Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-01
A telephone has been put in the resi-

A telephone has been put in the resi-
dence of Col. E. II. Chase.
The last of the series of ladies' nights at
the Wheel club rooms will be given May
10.
The First Regiment band began its re-
hearsals for the summer season Tuesday
night.
A subscription paper is being circulated
to raise money to pay for sprinkling Brook
street.
Morse & Edgett have sold the Stark
farm in Marlboro to David Howard of
! Dummerston.
The meetings which Rev. Mr.. Gull be-
gan at West Brattleboro last week are be-
ing continued.
George w. Davenport, formerly of Brat
tleboro, was granted divorce at the ses-
sion of court in Greenfield, Mass, last
week.
The Vermonter for this month has an IL
lustrated article on the Vermont Wheel
club, with several illustrations of the club
rooms.
The bailffs will hold a meeting at the
Vermont national bank tomorrow evening
at 80 for the final revision of the check
list for the village meeting. No name can
| be added atter tomorrow night.
Bailey & Miner have sold the Angler
cottage on South Canal street, near Pine
Heights, to Nathan II. Mann, track super
intendent of the street railroad. Mr.. An
gier takes Mr.. Mann's lot and shop in Es-
teyville and will soon remodel It into a
cottage.
j. G. Stafford, the Centreville farmer
weighed this morning, 80 spring lambs
which averaged AZ pounds each. April l,
they averaged % pounds each, showing a
gain of II pounds apiece during the month
The lambs are from eight to ten weeks
old, and are an extra good lot.
Frank Crosby sold his interest in the
meat market in the Milestone building to
his partner, James Pullen, last week. Mr..
Crosby settled all his business affairs about
town and then left, and it is understood
that he informed no one of his plans fur
ther than TO state that he wished to devote
his time to music and might study in Ger
many.
Isaac ii. Williamson, who was arrested
week before last charged with drunkenness
and disturbing the peace, and whose case
was continued for legal reasons, was taken
before Justice Newton yesterday when he
plead guilty and was fined $40 and costs,
amounting in all to S14.51, which he paid.
He was also placed under 5000 bonds to
keep the peace.
The Alfred NJ. Waite farm on the Put
ney road and a quantity of personal prop
erty will be sold at auction tomorrow fore
noon, beginning at 10 o'clock. Another
important auction is that of the Clegg
farm, with furniture, farming tools and live
stock This sale will take place at West
Chesterfield next Wednesday, May 8, be-
ginning at 8 o'clock.
The seven-year-old daughter of Peter
Pellerin was leaning against the railing at
one side of the board walk near the bridge
at the end of Elliot street when the inse-
cure support gave way and she fell to the
rocks below, a distance of ten feet. She
escaped with bad cash in the head, but it
is wonder that she was not seriously in
jured. A new railing should be built at
this point at once.
Landlord Richards of the American
House was presented this week with a
handsome and valuable S Siss chronometer.
The gift came from several travelling sales
men who stop at the American House or
who were associated with Mr.. Richards
when he was on the road. The watch was
bought in Europe by B. Z. Cady of Spring
field, Mass, and was brought to Mr.. Rich
ards by John Ray, jr., of that city.
The Brattleboro Gas Light company de-
cided yesterday to put in new and i'm
proved gas-making apparatus the coming
summer at an expense of about $1,000
The system will be the same as now en-
ployed-the Lowe-but the plant will in
clude all Improvements and modern appl-
ances. The present apparatus has been
in use Is years. The contract for the new
apparatus was made yesterday with a rep
resentative of the United Gas Improvement
company of Pr .ladelphia.
notable meeting of young speakers
was held at Worcester, Mass, last Friday
in the fourth annual convention of the
Massachusetts Intercollegiate Prohibition
association, which includes 10 institutions,
Merrill c. Ward of Tufts college, formerly
of Brattleboro, presided at the meeting
having been elected president of the asso-
citation last year. The prize was won by
Charles S. Morris of the Newton Theologi-
cal seminary, whose subject was "Prohi-
bition, right, possible, imperative"
A citizen who has had his breath jounced
out of him by humping over water-bars on
our village hills cries out in despair "Are
not water-bars too ancient? Do modern
roads require them? Is life worth living
for those who must ride over them? II we
are working for improved roads why not
have them?" 1t is our impression that his
interrogation marks are put in in the right
places. To man up tree it looks like a
piece of folly to regrade our village hills
and then cut them up with water bars, in
stead of keeping them crowned up in the
middle so as to avoid the need of such
denominations.
Harriet b. Farrar, 81 wife of the late
f. G. Richards, died at her home in Keene,
n. e., Monday after a long illness. She
leaves three sons, George Z. Richards, the
proprietor of the American House in Brat
tleboro, W. j. Richards of Union City,
Mich, c. II. Richards of Winchester, N.
H., and one daughter, Mrs. F. A. Howe of
Swanzey, n II. Mrs. Richards was ma
tive of Petersham, Mass, but nearly all of
the past 20 years had been spent in Win
chester, n. H., where her husband was a
hotel proprietor, and where her son is now
engaged in the same business. The funer-
al will be held in the Universalist church
at Winchester at l this afternoon.
An addition of 100 feet is being made to
the hotel at Pine Grove Springs at Spot
ford lake. 1t will be three stories high,
with "a extra sleeping rooms. The main
office will be enlarged for the accommoda-
ton of an open fireplace large enough to
take in log five feet long. A new parlor,
32 by go feet, will be provided in the add-
| ton while a Driyate dinino-room 0O faat