Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-06

toxication Monday morning, secured money
enough to pay his fine in the afternoon
and was released
The Forest and Stream club will open
its club house in Wilmington July 1. G.
L. Walton of the Continental hotel of
Philadelphia will be the steward.
The annual meeting of the Y. M. c. A.
for the election of officers and the tran
saction of other business will be held in
the association rooms Wednesday evening
at o'clock.
DR.. II. Nelson jackson of Burlington,
formerly second assistant physician at the
Brattleboro Retreat, is candidate for
appointment as assistant surgeon in the
Volunteer corps.
Arthur l. Howe has put on the market
some tiny Cuban flags which he calls ecu
ban Glores,n for use as badges. They
are of his own manufacture and are made
of silk ribbon.
John Calvin states that there was no
interference by his employees when he was
attacked by John Doyle Saturday night,
and that he had no difficulty in ejectng
Doyle from his store alone.
The barn of John LeClare, which was
burned in Marlboro last week, was insured
through c. F. r. Jennes agency. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The house
was burned several years ago.
c. F. r. Jenne's agency paid Selectman
w. H. Vinton 1910 this morning, that
amount being indemnity due him from the
Employers Liability company because of
the accident to his hand II weeks ago.
1t looks very much as if the people of
this community believed in the enforce
ment of the laws, and in the maintenance
of those general principles of law and or
der upon which the morals of every COM
munity are based.
The making of camp for the Vermont
troops was begun at Burlington today.
The troops will probably not mobilize for
several days, or at least until after the spec
ial session of the legislature. The camp
equipage of Co. | was shipped to the camp
ground Monday afternoon.
Noah c. Alexander of Marlboro, who re-
Gently sold his farm to +. +. Stockwell of
this place, has bought the farm of Luther
Il. johnson of Marlboro. Mr.. johnson
will move West soon. Dwight II. Kelsey
of Guilford, formerly of Marlboro, has
bought the Whitaker farm in Marlboro.
The Grand Army, at a meeting Wednes-
day evening appointed Col. II. f. Taylor,
Col. Thomas Harmon, John NJ. Joy, T..
W. Eason and j. p. Elmer committee to
work in unison with the Soldiers Aid So
ciety in providing comforts for the soldiers
and assistance for their families.
The officer who preceded Commodore
Dewey in command of the Pacific squadron
was Rear Admiral Carpenter, native of
the nearby town of Leyden, Mass, and
an uncle of President Averil of the Yer
mont National bank. Rear Admiral Car
penter, retired, now lives in Portsmouth,
n. II.
Savings bank depositors are not com
plying with the requests of bank officials
in handing their books into the banks for
verfcation. The law provides for this
verication and when call for books is
issued it is the duty of each depositor to
present his book at the bank to the special
employe selected to make the verification.
DR.. S. f. Lawton returned Sunday
morning from Montpelier, where he spent
several weeks in attendance upon the Mil
dred Brewster murder trial He was one
of the principal witnesses, appearing last
week as an expert for the state and test-
flying to the effect that he considered the
respondent sane.
The hearing on the petition of Miss Sc
rotia Alexander for the removal of the
electric railroad switch in front of her
house on Canal street has been indefinitely
postponed, j. II. Mortified, one of the
commissioners being unable to be present
'on account of the converting of the legisla-
ture in special session
Mr.. and Mrs. viii Schuster returned
last week to New York from London
where they have been singing in grand
opera with the Carl Rosa opera company.
They leave May 21st for Milwaukee, where
they have summers engagement. They
will return in August to London, where
they have been engaged for the entire win
ter season with the Carl Rosa company,
which is one of the most popular and sue
cessful organizations in England
The members of the Episcopal society
held their annual meeting in the church
Monday night and elected these officers
Senior warden, F. w. Childs; junior war
den, DR.. II. A. Roberts; vestrymen, F. W.
. Childs, DR.. II. A. Roberts, A. w. Childs,
Andrew Blakley, Fletcher Carruthers; sec
rotary and treasurer, A. w. Chlds: dele
gates to the diocesan convention at Yer.
gennes in June, Kittredge Haskins, A. w.
Childs, Andrew Blakley; alternates, Will
lam j. Pentland, DR.. II. A. Roberts and
S. F. Guild.
Manager Henkel of the local telephone
exchange has been notified of a special re-
duction at all of the New England COM
pany offices of half rates for night mes
sages. This service begins at 6 in the
evening and continues until in the morn
ing. Local rate to Keene, Greenfield and
other towns within 30 miles will be u
cents, to Springfield 25 cents, and Boston
43 cents. This reduction will give bust
ness men chance to use the telephone at
| a rate lOWar than tho telauranh