Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-22


to him, and he did not understand the
matter or he would have paid his fare. AS
it was it made it an expensive job for him,
as with additional expenses for travelling,
and the loss of a days time, it meant
more than the amount above named.
A son was born Wednesday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Whitman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Kimball spent Sun
day with N. H. Pierce at Athens.
F. II. Kimball has been appointed local
division agent of the Rutland road.
Mrs. Candee of Poughkeepsie, is visiting
her daughter Miss Marion Candee.
Digby Bell, in Hoyt's "a midnight bell"
plays at the opera house this evening.
The Amherst male quartet will furnish
music for the junior exhibition next Fri
day.
The Owl club realized well from the
weeks run of the glass blowers at Union
hall.
A delegation of IS Daughters of Rebekah
went to Chester last Friday to institute
new lodge there.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Eaton and child left
Wednesday morning for a visit of two
weeks in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Miss Harrington was called suddenly to
her home in Worcester Tuesday, by the Sc
we're illness of her grandmother.
The Misses James of Montreal, cousins
of Mrs. S. W. Wilder, have spent part
of the last week at her home here.
Conductor Sexton resumed his run be-
tween here and Rutland Tuesday, after an
absence of a week wrestling with the rheu-
matism.
Judge L. NJ. Read was in Montpelier
nearly all last week, and is there again
this week in attendance upon the session
of the supreme court.
At the grand encampment of Odd Eel
lows in Rutland this week, Mrs. j. H.
Blakeley gave reading at the reception,
and was enthusiastically received.
The Burlington Free Press is authority
for the statement that our electric railroad
has collapsed for the present season at
least" but wishes us better success in the
future.
A call is issued to those of the Demo-
cratic persuasion to meet in Banquet hall
Saturday evening for the purpose of elect
ing delegates to the state and district con-
Mentions.
The Fall Mountain Paper company use
60 tons of limestone day. 1t comes here
from Rutland county and is used largely in
the chemical pulp mill to assist in the di-
gestion of the wood.
G. L. Glynn, who is closing out his bust
ness at Saxtons River, is undecided whether
he will locate in this village or in Turner's
Falls. He went to the latter place We'd
nesday to look the ground over.
News has been received of the birth in
Los Angeles, May 10, of son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Fl. II. Hale. Mrs. Hale will be pleas
antly remembered here as Achsa Morrison,
a popular teacher in the grammar school.
An electric light has this week been
placed at the bridge over Saxtons River
just south of the village in Westminster,
making a much needed improvement in
place which has been the cause of consid
cradle inconvenience
W. G. Belknap went to Chester Tues
day evening to act as one of the judges at
the central High school prize-speaking
contest which occurred there. From there
he went to Ludlow to attend the Odd Eel |
lows dedicatory services on Wednesday.
Rev. j. E. Fullerton goes to Bridgewater
next Tuesday to assist in the ordination of
Rev. Frank Hyde, brother of j. J. Hyde |
of Towns hotel, to be pastor of the Con- |
gregational church at that place. Mr.. |
Fullerton is to deliver the charge to the |
pastor.
Mrs. NJ. E. Dow and George Underwood |
were married Monday at the residence of |
Mrs. Dow's brother, L. S. Hayes. The |
wedding, which was very quiet one, &C.
CURED at noon, and was followed by a |
breakfast, after which Mr.. and Mrs. I'm |
derwood left for short wedding trip.
A large number of our people went to
Ludlow Wednesday to the dedication of
the Gill Odd Fellows Home. They went |
up by special train, leaving here about $3.50,
and returned in the evening. j. H. Blake
ley was one of the committee of arrange
ments and has spent much of the week
there.
Lawyers Ryder and Bodies were at Wind |
sor Tuesday and Wednesday in attendance |
upon the United States circuit court, the |
case in which they were interested being |
that of Lydia A. Blood VS.. George A. |
Brown on a $1,000 endorsement of note. |
The case has been before the different |
courts for some years.
Plans and complete specifications of the
new High school building have been re-
ceived by the building committee and are
being examined and figured over by a num-
Der of contractors preliminary to making
bids. The committee are ready to receive
propositions upon the various parts, and
contracts will soon be closed.
Important Improvements are to be made
in Wheeler's laundry, necessitated by the
large increase in his business. Among
the changes is the raising up of the build
ing, making it one story higher than now,
and much increased amount of machin-
cry. Few kinds of business in the village
have had so rapid and substantial a growth
as Mr.. Wheeler's since he started it few
years ago.
A representative of the Redpath lyceum
bureau was in town Monday discussing
the matter of a course of lectures and en-
tertainments next winter under the au-
spices of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION. A full discussion of the matter
was had, and without doubt course will
be arranged upon a similar basis as those
of the past few years. The committee ad-
journed their meeting two weeks to inves-
tigate the matter in other directions.