Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-15

the town hall for Tuesday. the 1Oth.
DR.. Miller sustained serious loss Tues
day night in the death of his valuable
large bay mare from Inflammation of the
bowels.
\ Mr. lIurd of Marlboro. who had leg
| broken "Wednesday while at work in saw
mill i'm Connecticut, arrived here on the
1928 train that afternoon and was taken to
/ his home in Marlboro.
A regular meeting Of the Soyercigns Of
Industry will be held at Grand Army hall
next Friday when the annual reports and
| financial statement of the council will be
| given. All members should be present.
The Miles, Mcmahon ~ Co. butter tubs,
! boxes and crates, manufactured at Stove.
| this state. and shown at the dairymen's
meeting were very nice articles 1t is said
| that eN-Gov. Hoard pronounced the butter
tubs the best he had ever seen.
The universal prevalence Of grip has
made such continuous and cNacting de
mands on the time of DR.. Conand, who
was to give the next paper before the Pro-
| fessional club. that the January meeting
will not be held until the evening Of the
18th.
y. II. White stepped on a loose board
while at work ON a building for II. +.
| Weatherhead at West Brattlrboro on Mon
day, and fell 10 or T. feet to the ground,
| striking upon a rock. His left shoulder
was dislocatcd and very badly bruised and
/ his hip was also bruised, but he is now do
ing well.
Several changes have just taken place
among the postal clerks. Arthur Quinn
| of keene, y. H., who has been on the
| Newport and Springfield day line, is trans
tered to the Essex junction and Boston
route and f. y. Field of Chcopee takes
his place; f. w. Markham, short stop be
! tween }rattrboro and Springfield, takes
the place Of Field on the day line
The annual meeting and roll call of the
| Centre church was held last Friday even
| ing, with good attendance. The old
board of officers were reelected. There
was large number of responses from
abroad at the roll call, especially from the
old members, During the year 33 people
have united with the church, 20 by profess
sion and Is by letter There have been | l
dismissionS, seven by letter and four 10y
! death, making a net gain of -. The be-
nevolent contributions of the year have
been very large, amounting to over $500.
| The total membership of the church is now
3jS.
The annual meeting of Prospect Hin
cemetery association was held last Monday
evening. \. {. Davenport, the treasurer.
! reported receipts Of the year Sl7GS 81 and
expenditures s5GS.O7. The total fund of the
association is Sll ,3OsG7, of which amount
S4925. - is money given for the perpetual
care of lots. The increase of the fund
during the past year including interest on
the fund in the bank. is sl6l1.SD. These
officers We're chosen: President DR.. Geo.
F. Gale: clerk. VIM. :. Newton: treas
urer, \. {. Davenport; trustees. \. &.
Davenport Geo. +. Greene, +. H. Harris.
J. j. Estcy Leander Thomas \. b. Hall:
collector. \. e. Davenport.
Brattleboro has never presented more
strangely beautiful appearance than last
Sunday morning, When everything on
door was covered with one Of the most re-
markable frost formation, ever seen here.
The night before the thermometer began
to fall rapidly. while fog bank at the
same time drove up the valley. When day
light came the mercury marked from T. to
II below zero, and every tree and bush. to
its slenderest twig, was covered with a glis-
tening, lilmy frost The island looked
like a bit OF fairy land, and the most charm
ing view of all was had from the brow of
Prospect hill, where the long stretch OF
trees bordering the river and Skrting the
foot of the mountain or scattered about
the village could be plainly seen,
The corporators of the Vermont say
ings bank held their 10th annual meeting
on Wednesday. when the old board of OIL.
GERS was reelected, the only change being
in the election of Mr.. {. II. Pratt to be a
colporator and trustee. to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Ross White
The annual statement of this institution
which holds the leading place in the state
attests its continued and increasing pros
perity. The deposits have increased dur
ing the past year by Sl57,O0O, and they
now stand at the handsome figures of -,
40, 900. The reserve fund has been in,
creased during the year by 1900, while
the amount of quick assets, in the form OF
city and county bonds, has been increased
to Sal 900, this one item of resources now
standing at 81, 2O3, 800. Owing to the pre-
vailng malady the attendance of corpora
tors was small. Following the annua
meeting the annual corporation dinner wa,
eaten at the Brooks House.
The meeting of the stockholders of tn,
Farmers and Mechanics exchange was
held at the Grand Army hall on Tuesday
with a small attendance. Substantially
the old board of officers was elected, a,
follows: President, l.. NJ. Howe; secre
tary, }. c. Timson; directors, |. b. Taft
ID. p. Cobb Charles Sargent, l.. NJ. Howe
and Frank G.. Taylor; auditors, O. A
Marshall, f.. ID. Whitney, G. ID. Whitman
a dividend of q per cent was declared OF
the stock, and of per cent on the mem
bers trade. The business of the yeal
amounted to SO, 933.97, larger by abou
$500 than the previous year, notwith
standing that the low price of sugar caused
a falling off of $4,000 i'm the sales of tina
commodity. OF the years trade S31 AZ!
was from members of the exchange anC
S44, 504 from outsiders. The chief trad,
in grocery business is in sugar anC
kerosene oil, and the prices on these good
have been at a very low margin during tn,
year, and the dividend is therefore smale
than in previous years.
The most desperate and nscrupulou
act of its kind which has ever been don,
by the editor of the local Democratic pa
per was that of last week in printing al
alleged statement of the circulation of Tn,
Phoenix. While it was claimed that tn
figures given were reached after a careful
investigations these figures show upol
their face that no investigation whateve
had been made, and that the statemen
was absolutely false in this respect, as il
every other, In BratteborO, includin,
the West village, where pretended detail
/, were given, the figures are not within 81
, per cent of the actual circulation of Tn
Phoenix. In Windham county outside
| Brattleboro the discrepancy is even worse
Accepting as true this EDITORS statemen
of his own county circulation that of Tn