Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-03-18
THE VERMONT PHOENIX. BRATTLEBoRo. FRIDAY MARC1

Over 100 people attended the grange
sugar supper Monday night. The supper
was followed by a dance in which 25 to 80
couples joined.
Announcement is made in another col
umn of the dissolution of the copartner-
ship heretofore existing between DR.. d. p.
Webster and DR.. c. S. Pratt.
All of the teachers of the village schools
have recently taken examinations for GER
tifcates before County Examiner Ryder.
Some of the village teachers formerly had
certificates issued by the school committee.
AS fine a line of bicycles as was ever
seen in Brattleboro is on exhibition at the
store Of Hackley d. Moran. The firm has
something to say about these wheels else
where in this paper.
The room adjoining the kitchen in the
southeast corner of the Brattleboro House
is to be furnished and fitted with lunch
counters and pool table, The room has
been enlarged this week by blasting out
the ledge on the east side with dynamite.
The management of the Brattleboro
street railroad feel that the road has done
as well during the past year as the roads
in New Hampshire. OF the eight roads
in that state only one paid dividend and
that was only half as large as it paid the
previous year. The local road is now in a
fair way to accumulate money.
The annual meeting of the Soverei gns
of Industry will be held at Grange hall
next Tuesday evening, as is announced
elsewhere. The meeting is called earlier
than was intended in response to petit
tion from L. A. Witt, G. w. Hudson, G.. b.
Kirwan and others for the purpose of TAX
ing action on the disposition of the organ
ization's stock in the Farmers & Mechan-
les Exchange.
The syndicate of men who have been
running the Flat street bowling alley have
sold their lease to b. S Ingalls, of New
York state who will continue the business
alone. He has asked W. II. Minor for a
lease of the other half of the floor and he
will put in two pool tables and will finish
off rooms for night and day lunches. Mr.
Minor will move his agricultural nipple
ments from that floor soon.
A. L. Hamilton, the former hotel pro.
prietor at Chester Depot, who disappeared
recently with 500 or 500 which he should
have paid to p. II. Robbins, has been APP
pretended in Albany, y. Y, and Lawyer
Sargent of Ludlow has been there this
a settlement. Hamilton and his wife are
thought to have had $1,000 in cash when
they left Chester. They were seen in
| Holyoke, Mass, Sunday, but while a law
yer from Northampton was on his way tC
that city to serve papers upon him Hamil-
ton skipped to Albany, where he was seen
and recognized by a former Chester man
A special town meeting will be held at
Athol, Mass, next Monday to vote upon
the acceptance of the gift of handsome
notified granite fountain, in memory OF
| GinerY Twtchell, a native of Athol, who
| gained wealth and prominence before the
| days of the railroads, as proprietor of the
| line of stages between Barre and Worcester
and later between Brattleboro and Boston
| The gift comes from Mrs. c. b. Twitchel
and Miss T. II. Twitchel, widow and
daughter of the late Ginery Twitchell, and
Mrs. Geo. S. Hale. Mr.. Twitchell was
well known in BrattlebOro in the old
''stage days" A niece of the family was
a pupil at Miss Towards school, and after.
ward was frequent visitor in the village
A telegram was received Wednesday by
Moritz Capen announcing the death on
the previous day at Jacksonville, Fla, OF
his cousin, Frederick A. Pellerin. Mr.
Pellern was born in Shasta, Calf, nearly
"a years ago. He came to Brattleboro al
the age of eight years, and his home was
with his uncle, j. II. Capen, until he
went south II years ago. He was without
means at that time, but in few years be
worked his way up to the head of large
and profitable furniture business. He
was married nine years ago 70 Miss Sarah
Sawyer of West Brattleboro, who is left
with two children. He also has one
brother, w. E. Felerin of Orange, Mass
who is spending the winter in Jackson
vile on account of his health. Mrs. Pei
lerin's mother, Mrs. S. II. Sawyer of West
Brattleboro, is also in Jacksonville. The
cause of death was consumption.
Lieut.. William Caruthers, who was NOM
mated Monday for the office of postmaster
at Norwich, Conn, is brother of Fletcher
Caruthers, the well-known Brattleboro
paper manufacturer, Lieut.. Caruthers has
been connected with the Norwich post
office "a years as clerk, assistant post
master and postmaster. He was ousted
from office under the Cleveland admins
tration, but the citizens of Norwich i'm
mediately elected him collector of taxes.
lie was appointed postmaster under Presi-
dent Harrison, but retired during the sec
ond Cleveland administration, and has
since been a clerk in the office of the sec
rotary of state. Lieut.. Caruthers had
brilliant war record. He was wounded
three times, and when he fell on one bat
tleheld the first man to come to his as
sistance was an Ohio soldier, known today
as President Mckinley. The two men
have kept up their friendship through reg
ular correspondence.
Johanna f. Manning, 81, daughter of
Mrs. Ellen Manning and the late Daniel
Manning, died at her mothers home on
Clark street about $50 o'clock Tuesday
morning. She suffered an attack of
nervous prostration year ago and had
since been in deblitated condition Yield
ing her vitality gradually and constantly
to the end. She was a patient sufferer,
however, and no word of complaint ever
passed her lips. She did not fail to be
about the house even on the day before
her death. She had many friends by
whom her death is felt a personal loss.
Miss Manning was the eldest of six chill
dren and was born in Brattleboro June 7,
1868. Almost all of her life has been
spent in this town. Besides her mother
she leaves three sisters, May, who lives at
home, Nellie, wife of George Mosher of
North Adams, Mass, and Katherine of
Salem, Mass, and two brothers, James of
Bellows Falls and Daniel of Springfield.
Mass. Funeral services were held at the
Roman Catholic church at o'clock YES
terday morning, Rev. Patrick Cunning
ham officiating.
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