Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-15

] L ht CdIpeuleT organ company was
obliged to suspend operation Tuesday on
account of a broken shaft.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Kugge gave
| children's party Wednesday in honor of
the fifth birthday anniversary of their
daughter.
F. j. Bailey has leased George p Par
ker's 2j0.acre farm in East Putney with
the stock and tools to X. II. Winchester of
| DummerstOn.
Arthur V. Sphinx of Providence, r. l.,
national inspector general of the Sons of
veterans, is here today to inspect the di-
vision headquarters of Arthur |. Howe,
the Vermont commander.
The Dramatic club of Protective grange
will serve hot griddle cakes, ETC., at Grange
hall Monday evening from TO s. G. ID.
Whitman will preside at the gridde and
assures prompt service. A dance follows
the supper Leitsingers orchestra will
furnish music with A. II. Hines prompter.
| DIR. r. G. Flower, who has been at the
Brooks House this week, is a petitioner in
insolvency in Boston, his liabilities aggre-
eating S273,O00, of which S173, 900 are I'M
disputed and 100000 are disputed. The
assets include lands in Virginia, Florida,
and New Mexico, and thousands of shares
of different mining stocks.
Stanley L. Smith is interested with ex-
| Gov. Farnham of Bradford and Robert
Franklin Straine of Boston in booming the
STOCK OF the Ely copper minecompany. The
] three disposed of a large block of stock In
Rutland last week. Mr.. Straine was one of
the chief boomers of Cardiff, Tenn, a town
which went up like a rocket and down
| like a stick.
The stockholders of the Peoples national
bank elected the old board of directors
| Tuesday T. j. b. Cudworth, o. l.. Sher-
man, Julius j. Estey, S. A. Smith, Geo.
f. Greene, w. II. Bracket, II. p. Well
man. The directors reelected julius j.
Estey, president; o. l.. Sherman, vice
president; w. II. Bracket, cashier; c. F.
| Bingham, teller.
The cases Of A. f. Miller, d. n. May
and &. II. Eddy & Co. against Corkins IL
Roy of Wilmington to recover for goods
| sold came up before Justice S. II. Sherman
wednesday. The cases were set for 10
O'Clock, but as the respondent failed TO APP
pear Judgment was entered for the plant
ifs. They will appeal to the county court
for a continuation of the hearing.
John f. Townsend, the West Dummers-
ton merchant, has filed a voluntary petit
ton in insolvency, showing that he has liza
| bilities of SlSl444 and assets of about
$500 The largest sum which he is ow-
ing is S524.ll to Timothy Gay Il Co. The
other accounts are mostly with Brattlehoro
merchants. The Valley Grain company
has bill of $l45, Clapp & Jones sos,
and Durham Brothers 500. The other
accounts are small.
Fifteen people of Esteyvile were signers
OF petition presented to the selectmen
this week asking for the protection of chill
dren OF that section from a man who had
repeatedly threatened them with personal
violence. The selectmen turned the petit
ton over TO the bailiffs, believing that
they had jurisdiction in the matter. In
vestigation tends to show tina. the man in
question is irritable and easily aroused,
and the children, knowing his weakness,
have often greeted him with jibes and cpl
thets, arousing him to dangerous condi-
ton.
The Springfield Y. NJ. C. A. basket ball
team will play against the Brattleboro Y.
Nj. Z. A. in the armory next Thursday
night. The visitors will be the strongest
aggregation that has ever appeared here
The centre, Eberhardt, was pronounced
the best individual player in the country
last year. One of the other players is
Ferre, the bicyclist, who won many races
last season, and who rode 20 miles on the
roads against time in SO minutes. The
local team will go to Holyoke the 23d The
Yale university team cannot come here at
present, but a game will probably be ar
ranged with the collegians later in the sea-
son.
j. Duncan Frazer, claiming to be an ex-
Confederate general, who has been in jail
at Bennington since the lst of last June,
charged with obtaining money under false
pretenses, was released Friday, the case
being nolle pressed by thestate's attorney.
Frazer claimed TO be in the employ of the
national Democratic committee and to be
soliciting funds for it. He got contribu.
lions from the postmasters at Rutland, Ar
lington, Manchester and Pownal After
trying at Bennington and not succeeding.
he went TO CharlemOnt, Mass, where he
was arrested at the request of officers from
Bennington. He went back, and before
the municipal court waived examination,
aud not being able to furnish bail, went to |
Jail. He is supposed TO be the same |
swindler who secured money from Grand |
Army men in Brattleboro and several other |
towns two or three years ago.
Mrs. Emily Gould of 80 Clark street |
died Tuesday morning of causes incident |
to her advanced age, which was nearly so |
years. She was born in Newport, n. H.,
and when eight years old moved with her |
parents to Westmoreland. She married |
Charles Franklin of Westmoreland, who |
died before she moved to Brattleboro.
i aving her with two children, Henry, who
is now at the Soldiers Home in Benning-
ton, and Ellen f. Witham of BTattleboro.
She came TO Brattleboro over so years ago
as the wife of the late William Gould, the
plumber, and, with the exception of a few
months, had lived all of the time since
then in the house where she died. She
leaves a son, William b. Gould, who has
cared for her during her sickness. Funeral
services we're attended by Rev. l.. D. Tenn
pie at the house at II o'clock today. The
burial was in the Prospect Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Gould was a lifelong member of the
Baptist church. She was the oldest per-
son of Clark street.
In the surrogate's court at Yonkers We'd
nesday the will of the late Francis e.
Draper of White Plains was proved. His
estate is valued at $4,000. The direct
benehclaries are his brother DR.. William
II. Draper of No. 10 East Forty-seventh
street, New York, his sister, Julia A.
Kent, and his daughter, Julia Draper. He
leaves $25, 900, the inc me of which is to
go to his daughter during life, and she is
to have also the property at Brattleboro.
At her death all her property is to 90 TO
her children, If any. The remainder is
divided into two parts, the income from
one to go TO his brother, William Draper,
and the income from the other to his sis
ter, Julia A. Kent At their deaths it is