The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-02-06
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS

The boys of the manual training
class Of the ninth grade are refinishing
the desks in Miss Elizabeth NJ. Camp,
bell 5 room in the high school building.
Ernest +. Keefe began work Monday
as rural free delivery carrier to succeed
+. A. Rowe. who resigned several
weeks ago. The route serves about 200
persons and covers about 20 miles.
Miss Faith d. Thayer, who went this
term to teach in private school in
Madison, \. j., is at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. M. Thaver.
The school in which she is a teacher
is closed on account of whoopinp
cough.
Miss Margaret Ellison of Springfield.
Vt. who has been working in an office
in Albany. has been engaged to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Miss Mildred Rice as instructor of the
commercial branches of the high school.
Miss Ellison is a graduate of Spring
| field high school ard Albany business
college. She viii begin her duties
| here. Monday.
| 1t has been announced this week
| ihat Attorney \. l. Bodies will be ),
candidate for election TO the school
board. to take the place of II. d.
| Ryder, who has been Il member of the
board - wears and will not be a can
didate for reelection at the town
meeting. Mr.. Bolles has always lived
in Bellows Falls, and has three chill
dren in the public schools at the pres
ent time.
The building which was recently
erected Just north Of the entrance to
the New Grand theatre. and was oecu-
/ pied as a shoe repair shop and lunch
room. Is being remodeled. The par
| titiou is to be removed. making it one
/ store instead of two. and the store will
he occupied as u meat marker. 1t will
be known as the Bellows Falls Public
Market. operated by Wood. Butterfield
& Co. the propretors being Harry j.
Wood. now employed by Derby L Ball
and Charles W. Butterfield The shoe
repair shop viii be moved to the Mrs
Carrigan house owned by Mrs E. L.
Walker on Rockingham street.
The store of George f. Welch x Son
has recently undergone some improve
mems An office eight feet by II feet
has been built in the northeast corner
! of the store, and the entire. walls and
ceiling Of the store have been painted
white. the wall paper department has
been moved 70 the basement, and thu
counters on the mafu floor have been
20 arranged as 10 give more room for
the display OF furniture. BY the new
arrangement OF the counters the MOO;
space has been nearly doubled, ana
the agateware. kitchen goods. china
I glassware. lamps. etc. are assembled
on separate counters. making great
Improvement in the appearance Of the
IStcre.
At the regular meeting of the No
man ; club Tuesday afternoon in tn,
Fniversalst vestry under the direction
, of the economies department, Mrs
Francis G.. Flint read an interesting
ami instructive paper on Nature STUDY
and demonstrated a picnic luncheon
using an especially designed, finely
EQUIPPED picnic basket. Mrs. Kirklan,
demonstrated a water picnic outfit
showing the equipment for preparing
the meal out of doors. Refreshments
were served by the Junior Camp Fir,
: Girls Music was furnished by Mrs
William ID. HAYES. who sang ii sol
accompanied by Miss Vera Mason a
= the piano, and a trio by Mrs. A. 7
5 Pratt. Mrs. r. Risley and Mrs A. II
: Chandler, with Mrs. w. c. Belknap a
the piano Several of the merchant
o in town offered exhibits of variou
: labor saving devices from their stocl
e which We're demonstrated at the meet
. ing. The decorations We're arranged t
y represent summer porch