Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-11-27


hand engine No 9 to the people of Towns
bend village
The resignation of Elder L. f. Baker of
the Advent church was read last Sunday.
Mr.. Baker will go TO North Adams, Mass.
Grade of the Grammar school was dis
missed Monday on account of the cold,
there being trouble with the heating APP
paratus.
The Methodist church is undergoing ex-
tensive repairs and will have a new carpet.
Meanwhile services are being conducted in
the chapel.
The Ruthians met with Mrs. A. J. Rob-
ertson on Highland street Wednesday
evening. The author discussed was Celia
Thaxter. A social hour was afterward
spent.
Horace Blanchard, who was sent to the
house of correction year ago for liquor
selling in Halifax, is said to have been par
doned and TO have returned TO the county
this week.
G.. f. Thompson went to Townshend
Wednesday and adjusted c. G. Taft's in
surance on furniture, stock In store, etc,
at $3.50 on a policy Of $1,000 in the Yer
mont Mutual company.
The Brattleboro Retreat family enjoyed
their usual Thanksgiving day dinner yes
terday. In the evening the amusement
course of the season was opened with
dance in the gymnasium.
f. Z. Vanderpool returned to town Mon
day, having been released by Gov. Grout
in response to a petition from the town
officers and other citizens, as mentioned in
The Phoenix of last week.
Little is known in Brattleboro about the
National Contract and Supply company,
although representatives of the concern
have been here at different times. The
company has no factory here.
The dramatic recital which was to have
been given in the auditorium Tuesday
evening by Mrs. Lucia Gale Barber, was
postponed and will be given in about two
weeks under the auspices of the Murray
club.
The public schools closed Wednesday for
the remainder Of the week. Nearly all of
the lower grades recognized the Thanks
giving season by devoting Wednesday aft
ernoon to exercises, many of which were
unique in character.
The late George S. Dowley was one of
the most heavily insured men in Vermont.
He had carried policies which aggregated
upwards of 100000, but local insurance
men think that his policies at the time of
death amounted 10 about $4,000.
A part of the photographs taken by Maj.
F. w. Childs, while on his trip abroad with
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery com
pany, are on exhibition in the window of
Merchant y. l. Hawley and are attracting
much attention. They were printed and
enlarged in Boston.
Several important questions will be
brought before the Wheel club at the next
meeting. The article concerning the an
nual banquet will he again brought up, and
the ACCESSIBILITY of having a billiard, pool
and whist tournament and of giving Minis
trel show will be considered
The Congregational Sunday school has
recently given Sl00-$30 TO the Italian
mission in New York, $40 10 some Sunday
school IN this state, $40 for a Sunday school
among the mountain whites of Kentucky,
SIS for mission school in India, and SIS
for the Armenian refugees.
The administrators Of the estate Of the
late Z. A. Tyler have notified Crosby & Ad-
ans, the owners of the real estate, that
they will surrender the lease of the hotel
10 them, 10 take effect Dec. /. This will
involve no change in the management, ex-
cept that it brings the property into the
hands Of Crosby & Adams and under their
direct charge.
Joseph f. Brockington and Miss Celia
Z. Ingram were married at the Baptist
parsonage Tuesday by Rev. L. d. Temple.
Mr., and Mrs. Brockington are now away
| on wedding trip and on their return win
make their home on Chestnut street Mr..
| Brockington is claronetist in the First
| Regiment band and is employed at the Is
| tey Organ factory. The bride is we'll known
and was formerly a filler for the Estey
Organ company.
A meeting of the society for the preven-
| ton of cruelty to animals was held at the
| Brooks free library building Tuesday night.
| The old board of officers was reelected eX-
cept where vacancies had occurred. Chief
| of Police Hall was chosen TO act as agent
| for the society. 1t was voted to adopt the
| constitution of the American Humane So
ciety in pursuance of plan to bring all
| the subordinate societies under the same
constitution. Other business was deferred
TO future meeting.
Alpheus Giles, administrator of the es-
tate of his mother, Chloe Giles, has filed
an inventory of the estate at Greenfield, in
which ii is shown TO be insolvent and he
asks TO have it so declared. This condi-
ton of affairs was caused by the recent
ruling of the superior court in the suit
against the estate by Emily b. Denison, in
which she recovered the sum of $341 for
sci vices in the care of Mrs. Chloe Giles
during her last illness. The petition will
be heard in the probate court and commits
sioners appointed. Mr.. Giles is former
Brsttleboro man, who came TO notoriety
two years ago by the embezzlement of sew
eral thousand dollars from fish company
in Boston of which he was bookkeeper
He went to Canada, but returned voluntAr-
! lily and made all the restitution possible
and assisted in recovering the money which
he had lost in policy shops, and the charges
against him were not pushed.
''Nat" Herrick has a pig that has fig
ured conspicuously in local trades within
the past two weeks. He described IL as
having weighed 100 pounds last July, and
added, sit ought 10 weigh 200 or 225 now"
| This meagre information pictured such a
stable porker that H. o. Coolidge ex-
changed a sleigh for the pig. Coolidge
snapped the pig with James Pullen for a
choice variety of old bills. A description
Of the pig came TO Mr.. Pullen and he gave
Mr.. Herrick a receipt for an account of SIP
and 81 in cash and Herrick again assumed
ownership. The pig was also traded with
Luke Weatherhead for a steel wedge. Mr..
Herrick received the wedge and delivered
the pig. Mr.. Weatherhead made a jour
ney to the Herrick homestead and left the
pig on the piazza, or somewhere near it.
There are rumors that John Connell fig
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