Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-07-05


week.
G. A. Hines has been surveying on
Highland avenue and Forest street, where
sewers are to be laid out.
Stakes are being driven for the new
house which +. II. Van Doom will build
on Oak street, adjoining the house occupied
by Mr.. Jordan.
Twenty-four new members were voted
into the Vermont Wheel club Tuesday
night, making the total membership at the
present time l2l.
1t is expected that the post-ollice will be
located in the Baptist parsonage while the
town hall is being remodeled, but the APP
proval of the inspector has not been given.
T. w. Rogers of Brandon, who has the
contract to remodel the town hall, came
here Monday with his superintendent.
Work has already been begun with a small
force, which will soon be increased.
Ten members of the Baptist Christian
Endeavor society organized a society in the
Swedish mission church Saturday. There
are II members and the officers are Rev.
Mr.. Anderson, president; Erika Eikbone,
secretary.
| Rev. w. A. Tucker of Jamaica, West
Indies, who has been in town several days,
spoke Tuesday evening to the young peo-
pies society of the Baptist church in re-
gard to his work. He has three churches
and four schools in his charge.
News was received Tuesday of the sud
den death at Gardner, Mass, of Charles
Doolan. Mr. Doolan had visited in Brat
tleboro, and acted as best man at the Don
ely Bowler wedding this spring. The
funeral is held today in Fitchburg, Mass.
The national convention of the Young
Peoples Christian union of Universalst
churches will be held in Boston next week,
and several members of the Union here
will attend, among them Miss May Ed
wards, Miss Myrtelle EasOn and Mrs. En-
erson Flagg.
The autopsy on the body of Washington
Manley showed that the cause of death
was an liberated condition of the stomach.
This was a great surprise, as the local
physicians and those in New York city
supposed he had been suffering from a
| liver disease.
J. =. Sterling of Walpole. =. Il. vino
came to Westminster May and caught u
trout under six inches in length, was ar
rested few days ago by Constable Metcalt
of that town, the complaint being brought
by A. E. Brigham, fish warden at West
minister. States Attorney Fits conducted
the prosecution against Sterling, who was
fined $40 and costs, amounting to S26.
The plans for the Universalist picnic
will be carried out next Wednesday, July
10, at Central Park in Vernon, weather
permitting. The 1925 train will carry thu
picnickers and will stop at the park, as viii
the % train in the afternoon. The return
trip will be from the park at 5:35 anC
935 The fare for the round trip will b,
% cents for adults and Il cents for chill
dren between II and years
The delegates from this county to tn
Christian Endeavor convention at Boston
will have car entirely to themselves. |
will leave here attached to the 1925 trail
the morning of the 10th. The society o
the Baptist church will send - members
with Miss Corabel Coates as the regula
delegate. The Congregational society an,
the societies of the West village will ais
be we'll represented. Twelve members wi
90 from Patney.
Henry Haine, the musical critic, in a
article in the Boston Herald in referenc
to the engagement of Clara Hunt, Bo:
ton girl, as contralto with Messrs. Abbey
Grau and Schoeffel, says: at is matte
of surprise that one of Nine. Stella BraZi
Mrs Pratt of Brattleboro) has not bee
announced also. Nine. Brazil is al
, other contralto of remarkable beauty
? a singer of the first rank, and her great SUI,
cess in opera at Covent Garden, LOndOr
last Nav, as specially cabed to the Bosto
Herald by Mr.. Arthur Warren, followin
so closely after her lyric triumphs in tia
ian opera at Nice, attracted the attentio
of every impresario in Europe to that Anne
lean prima donna
p The fve-year-old son of Fred j. Bigelov
S the granite cutter, who lives in Centrevill
= wandered away Monday afternoon fro
= the Prospect Hill cemetery, where IL
father was at work. When ar Bigelo
: was ready to return home at six o'clock I
t trace of the lad could be found, and Wis
= to the Centreville home showed that
e had not been there. The parents we
= greatly alarmed, and people on Prospe
S Hill Joined in searching in the woods a
e Joining the cemetery, but these eifOr
r were useless, as the boy appeared at Ce
d treville about o'clock, having been thr
IS or four hours in. making his way from Il
S cemetery to his home.
{ F. O. Durant was arrested Monday
| OOlSldDlt lldllllOll anu blOuSlll bNlb
Justice Newton charged with intoXicatio
Il According to his testimony Durant wi
.e other men employed at the Waite far
+, went to Chesterfield Sunday night al
II procured a quart bottle of liquor. Aft
e their return to the Waite farm Dura
- assaulted F. NJ. Waite and both m
- showed the effects of an exchange of blow
Durant was fined 81 and costs, amountil
u to over SIG: with the alternative senten
J, of 20 DAYS in Jail. The fine was not pa
o and he was taken to Jail Monday nigl
le Under the old law he would have work
L out his fine at the house of correction
,e the rate of 33B cents day.
ID Deputy Sheriff Starkey arrested thr
w men in Halifax Thursday who have be
10 selling cider. The hearings took place II
n day before Justice Frank Worden, Sta
ar Attorney Fits appearing for the prose-
" ton and Charles Chase of Nottingham f
~ the respondents. George Chase, for seliI
n cider and keeping il for sale and for id
W seized, paid total fine of SllO, inclldi'
of costs. Six barrels of cider owned by Cha
g. which were seized were cOntiscated. G
m bert Hicks was fined SOS for selling cid
le and keeping it with intent to SELL Tim
ne thy Bellows was fined 50 and cost
n amounting to $3.50 for selling aid kee
g. ing with intent to sell. small tuanti
I'd which he had was seized,
The annual meeting of the BAPTIST Su
r. day school, postponed from las Sunda
~ was held in the chapel "wednesday eve
st ing. The reports of the Officers were !
IL tened to, those of the superintendent al
IN secretary showing a slight growth in Il
e. school, both in numbers ard average {