state and
national governments from the New Eng
land states.
The annual picnic of the Universalist
Sunday school and church was held
Tuesday at Barber park and proved to
be a very enjoyable affair largely at
tended.
The engagement of Miss Bertha A.
Chapman of Keene to DR.. Ira II. Prouty
of School street is announced. MISS
Chapman and DR.. Prouty were both
graduates of Keene high school, class
of '03.
Miss Eta M Dodge, a teacher in the
public schools of Andover, Mass, who
came to Bellows Falls Tuesday, will
spend the summer with the family of
her cousin, Myron H. Ray, on Rocking
| ham road.
Cadets John w. Slattery and Walter F.
| Adams who graduated last week from
Norwich university were presented
commissions as lieutenants in the Ver-
mont National Guard by Adjutant Cen
| eral Lee S. Tillotson.
Miss Agnes Emendorf, who for many
years was valued teacher in our public
schools and who is now employed in
| the public school system of Raleigh, N.
| c., Is spending several weeks with Miss
| Hattie Morgan on Rockingham road.
International Paper companys coating
| mill, went to the hospital In Hanover
| Monday and Tuesday and submitted to
| a minor operation, from which he is
reported as making a rapid recovery.
Ernest F. Bowen and bride reached
| home here Monday from Ithaca, N. Y,
| where they were married two weeks ago.
Mr.. Bowen will spend the summer in
this locality, not having fully recovered
from his serious illness of the past win
| ter.
The firm of Collins & Floyd, jewelers..
who year or more ago bought the store
| of w. ]. Eaton, has been dissolved and
c. c. Collins taking the entire business,
| Of which he has thus far been the sole
manager. Mr.. Floyd. who lives in Glens
Falls, N. Y, has been here but little.
Oliver NJ. Custer, who has been en-
ployed by the electric road almost from
its start, and who for several years past
has been in full charge of Barber park
and in its entertainments, has resigned
and will go to Alliance, Ohio, to go into
| the bakery and confectionery business
with his brother. He finishes work with
the road tomorrow.
Miss Jennie Kreeger. former well
known pupil of the Bellows Falls
schools, now an instructor in Hampton
Institute for colored pupils at Hampton,
Va, is spending a portion of her sum-
! ItltF VACATION WIFI tHe family OF Will
liam w. Lilley at II Atkinson street, it
being her first visit here for several
years.
The special town meeting Friday af-
ternoon voted to lease the old high school
building on Cherry street to the Roman
Catholic diocese of Burlington for pa
rochial school purposes for a period of
ten years at an annual rental of $3.50
and all expenses of repairs, the repairs
to be made by the town as necessary and
the bills paid by the church annually
with the rent.
In the graduation exercises of the high
school which were held in the opera
house Friday evening an audience which
filled every seat leaving many standing
was gathered. Thirty-four pupils grad
uated with the usual exercises and the
address was delivered by Guy Potter
Benton, president of the University OF
Vermont. All the schools of the town
came to a close on that day for the
long summer vacation.
Sixteen of the Boy Scouts of the Con-
gregational church went to Lake Warren
Monday and made camp there with five
or six tents under the direction of DR..
A. p. Pratt, their pastor. Tuesday the
Sunday school connected with the church
to the number of about so went over
there and enjoyed the annual picnic.
The surroundings of the camp are In
|
ing entertained there this week.
Hearings on the alleged inadequate
and inefficient freight service rendered
by the New Haven lines will be begun
in Boston by Chairman Prouty of the
interstate commerce commission on July
l, and will last for three days. The in
vestigaton results from complaints made
by New England shippers, among whom
are the Robertson Paper company of
Bellows Falls. The Robertson company
complained that their shipments to New
ing sent over the Vermont Central by
\ the New London route. now take from
four to five days being sent over the
New York Central line,
long side track Is being put In ui,
the line of the Rutland railroad in this
town between the crossing on the Spring
field road and the bridge crossing VII
liams river, about 81 miles above here.
1t Is for permanent use In the meeting
of passenger and freight trains and will
tend to save ten to fifteen minutes OF
trains from what would often he occa =
stoned by their being run to either Bar
louisville turnout or Bellows Falls. These
sldings are being built at many points
along the line and will. In the end, make
the double trackig of the line much less
expensive when II becomes necessity,
as now seems probable within a few
years.
The total number OF poll taxpayers In
town has increased 349 during the past
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