Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-02-16
cY ToBB GETS MORE NEWS.
Cray Said to Have Injected Spice Into
Village Trustees Meetings-Use for
Marriage Fees.
Especial to The Phoenix.O

Especial to The Phoenix)
GRETNA GREEN, Feb. 10.
While waiting for Rutland train
which was an hour and 80 minutes late
here yesterday ! thought ] would take
another look at Bellows Falls and see
If everything was going as smoothly
as heretofore. A few minutes con-
versation with 4 citizen or two gave
me some interesting information.
The board of village trustees met last
Friday evening and the report is they
had an interesting session. Until last
month, when S. j. Cray was elected n
new member of the board, the meet
ings were as quiet as could be. Friday
evening, so they say, quite spirited
debate, to say the least, arose over
the question Of appointing James Cor
ham special policeman to succeed
Michael Moore, who failed to get a
re-appointment. The new trustee
wanted Mr.. Gorham, who lives near
him, appointed. The other trustees aft
er a discussion decided, by vote, not
to appoint any new cops Just at pres.
.ent. When the meeting adjourned Mr..
Cray had the floor and was saying Just
what he thought, so they tell me. If
the trustees vote as they have been
voting on this special policeman bust
ness | am of the opinion Mr.. Gorham g
chances Of appointment are slim.
1t may seem peculiar to YOU that
whenever | hit this town I begin TO
think of Grctna Green weddings. Now,
why do you suppose | do! Bellows
Fall has its paper mills, couple of
laundries, moving picture theatre and
other things. suppose thing of Grct-
ma Green weddings when ] come here
because of the same reason that causes
me to think of getting a drink when
l got to Greenfield. Each one is one
of the leading industries of its partic-
ular town.
The Bellows Falls ministers must blush
when they read the papers NOWADAYS
Editorial writers and reporters have
showered them with words Of praise
because they have taken stand in
favor of the fve-dav law, when, as
everybody knows, Gretna Green mar.
riages bring money to them. But
think the real heroes, or heroines, are
unsung. In Bellows Falls, as in other
towns, the ministers, or some of them
at least have made it the rule to turn
over to their wives the fees they re
the tide of Grctna Green marriage,
turned Vermontward the wives who
have received these fees have added
quite a collection to their pockct-pieccs
And while the men have been inter
viewed by reporters the women hav,
been neglected.
Marriage fees make no small item
to wives of ministers. Two years age
1, = g. u
and Mrs. A. p. Pratt, now of Green
field, Mass, went to Kansas City anC
the Panama Pacific exposition, their ex
penses being betrayed by means of ;
marriage fee fund which they hat
saved. All the ministers in Below
Falls are married, with one exception
Rev. V. f. Blagbrough of the Univer
salist church, and believe me | don Z
go looking him up to ask whether
he is putting aside his fees For any
special use in the future.
| learned yesterday that Representa-
tive Roe Robinson of Jamaica has beer
writing around to see what the senti
ment is in regard to the fivc-day law
| have never seen Robbv,' but | be
he s a real statesman. At least he ha
adopted o novel method.
\ man who watched the legislator,
at work the other day told me h,
thought he had wandered into the news
paper room Of public library. TIL,
state allows each member certain
number Of newspapers each session. an,
according to my informant the cntir
membership Of the house was irwin!
to find out how to vote on all the meas
ures by reading his own papers and al
l,, A
know whether this is true, but Bel
lows Falls man told me it was. AL
| got to say is that il S q hanged gooc
thing the Vermont house of representa-
tives hasn't got to settle the European
United States tangle. They'd wea
their eyes out before they could rel
whether Gerard was in Berne, Switzer
land, or whether he had been shot b,
the Germans while trying to save hi
pet pup from sausage maker.
met Il certain newspapcrman on tn,
street while waiting here. He shall
be namelsss, bat he asked me to tel
a certain Brattlcboro scribe who lee
lures on balloons and women s skirt
that if he continued telling certain
former state S attorney who got through
on that job about February | certain
things there would be something do
ing. He also told me to tell "Dcde >
Stolte that the Bellows Falls high
school will have Il baseball team thi
spring that will trim anything he ear
get together. And it was two degree
below zero. IT. funny how that man !
mind runs.
| shall go from here to some othcl
place.
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