Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-04
The Swift beef company "passe,
dividend, the first for

The Swift beef company "passe,
January dividend, the first for
months.
The Philharmonic orchestra playe
the dance at West Chesterfield The,
evening.
D A. Smith q Co. gave each of th
employees New Year greeting in a Ste
Brazil calendar.
Boys have skated on the river this wee
| to Dummerston and Hinsdale. The hes
skating is below the Broad brook.
Stamp sales at the post-ofiice for Deem
Der amounted to S1209.G2; that of envel-
opes to Sj34.53. The total receipts, S17Ni
63, were 500 more than for December
1893
Dr. F. A. Woodbury. and Mrs. Anna b.
Hatfield of Boston were married in Bos-
ton Wednesday by Rev. John NJ. Louden
Owing to the recent death of the brides
father the wedding was private.
John Warner of Manchester, this state.
has bought the Howe farm in Vernon,
which has been in the possession of the
family of that name for many years. Pos
session will be given April l.
The mercury has taken drop, it seemed
like drop TOO much seven consecutive
mornings, striking at l27 to 10 below the
zero mark This morning brings an agree
able change in the temperature
The Invincble register, made in Dayton,
Ohio, is now used in the Valley Grain
company's office. 1t is labor saving
machine which keeps a complete and du-
plicated record of all transactions.
The Dartmouth college gee club. of
which Allyn Crosby is a member, will
nrOhahlV oi lot To-, Il
The club gave concert at Boston, Jan. !,
which the papers of that city noticed com
plimentarily.
Dummy Manning was arrested New
Years night and was brought before Judge
Newton the next morning, charged with
intoXication. He was fined 81 and costs,
amounting to S9.G1, and was put under
bonds to keep the peace
The laws supplements, furnished by the
state, will be mailed to Phoenix subscrib-
ers tomorrow. We make haste to saw
in advance that they were not printed at
this office, and we are not responsible for
their mechanical appearance.
Col. G.. w. Hooker of Bratteboro Sena-
tor O. i. Kinds of Highgate and Prof J.
w. Notey of Burlington, who have com
posed the state highway commission
designations to Gov. Woodbury.
Col. Harmon, with the assistance of
members of the Estey Guard and Fuller
Battery, is decorating the armory for the
military ball, the improvements having al
ready been completed. The decorations
Will be entirely of a military character
With the help of friends Mrs. f. II.
Smith has sent this week three barrels of
clothing and bedding to a home for desti.
tute men and one to home for women.
both in New York; also four barrels to
the Gospel chapel mission school in
Brooklyn, y. Y.
Both national banks at the close of bust
ness December 81, 1894, reported a good
years business, considering the year. The
Vermont national declared its usual semi
annual dividend of five per cent and the
Peoples their dividend of three per cent
Both banks show an increase in the item
of undivided profits.
An exceedingly pleasant sleighride party
was made up of 10 couples of Young peo-
pie, who, in one of l.. 5. Higgins's four
horse sleghs, with Miss Helen Emerson as
chaperone, made the trip to Chesterfield
wednesday evening. At Cobb's chicken
pie supper was served, and a thoroughly
IL.
The 4Sth annual statement of the Yer
mont savings bank shows a gain of S1j4,-
499.l5 in resources during the year. Two
dividends of It per cent each have been
paid depostors the past year, and an extra
dividend of one per cent, in compliance with
the laws of this state, upon classification
made by the trustees, as follows: Deposits
of six or more years, II per cent: depos-
its of fDlir wears and lass than oiV aare
three-fourths per cent; deposits of one year
and less than four years, one-half per cent.
Mrs. A. j. Stearns's Sunday school class
surprised her on Wednesday evening by an
unexpected call at her Organ street home
and the presenting of teachers Bible.
The presentation speech was made by Rol-
lin >. Childs in his usual happy manner.
Mrs. Stearns acknowledged the gift in a
few well-chosen remarks. A very pleasant
evening was passed with vocal and instru.
mental music, and enlivened by some
choice storytelling on the part Of Rollin
that kept the company exceedingly good
natured.
w. II. Spear formerly of this town. and
Thomas +. Murphy, the famous temper
ance advocate, have been conducting tenn
perance meetings in Lee, Mass. OF Mr.. |
Spears work one of the Berkshire county |
papers says: w. IL. Spears lecture last |
evening was very interesting. About 80 |
took the pledge. This closes MIR. Spears !
series. Mr. Spear has made very favor
able impression on the people of Lee and |
vicinity. He is a remarkably fine elocu-
zionist and during his lectures has COM
plete control of his audience. During the
four lectures of which he has had charge
about 200 persons have taken the pledge,
a record of which any man should be
proud.
Green River has had a sensation this
week in the freezing to death of Mrs.
Electa Babcock, an eccentric woman of 20
years or more of age. She had lived alone
in an old house, it'll a Savage dog and
some other animals for her only compan-
ions. She was last seen on Friday and on
Sunday some of the neighbors went to the
house and forced their way in. They
found Mrs Babcock lying unconscious, but
were kept from approaching her at first by
-he dog. When they finally reached her
hey found that the dog had evider
.ried to awaken her by jumping up
and pawing, Gt,-haa lace, until it and hr-
30. bruised and bleeding, her head |
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