Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-10
The state Firemen's Meeting.

The State Firemen's Meeting.
The third annual convention of the state
fremen's association will be held at Mid
dlebury July y and Is. Cash prizes to
the amount of 5000 are offered, distributed
as follows:
Hose race rz, :, first. seoO, second, 500,
third, $50
Contest by hook and ladder men Prizes, first
So, second, Sl5, thru, : o.
Hand engine Prizes, first, S2oo. second, 500,
third. $50
Hose coupling cont.st-Prize first, Si2, second,
IS, third. So
$50 yards dash Prizes, first sl2, second s.,
third s.
Companies intending 20 compete in any
contest should notify J. II. Sargent, Mid
dlebury, as soon as possible.
The 23d annual commencement of God
dard seminary will be held June 10 to %.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Russell was celebrated at Bur
lington Saturday.
a large field of flyers from different parts
of the state have been entered for the races
of the Burlington driving club to be held
July As.
A public spirited native of Chelsea has
offered 5000 toward the erection of a
town hall and library building of brick
or granite.
Mrs. Edith Pelkey of Middlebury has
been arrested on charge of bigamy. She
is alleged to have four living husbands,
none of them divorced.
Plymouth church at Indianapolis Ind,
has decided to call Rev. f. f. Dewhurst of
Burlington to its vacant pulpit, and it is
understood that he will accept.
The Barnes house at West Rutland and
the livery connected with it were burned
Wednesday morning. The house was built
about 80 years ago and had been vacant
for year. 1t was valued at $1,000,
The fifth annual reunion of the 18th
Vermont volunteers will be held at Mont
pelier, Wednesday, June -. The Central
Vermont railroad will carry all attending
the reunion for fare one way.
The Vermont delegation to the national
Democratic convention at Chicago will
leave St. Adams on Friday, the l7th, in a
special Wagner sleeping car attached to
the train bearing the delegations from New
Hampshire and Maine.
Bethel has band of white caps, who
masquerade in wOmen's clothes and smash
windows and doors. Several persons have
been ordered to leave town. Some of the
citizens propose to see what effect the old
reliable remedy of a shotgun load of rock
salt will have upon the white caps.
Sunday an apostolic letter from Rome
reached Rev. John Stephen Michaud of
Bennington, appointing him coadjutor
bishOp-elect of the diocese of Burlington,
which includes the state of Vermont.
Bishop-elect Michaud will be consecrated at
the cathedral in Burlington June 20.
John Coy, formerly of Burlington, who
had been i'll at Montreal for the past six
months, arose from his bed on the fourth
floor of a hospital one night last week and
walked through window. He fell 60 feet
to the pavement. Death was instantane-
Gus. His body was terribly crushed.
Chief Justice Mason in the superior
court at Boston granted the motion to
quash the writ in the suit of w. c. Hutch
ms against the Vermont Central railroad.
The suit was brought to recover $40, 900
damages for injuries sustained at the Hart
ford disaster in 1877. Another suit will
be brought.
Judge Walter p. Smith of st. Johnsbury
will be the orator of the day at the cele-
DldllOll VI lllt lOOlll dlllllNtlod VI Tie
settlement of Hardwick July 1. Sherman
band will furnish music and the military
companies of ST. Johnsbury and Barre, a
number of Grand Army posts and other
organizations will take part in the proceed
ings.
G. f. Jewett, assistant cashier in bank
at Bakersfield, Cal, and two boys were
drowned in the rapids at a canon near that
place Memorial day. The boys fell into
| the river and Mr. Jewett attempted to res
cue them. He was a native of Weybridge
son of Solomon Jewett, one of the fore
most men in Addison county, and brother
of Mrs. w. p. Nash of New Haven.
Two men made an unsuccessful attemp
| to work a bunco game on g. w. Stilphen
a wealthy farmer of St. Adams, last weel
! Wednesday. The bunco men tried to ge
| $4,000 out Of Stilphen, as security for
prize of $4,000 represented to have beer
drawn by him in a pound package of tei
costing him 81. Mr. Stilphen was withou
funds and refused to put up the require,
collateral.
The New York Sun says that a man liv
| ing at Burke, this state, has saved all tn
maple sugar he has made in the past 81
years, having now on hand a considerably
quantity of the boiling of 1912 and his en-
tire crop of every year since, the who'll
aggregating 10000 pounds. 1t is all stir
red sugar and has kept perfectly. Nobod,
knows why he boards the sugar, and h
offers no explanation.
1t is hoped that at the time of the semi
centennial celebration of st. Johnsbur
academy June "a the alumni will take tn
initial step toward raising fund of 500,
600. The institution is already endowe,
to the extent of 100000, which gives al
income of $4,000 year-a sum by m
means sufficient to pay its running ex