Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-10

have made extensive plans for remodel
ling the church edifice, and have re-
Gently let the contract for the work to
A. NJ. Bragg. Many changes will be
made in both the interior and the ex-
terror of the building, in the effort not
only to make II more attractive, but al
so to fill the growing needs of the Sum
day school work.
The new building to be erected by
+. II. Kimball on Canal street will have
a garage on the first floor and a moving
picture theatre, with entrances from
both Rockingham and Canal streets on
the second floor. The garage will be
completely separated from the rest of
the building. The contract for the con-
struction has been awarded W. II and
Henry Mclean of Boston.
Ernest F. Bowen, the noted athlete Of
Cornell university, who has been seri-
ously i'll several weeks with a complica-
ton of diseases, was brought to his par
ents' home here Monday night. He is
slowly convalescing. He hopes to be
able to take his place in the college
boat crew late in June, having taken a
leading part Tn his college boating con-
tests the past two years.
A benefit performance in aid of the
teachers retirement fund will be given
this evening in Assembly hall high
school building. Readings by Miss Mar
ion II. Clarke, vocal solos by Earle F.
Chandler and Paul Thayer, and selec-
tions by the Bellows Falls high school
glee club are included in the program.
The teachers are making an effort to
raise quarter of a mile of pennies,
and as they still lack a good sum to
complete their quota, they hope to
make the amount good by this enter
tainment
The progress of the local Boy Scout
work is indicated by the plans being
made for camping trip to Lake War
rem from June "a to July 3. The direc-
ton of the camp will be In the hands
Of DIR. A. p. Pratt assisted by Edward c.
Kirkland. There will be tent accomo
dations for 30 boys and the ten days will
| be spent in camp and out of door life,
| the latter devoted to the sports of swim
ming fishing, hiking and the like. An
| able camp council has been formed
and as DIR. Pratt is an experienced camp
| director, the boys are counting on a
| good time.
The present activity in building on
| the east side of the square where the
| fire occurred last March makes i'm
portant the fact that it was in the same
| general condition just so years
| ago. An item in the locals of the Bel
lows Falls Times of May 30. 1862 says
| "a block of buildings Sc by so feet is
about being erected on the burned dis
trict in this village by oliver King and
o. F. Woods, and workmen are now en-
gagged upon the foundation We under
stand the work will be pushed forward
with all possible despatch. When COM
pleted it will add greatly to the appear
| ance of the village"
Twenty-nine members Of the Connec-
| ticut Valley Medical association attend
| ed the annual meeting in the Masonic
| Temple at l O'Clock Tuesday after
noon. The program was made up OF
| several papers, and was the best in the
| history of the organization. Papers were
| given by II. G. Stetson of Greenfield
| Mass, DR.. l. ]. Prouty of Keene, DR.
| Dudley Carlton of Springfield, Mass, DIR
| L. H. Gillette of Springfield and DR.. w
| II. Pierce of Greenfield, followed by re.
| ports Of cases by members These of.
| ficers were elected: Pres, DIR. A. L. Mi.
| ner of Bellows Falls vice pres, DR.. w
p. Craig of Walpole; sec. and treas.
DR.. j. S. Hill of Bellows Falls; audi.
tors, I. J. Prouty of Keene and Dr. L
H. Gillette of Springfield.
THE daily papers reported the death a
Alma, Mich, May 5. of Ammi w
Wright, who was always well-known To-
cally. He was a noted philanthropis
and multi millionaire. He was born il
Grafton July 5, 1922, and went to Mich
| igan in 1850. He married Harriet Bar
| ton of this town, daughter of the lat,
| jeremiah Barton, founder of Bartons
| vile, and enjoyed annual visits to thi
| town and locality He was at the heat
| of the A. W. Wright Lumber Co. o
| Alma and owned large lumber mills ant
salt blocks at Saginaw. He built tn
| Wright House at Alma, one of the fines
| hotels in Michigan, and the Alma SAM
| forum, and donated the land and build
| ings for Alma college. His wife died il
1884, and he married again. His daugh
| ter, Mrs. Sarah Hale Lancashire, als'
| lives in Alma and is a frequent visito
| here.