Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-23

The Congregational Sunday school voted
Sunday 50 toward extinguishing the in
debtedness on the John Robinson Memo
rial church at Gainsborough in England.
This was in response to an appeal from
committee appointed by the national coun-
Gil of the church society.
A horse belonging to Guilford woman
was frightened yesterday morning, while
standing on North street, by snow sliding
off a house. The animal ran down Main
street, out Canal street and down TO fetch
er's mill where it was stopped. No dam
age was done to the harness or sleigh.
Col. G.. W. Hooker is converting the
house in New York in which be formerly
lived into a store building When finished
it will contain four stores and an artists
ROOM The street on which this house is
located was once entirely given up to resi-
dences, but practically all Of the residences
have now been converted into stores.
w. II. Minor returned Saturday from
New York city where he went with a num-
y Der OF local horses to be sold at the big
! auction sale. Orient and pair Of Chest
nuts owned by Str. Minor were sold and
| lowdy was left TO be disposed of as soon
as possible Chas Miner was in New
! DIRK at the same time with Cheerful Alley
which was sold for $40.
! The election of officers Of the Methodist
! Sunday school for the coming year took
| place Monday night, the following being
| chosen: O. &. Crouch, superintendent;
! Harry Smith, lst assistant superintendent;
! G. w. Weymouth, - assistant superin-
! tcndent; Mrs. Eugene CLARK, superintend-
ent home department; Miss NJ. l.. Graves,
Librarian; viii Plimpton, secretary and
treasurer.
a hearing was begun yesterday after
| noon before }. II Mortified for the TAX
! ing OF testimony on the part Of the petit
| TONERS in the Canal street case. About 10
witnesses, mostly Guiford people, testified.
Further testimony on the part Of the pc
| ttioners was taken this forenoon. The
testimony does not differ materially from
that taken several months ago, which was
reported in The Phoenix at that time.
The free kindergarten on Elliot street
enjoyed Christmas festivities in the school
room this morning A tree, prettiy deck
ed, bore not only gifts for the children,
but little presents Of their own making
for the mothers and fathers. A number
of the parents were present and enjoyed
the games and songs Of the little folk be-
fore the stripping of the tree Miss Sim
mons, the teacher, returns this afternoon
TO her home in Massachusetts for the holt
day recess.
Mrs. G. II. Smith will move Jan. her
millinery store and hair dressing parlors
from III Main street. the Van Doom
| building, TO her former quarters on the sec
| ond floor Of wilkins block, l. Main street
Improvements will be made in the parlor
millinery department, and a special room
will be fitted up for the shampoong, facial
massage and mauicuring. Mrs Smith
will have a special removal sale of mil
lnery at her present store throughout next
week, making special low prices in order
to close out as much stock as possible be-
| fore removal.
The Hightstown, y. j., Gazette of Dec.
II says: The fifth lecture Of the current
lecture course was delivered Tuesday even
ing Of this week by Rev. l.. d. Temple Of
| Pennington. The speaker had chosen for
his subject Tennysou's palace of Art"
From the poem he drew the lesson OF right
and wrong use Of culture In an eloquent
and captivating manner he argued for
altruism versus indiviiualism and appealed
70 his hearers not TO be misery with the
attachments Of the mind and heart, but 10
bestow these in unstinted measure, thus
alone by directly blessing others being
truly blessed
An adjourned meeting OF the United
States court was held at the Brooks House
| Tuesday, when Judge Wheeler heard pc
titions in behalf of the preferred creditors
OF the Central Vermont railroad company.
whose claims for supplies and material be-
came due more than six months before the
road was placed in the hands of the re-
ceiyers. c. NJ. Wilds of Middlebury, II
| A.Huse of Montpelier and H.G Newton of
! New Haven appeared as attorneys. The
| petition of Engineer Cotter for damages on
account Of injuries received while in the
employ of the company went over with the
other cases until Jan II.
A man from the northern part of the
state called on a Brattleboro grocer one
day this week and asked for sum Of
money, showing an order from a Marlboro
woman for the amount desired He said
he owed the woman about $500 for money
| borrowed and for notes which she bad
| paid for him. He claimed TO be on his
way to Northampton, Mass, where he
| said he had money in a bank, and that he
was going TO draw from the bank enough
money TO settle with the Marlboro woman.
He had lost his pocketbook, however, and
his object in wanting to borrow money of
the grocer was that he might have money
enough 10 pay his railroad fare to North
ampton. The grocer asked a local bank
cashier TO telephone to the Northampton
bank mentioned and inquire if the would
be borrower had money on deposit there.
| The reply came back that he had none, so
the grocer kept his cash supply intact.
Death of Margaret Hubbard Atwood.
A telegram was received Saturday an
nouncing the death of Mrs. John W. At
wood at her home in Omaha, Neb. The
cause of death was pneumonia. Mrs. At
wood was well known in Brattleboro and
| vicinity as Miss Margaret Hubbard. She
was the eldest of the three children of
Chelsea and Ellen Hunt Hubbard.
The larger part of her life was spent
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She
was pupil at Laselle seminary at Auburn
dale, Mass, two or three years She spent
her vacations while at the seminary in
Brattleboro, and before and after coming
there made long visits here with her grand
parents, Col. and Mrs. John Hunt, and
with her aunt, Mrs. G. NJ. G. Richardson.
Previous to her marriage to Mr.. Atwood,
which took place in March, 1897, she sue.
cessfully conducted kindergarten school
in Sioux Fall. Mr.. and Mrs. Atwood
moved to Omaha during the present year,
and Mrs. Atwood's father, and her sister,
Lavie Hubbard, were with her. Her
mother, who was at Vernon, was summon