Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-27

install the officers of Sedgwick post next |
Wednesday evening" Jan. 1.
The First Baptist society will hold their |
annual assignment of sittings at the church
Thur,day evening, January 2, at 1870
D'clc <.
The New York Life Insurance company
settled $4,000 on endowment policies
Christmas week, several of which were
held in this section.
Miss Nellie Sullivan of The Phoenix COM
postorial force, sustained severe sprain of
the ankle, when she fell from the roof of
the piazza at her Clark street home on
Monday.
Edward l.. Fuller has sold his farm in
Nottingham to X. G. Howe of Sunderland,
Mass. Possession will be given January
l. The sale was made by the Crown "
Morse agency.
The liquor seized November 9 at the
pool room of VIM. brisbane was ordered
destroyed Saturday by Justice Newton.
The costs, amounting to Sl3.59, were taxed
against brisbane.
One of the curtains i'm the Baptist vestry
caught fire Wednesday evening while j. E.
Halls class were holding their class gather
ing. f. II. Van Doom promptly pulled
the curtain down and no harm was done.
The insurance on II. f. Knowlton' s
store, burned at Nottingham several weeks
ago, has been adjusted at S3375, through
A. W. Childs IL Co.'s agency. The same
concern have also paid $500 to Herbert
Bellows of Marlboro, whose barn was
burned recently.
NJ. A. Coolidge, the contractor of the
| Brattleboro and Gardner electric railroads,
had a consultation at Amherst, Mass, last
week with the men interested in the pro
posed Amherst Sunderland electric road.
| He was taken over the route and he gave
a general estimate of the cost.
Three of the principal officers recently
elected by Artisan lodge of United Work
men of Athol, Mass, are former Brattle
boro mem. w. Clayton, past mas
ter: Park b. Swift, master workman; A
L. Dunklee, receiver, Mr.. Clayton is also
re preventative to the grand lodge.
The annual fall meeting of the Pocum
tuck Valley memorial association of Green
field. Mass, will be held at the site of For
Dummer next autumn. The association
will be entertained by the BrattleborC
Sons and Daughters of the American Rev
olution and a day of much interest is'an
ticipated.
Next Monday evening, at the stroke o
the daily fire-alarm test at 1880, the fir
department will make an exhibition rul
from the engine house to box 81 at tn
corner of Main and High streets. Thi
test is to show the public what can be don
with the new improved and apparatus, an
the difference in time between the new wa
and the old
Frank Harvey, formerly the well-knOwl
landlord of the American House, VIII
went from here to Marlboro, \. H., abou
two years ago, has sold out his hotel bus
ness there to Mr.. Proctor of Keene, fol
mer resident of Marlboro. Mr.. Harve
has conducted first-class house at Mar
boro and the people of that town regrt
very much to have him leave.
The Rensselaer, Herald of Greenbusl
n. V, of which Frank +. Howe is one {
the propretors, published special Chris
mas number last week, in which it wa
announced that that paper is not only tn
official paper of Rensselaer, county, bu
also of the village of Greenbush and tn
village of CaseltOn. The advertising froI
the county alone is worth $1,000 to S4OC
for the official paper.
The work of equipping the freight cal
! of the Boston IL Maine railroad with aut'
matte car couplers has begun in earnest
the car shops in Springfield. Forema
, Battey has added ten men to his force an
! is scheduled to equip two cars day. A
the cost of equipping one car is abol
$780, it can readily be seen what an enorn
Gus expense the road will be put to in o
der to equip its Is, 600 freight cars betwee
I now and January /, 1898, when the n
5 tional law on this subject goes into effec
. f. b. Pratt, who skipped from Brattl
I boro several years ago, and who has r
Gently duped business men at Fall Rive
l Mass, as stated exclusively in The Pho
r nix last week, was cutting a wide swath
T. Newport, X. l., a year ago. He took
g prominent part in the affairs of the Ne
, port yacht club, and was foremost in pr
} noting its scheme for a new home. /
suddenly left Newport, after overdra vii
his bank account and borrowing sur
}. from many acquaintance.
The case of Crown VS.. May was broug
. before Justice S. Ii. Sherman Monda
9 The defendant asked for a jury, but Il
!, plaintiff allowed judgment to be given +
: the defendant and then took an appeal
~ the county court. The contention on d
h part of the plaintiff is that May bought
= real estate business of +. j. Bailey actiI
for him (Crown) and for himself MAY
>. that May charged Crown half more tht
9 half of the amount paid Bailey and
sues to recover this amount. The defe
> dant claims that he, acting for himse
. bought the business of Bailey and that lat
. he sold an undivided half of the business
" Crown, as he had promised him the iii
chance of going into the business in ca
Bailey sold. Waterman, Martin and II
:, appeared for the plaintiff and Haskins a
y Stoddard for the defendant.
|. A pleasant occasion was the silver We
q ding anniversary observance of Mr.. a
= Mrs. H. c. Liscom, which took place Ii
! Friday evening at their home on Spru
a street. About 10 or 80 friends and re
v tives gathered to assist in making the oct
l. sion an enjoyable one, and their effo
|. were eminently successful. A number
- handsome gifts were presented to Mr.. a
~ Mrs. Liscom, among them being sic
board and a silver tea service. Amo
, the out-of-town guests present were NJ
~ Liscom's sisters, Mrs. Clark of Charl
~ town, n. H., with her husband, and M
+ A. N. Swain of Bellows Falls, Mr.. /
- CONS sister, Mrs. P. B. Smith of w
- chester, N. H., Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. L
- com and daughters and S. f. Liscom a
a daughters, all of Hinsdale. The servl
81 of choice refreshments proved no intern
" ton to the pleasant sOcialibility viii
n, characterized the evening.
ID Rev. H. D. Maxwell was invited
IN supper at the home of T. j. b. Cudwol
he last Friday, and at about 1870 in I
,p eveninO he was notified that the new