Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-22


The principal increase is in the expense Of
paving the square last summer, The street
department expended S164O, water depart
ment S21S1, fire department S1496, electric
lights 1926, police S103S, health S119,
and a miscellaneous department expense
of 1892 Chief Thompson reports 81 ar
rests during the year. and 1S3 tramps
lodged. There were 11j births and 81
deaths in the village during the year, the
death rate being - to the thousand. The
village has seven special police officers be.
sides Chief Thompson. The Indebtedness
of the village is S54, 3T3.2S.
Clarence Newman, student in the High
school, is to enter Gushing academy
Wallace White returned Tuesday from a
business trip to Franklin, y. II.
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Gibson spent last
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Pollard in
Chester.
John Lawrence spent last Sunday with
his brother, Nelson W. Lawrence, at
q Springfield.
Eugene S. Leonard has been appointed
assignee of the estate of Grocer A. H. Bis
sell, who recently went into insolvency.
The Westminster club held open house
to their lady friends Tuesday evening, and
entertained them in a delightful manner
at whist.
The Keene Y. NJ. c. \. basket ball team
gained an easy victory over the local Y. NJ.
G. A. team last Friday evening at Union
hall. Score ~ to 4.
Miss Katie Condor, who has been in the
employ of Mrs. Edward Osgood as maid,
returned to her home in Langdon Tuesday
on account of i'll health.
H. r. Thompson was in Rutland We'd
nesday night in attandence upon the
western Vermont Masonic unions annual
party, which occurred at the city hall.
DR.. II. L. Waterman, c.. H. Robb and
his guest, Mr.. Davis of Florence, Mass.
and Charlie Labaree, spent Sunday at the
cottage of the latter at Lake Sunapee.
Osgood IL Barker shipped an immense
vacuum pump, of their own manufacture
TO Kobe, Japan Tuesday. Its weight was
about six tons, and it is to be used there in
a pulp mill.
The Farther Lights society Of the Bap-
tist church will give a social in the vestry
of the church this evening. These young
ladies are justly renowned for their de
lightful socials.
The Amphion quartet of Boston, assist
ed by Mrs. Willoughby Wilder of this
place, have been engaged to give the an
nual commencement concert at Vermont
Academy next June.
At recent meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A
auxiliary Mrs. A. F. Winnewisser was
elected chairman of the social committee
in place of Miss Belle Stewart, who is in
capacitated by illness.
The mica business of the late Elbron S.
Bowers in Chicago has been sold. 1t will
all lnh IaF1 l.
entire estate can be settled, so that Mrs
Bowers will be able to join her many warm
friends in the East.
About ! 80 Sunday morning an alarm
was sounded, fire having started in a shed
belonging to the Rutland road in the rail
road yard, and used for the storage of OIL
The loss was about SIS. The entire fire
department was called out.
Clevelands MINISTRIES played at the opera
house Wednesday evening. This enter
tainment was followed Thursday evening
by Hi Henry's minstrels. Both drew good
houses, considering the unusually large
run of minstrel shows this week.
Rev. Preston Barr has accepted a call
to the Episcopal church in Enosburgh
Falls, this state, and will move there soon.
His family will be accompanied by Mrs
Joseph Wilson, Mrs Barr's mother. Mrs.
Wilson has been for some months in the
West.
Only two of the regular members of the
Y. NJ. c. A. basket ball team went to
Brattleboro Tuesday. But the substitutes,
though somewhat young and inexperienced,
were strong men, and played hard The
score stood Fuller Battery 10, Bellows
Falls O.
A suit against the village corporation
has recently been brought by the widow
of John Mcleod, who was killed about a
year ago while at work for the corpora
ton. 1t is for $1,000, and the writ is re-
turnable at the next term of court in Rut-
land county.
Frank L. Fish of Vergennes has gone
this week to Washington as counsel for
the state in supreme court case. Mr.. Fish
studied law in the office of Judge L. NJ
Read, and is well known in Bellows Falls
He has now become one of the ablest law
yers in the state.
The women of Emmanuel church parish
gave birthday party in the parish house
last evening, which was largely attended
and swelled the treasury of the society to
a considerable degree. In the evening the
farce, "a chatting dish party" was render
ed in a highly entertaining manner.
Mrs. o. S. Davis, wife of Prof. O. S.
Davis, who was for some time principal of
our II Oh school, has been for some time
studying music in Europe. Her many
friends here will be interested to learn that
she is now very popular and successful
vocal teacher in Park square, Boston.
The many friends of Rev. D. L. Sanford
will be interested to learn of his new
honors.(O A prominent state paper states
that he was in Rutland last week, Sin at
tendance upon the annual meeting of the
Vermont Sugar Makers association" We
had not before heard of this very sweet &C
complishment
The C. w. Osgood Sunday school class
of the Congregational church will celebrate
the 25th anniversary of his becoming its
teacher by rendering him a reception at
the church parlors next Thursday evening.
The class now numbers 81 scholars, and
about 100 invitations have been extended
for the occasion.
B. Cannon, jr., has nearly finished his
canvass of patrons of this post office with
his petition for appointment as postmaster
when Mr.. Dow's term expires two years
hence. He says he has not met person
yet who has objected to signing it, and as
no other candidate is likely to come into
the field it looks as if he would have walk