Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-29

-. D. Estey, A. E. Carpenter and Mrs.
w. IL. Roleau are the delegates from the
baptist church to the state Sunday school
convention of that denomination to be
ned at Burlington next week. Rev. Mr..
McGeorge of Bratteboro will be one of
the speakers
Mrs. l.. b. Davis arrived from Worcester.
Mass, Tuesday, and on Wednesday ac-
companied Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Goodale to
Iownshend, where they went to see about
closing up the affairs of the estate of the
late Mrs. Rhoa les Mrs. Davis will spend
some time in Brattlcboro before her return.
Mrs. Angelina lIoughton Brooks, who
died at the home of her daughter i'm Lisbon,
n. H., May Il, was a native of Brattleboro.
being born here August 2G, 1901 She
leaves one son, living in Charleston, and
one daughter, Mrs. Parker of Lisbon, n. II.
mother of III. +. Parker editor of the
Bradford Opinion.
DIR. Willard II. Pierce of Bernardston.
brother of G.. w. Pierce of the Vermont
asylum farm has recently been chosen
president of the Franklin District Medical
society of Massachusetts,. DIR. Pierce will
read paper on typhoid fever before the
Massachusetts Medical society at its annual
meeting in Boston, June 8.
Mr. f. b. Carpenter has been seriously
ill this week, with complications following
the grip. On Monday and Tuesday his
condition was critical, but he is now some
what improved. His daughter, Mrs. Geo
). Dennison of Mendoza, ILL.,, is expected
tonight, Mr.. Arthur Carpenter going to
Springfield, Mass. to meet her
E. c. Crosby, Mrs. c. B. Rice and Miss
Fletcher We're the delegates from the Cen
tire church Sunday school to the convention
at Westminster. Deacon Thompson, Mr.
and Mrs. II. II. Thompson and Miss Cow
drey were also in attendance. A report of
the proceedings is given by our Westminster
correspondent
The Burlington Free Press says that "Col
ii. f. Taylor, the United States special
treasury agent, who for the past two years
has been stationed at Montreal, has been
transferred to the frontier. and will here
after make st. Adams his headquarters. -
Col. Taylor will be in town to spend Me
mortal day and Sunday.
The will of Rufus ID. Chase of Orange,
Mass, the prominent lawyer and Odd
Fellow, formerly of Brattleboro, whose
death was recently recorded in The Pho
nix, has been offered for probate. 1t gives
$500 to the Orange public library, and
$500 for the cemeteries The larger part
of the estate is left to his wife. son and
daughter
Clinton Smith of Middlebury. who had
charge of remodeling the Baptist church,
and built Fuller hall at Vermont academy,
the government building at Montpelier, and
many other buildings in this state and
who now has several large contracts to
complete, including the new asylum build
ings at Waterbury, has taken, at the solicit
tation of Secretary Proctor the position as
supervisor of the buildings erected by the
war department.
This item from the New York papers last
week, refers to Brattlsboro's Memoria-day
orator tomorrow: "Gen. Horatio c. King
stood on a corner in Brooklyn waiting for
car. A lineman at the top of a thirty
| foot telegraph pole was saving off one Of
the arms on which the insuators are placed,
and which weighs at least 80 pounds.
When sawed off the careless workman gave
/ it a shove toward the street, but it struck
a wire, rebounded and fell at the feet of
/ Gen. King, first grazing his head. Three
/ inches to the left and it would have crush
/ ed his skull -