Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-04-14

The Epworth league held a pleasant So
cial gathering at the vestry of the Metho-
dist church last evening.
c. p. Gibson held very successful sale
at the Elliot street stables Friday, disposing
of 30 horses at good prices. One matched
pair brought 1915.
Daily incident, many times repeated in
every business Office on Main street.
"Please, Mister, have you got any stamps
in your waste basket?"
/. X. Aliens insolvent estate was finally
settled Tuesday and a dividend Of II cents
was ordered Wednesday a conclusion
was reached in the j. f. Jacobs case,
dividend of 10 cents being ordered.
w. II. Minor has issued attractive cards
for combination breeders sale of trotting
and other horses, to be held here May Il.
This sale will be similar to those conducted
successfully at Rutland and other places.
Services in st. Michaels church, second
Sunday after Easter: At $3.50 A. NJ, holy
communion; 1920 A. NJ, morning prayer
and sermon; 1880 p. NJ, evening prayer.
Services this, Friday, evening at 1880.
The receipts of the supper given by
the ladies of the Congregational society
Thursday evening of last week were about
S36. The c menu cards were attractively
arranged, the reiteration of the C's causing
much amusement. choice supper was
served.
The Northern Aqueduct company held
meeting Friday evening, April 6, and chose
Richards Bradley for president, and F. w.
Kuech and b. Ranger for first and second
directors. Work will be begun on the pipes
as soon as the frost is out of the ground
sufficiently.
The lecture Saturday and the service
Sunday morning at the Baptist church,
conducted by Mr.. Frisbee of Boston, were
much enjoyed by the Braitleboro deaf
mutes, as well as those from South Lon
donderry and other places.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Ranney of Boston,
who were the guests of Mr. and Mrs, w.
II. Minor, received a telegram Friday an
nOuncing the death of Mr.. Ranney's sister,
Mrs. Winters, i'm New York. Mr. and Mrs.
Ranney went to New York and the body
was brought here Monday night, the buri-
al being at Townshend Tuesday. Mrs.
Winters was a native of West Brattleboro.
She leaves husband and two children.
Gov. Fuller's paper on vermont in a
century of invention" has attracted wide
spread attention. Brooklyn and New
York people have sent for copies of The
Phoenix containing it, having seen an eX-
tract from The Phoenix in the New York
Times. The Burlington Free Press pub
lished several columns of the paper Satur-
day, and nearly all of the Vermont papers
have made editorial reference to it. The
Boston Sunday Globe and Sunday Herald
each devoted two columns to the more i'm
portant inventions considered in the paper.
Gen. and Mrs. Estey returned Monday
from Saratoga, where they have been to
attend the wedding of Mrs. Esteys nephew,
Harry c. Gray. The bride was Miss Maud
Carroll, a tall handsome brunette, and
granddaughter of John b. Carroll former
ly mayor of Troy. They will live at Green
wich, y. Y, where Mr.. Gray is already
one of the prominent young business men
of the town, being superintendent OF the
water works and of the Electric Light
company. The dynamo in Greenwich fur
nishes light for three villages.
David NJ. Bullard of this place was SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment at
Keene, n. H., for breaking into the barn
Of c. p. ellison at West Chesterfield and
stealing harness, robes, etc. Watson ;.
French, the malodorous North Hinsdale
road house keeper, charged with receiving
stolen goods from Bullard, was tried yes
terday. The jury was discharged and last
evening a decision had not been rendered.
Chief of Police f. II. Mcclure, II. r.
Brown, Mr.. Frazier, the baggage master,
and George Wilcutt went TO Keene as wit
nesses.
The long-looked for Peary lectures, under
the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A., will be
given next Monday afternoon and evening.
Everybody will be glad to know that Lieut..
Peary will be accompanied by his coura-
geous wife, who was his companion on the
successful Arctic expedition. During his
lecture Lieut.. Peary will exhibit his Green
land dogs, and curios gathered on the eX-
petition. Several persons who have cou-
pons have not yet exchanged them for re-
served seats. Large delegations will come
from out of town to hear the afternoon
lecture. The reception by Gov. and Mrs.
Fuller to Lieut.. and Mrs. Peary is else
where announced
f. f. Morgan, secretary and treasurer of
the Pike Manufacturing company of Pike
Station, y. H., was in town last week.
The Pike company are manufacturers of
scythe stones, whetstones, oil stones, etc,
and have several quarries in this state and
New Hampshire, although the fine, hard
stone comes from Arkansas. The COM
pany does not have sufficient power at
Pike Station, and desires to secure a new
plant. Mr.. Morgan examined the Centre
vile factory, and was very favorably i'm
pressed with it and with Brattleboro as a
location for his company. The company
employs from 70 to 100 hands.
j. G. Clair of Bellows Falls, who has
charge of the Raymond & Whitcomb
Worlds Fair excursion which leaves Bel
lows Falls June @, was in town Monday
and found the indications favorable for
making up carload of BrattlebOro people
to join the excursion. Next Tuesday aft
ernOon and evening Mr.. Clair will be at
the reception room in the Brooks House,
where he will be glad to meet any of our
people to make definite arrangements. No
better chance than this will be offered to
visit the Exposition in an agreeable way.
The party will be a small one, enjoying all
the advantages offered by the Raymond &
Whitcomb excursions. 1t will be accom-
panied by Mr.. Clair, who is an experienced
railroad man, and its members will be
saved from all care of details.
NE-BURLINGAMB.