The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-23


The village trustees have advertised
for bids upon the specifications fo'
new. sewers, and repairs upon the Ole
ones, the bids to be opened June 10
/ The graduation exercises of the elias
/ of 1913, Bellows Falls high school, viii
4 be held Thursday, June 10. The ad-
dress will be delivered by Edward T
/ Fairchild, president of the New Hamp
shire state college at Durham, Y. II.
and also president Of the National Edu
cationa association. The senior elias
Will wear the gray cap and gown,
/ did the class of 1912.
John c. Gray, who for several years
was sexton of Oak Hill cemetery
moved last year to Boston, and later
to a point near Savannah, Ga, but
within few months his health ha.
failed and with his wife he returned
to Bellows Falls four weeks ago. They
took rooms ON Russell street. where
Mr.. Gray is now Ill and many fears
are had regarding his being able to
work again.
Application has been made to the
probate court by the administrators Of
the estate of the late Josephine n
Kilburn for authority to sell all of the
real estate held by her at the time OF
her decease a few weeks ago. Among
the property is the well-known mill
at Saxtons River and her residence at
II Burt street. An auction sale of her
personal property, household and of
fee furniture will be held at the res
idence next week Thursday.
The honor pupils of the ninth grad
were announced Monday in the room
of Miss Elizabeth Campbell and Mis-
: Agnes Shea. These pupils are chosen
! from the five in each room who hav,
the highest marks in all their studio:
during the year. Following is the list
Paul Bellznap, Carlotta Bulls, Alice
Stack, Ralph Smith. Edward Stockwell
Mabel Stewart, Frank Putnam, Eugene
Page, Marie Parle and Lillias Wilson
r Two pupils received honorable mention
Vincent Lewis and John Hartnett.
! Mrs Eva Walker Blake, 81, wife O
Charles M. Blake of the paper mil
: firm of Blake & Higgins, died at he
residence on the Westminster terrace
, Wednesday morning. She was tn
u daughter of Warren Walker, for man,
y years a business man of Bellows Falls
and is survived by her mother, hus
band and two daughters. She hat
lived in Bellows Falls all her life an,
always had been prominent in musiea
= circles. She had a beautiful voic
and was many years a member of tn
choir Of Emmanuel church, from whic
the funeral will be held Saturday al
ternoon at clock, Rev. A. G. Wi
son officiating.
The recent drowning in Walpole 0
Henry w. Mellish, leaving a family o
y small children, recalls the fact that
member of the same family met a
accidental death in January, 1S6!
James William Mellish, relative, VIII
was working in Bellows Falls and live
in Walpole made a practice of goin
= nome nights, walking on the railroa,
, IN the early evening Of January 20 h
fell through the bridge crossing Col
river to the ice below and was so ser
onsly injured that he died the next da,
The family of Mellish has always bee
u we'll known here. stephen l. Mellis
. in 1882 erected the frame buildin
next west of the Couant building o
Bridge street and occupied it man
years.
Preliminary surveys are being mad
by the engineers of the Rutland raj
road in the plans to eliminate tW
- grade crossings between here an
n Chester as soon as the state has II
y funds to do their part The presel
plans look to the selection of the tN
crossings just this side Of Barton
vile, where by changing the highwa
for some little distance will avo
crossing the railroad twice. The tow
will have to bear a part Of the e
pense, the railroad part and the sta
= of Vermont part. The Rutlal
III road has paid more attention in rece
II years to doing away with crossin
H between Burlington and Rutland tn;
Il ON this end of their line and son
II criticism has resulted, which they nc
intend to pacify, and this town
among the first on this division to