Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-31

! ladies named Clark, from Alstead, were
driving down School street their horses
suddenly jumped and ran about a rod and
overturned the carriage opposite w. II.
Griswold's house. One of the ladies sus-
tanned a fracture of one bone of the leg,
the other was uninjured.
The many friends of the family of Rev.
A. b. TruaX, who was a former pastor OF
our Methodist church, will be interested in
the marriage of his daughter Lottie, which
occurred at Mr.. Truax's residence in
Swanton Wednesday afternoon of this
week The groom is William Cotton of
Enosburg, and they will reside upon his
farm located near Enosburg Falls.
A small boy fell down the bank above
the F. b. F. store Tuesday and cut cash
in his head He was put in hack and
sent to his home on Henry street. Upon
examination he proved not to be seriously
injured. His father said to him, 'Willie,
you won't go down there again, will you?'
the reply was. 81 don't know, | had an
awful good time riding up in the hack"
The bank commissioner of New Hamp-
shire has issued a circular asking all the
deposit books of the Connecticut River
Savings bank at Charlestown to be sent to
that institution for verifcation at once, as
well as all accounts against the bank, it
being in the hands of a receiver. Only
very few depositors are found in our vicin
ity, and the prospect is not good for a
large dividend.
Wednesday night of last week a man left
team at Henry Frosts stable asking that
the horse be fed, and departed for parts
unknown" 1t was at first thought it
might be the horse recently stolen from the
stable of Henry Otis in Wallingford, as the
man bore close resemblance to the descrip-
ton of the one who stole that. Mr.. Otis
came and looked at the team and said it was
not his Monday it was found that it be-
longed to a man in Marlboro, n. H., and
the owner came for it.
The body of Mrs. Charles Chase of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, was brought here Wednesday
for burial She will be remembered as the
wife of Father" Chase, who for many
years lived in the large white house near
the tannery at the south end of this village.
For many years this family was promi-
nently identified with the business of our
village, and with the Methodist church.
Mr.. Chase died here - years ago, and his
widow went the following year to live with
daughter a Mrs. Pease, in Syracuse, at
whose home she has Just died at the adj
vanced age of 80 years.
Monday evening about 40 friends of Mr..
and Mrs. George E. WEIGH gathered at
their pleasant home on the New Terrace to
help them celebrate, as the Irishman said,
''their tin wedding, you know, because they
have been married tin years" The home
was very tastefully decorated with flowers
and evergreen. During the evening re-
freshments were served in dishes of tin.
An original poem was read from tin book,
also one written by Mrs. Welch's uncle, the
late Levi RUSSELL at the time of her mar
riage. Miss Amanda Keife read a poem
composed by herself for the occasion, Miss
Nanny and Master Frank Cove entertained
the company pleasantly with violin duets.
Among the characters in Mr. Hoyt's
play Saturday night was "Mink'' Jones, a
| good-for-nothing specimen of the genus
bum, and his living reality is still a resi-
dent Of Charlestown, the veritable person
from whom Mr.. Hoyt took his peculiar
characteristics making the chief part of
the play. Mr.. Hoyt last week sent two
complimentary tickets and round trip rail
road tickets to this man, that he and his
wife might come down and see the play
which owed so much to him. He wrote
them personal letter urging them both to
come. To this Mrs. mink" replied stat
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or three times each week was quite enough
for her without going eight miles to see his
double play the part. "Mink' himself
came and it is needless to say occupied
front row and enjoyed the play as much as
anyone in the hail.
The arrangement of A. NJ Shipman to
begin the manufacture of baskets in the
old Whtcomb shop at Saxtons River re-
calls the fact that, with but one exception,
he has been in the employ of the paper
manufacturers here longer than any other
emplOye. He began work here in May,
1871, for what was then known as the New
England Pulp company, in a frame build
ing which then stood where No. ) Machine
room does. The next year he began run
ming a machine himself and has been a
machine tender ever since. He is now
running No. 10 machine, working days
only. He does not expect to give up his
position just yet, but will have four men
in his shop at SaXtons River, and event
ually give that his whole time. Daniel
BeatOn began work one month earlier, and
has had charge of the beating engines
many years Both are veterans and recall
clearly the immense growth and many
changes in the paper business of our vii
lage.
Bellows Falls can now hold its head as
high as the mightiest. AS for social posi-
tion, we are all right. "Trilby" has been
here. Miss Eleanor Barry comes as near
an exact reproduction of the image of
Trilby which we have in our mind as it
seems possible for any one to do. Her
magnificent physique, her pleasing manner
on the stage, aid her wonderful interpre-
tation of the part, combine to make her
"Trilby' great success, 1t would be
difficult to specify in what scene she did
her best work. Gay in the first two acts,
in the third dazed by the hypnotic influ-
ence of Svengali, in the fourth pathetic, no
comparison can be drawn. The deepest
interest centred in the william, Svengali.