Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-04-07
BRATTLEBORO.

The Estey, Smith IL Co.. and Carpenter
factories will be closed Friday in Observ.
ance of Fast day.
The Brattleboro rifle club appointed a
committee to arrange for a new range at
the special meeting Friday evening.
1t is now expected that the state branch
of the MOrrell liquor cure, referred to last
week, will be established in Brattleboro.
Arrangements are being made for the
appearance of "The Senator" the latter
part of this month.
II. II. Shaw, principal of Glenwood
seminary, has been appointed superintend-
ent of schools by the board of school di-
rectors.
The house owned by John Retting, ST.,
on the southeast size of Green street, has
been sold to Ralph Chamberlain, the
Brooks House steward.
Col. Haskins and Officer Mcclure have
been in Keene this week to attend the ses-
sion of court, but the jury was discharged.
They will probably go there next week.
f. A. Hubbard donates bronze clock to
the Second Regiment band for their fair at
Springfield, Mass. 1t will be given to the
person who guesses nearest to the time that
it will stop.
The stock room and pamphlet bindery of
The Phoenix job printing office has been
moved to the large room in the front part
of Harmony block, recently vacated by
Orion q Howe.
Daniel Taft, aged 80, father of Mrs l..
w. Hawley and viii Taft of this place,
died of heart trouble at Taftville March 20.
He was a lifelong resident of Taftville
and was engaged in the scythe and axe
business there for many years He had
been a member of the MasC mic order for
over so years. There are two other chill
dren living, Maria Taft of Taftville and
Daniel of Iowa.
Forty thousand trout from the state fish
hatchery at RoXbury came to w. II.
Childs Monday for distribution in the va
rous waters about here. Ten thousand
were placed in the small streams tributary
to Milestone brook by W. II. Roleau, the
fish warden, and the others temporarily left
at the local hatchery of the Trout and Sal.
mon club, and Friday they will be dis.
tributed, most of them going to Guilford
streams.
In pursuance of the order extending the
civil service law to all free delivery post
offices, an examination will be held at the
post-office in BrattlebOro Saturday, April
20, at 9 o'clock A. NJ, for the grades OF
clerk and carrier in the city pOst-ofiice
No application will be accepted for these
examinations unless filed at the post-ofiice
with Miss f. e. Guild, secretary of the
board of examiners, on the proper blank
before 4 o'clock =. NJ. Monday, April pa
Application blanks and instructions may
be obtained from Miss Guild, who will also
give Information relative to the positions.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
Creamery association was held Monday in
Clark's hall at West Bratteboro. These
officers were chosen: Directors, Jerome j.
Ward (pTesident), j. G.. Stafford, Mack NJ
Miller, George p. Slate, Henry Akley; au-
ditors, ID. Il. Perry, j. II. Pummer; sec
rotary and treasurer, Leslie Scott. During
the year 173,3S9 pounds of butter were
made, an increase, compared with the pre-
vious year, of over $1,000 pounds. The
average net price of butter per pound to
patrons was II 36-l00ths cents. The num-
Der of patrons is 120, and the amount
paid them was $37, 096.71, an increase of
nearly $4,000 over last year.
Chambersburgh, Pa, papers announce
the death on the 25th ult, of Lyman S.
Clarke, Esq, of that city. Mr.. Clarke
was born in Heath, Mass, in 1926, passed
his youth in Colrain, was educated in the
common schools and at Brattleboro acad-
envy, where he was classmate with b. o.
Tyler They afterwards studied law to-
gether in the Office of o. L. Shafter in
Wilmington and were lifelong friends. Mr..
Clark settled in Chambersburgh in 1S4s,
and in his As years of practice at the bar
gained an enviable reputation for ability
and his perfect integrity as a lawyer. His
wife and four children survive him. He
had relatives and friends in this county to
whom he usually made a summer visit.
He was highly esteemed in his own county
and by all who knew him, for the great
kindliness and geniality of his disposition.