Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-07-12

The topic for the Baptist Christian En-
deavor meeting Tuesday evening will be
"The ten commandments in our lives.
Protective grange meeting will be held
next Tuesday evening A paper upon
new varieties of fruit for this section, the
Grange Husbandman and recitations are
on the program.
Charles Miller of the American House
sold his siX-year-old chestnut geldng yes
terday to 90 to Greenfield. Horsemen
count this one of the best driving horses
in the county. The price was about $500.
Many Braltleboro friends will be inter
ested to know of the marriage of Mrs. Will
lis Bemis, which took place Tuesday even
ing at the residence of her sister Mrs.
John Butfnm, in McIndoes. The groom
is B. ), keDnison, prominent resident of
Laconia, n. H.
W. II. Childs has arranged for the pur-
chase of a 70-foot skeleton tower of gal
vanized steel which will probably be erected
at some suitable point on the mountain by
agreement with the Retreat trustees.
The tower was built by Western concern
and exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
The proprietors of the Herrick and Boy
den building on Elliot street have reason
to hope the boys will be more careful with
their big firecrackers when another Fourth
comes around. A souvenir of this years
celebration is a crack in the 7O-dolar light
of plate glass in the Puffer store window.
A man from Jamaica drove upon the
bridge south of F. O. Burditt's in New
fame, Tuesday, when all the stringers but
one gave way. The mans horses Jumped
forward in great fright and landed safely
upon this side, although one of them fell.
1t was a remarkable and narrow escape
from a bad accident.
A report comes from Townshend that
Thomas Crane, who was tried at the March
term of court for disturbing the commun-
ion service at the Baptist church, but not
convicted, went upon the war path again
last Sunday, and another prosecution of
him was threatened, but the matter was
settled by Crane signing a paper in which
he agrees to remain in the back part of the
church at future communion services aud
keep himself properly quiet.
Fred johnson and Herbert T. Waite of
Wardsboro were arraigned before Justice
Burditt at Newfane this morning, charged
with catching trout under legal length.
They pleaded guilty and were fined
S. and coss, amounting to S11. 40
each. States Attorney Fits appear
ed for the state. The two men were
fishing in Newfane June 22 when Fish
Warden f. G. Tuthill discovered them.
They had at that time about so trout, near
ly all less than six inches in length.
Mrs. Lucy j. Holden, 95, the oldest
person in Orange, Mass, died yesterday.
Mrs. Holden was born in Templeton in
1900, and spent her girlhood days in her
native town. She afterward moved to
Warwick, where she lived for some time.
She moved to West Orange So years ago
and had since made her home in cottage
there. Her daughter, Mrs. Maria L. I'm
derwood, cared for her tenderly for many
years. She married Chaplin Holden al
Mortified in 1922. Mr.. Holden died "A
years ago. Beside her daughter, Mrs. I'm
derwood, she leaves two sons, j. II. Hol-
den of Brattleboro, superintendent of the
Estey Organ works, and Samuel n. Hol-
den, the veteran passenger conductor on
the Fitchburg railroad.