Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-11-10


Ira Dwinnell, aged rs, leading citizen
OF Calais, died of apoplexy Monday.
Simon Blinn Blunt, missionary at Barre,
has accepted call to st. Stephens, at Mid
dlebury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Doty of Walling-
ford have celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary.
Harry Parker, a five-year-o lad, fell
into the river at Irasburg one day last week
and was drowned.
Edward p. Rosebrook, a former resident
of Island Pond, hanged himself at Guild
hall last week Thursday
George Jamison, a Barre Scotchman,
committed suicide by drowning Monday,
the cause being dependency.
The five-year-old son of Jerry Godfrey
fell int the Otter creek at Brandon last
week Thursday and was drowned
j. c. Robinson, for % years postmaster
at Morrisville, died last week Thursday at
the home of son in Burlington.
Waterbury is to have local paper, to be
known as the Waterbury Record. The
first number will appear this week.
Bishop Warren has been assigned to the
annual meeting of the Vermont Methodist
conference to be held at Bradford April
Is.
James w. Boyle, aged 50, was thrown
from wagon at Island Pond one day last
week, receiving injuries which caused his
death.
Augustine Grout an elderly resident of
Morrisville, died Saturday from the effects
of injuries sustained by falling from
fence to a concrete sidewalk.
The contract for constructing the new
intake for the water department of Burling-
ton has been awarded to j. G.. Falcon of
Evanston, ILL.,, for $4,000.
c. A. Chapman, of Ferrisburg, has been
appointed secretary of the Vermont Merino
Sheep Breeders association, to fill the I'M
expired term of Albert Chapman, deceased.
A meeting of the county liquor commits
sioners of the state will be held at Chelsea
Nov. -, to consider some radical changes
respecting the management of town liquor
agencies.
Rev. l. p. Booth, D. D., of Mortified
has received and accepted a call to the First
Universalist parish at Morrisville, where
he was pastor previous to his call to North
field II years ago.
John Dorsey, the 13-year-old son of T.
Dorsey of Fair Haven, while working in
mill at Bethlehem, Pa, on Wednesday of
last week, was caught in swiftly revol-
wing shaft and instantly killed.
The large Marble block in Castleton oc-
cupied by Bromley IL Clark, lawyers; Mr..
Mayo, barber; Mr.. Lascott, boots and shoes,
and G. n. Smith, grocer, was burned last
week Thursday. Loss $4,000 with small in
surance.
William II. Proctor of Fair Haven has
received his appointment as special pension
examiner. He was one of u out of the
112 examined who successfully passed the
examination. Mr.. Proctor is a veteran of
the late war
A novel industry is that of F. II. Hos
ford of Charlotte, who has collected some
300 bushels of pine cones. These cones,
after being placed on racks and properly
dried, are threshed by a machine, after
which the seeds are separated and sent to
foreign countries for planting.
The Burlington grocery company has
filed articles of association with the secre-
tary of state. The directors are: Z. c.
Mower, P. j. Enright, B. j. Derby, j. f.
Miles and E. II. Martin. Mr.. Mower
has been elected president; Mr.. Enright,
vice president; Mr.. Derby, secretary, and
Mr.. Miles, treasurer. There are now three
wholesale grocery houses in Burlington,
each having capitalization of 100000
One-half of the slate workers in the vicin-
ity of Fair Haven are idle. The sea green
quarries will close Dec. l for the winter,
and good many men will be thrown out
of work. One of the largest firms which
is making on an average 100 squares a
day now sells only % squares daily, so
that its stock is accommodating at the rate of
70 squares every day. This is the case
with nearly all the producers. The out
look for the men is discouraging for the
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