The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-08
BELLOWS FALLS.

IS guest OF Col. EDWARD u. OSSooQ
at Nashua two weeks.
Rev. George Fortier, superintendent
II Vermont Pniversalist churches,
preached here Sunday for Rev. c. L.
Eaton.
Mrs. Eaton, Wife Of Rev. c. l.. Eaton
OF the Tniversalist church, returned
Saturday from visit T., several weeks
in Medford, Mass.
George W Roland and p. f, a[c-
Auliffe have been chosen to represent
Court William French, Foresters of
America, at the annual state conven-
tion of the order at Rutland ext
month.
4 son, Theodore, was born to Mrs.
Edgar VI. Hall OF - Prospect street
last Thursday. Mr.. Hall was the vic
tim Of an accident on the Connecticut
river last summer, when he fell from
his power boat and was drowned
The spring meeting of the Old Rock
ingham Meeting House association will
be held Monday evening, April %. The
program committee are making the ar
engagements. Professor Hooper of
Brooklyn and two or three other inter
esting speakers will take part.
A number of our disciples of Isaac
Walton have tried their luck in the
trout streams of New Hampshire the
past week and two, Harry H. Abbott
and George H. Thompson, have return
ed with good strings. The former made
a count of 10 and the latter 25 on their
first trip.
Revival services are being held in
the Baptist church for 10 days, begin
ming last Thursday evening. They are
under direction of an evangelist, Rev
n. b. Prindle, who has just completed
an unusually successful series of meet.
ings in Barre. The meetings here are
well attended and a good degree of in
rerest is manifested.
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Babbitt and
laughter, Virginia. returned Saturday
afternoon from their six weeks trip TO
southern California and other Western
points. Miss Frances stopped at De-
troit to visit friends. Mr.. Babbitt ex-
poets to enter at once upon his new du-
ties as member of the public service
commission. The family are in excel
lent health and have had a very en-
ioyable trip.
Deacon G. w. Osgood expects to go
to Hartford, Conn, Wednesday by in
vitation of Governor Baldwin to at
Corporation Committee of COngrega
tional churhes, Of which Mr. Osgood is
member, and Governor Baldwin is
chairman. The meeting win be held in
the executive chamber of the capitol
From there Mr.. Osgood will go to Bos-
ton and Nashua.
George II. Dickinson, son of Mrs
Stella Dickinson of Atkinson street, has
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vice in the navy of about four years.
He spent a part of the time in Denver
and about three years of the enlistment
was spent in the tropics in the vicinity
of Panama, Nicaragua and Colon. He
rs looking well and has had many in
teresting experiences. He expects to
devote his time now to the Bellows
Falls Ice company, Of which his mother
IS the principal owner. His honorable
discharge papers were dated on his 5lst
birthday anniversary, March 25.
The board of listers of Rockingham
this year is the same as last year, DR..
O. NJ. George, Z. Henry Stillwell
James e. Byrne, John B. Minard and
Patrick f. o. 'Brien. Owing to the
freshet making it impossible for them
TO get to the listers meeting at Rut-
land to have suggestions from Tax
Commissioner Plumley, they are finding
many problems hard to solve under the
new law, and last week they made ap.
phcation to Mr.. Plumley to appoint
another meeting if possible in this 10
callty that there might be a better un.
derStandlng OF the various phases OF
the present statutes
Goodnow Bros. & Pearson have beer
putting IN their new stock of groceries
in the store south of the Bellows Falls
Trust Co. As none of their clerks here
nave had experience in grocery trade
TWO or three were sent ND from the
keene store to arrane the stock ad
vantageously. They expect to open the
new department this week. This store
formerly was occupied by the Keenf
Cash Grocery. The old stock has beer
disposed of, the store entirely refinishe6
and refurnished, making it very attrac.
tive IN every way. Without running
order teams, and doing a strictly cash
business, they expect to be able to sell
fheIr goods at more favorable price
imam has been done in town heretofore
During the last week the Interna.
tonal Paper company has put out
poomS among the piers above the dam
TO save such of the 100000 feet of
logs as have not already gone past that
broke away from their boom at sharon
early in the freshet two weeks ago.
One or two power boats have appeared
and the season of navigation, will
soon be upon us. Probably at no pre-
vious freshet have the banks of the
Connecticut been cut into as much alono
the stretch of still water above the
dam here as in the recent flood. In
North WalpOle much damage has been
done in the rear of houses, and the
meadow above has suffered from the
current on both the Vermont and New
Hampshire sides.
Miss Stella Fraser, an Indian girl OF
the Sioux tribe, who has been assisted
a number of years in her education by
tne women of the Congregational
church and who graduated last year
from one of the American Missionary