Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-03

Frank Norcross put a new job wagon on
Main street this week.
The project of forming business mems
social club is being actively agltated.
A special meeting of the stockholders of
the Farmers and Mechanics exchange will
be held Saturday, May II, at 1880 at Grand
Army hall.
Rev. G. r. Moor, whose death is else
where recorded, was pastor of the Univer-
salist church at the time the present edi-
fee was first dedicated.
Several of the large trees on the Brooks
property on the common are being cut
down to make room for the house which
Holden e Martin will build
Jos. p. Mara of Burlington, the state
sales agent of the National Cash Register
company, is in town this week. f. X.
Barrows has bought register for use in his
store.
N. l.. Hawley's store is to be improved
by the removal of the unused north door,
and filling the vacant space between the iron
pillars with a glass panel, thus making
continuous plate glass corner.
H. L. Fish has been engaged by S. N.
Alexander of Bellows Falls to watch
throughout each day at the toll bridge in
the hope that the bodies of S. N. Alexan-
der, jr., and James Fitzgerald may be
found.
Rev. G. o. Day and children, Madam
Day and Miss Hull returned from Catskill,
N. Y, Wednesday night. Mr.. Day will
give the preparatory lecture at the chapel
at I this evening and will occupy his pull
pit next Sunday morning.
Secretary Winslow of the state board of
agriculture and Veterinary Phillipson of
Brandon have been here this week to ex-
anime % cattle which Marcus Robbins had
bought in New Hampshire. All the ami
mails were pronounced free from tubercu-
losis, and were admitted to the state.
e. d. Dodge brought to H. M. Woods
store yesterday a live Canada lynx caught
by Frank Tenney of Dummerston. The
animal attracted much attention at the
store before it was shipped to G. II. Ten
ney of Keene. When caught the lynx was
neatly starved and was so weak that it
could hardly stand, but it soon recovered.
The entertainment at Odd Fellows hall,
Friday night, brought out large attend
ance. "Dr. Baxter's Wonderful Inven-
ton" was warmly received. The parts
were taken by Mrs. Cora Robinson, Mrs.
A. G. Carleton, Miss Louise Coates, d. E.
Tasker, F. G. Platts, and Charles Davis.
Following the play was social time, with
dancing, until II o'clock.
All voters should remember the annual
village meeting which will be held next
Tuesday evening at 7:30. There is almost
no discussion as to what action will be
taken. Col. Harmon and NJ. j. Moran of
the board of bailiffs declare that they will
not accept Office again, and E. II. Putnam,
being a selectman, will not be candidate.
1t is probable that Messrs. Streeter and
Calvin will be elected, and that Capt. j.
G.. Estey will be one of the new members
of the board.
The runs of the express messengers on
the New London road were changed May
l. Mr.. Patch, instead of alternating with
Louis Henkel on the long run, will go to
Palmer and return each day, going down
at 1925 A. NJ. and returning at 9:35 p. NJ.
Symington, a new messenger, will come in
on the 1920; return to Millers Falls with
Patch at 1925; run back at :05 p. NJ. and
return to Palmer an the 4:25. Crowell and
Rowland will run on the slower end"
James Henry Hession, aged So, died
Saturday night at the home of his sister,
Mrs. ID. A. Martin, the cause being con-
sumption. He had been employed on a
farm in Westmoreland, and was brought
to Brattleboro by Mr.. Martin only q few
days before his death. Mr.. Hession was
at one time employed by L. S. Higgins.
He was brother of Miss Alice Hession.
Services were held in the Roman Catholic
church at 8 Monday and the body was
taken to Fitchburg, Mass, for burial.
Every trout brook in this part of the
county which is not posted was an object
of attention for the sportsmen Wednesday,
but fewer devotees of the rod were out
than last year. One of the handsomest
catches was the II pounds brought in by
ii. w. Kinson and l.. II. Barber. DIR.
Barber and C. A. Harris had about eight
pounds. W. II. Brown gloated over 81
good-sized fish. Chauncey Knapp and A.
II. Hines secured a handsome string at
Green River, Shirley Brigham returned
from there with II, A. S. Nichols with 20,
and W. II. Perry, Charles Shattuck and
Frank Kimball with number they don't
mention. G. A. Miller caught % in the
Gulf brook in Chesterfield. H. Z. Harris
had basket containing 81 pounds. Geo.
Bishop caught IL last week that weighed
four pounds.
The death of Sarah Elizabeth Ami
don, wife of Fred T. Stewart, the we'll
known brick mason, occurred suddenly
Tuesday from heart disease. Mrs. Stewart
had not been in good health for several
years, but her condition did not become
serious until Sunday. She was 81 years
old and was the daughter of Ephraim and
Sally Amidon of Westmoreland, n. II.
She lived there until her marriage to Mr..
Stewart in 1870. Two or three years later
they came to Brattleboro, where they have
since lived, with the exception of two or
three years spent at West Chesterfield.
She is survived by her husband and son,
Leon, and two daughters, Annie and Ella,
and by her mother. She also has five
brothers, Joseph and Jerome of this viii
lage, Riley of Putney, Larkin and James
of Chesterfield. Mrs. Stewart was regu-
lar attendant at the Universalist church
and was a member of the Sedgwick Relief
corps and of the grange at West Chester
field. Services were held at the house this
forenoon at 10 o'clock. Another service
will be held in the church at West Chester
field and the burial will be there.
Tuberculosis at Vernon.
Cattle Commissioner H. NJ. Arms If
Springfield and DIR. Rich of the experiment
station at Burlington made their second
visit to Vernon Monday, when they tested
the dairy herds of George X. Stebbins and
Henry Brooks by administering tuberculin.
Out of the % animals remaining in the
Brooks herd none responded to the test,
and they therefore appeared to be in health
so far as infection from tuberculosis was
concerned. Three animals have recently
been taken from the herd to New Hamp-
shire, but whether by sale or because they