Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-03-10

Mayo in Davy Crockett, is April o.
The Rebekahs will have drill Saturday
evening in Odd Fellows hall at 1870
S. A. Smith d Co.'s factory was closed
Wednesday while repairs were being made
on the boilers.
5. w. Kimball, clerk of the village dis
trict, is taking the census of children of
school age, from . to 20 years inclusive.
Mrs. Harriet E. Taft, aged As, died at
West Brattleboro, Sunday. She was the
wife of Eli Taft, who lives south of the
fair ground.
G. II. Eddy Il Co. have sold their opera
house at st. Johnsbury to G. A. Stanley of
that place for $4,000. The building was
built by Eddy & Co. several years ago for
a roller skating rink.
The school in district No. l, taught by
Miss Alice Pratt, closed last week. The
scholars who were neither absent or tardy
during the year were Wells II. Sargent and
VIM g. Sargent.
Gen Bridges of Deerfeld the newly APP
pointed warden of the Charlestown, Mass,
prison, is well known here Two years ago
he bought several hundred barrels of apples
of the farmers in this section
Members of the High school who went
down from here to the prize speaking con-
test at Hinsdale last Friday evening, would
recommend to the ticket seller at Hinsdae
on that occasion thorough course in
mathematics.
An important sale of personal property
will he held at the residence of the late l..
G. Adams in Guilford, Wednesday, the
10Th. Very valuable horses and cows, and
a large quantity of farming tools, produce,
ETC., will be sold.
III. ID. Ryder, the county examiner, has
issued call for a meeting of the newly
elected school directors of this county at
the lower town hall Monday, at 10 A. NJ,
for the purpose of securing uniformity of
action. 1t is expected that the state SUI
perintendent will be present.
Griggs & Perry have moved their office
from the Houghton block to Bank block,
where they have rented two rooms adjoin-
ing those of Sherman IL JENNIE for five
years. They have taken the agency of the
Bailey clothes reel for the Connecticut val
ley, and propose to push its sales.
The Central Vermont railroad company
has bought 13 locomotives since last July
During April and May the company will
receive five freight moguls heavier than
those now in use, each one weighing H.
600 pounds, without the tender. These
additions to the motive power are necessary,
owing to the freight traffic, which has in
creased to enormous proportions during
the past year.
Mrs. A. ID. Wyatt gave a very pleasant
drive whist party on Tuesday evening, for
Miss Ray Osgood before her departure for
New York. Four tables were filed, the
first prizes going to Miss Emma Gregg and
Lewis Gregg, and the BOBBY prizes to Miss
Izetta Stewart and Sewall Morse. Choice
music was furnished, piano duets by Mrs.
Wyatt and Miss Stewart being especially
enjoyable.
Dennis Rebekah lodge, |. o. o. F., will
give their seventh annual dress-as-you-
please masquerade ball at the town hall
next Thursday evening, the 10th, to which
all members of the different branches of the
Odd Fellows order are invited. Tickets
go on sale at Holdens drug store Saturday
at 1870 in the evening. A costumer will
be at the lower town hall Wednesday.
Margaret Fox Kane, who was known all
over this country and Europe 40 years ago
as a spiritualistic medium, died at Brook
lyn Wednesday. She was the widow of
Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer
whose visits in BrattlebOro are remembered
by the older residents, and whose name
was given by DR.. Draper to the well-known
wide-spreading pine tree on the old New
fame road.
The American Bank Note company of
New York has recently gotten out for the
Pennsylvania railroad map and time ia
Bile, with description of the elegant lin
tied express train which they run between
New York and Chicago. The fine artistic
work in the designs and Illustrations en-
plOved was done by Walter C. Pettee. a
Brattleboro boy, who has position with
the Bank Note company. 1t is a fine piece
of work.
The death of Fred Cowdrey occurred
yesterday at Providence, r. |. He had
been i'll with meningitis for some time and
If he had recovered his mind would proba-
bly, have been affected. He was formerly
clerk in Pullen Brothers and the F. e NJ.
e. stores, and later a partner of Harry
Haus in the market on Elliot street He
was very popular with the young people of
this village, and the sympathy of many
people here will be extended to his mother
and sisters.
Another dividend of one per cent. or a
total OF $1,000, has been paid on the Brat
tleboro IL Whitehall railroad stock. OF
this amount $500 is paid to Brattleboro
and $500 to residents of the West river
valley. The advantage of taking stock in
the road, instead of paying bonus to Sc
cure its construction, is now very evident.
The company is to be commended on its
policy of avoiding needless expenditures,
as it thus enables it to make this direct re-
turn to the people of this section.
Last fall Suffer Brothers bought nearly
80 acres of tobacco in Putney. The last
shipment was received from there Monday,
amounting to carload and half, or 10 to
Is acres. The value of this lot was about
$1,000 and the total value of the crop was
upwards of $4,000. Suffer Brothers are
employing 30 hands regularly in their
packing house here, but are unable to han
die all the tobacco purchased, and Is tons
from Walpole and Westminster is being
shipped to South Deerfield to be sorted and
packed there.
Farming pays when S47S.S2 can be real
lied from one crop on a single acre of
ground, and that is the record reported by
o. f. Bragg of Putney, who brought his to-
bacco to Suffer Brothers establishment
Monday. In 1891 the field on which the
tobacco was raised was greensward. After
| the haV had bpan harvested Nr proos,