Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-06-11


The board Of trade will hold meeting
this afternoon to consider q proposition .
from another shoe factory relative go loca'- .
ing ID town.
The Canadian Jubilee singers who are
TO sing 10 The Bapts, church on the even
ing OF july =. have spent sis year, travel
ing iu the United States aud tive years iu
Great Britain.
Clifford e.. Manning. aged four, son of
Nj and Mrs. James y. Manning died
Saturday a, Bellows Falls Of a bronchial
affection. The body was brought 90 Brat
teboro for burial on Monday
The delegates To- the 1921 annual con-
ven'ion Of Congregational churches Of
Vermont al NAileDury this week were
Rev. G. @. DAY, G.. + Thompson. Mr.. a.
J.. Park and Ernest Waterman.
The Joshua >impkius Comedy company
will exhibit under canvas on the island
next Friday night. The show was post
p0ued one day so as no. 90 interfere with
the High scho0. graduation exercises.
Chas. O. Franklin sustained a painful
injury at The Phoenix job office Monday,
his hand and arm being caught IN one of
the small presses. The bones were not
broken, bu, the flesh was badly bruised.
William LAWN lef, Tuesday for Kansas
10 fill his engagements az the state muslcal
convention. His engagement at Brandt
ford. Ont. June ~ is for a special pro
duciiou Of the Messiah a. the Queen
jubilee performance.
Or. C. A. Gray has been appointed a
member Of the .ocal pension examining
board 20 till tho vacancy caused by the
death OF Dr. b. T. ketchum. The other
two members are d. Coniaul. and Dr.
White OF Williamsyiiie.
Hereafter the Boston SUNDAY journal
will not reach Brattleboro on sunday as
that paper has Withdrawn from the speca.
early train service on the Fuchburg rail-
road. The other sunday papers vii. ar
| rive as usual and the sunday journal vii.
come on the regular train Monday.
Those who attended the Congregational
! convention al Midlebury from BrattleDoro
/ started on their return trip about midnight
| Wednesday night and arrived IN Brattle-
/ bore yesterday afternoon. On account of
| the Chester bridge being washed away
/ they were driven from Chester 10 Bellows
Falls a journey OF 20 miles.
one OF the misfortunes Of this week
rains was the drowning Of Is chickens,
owned by T.. L. Roberts Wednesday night.
/ They were all right in the afternoon, but
/ they were unable TO escape the water which
/ flooded the hen house durin. thu night.
/ They were of a fancy breed and were all
Nj Roberts had Of their kind.
The Knights and Ladies of Honor elected
| these officers Monday evening Ms, Nellie
/ j. Pettce pas protector: II. ". Sargent
/ protector. Mr,. &. =. ~torkwe.. VIC" pro-
tector Mr., :. ". Edwards. secretary; l..
H. Putnam. 'hnaueIa. secretary. Mr.. H.
. ". Sargent, treasurer Mrs l.. II. Putt
nam, chaplain, &. W. Berry. guide. W.
/ A Cunningham, guardian, and W. w.
ingalls,, sentinel.
The board Of fire underwriters for Wind
ham county held their annual meeting az
/ Town. Hotel iu Bellows Falls Tuesday
and elected these officers for the next year
/ President. {. r l.. Jeunr OF Brat,eborO:
secretary. j. L. Brosuaham Of Bellows
Falls treasurer. A. W. Chids Of Brattle-
boro: rating committee F. W. Putnam,
( Brattleboro L. :. Leonard and L. l..
Walker Bellows Falls. Messrs. Jenne,
Putnam. Childs, ;. H. Sherman and II.
L. Taylor were the Brattleboro members
present
). b. Emerson, who returned from
Montpelier last night, was called there the
y
United States court in the case OF the gov
eminent against Atwood for burglarizing
the post-oftice at White River junction
last June. The jury returned a verdict OF
| guilty and the prisoner was sentenced 10
five years in the state prison by Judge
Wheeler. He is a professional burglar
from New York and has previously served
time for robbing pOst-Office. MI Elmer
son will return to Montpelier next Tuesday
to sit on another case.
II. c. Liscom has filed his petition in in
solvency this week His liabilities are
about 5000, including notes OF 500 at
the Peoples national bank, $500 at the
Vermont national bank, 500 al the Brat
tleboro savings bank, 500 with L. Has
kell, accounts of $50 with George L.
Crowell and $50 with Or. 4. l. Miller.
The notes al the Peoples and Vermont
national banks are secured by mortgages
on poles the one a. the savings bank is
secured by mortgage on the Wright lot
in Hinsdale. and the note 10 Mr. Haskell
is signed bv b. A Clark as surety. There
are numerous smaller accounts with the
Brattleboro merchants. The assets are
about $500 and include the Wright lot,
book accounts and farming tools. The
first meeting of the creditors will be held
June 20.
sudden Death Of John {. Pellet.
In the death of John c. Pellet, %,
which occurred al about l O'Clock We'd
nesday afternoon, a familiar figure is re-
moved from Prospect Hill. Two days be-
fore his death he rode down street in
apparent good health, but he was taken
with an affection of the heart about noon
Monday and failed gradually until the end,
Mr.. Pellet was a son of Almira Cady and
Rufus Pellet and was born in Canterbury,
Ct, March "a, 1924. At the age of Is ne
went to sea and spent seven years upon
the water. During part of that time ne
held the post of second mate He left the
sea with the intention of studying naviga-
ton and then returning, but he was dis
suaded from doing so and went to live with
an uncle in North Brookfeld. There he
met Miss Sarah Pellet HARDWOOD and they
were married Jan. q, 1919. After spend
ing two years more in North Brookheld
Mr.. Pellet moved to Chicopee, Mass.
where he spent two years in railroad work
between .Chicopee and Springfield. In
1858 he came TO Brattleboro 10 work on
what is now the Boston IL Maine railroad.
II enlisted in Company Z, 18th Vermont
Volunteers, in 1862. He served for a
while in the heavy artillery but was trans
ferred TO the infantry corps, and during
the battle of Charlottesville, which took
place the next year, and in which he was
color bearer, he was struck in the left arm
u. IL III