Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-04-16

second and last ladies night of the sea-
son next week Friday evening, April %.
Charles Miner has exchanged his large
pasture in Dummerston and Putney for
w. IL. Minors Mather farm at West Brat
tleboro.
The free kindergarten connected with
the Woman's club will not open until April
20 on account of the death of Miss Young's
mother.
Maj. F. w. Childs will leave Aiken, S.
o., for North Carolina in a few days or as
soon as the weather gets little warmer
lie Will return to Brattleboro early in May.
The one-half horse power motor which
Vaughan e Sargent have been putting in
at II. r. Browns livery stable was started
Wednesday. 1t runs the clipping machine.
The annual reunion and roll call of the
members of the Universalist church will
be held in the church parlors next We'd
nesday evening. Supper will be served at
6 O'clock
A. V. May and F. G. Taylor have sold
for DIR. Garrison his farm in Guilford,
known as the Aldrich farm, to b. H.
Greenslet of Cambridgeport, Mass. Pos
session will be given May l.
The great log drive of the Connecticut
river and Turner's Falls lumber companies
is awaiting the spring rise in the river. The
drive amounts to 81, 900, 600 feet of spruce
and pine logs, and it will take three months
to place it in the booms at Holyoke and
Turner's Falls
Col. Kittredge Haskins, counsel for the
defence, will start for Chicago tomorrow
to take more evidence in the case of b. G.
Corser VS.. the Brattleboro Overall COM
pany. j. l.. Martin, who is now in Fort
Worth, Texas, will arrive in Chicago and
will conduct the case for the plaintiffs.
f. NJ. Waite, who is now in Newfane
Jail, is said to be suffering severely from
an acute kidney disease. On account of
his physical condition petition will be
presented to the judge of the supreme
court asking that the close Jail execution
under which he was committed be vacated.
Two farm employees of the Retreat,
named Bovey and Hayes, were discharged
last Saturday and they proceeded to cele-
brate the event by filling up on "red eye"
Their hilarity knew no bounds and they
became so annoying that Chief of Police
Hall decided to put them under lock and
key. On.Monday morning, in response to
plea of guilty, Judge Newton imposed a
fine of - and costs amounting to $4.j1
each, which they paid.
DR.. l.. F. Wentworth, formerly assistant
physician at the Brattleboro Retreat, and
afterward for several years engaged in asy-
lum work in Kansas, has now been APP
pointed to have charge of the almshouse
and hospital of the city of Boston, located
on Long Island in Boston harbor. DR..
Wentworth, who went to his new charge
last week, writes that he finds himself "at
the head of a family of $50 of Boston's de-
pendents.' A salary of $500, and sep
arate residence for the physicians family,
accompany the position.
William LAWN, who will arrive in Brat
tleboro April p, to take part in the pres
entation of the "Rose Maiden" by the
Choral Union, April 20, has been engaged
as the tenor soloist at the third Nav festi-
val at Spartanburg, 5. c., May >, 6 and :,
under the auspices of the Converse College
Choral society. He will sing Handers
Messiah at Patterson, y. j., Nav Is.
and on June II and II will sing in two
performances of Hayden's "Creation" at
the Kansas state festival to be held at
Ottawa, Kan. At this festival there will
be a chorus of 1900 voices.
Eric Landry won the Vermont Wheel
NlAb pun NOll NY utItdtlU8 w. IL,
Perry 100 to 81 in the final contest. In
billiards this week f. b. Putnam has
beaten C. A. Harris 80 to IS, the latter
being on the so mark; and DR.. E. S.
Munger has won from +. f. Perry. so TO
los, Perry being scratch man on the 12O
mark. Putnam and Munger are now left
as the contestants for the elegant tankard
given by c. r. Crosby. Their game will
probably be played tomorrow evening.
w. II. Perry and F. w. Kimball are the
duplicate whist champions. having de-
feated each of the other three pairs with
out losing game. Their last game was
against Bracket and Crosby, from whom
they won by II points.
f. G. Frost had occasion to 90 into the
South Main street house known as the
omnibus last Saturday, and while there
he discovered that an attempt had been
made to burn the building. In a closet
was barrel partly filled with charred
papers which had been collected from
about the rooms. After setting the papers
on fire the incendiary closed the closet
door and the flames were probably smoth-
cred. Three papers bearing the date of
April were found on the floor which tends
to show that the attempt to fire the build
ing was OF recent date. Access was gained
by the rear doc! which was unlocked. The
building has been an "eyesore," especially
since it was cut in two, and no tears will
be shed over the announcement that it is
now being torn down.
The Hardwick Gazette has this to
say of former Brattleboro man:
"The Woodbury. Granite company has
made a wise choice in the selection of
Fiske G.. Rogers as its superintendent.
Mr.. Rogers is one of the best known gran |
tie men in New England. He was born in
Monson, Mass, 81 years ago, and has
worked for one firm, the w. NJ. Flynt |
Granite company of that town, continually |
for II years. Recently he has had charge |
Of the Geo. f. Lyon Granite companv's !
business at Brattleboro, a branch of the !
MonsOn company. He has taken hold |
here with characteristic energy and the in
'tallation of the new plant is progressing !
'apidly under his direction. His energy
las been shown in his determination to !
'un his own business. This has been done
without friction and with the best of feel
ng on both sides"
Formerly of BrattIeborO.
DIR. f. B. Minis, for long term of years
he efficient superintendent of the North
.mpton, Mass, insane asylum, has given
lotlce to the trustees of the institution of
lis wish to retire from its management at
N early day. DIR. Nims's Goth birthday is
and he has always held that
man should not stay in position of that
'lnd after he was 80. He is a man of
means, he is the administrator of several
states, and he feels, undoubtedly, that he
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