Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-04-23
BRATTLEBORO.

Rev. l.. D. Temple has decided not to
accept a call from the First Baptist ch,.frsi.
of Sioux City, la.
State Auditor Franklin d. Hale of Lunen-
burg was in town Thursday to transact his
semi-annual business with the justices of the
peace and other persons having claims
against the state.
good-sized audience listened to Bishop
Vincents lecture upon 6 Tom and his teach
ers" in the Methodist church Tuesday even
ing. Mr.. Vincent left Brattleboro for Spring
field, where he will preside at the conference,
which opened Wednesday.
The village caucus at Brattleboro Wednes-
day evening was largely attended. G. w.
Pierce, chairman of the town committee,
called the meeting to order. S. B. Emerson
and John Calvin were named for first baiiff.
Mr.. Calvin was nominated. The old board
then withdrew and the following were NOM
mated by acclamation Bailiffs, H. H. Bur-
nett, E. W. Blodgett, E. E. Stockwell and
H. G. Clark; chief engineer, c. G. Turner /;
collector, r. E. Gordon clerk and treasurer,
W. D. Perry; auditor, G. A. Harris.
An active contest is in progress for the
republican nomination for states attorney
for Windham county, and although the con-
vention will not be held until June, several
candidates are in the field, among them be-
ing H F. Barber, who began his law practice
in Wilmington, and for the past few years
has had an Office in Brattleb oro; A. F.
Schwenk, register of probate and the law
partner of Col. Kittredge Haskins; and the
court stenographer, Charles s. Chase of
Nottingham. The present incumbent's term
will expire December l.
The people of Esteyville have held a sec
ond meeting relative to an extension of the
electric road through their part of the town.
The committee appointed to solicit subscrip-
tions reported $S08 in money with additional
promises of money. material and labor.
They are confident that in all they will raise
at least $500 and are doing their best to
secure the extension. There was much
discussion and the matter is now before the
directors of the road, who will make their
proposition in short time.
The monument over the grave of Col.
James Fisk, Jr,, in the cemetery at Brattle-
boro has been seriously mutilated. 1t is OF
Italian marble, and was carved at Florence,
Italy, at cost of $685. 00 About the shaft
are four figures of women. One with a
steam engine carved on the chaplet around
her brow represents the Erie railroad
another is Commerce, a symbol of the Fall
River line of steamboats,; third is the Muse
of Music, emblematic of the Grand Opera
House, and the fourth is typical of Commerce
in its broadest sense. The mutilation has
been done by relic hunters. A few years
before Col. Fisk's death an effort was made
by residents of the town to build fence
around the cemetery in which his monument
now stands, and committee was sent to
New York to solicit fu nds from former Brat
tleboro boys. Among those called upon was
Col. Fisk, and to the committees solicitation
he replied: "Yes, l will give something
but don't see any need of fence around
the cemetery. The fellows who are in can.
not get out, and those who are out do not
want to get in.' He little foresaw that the
relic hunters we're to mutilate his own monu
ment.