Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-24
Mt PHOENIX. BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JANUARY a. 1896.

There has been talk of a leap year dance
to be given by the wives of members of
the Vermont Wheel club.
A pleasant social followed the regular
meeting of the Knights and Ladies of
Honor Wednesday evening.
Mrs. n. G. Sawyer has been engaged to
give series of lectures in February before
the Saturday morning club in Hartford,
Conn.
Round trip tickets to the carnival at
Quebec will be sold at reduced rates The
carnival begins Jan. ~, and continues one
week
Miss E. NJ. Palmer is painting several
Typographical maps in water colors for the
use of DR.. VIM. b. Clark of Johns Hopkins
university.
The Brattleboro Athletic clubs dance
Tuesday evening at Red Mems hall was
attended by about - couples Another
dance will be given by the club in two or
three weeks.
The Sons of Veterans and Ladies' Aid
Dramatic club held a meeting Monday
evening, at which it was decided to ar
range for the presentation of play before
the Grand Army and their friends some
time in February
A delightful dancing party to about 20
guests was given at the grange reception
hall Saturday evening by Miss Christina
Goodall, the object being to have her Brat
tleboro friends meet Mr.. Walter Lipe of
Paatine Bridge, n. Y.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
Gaslight company was held Monday even
ing, officers being chosen as follows: Di-
rectors, Il. ID. Holton, o. d. Esterbrook.
j. l.. Martin, George G. Averill, G. n.
Thompson; clerk and treasurer, G.. F.
Thompson; auditors, George S. Dowley
and E. b. Barrows.
The complication arising over the CON
tested will of Oliver Davenport, late of
Leyden, Mass, is lessened by the an
nouncement that William Watson Daven-
port of Leyden, the chief legatee, has eff
fected a satisfactory settlement with Mar
tin j. Davenport of Bernardston. The
other contestant is S. T. Davenport of
West Brattleboro, with whom no settle
ment has been made.
The death of Mrs. Rachel Burke. SO.
took place last Friday at the home of J. c.
Newton, at Fishers Island. n. Y. The
body was brought to Brattleboro Saturday
and the funeral was held Monday at the
home of Mr.. McQuaide, nephew of the
deceased. Mrs. Burke was the mother of
Mr.. Newton's first wife, and lived with
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton in this town and
DummeGston. Her maiden name was Nc
Qdaide. She was born in New Boston. \.
H., and lived in Rockingham, this county,
before her marriage. Her married life was
spent at Putney, where the death of her
husband, Columbus Burke, occurred.
The Bellows Falls Times states that the
National Contract and Supply company,
which recently secured a charter in this
state, is to engage in this county in the
manufacture and sale at wholesale of under
takers supplies, including caskets. coffins.
cases, etc. The company has a capital of
$780, 900 and guarantee fund of $50. 900
Aside from its manufacturing department
it will conduct provident savings depart
ment, the object of which will be TO issue
protective burial contracts, to be paid for
in small installments. This plan has been
a great success in England, where the sew
eral companies which have adopted it are
doing large business.
Moses Woolson, whose funeral was held
at Kings Chapel in Boston Sunday was
one of the oldest and best known school
teachers in New England. Some of the
older residents of Brattleboro will remem-
Der him as principal of the High school
here years ago. Rev DR.. George Leon
Walker and other men who have become
prominent were among his pupils. Mr..
Woolson was at one time master of the
English High school in Boston, and had
served as principal of the High schools in
Bangor and Portland, Me. Among the
pail bearers at the funeral was Judge Mel.
len Chamberlain, also an old time school
teacher here, whose address at the dedica-
tiOp Of the RrOolrs 1ihro ~ h,,ildipv mill
long be remembered.
The White River Junction Landmark of
this week says: Geo. +. Richards of Brat
tleboro, Walter b. johnson of Essex June
ton, and Mine Host Morse of the junction
House, met here Tuesday and drafted by
laws for Vermont Hotel Keepers Protec-
tive association, they having been elected
a committee for this purpose at the late
meeting in Montpelier. The bylaws will
be submitted TO a meeting to be called at
the Junction House sometime in the near
future The committee protest against
the idea advanced in the newspapers, that
the hotel keepers of Vermont propose or
ganizing for the purpose of fighting the
prohibitory law, and they assert that four
tifths of the hotel keepers of the state
would refuse to join in a movement of that
kind.
Mrs. c. l.. Brigham of Colrain, Mass,
who has been visiting friends in Bratte-
boro for the past few weeks, met with
very peculiar accident while returning TO
her home last Saturday She has been i'll
for some time and was cOnversing on the
train with a Burlington doctor about her
health. He had a bottle of medicine in
his grip which he wished to show her and
to get at it he had to remove a bottle of
chloroform which he placed on the window
sill OF the car. The motion of the car up
set the contents of the bottle into Mrs.
Brigham's lap and she Immediately became
unconscious. She was removed from the
train at South Vernon and after several
hours work the doctors were able to revive
her. She was unable to continue her
journey home until Monday and at last
reports was still i'll from the effects of the
accident.
Insolvency papers were filed Monday
against the Halifax Mills company and j.
c, Moore, at Laconia. DIR. j. G. Moore.
relative to the insolvency proceedings, ex-
pressed his approval of the action taken,
as 1t would put a stop TO the attempted
larency of his principal assets, which
should be protected for the benefit of his
creditors. The Halifax Mills have been
managed by DIR. Moores brother-in-law.
DR.. Henry Tucker, formerly of Brattleboro.
An attempt was made to settle with the
creditors of the mills for % cents on a
dollar. A despatch from Laconia SAYS:
1t is matter of sincere regret that the eff
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