Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-23


to run the machinery by steam, and in
some of the small mills on the streams
work has been suspended. The trout
brooks have been at as low a pitch as is
usual in August,
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Vermont Loan and Trust company
was held at Grand Forks, North Dakota,
Saturday, June II, when ii. ID. Holton, g.
f. Holbrook, G. b. Hopkins, j. NJ. Parker,
A. Z. Emery, ii. L. Withheld, F. W. Wilder,
X. M. Sherman and S. S. Titus were elect
ed directors. At the directors meeting
the officers chosen for the ensuing year
were II. ID. Holton, president; ii. L. Whit
he'd, vice president; f. w. Wilder, treas
urer; X. M. Sherman, secretary; finance
committee, C. b. Hopkins, S. S. Titus, II.
L. Withheld. A semi-annual dividend of
three per cent was declared from the earn
ings of the company, payable August l..
Rev. s. NJ. Crothers of St. Paul has
declined the call which was extended to
him some time ago by the First Parish
church of Cambridge, Mass. The call was
one which appealed to him In an unsual
way, and the Importance of the Cambridge
work, with reference to its connection
with the Harvard students, was urged up
on him strongly by friends there. The
feeling i'm st. Paul, however, was too
strong to be resisted, and the general con-
dtion of the Unitarian movement In Min
nesota, which, Mr.. Crothers has been so
largely instrumental in establishing, left
him in no doubt as to his duty to remain
there
The San Antonio, Texas, Daily Express
records the death in that city the 9th inst.
s,N IL
was a native of North Orange, Mass, but
for % years lived in Brattleboro, being the
proprietor of a small shoe shop. He built
the cobble-stone house on Canal street,
and also owned the tenement house on the
same street, known as the Ward building,
which was burned several years ago. Mr..
Ward went from here to Grand Rapids 10
years ago, but remained there only year,
his home for IS years having been in San
Antonio. The Express says he had fol-
lowed the fruit trade for some time, and
for four years had been known as the pro-
prietor of the medicine, Wards Cure
He leaves four sons, three living In Phila-
delphia and one in Delaware. He was
brother of the late Mrs. Lewis Putnam.
Calvin Weld, the machinist who has had
a shop on the banks of the West river
hiAAN hOAbh VI thN fAlAtlSC iOi many years.
was very seriously injured Saturday. He
had driven down Oak street and was at
tempting to turn around on Chase street
to go back up Oak street when his carriage
ran against pile of water pipes and the
horse took fright. Mr.. Weld lost control
of the horse and the animal dashed up the
street Mr.. Weld was thrown upon the
gravel walk in front of w. p. Jones's.
The carriage struck pear tree a short dis
lance farther on, and the horse freed itself
and ran across the vacant lot and down
Chaplin street. On the lot were several
children, and the horse ran within few
feet of them. Mr.. Weld was carried into
N. I. Ryan's house and later in the day
was taken. to his home. He is suffering
from conclusion of the brain and spine and
two ribs are broken. His condition is Sc
rious, but he will probably recover.