Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-04-23


announced last week.
A. w. Childs q Co. settled fire loss
on the Lowell Bullock estate in Guilford
Tuesday. The L. II. Knapp loss by the
West Brattleboro fire was satisfactorily adj
iusted this week.
A. w. Childs & Co. have paid Mrs. L.
ID. Greene S29S424, the amount with re-
turn premiums, of policy held by the
late Louis d. Greene in the New York
Life Insurance company
S. NJ. Yeaw of Central street has bought
the well-knOwn Capt. Holland farm in
Newfane and will take possession May 1.
The sale was made by S. w. Edgett & Co.
Mr.. Yeaw lived in East Dover previous to
moving to Brattleboro several years ago.
The contemplated change in the man.
agement of the Pequoig House at Athol,
Mass, whereby 1t was expected that Frank
+. Reed of Shelburne Falls, formerly of
Brattleboro, was to take possession Nav /.
will not be made, and F. A. Aldrich, the
present proprietor, will continue as land.
lord
William II. Fuller has accepted call to
the secretaryship of the Y. NJ. c. A. at
Bennington. Mr.. Fuller, who was formerly
secretary of the Brattleboro association,
recently resigned as secretary of the Rut-
land Y. Nj. G. A. Mr.. Fuller and family
will move from Rutland at an early date
and he will begin his new duties about
May 10.
There will be a hearing before Judge
| Wheeler at the Brooks House the 30th
inst, in the case against A. L. Weeks of
st. Adams, the deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue, who acted on the advice of
his superior officer and refused to answer
questions about United States liquor IL
censes in the Washington county court re-
Gently. He was arrested for contempt of
court, but was released on a habeus corpus
| writ.
The warrant has been issued for the an
nual village meeting to be held at the town
hall Tuesday, May 4, at 9 A. NJ. There
are four articles, relating to the election of
village officers; action on the reports of
the bailiffs, treasurer and chief engineer:
raising money to defray expenses the COM
ing year; instructions for putting a new
boiler into steamer No. 4, putting the
steamer in first-class order and raising
money to pay this expense.
The annual meeting of the Episcopal So
ciety was held Monday evening. The YES
| trymen elected were: F. w. Childs, DR.. H
A. Roberts, A. W. Childs, f. S. Guild,
Fletcher Carruthers, Andrew Blakeley and
| \. G. Sawyer. The rector appointed f.
| w. Childs senior warden, and the vestry
elected DR.. Roberts junior warden and A.
W. Childs secretary and treasurer. The
delegates to the diocesan convention at
Montpelier in June are: Kttredge Has
kins, A. w. Childs and Andrew Blakeley,
the substitutes being Dr. II. A. Roberts,
| w. j. Pentland and II. A. Webster.
Of a.,
well known baritone singer, has been ap-
| pointed vice-president for Vermont of the
Music Teachers National association of
New York city, of which Herbert Wilder
Greene is president. The association is to
hold its 18th convention at the Grand Cen
! trail palace on Lexington avenue in New
York June 24-2S, and Mr.. Miller will prob
ably be present part of the time Among
the musical attractions will be a perform
ance of Handel's Messiah" with eminent
solCists and a chorus of over 1000 voices
under the direction of Frank Damrosch
The more important towns of Vermont are
to be canyassed for membership in the as
ISOLATION under Mr.. Miller's supervision
one of the Dubuque, Iowa, papers of the
goth inst, contains the following: A
feeling of deepest grief was cast upon the
family circle and friends by the death of
Mrs. Olive Chamberlain Taft, which took
place at the home of her children, Mr. and
Mrs. y. w. Kimball, yesterday. Mrs. Taft
was a native of Brattleboro, VT, where
she was born Nov. 20, 1907. She lived in
Vermont until 1865, when she moved TO
Dubuque. She has gone, leaving sweet
memories of well spent life. Possessed
of excellent natural ability, she had unus.
ual energy of character and an intutive
good judgment, combined with great kind
ness and generosity of heart and vivacity
of temperament, qualities which won for
her the love and esteem of all those with
whom she came in contact.
Mrs. Hattie l.. Lowe, SO, formerly of this
town, died at Worcester, Mass, on Wednes-
day of last week. The body was brought
to BrattebOro on the afternoon train Sat
urday and was taken to Townshend on the
evening train. Mrs. Lowe was a daughter
of Ashley Wiswell of Worcester. She was
born in Townshend in December. 1860
About l. years ago Mr. Wswel moved
with his family to West Brattleboro,
where he carried on farm for about seven
years. Miss Wiswell was educated at
Glenwood Classical seminary at West Brat
tleboro, and afterward married Edwin |
Ieaw of that village. Mr. Yeaw died
about II months after his marriage and |
Mrs. Geaw married Mr.. Lowe in January, |
1857. Besides her husband and her parents |
she leaves two daughters and a brother, |
Herbert A. Wis we'll. The burial was in |
Townshend, Sunday. While in West |
Brattleboro Mrs. Lowe taught several terms |
of school.
Owney, the Scotch terrier of the mail |
service, was reported as dead at Syracuse. |
n. Y, few weeks ago, but he bobbed up |
serenely at Albany few days later The
superintendent of the railway mail service
issued an order recently forbidding the
clerks to carry the dog in the mail cars.
The story comes from Cleveland, Ohio.
that Owney was shot there by policeman
last week after having bitten two men.
Owney started on his travelling career from
Albany several years ago and hal ridden
all over the United States in the mail cars
Last Jear he went around the world, via
mail steamer from San Francisco to Yok-
ohama, thence to Hong Kong, Shanghai
and Singapore, and pile of mail pouches
formed his couch as he sailed through the
Suez canal. He stopped at Algiers, then
proceeded to Liverpool and from there
home He lost an eye in a street fight in
Hong Kong. He was in Brattleboro COW
cred with medals soon after his tour of the
world. His skin will probably be stuffed
and deposited in the post-office department
museum at Washington.
The 50th anniversary of the wedding of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph G. Briggs was cele-
brated at Claremont, n. H., Monday.
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