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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
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Mrs. Anna c. stoEen Of South Weymouth
Mass. In acknowledging receipt OF 5000. for
value Of a policy on the life Of her husband r..
Gently deceased, writes State Agent James T
Phelps as follows: II wish TO acknowledge thA
prompt settlement Of the insurance under nj
husbands policy si,00i, and also 70 take this D.
portunity OF expressing TO the company my $40
cere appreciation Of the way in which have been
treatEd That any Of my friends may understand
why write In this way i will outline the COD
dftfon Of Affairs. premium was due on Mr.
Stowelrs policy April 30, 1926. This was not pad
and since his death we find that the company
sent second notice on May Z. and third notice
stating that the insurance had lapsed- but would
be reinstated II premium was paid and health
certificate given Later still q letter conveying
the same information was sent, all these pap-rs
having been in Mr.. Stowen's possession. 1n a
pocket Of an ONCE coat we found check made
by Mr. Stowell for this premium and dated May
s. Mr.. Stowell's accident occurred June =. and
be died June y. By the terms Of the policy
should have been entitled TO $500, but arm CRATE
full that the company, while recognizing that
there Is no legal claim for more than this amount
have stiIl seen it 70 pay the face Of the policy
$4,000" The generosity Of the National Life 10
paying the face-value Of the policy under the
above circumstance, is but in keeping with rs
general policy. Women should Be sufficiently
alive to their interests 10 see that their hus
bands pay the premiums on their policies when
they fall due as companies are not obliged to pay
the face value Of policies unless all arrears b.
been Iaid Mrs. Stowell's words Of appreciate,
are q, ne too strong for the kind and generC Is
treatment accorded her by the National Life
q. E. TAYLOR & SON, Gen. Agts
BrattIebOrO, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
Even
Wash-tubs Shrink

from using cheap, adulter-
ated laundry soap. Just look
at your hands, too, - all
eaten and sore.
Why 40 y0n 40 HP
Welcome Soap free from
corrosive alkali-is pure soap
and only soap. 1t washes
clothes clean, but never rots
them. 1t leaves things pure
because it is pure itself.
Don't be humbngged into
believing prizes and low
prices pay for rotten clothes
or poisoned hands, but insist
on having the standard
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
BELLE II. EMERSON.
Railroads.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD
New London Division.


Taking effect Oct. 5, 1896.
GOING SOUTH.
Trains leave Brattleboro as follows.
$50 >. NJ, for Springfield and New York.
$40 A. NJ, for Mlllers Falls Palmer and New Lon.
don. Connecting at MfIlers Fails with F1tcn-
burg R. R.. at Palmer with Boston & Albany
r. R., at Wilmantic with New England R. R,
at New London with n. Y, n. II. & H. R. r.
$50 A. H., for Springfield and New York.
1890 A. NJ, for Miers Falls and stations Fitch
burg X. R., Palmer and stations on Boston 4
Albany r. R.. and for New London.
1918 P. NJ, mail train for Springfield.
425 NJ, for Millers Falls and stations on Fitch
burg R. R., Palmer and New London and New
York via Norwich Line
4:s7 P. NJ, for Springfield and New York. daily
GOING NORTH.
Trains arrive at Brattleboro as follows:
1928 A. NJ, from New York via Norwich Line, New
London. Palmer and Mllers Falls.
ii:06 A. NJ, from Springfield.
1910 p. NJ, from New London, Palmer and Millers
Falls.
900 from Springfield and New York.
$40 p. NJ, from New York and Springfield.
$40 P. NJ, from New London, connecting from
Palmer, MilleTs Falls and intermediate stations
1906 p. NJ, from New York and Springfield.
~Subject to change without notice.
d. MACKENZIE, Supt., New London.
8. w. CUMMINGS, g. p. A, st. Adams.
]. A. SOUTHARD, D. P. A., New London
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16

A suit has been begun in the United
States circuit court by Herman Cramer,
claiming s., 900, 900 from the Singer Sew
ing Machine company, profits alleged to
have been made by the company in selling
machines infringing on Cramer's patent.
Edward Warga of Newark, N. j., went
to his home in an intoxicated condition
Friday and, seizing his eight months old
child by the feet, dashed it to death on the
floor. After committing the murder War
ga seized his six-year-old son and fed. He
is still at large.
A house near Oxford Centre, Mass, was
destroyed by an incendiary fire on Sunday.
Willie Trushaw, II years old, son of Mel
son Trushaw, asleep in an attic, was burn
ed to death. Eli Dupuis, brother-in-law,
in an attempt to save the boy fell from the
attic window and was badly injured.
Albert Bray of Noblesville, Ind, very
religious man, cut the Threats of his wife,
his nine-year-old son and his two-year-old
daughter with a razor Friday morning,
and, after crushing their skulls with an
axe, cut his own throat. Bray had been
sick with typhoid fever for some time and
was probably insane.
Rev. Crosby II. Wheeler D. D., a well
known missionary of the American board,
died at Auburndale Sunday. In 1857 he
entered the missionary service in Turkey
and labored at Harpoot for 80 years. He
was the founder and first president OF
Euphrates college. He was in Harpoot
during the msssacres in November last,
and his house was burned.
Bessie Weirs of Bridgeton, N. j., was
fatally injured in a peculiar accident Fri
day night. Before quitting work in the
shirt factory where she is employed a
bobbln fell from her machine. In attempt
ing to pick it up her hair came against a
fiywheel and she was drawn into 1t and
was carried around three times before her
father stopped the machine.
Mary Esther Dougherty, the nine-year-ol
girl who disappeared so mysteriously from
her home in Boston last week, was found
Tuesday in Portsmouth by Inspector Nc
Carr of Boston. She was kidnapped by an
insane woman who said hG name was
"Mary Christ" and who carried letters ad
dressed to "God All Nifty" Marlboro
Mass. She was taken to Boston to avail
an investigation as to her sanity.
A dastardly attempt to wreck the New
York express tram on the Shore line divl
sion of the New York New Haven & Hart
ford railroad near Waterford, Conn, was
made Sundaynigh A resident of Waterford
discovered on the track railroad tie, sc
placed that train striking 1t would be de
rallied and plunged into Jordon Cove, q
water-flled ditch by the side of the track.
The obstruction had been securely fasten-
ed, and was discovered but a short time
before the express was due.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
An Arehblshop dies I'm church.

The archbishop of Canterbury, primate
of all England and Metropolitan, Right
Honorable and Most Reverend Edward
WhiteBenson, privy councillor, died sudden
ly last Sunday while attending divine SER
vice in the church at Hawarden. The
archbishop was the guest of Mr.. Gladstone,
and was sitting in his pew when seizure
from apOplexy came.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
state Teachers Association.

The annual meeting of the state teach
ers' association will be held at St. Adams
Nov. II, Is and IA. President Gates of
Amherst college is to be one Of the princi-
pal speakers. A full program will soon
be issued, which may be had by address
ing T. II. Whitehill, Woodstock.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
THE VERMONT NEWS.
Fined 600 fer Set Line Fishing In
will0ughby Lake.

wiIIOughby Lake.
In the case Of the state against DIR. E.
G. Stevens for illegal fishing, in Orleans
county court, the verdict was guilty and
fine 800 and costs. Horace W. Bailey of
Newbury, the state fish commissioner,
took from Dr. Stevens at Willoughby lake
five lines $50 feet long, and set with a sin
gle hook. Commissioner Bailey claimed
that these were set lines and that fishing
with them was illegal. DR.. Stevens claim
ed that they were not set lines, and there
was only one hook on a line; that to con-
stitute them set lines there must be two or
more hooks on each line. Judge Ross
held that any INTENDED line hitched or
made fast to the shore was a set line and
so charged the jury. DR.. Stevens takes
the case to the supreme court on excep-
tions. The result of this case will be
watched with interest, as it is the first set
line fishing case in Orleans county.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16

Temple Houston, son of the famous first
governor of Texas, Sam Houston, shot
and killed Judge ]. B. Jennings at Wood
ward, Ok, on Thursday night of last week.
Houston's little son spoke to Jennings
on the street whereupon Jennings spat in
the little fellows face, which so angered
Houston that he seized his pistol, and,
after finding Jennings, shot him through
the breast. Houston then gave himself up
TO the authorities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
Two Murderers Executed on Sunday.

Two men were executed at Wewoka, in
the Seminole Nation, Oklahoma, for muir
der, Sunday. This is the first Sunday ex-
ecutiOn known. Paper targets were pinned
over the mems hearts and were fired at sim
ultaDeously by Indian police. On Friday
John Bloss, a full blood, was officially shot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
Wanted,

an or before the first Of December, two hun
" dred men TO buy farms as have the largest
q sortmtint 70 select from that can be found.
Good farms, all prices. Just call and SEE them.
A.. " My. Real Estate Agent, once over YER
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16

and we are just unloading car Of THE BEST
AKRON TILE, which we can sell at a low price,
We wish 70 call your attention to this line OF
goods, as 1t is a new departure from our regular
line.
We have also just received a car of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16

We have recently decided to add to our usual
stocksof goods, a complete line of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
Washington
Red Cedar Doors.

These goods are well worth your attention, and
we shall be glad to show them 10 you. They are
the finest lot of doors that we have ever received
and we are sure We can meet your requirements,
both In grade and price. We solicit your patron.
age both In these lines of goods, and In all other
lines that we carry, and we would ask you to re-
member that we get out all kinds Of inside, stair
and piazza finish, and that we carry q complete
line OF all kinds OF lumber.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
THE STATE PRISONS.
REPORTS MADE TO THE,HoARDs
b. OF CONTROL. 3a
Nothing to Do for Inmates Of Mar
quette Jail-Neariy All at Jackson
Are Earning Money for the State
Parole Law a Success.
Our Penal Inatitutions.

A Joint meeting Of the boards of control
Of the several prisons of the State was
held at the executive Office in Lansing the
other day, and while there was not qu"
rum of the members present interesting
reports were made and the meeting was
productive of a good deal of Interesting
discussion. The members present w.re
Hon. o. NJ. Barnes, of the Jackson prison
board, president; Albert Stiles, Il. Hart
Smith and Warden Chamberlain, of Jack
son; Warden Fuller, of Ionia, and Cad
Smith, of the Marquette prison board.
Gov. Rich also participated in the DELHI
erations of the board. 10 no.ro.t
Warden Chamberlain has 81 inmates
In his institution at Jackson, of whom GO
are employed on contract work and 80 on
State account. A number are employed
about the prison at reproductive labor.
All the available men at the institution
are now employed and the warden an
nounces that he can furnish work to at
least fifty or seventy-fve more men. He
says that the net cost to the State OF
maintaining the prison last year was in
round numbers SCI ,OO0
Warden Fuller, of Ionia prison, has 5I4
prisoners under his charge. Seventy -four
convlcts are employed on the knitting con-
tract, 197 are engaged in making furni-
ture on State account and 40 are at
work Gaming chairs. Nearly all of the
men who are able to work are employed
at productive labor. The industries are
all in a prosperous condition and the net
per capita cost of maintaining the prison.
ers is nearly one-half less than during the
preceding biennial period. Indeed. the
prisons at Jackson and Ionia are in ex-
cellent condition and are maintained at
less than one-half the expense of Eastern
prisons.
The workings of the new parole law
was generally commended. Ten convicts
have been paroled from the Jackson pris-
on, nine parolcd from the Ionia prison and
four or five from the upper peninsula
prison at Marquette.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
English Water Cress.

AS Kalamazoo has become noted for
celers raising, so Battle Greek is destined
to become noted as a shipping point for
water cress. Forty years ago two Eng
lishmen. Jacob Frost and John Tagg,
brought with them from England the seed
of the water cress and sowed it in the
muck on the banks of the Seven Mile
creek, which takes its rise in Johnstown,
Barry County, and after course of seven
miles empties in the Kalamazoo river.
This has spread since that time until ev-
cry creek in the section is filed with the
genuine English cress. 1t is green, crisp
and fresh and is in great demand, COM
handing the highest prices in the market,
as il is so choice. Parties are now be-
ginning to ship it to Chicago, Detroit, To-
ledo and Cincinnati, commencing a month
earlier than usual so as to get the fancy
price. 1t is put up in dozen punches and
shipped in crates.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
Cent Recover Cash surrenders.

Stanley l.. Lockwood secured from The
Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co. three
policies of $1,000 each, the policies being
termed accumulative bonds payable i'll
twenty years. In case of his death be-
fore the bonds matured, the insurance was
to be paid to his mother, if alive, and if
not, then to his brothers and sisters, who
Were named, or the survivors of them,
equal Y. After paying premiums for
three years. Lockwood decided to surren-
der the bonds and take the stipulated
cash surrender value. He forwarded re-
ceipts signed by himself and his mother,
but not by any of the other beneficiares.
The company declined payment unless
they were furnished. Lockwood COM
menctd suits, and the Circuit Court of
Ingham County directed a verdict for the
full amount. The judgment has been re-
versed and no new trial granted, in On
opinion by Justice Grant, which is unan-
imously concurred in. Lockwood's case
was lased upon the theory that the inter
ests cf the benefciaries were contingent;
that che person insured could deal with
the policies a s he chose and that no receipt
signed by any of the benefcaries was
necessary. The court says that the bene-
hcaries, upon the execution of the policy,
acquire an interest which the law recog-
nizes. and which the insured person can
not dispose of at his own will. The terms
of the contract, specific and clear, were
violated by Lockwood.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05

lives Of humanity. we join ourselves to-
gether, hoping to help one another ~
all good things, and to advance the
cause Of pure and practical religion In
the community; baslng our union upon
no creedal test, but upon the purpose
herein expressed, and welcoming all
who wish to join us to help establish
truth. righteousness and love in the
world"
Even the unterrified Colonel Bob
has decided he can subscribe to that.
Miss Bartlett is radical and fearless
In her utterances, but she believes
there Is good In every religious faith.
and comparative religion" Is one of the
studies Of the Sunday school, though 1t
Is not carried on under that name. The
creeds of the different sects and de-
nominations and the work of the yari-
Gus benevolent societies. Of the city
are Systematically studied.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05

school for working girls are among the
features planned.
Miss Bartlett's first training was on
daily newspaper. Then she became
the pastor of the Unitarian Church at
Kalamazoo. This denomination was
twenty eight years old in kalamazoo,
and was mt standstill, IL not worse
She induced the organization to take
up daily work on educational and hui
manitarian lines, and 1t Immediately
prospered. Then she began to talk of
a new church edifice. Silas Hubbard
gave $4,000, which he said he had
saved In twenty years by abstaining
from tobacco and liquor and investing
the nickels saved. The new church
was begun.
A short time before the dedication of
the church Miss Bartlett proposed that
the church become absolutely unsectar-
ian in name, as she had tried to make
1t in fact. The name Unitarian" it
was thought, suggested creed, and so
1t was finally voted to adopt the name,
Peoples Church" The bond of union,
however, the only thing to which those
who join the church are asked to SUD
scribe, remained the same as before.
This Is Its reading:
Earnestly desiring to develop In our
selves, and In the world, honest, rever-
ent thought, faithfulness to our high
est conceptions of right living, the
spirit Of love and service to our fellow
men, and allegiance to all the interests
Of morality and religion as interpreted
by the growing thought and purest
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
THE PEOPLES CHURCH, KALAMAZOO.

their neighbors and the world better.
The church editice, with its furnishings,
cost $4,000. There is no debt. Its 700
seats are all free and there are no col
lections. Voluntary contributions prove
ample for its support.
The building Is open every day in the
year and the work goes on daily. There
is a gymnasium for women and chill
dren with paid instructor and seven
ty-two pupils from the factory dis
tricts, and on Sunday mornings
creche Is maintained while the moth
ers worship. OF course, there are the
usual parlors and kitchen. The Fred
erick Douglass Club, which meets each
week, Is the result of an invitation to
the young colored people of the city
to use the parlors. In all, there are
twenty-seveu meeting each week in
the church and a school Of domestic
economy for the young and a singing
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
short State Items.

The stock of 81 900 for the Adrian base
ball club has nearly all been subscribed,
hut the $50, 600 bonus for the Lima North
+ erh win not materialize.
In Van Buren, County during 1895 50, 500
was paid out in sparrow bounties, but the
little pests seem to be just as numerous
and troublesome as ever.
Fred Triptow met horrible death at
Buckley & Douglas mill at Manistee.
His clothing was caught on shaft, whirl-
ing him around until nearly dead. His
body was badly bruised.
BeIleville now has 'mustache club"
which has been organized by number of
young men of the village.
The Bell Telephone Company, or that
section Of 1t operating in Muskegon, has
n chance to fight If it wants to do so. The
Council in the face of the defiance of the
company passed an ordinance regulating
the charge of telephones at SIS for bust
ness and $12 for private houses, or If
metallic circuit phones are offered $24
and SIS may be charged. Manager Berry
stated that the company would fight the
ordinances. The defiance of the company
stirred up the aldermen and they are
ready to fight. The ordinance takes effect
March 20.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
PARIS IN WINTER.
Not Very Comfortable for Warm
Hooded Americans.


Hooded Americans.
Goal in Paris is bric-a-brac," laugh
ed woman who Is just home from
years residence in the French capital,
land a stove, oh, stove Is a large
article of vertu. When we began to
freeze last winter, which we did at
the first cold weather, over tiny CRATES
set in corner Of the room where they
will throw out the least heat, even
when at their best, / announced that
we must have a stove. There were
three women of us doing Paris In lodg-
ings, and the others agreed, commits
siOning me to act as purchaser. You
will see stove here tonight / said,
confidentially, as We separated one
morning. But they didn't. / travelled
up and down before fell in with my
American ideas Of a stove, and when
finally l did find an approach to my
standard, found its price, too. That
was larger than the stove. Sixty dol
lars! OF course, we couldn't pay that
for couple of months use OF stove.
1 asked the dealer il he would rent 1t.
After parley he consented, but want
ed So a month. reported the proceed
ings to my friends, and we decided to
rent the stove. The Frenchman as
sured me the stove consumed ten cents
worth OF coal a, day. Perhaps 1t did,
with the fire kept at his conception Of
what fire Is for, but we piled that
stove to its limit, and it ate up dol
lars worth of coal at French rates ev-
cry twenty-four hours. Those who
treasure notions that Paris Is cheap
place Of residence for Americans should
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05
The TRUTH ABOUT SIMPSON.

He Wears Socks and His Hsrds Feed
On a Thousand HilIs.
Despite 4hisynom de guerre Of Sock
less" Jerry Simpson, the crstwhile
Kansas Congressman, has probably
donned and DANA ed rs many socks as
any gentleman Of his age. The sock
less story was a serene fake. General
impression exists that Simpson Is q
poor and poverty-bitten man. Never
was there greater mistake. Simpson
was and Is one af the richest men of
Kansas. His herds feed on a thousand
hills, and he has fee simple title TO
the hills.
When Jerry came to Washington,
writes a correspondent, there was .
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05

1y ninety years ago. The couple lived to-
gether until 1910, when the husband died.
-Four children survived him, all of whom
have since passed away. The venerable
lady has never undergone serious i'll
ness. and even now is not subject TO the
aches and ailments generally complained
of by persons of ripe old age. 1t is her
custora to busy herself about the house,
assisting her granddaughter, with whom
she lives, in the performance of household
duties. She is devout Roman Catholic
and rarely fails to attend mass every
morning. She chats pleasantly in French
with visitors and delights in recalling
events in her past lifetime. Mrs. Eliza
beth Wagner, sister, died at Bayfield,,
Wis, mt the age of SO, and third sister,
Mrs. Susan Cournoyer, is still living In
West Superior. Mrs. Cournoyer is 90
years of age and enjoys good health. Like
her oder sister, she is a good Christian
and walks six blocks to church every
morning.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-05

shock of surprise. They saw quiet,
well-ordered individual, with a thin,
nervous, sensitive face, genial gray eyes
and pair Of gold-bowed glasses of the
sort which suggest benevolence. And
Jerry seemed to know his way about
the world, too, and didn't need courier,
guide or chaperon. There was no more
popular man in the House than S:mD-
son; none bar Reed who was so sure Of
an audience when he talked. His pop
ularity was often shown. Once, when
Simpson had been sick, he hobbled
into the House the first time in several
weeks. Reed was talking. The big
Maine man paused as he saw Jerry
limping down the aisle, and the House,
glimpsing the Popuiist leader at the
same time, broke into voilcys Of ap-
plause. 1t was great reception, s,n
Simpson is a native Of Halifax, and
before going to Kansas faced fate as
q freshwater sailor-a captain on the
lakes-for twenty years. He carried
West a great reputation as a rough,
and-tumble scrapper, and was made
marshal Of Medicine Lodge Jerry was
most redoabtable official, and whip
ped every ruffian in Medicine Lodge
as fast as he developed. He never lost
a fight, and was widely loved.
When Jerry took his seat the other
members were inclined to regard him
as fashion of clown. He quickly
broke them Of that habit. House men
soon learned that they must be'careful
where they took hold Of Jerry, and how
they picked him up. They couldn't
stroll up to his cage and grope around
and pull Jerry out by the foreleg, or
the ear. or the side Of the face. Two
or three who essayed something of this
sort got sadly mangled.