Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

Gov Grout has issued proclamation
designating Friday, April 20, as Arbor
day.
The rehearsal of the Choral Union next
week will be held Thursday evening instead
of Wednesday.
At recent auction sale in Boston a
copy of 1.-THE Algerine Captive" written
by Chief Justice Tyler of Vermont, brought
$3.50.
William II. Cutting of Brooklyn, N. Y.
and Mrs. Flora Clary have been appointed
administrators of the estate of Joseph G.
Cutting of Guilford.
The Boston Globe of last Saturday con-
tanned large picture showing Mr.. Wales's
pupils at Greenfield, Mass, who appeared
in the dance representing the battleship
Maine at his exhibition there last Friday
night.
G, K. Gilman will receive today another
lot of horses at his Elliot street stables
which will be sold by auction next Tues
day. The horses include family, farm and
general purpose horses, with some large
pairs in the lot.
Rev. Patrick Cunningham was in Me-
thuen, Mass, few days ago and selected
chime of bells to be placed in the tower
of the Roman Catholic church in accord
ance with a provision in the will of the
late Catherine Driscoll.
Maj. Beck's sale of household furniture,
which was to have been held Wednesday
in the rear of the Brooks place on the
common, was postponed, on account of
the rain, to Wednesday of next week at 10
A. NJ. 1t is a valuable lot of furniture,
aud nearly new.
An advance was made of so cents bar
rel on -four, yesterday, by western milling
companies. Many of the smaller mills are
selling their wheat instead of grinding it,
as they can get more for the wheat than
for flour. The corn exports this week
averaged about 100000 bushels daily.
f Stock markets closed the highest they
f have been in years yesterday.
) The warrant is published in another
, column for the annual village meeting, to
be held at the town hall Tuesday, May 8,
at 9 A. NJ. There are four articles relating
to the election of officers; action upon the
Y reports of the bailiffs, treasurer and chief
E engineer the raising of money to defray
t the expenses of the coming year instruct
ing the baiiffs il regard to putting a new
= boiler into steamer No. 1, putting the
e steamer into first class order, and raising
n the money for these Improvements.
4 The ice went out of Spofford lake last
week. The water in the lake is very high,
e running back Under the bowling alley at
/. Lakeside. The smelt ran in large quaint
. ties from the lake into the small brooks
5 last week, and two men from Chesterfield
l. Centre are said to have caught two bush
V els of fish with net. The destruction OF
I the fish seems to have been wanton, as the
e fish are not of use as food The smell
y,.1, . LII e..
iood for the bass. The smelt have in
creased rapidly, but are seldom seen dur
= ing the summer. In appearance they are
like the salt water smelt being four to six
/ inches in length.
y The annual meeting of the Woman's
Missionary and Aid society of the Baptist
v church was held yesterday afternoon. The
: reports of the different departments showed
q that the following amounts had been re
n ceived and disbursed: Home mission
SO; foreign. $40; parish work, $3S; hos
pitality, S301 young woman's auxiliary
L 1927. These officers were elected: Pres
a dent, Mrs. Kate Burchard; vice president
IS Mrs. II. p. Wellman; secretary, Mrs. Nj
: l.. Bruce: treasurer, Mrs. l.. II. Dearborn
l. Mrs. Rufus Smith was elected chairman
n for life, of the home missionary depart
Il ment and the following were elected chair
81 men for one year: Foreign, Mrs l. O. T
e Smith: parish work. Mrs. Lucy Cox hos
IS pitality, Mrs. l.. X. Fuller.
: A branch of the Connecticut Building
u and Loan association of Hartford has been
II organized in this village by NJ. l.. Boards
y ley of Montpelier, the state manager The
s5 officers of the branch are: T. 5. Morse
u president; W. II. Thompson, vice presi
dent; d. n. Bartlett secretary and treas.
Gol,E l. u, /
e rectors are the officers AMI S. b. Elmer
J. son, c. O. Robbins, Z. A. Wood. d. p
Webster and F. F. Gleason. The associa
,, ton has branches in Bellows Falls, White
q River Junction, Montpelier, st. Johns
d bury, St. Adams, Burlington and othel
e Vermont towns. The object of the asso
5, citation is to loan money for building pur
e poses and to establish a system of savings
e The management of the local bushes:
= will be in the hands of D. n. Bartlett. the
: treasurer.
y John L. Sullivan and his vaudeville
y company made a variety of impression!
i upon the audience at the Auditorium Tues
;, day evening. Some people regarded the
= performance as pleasing others enjoyed
the specialties but had little enthusiasm
i for the regular part of the performance
5 and not few were wearied through much
e of the evening. Darmody the club jug
= gler, and Rolla White the woman who
/ gave an exhibition of sparring with the
l. bag, were two wonderful performers The
y attempts of some members of the company
y to sing were painful. John L. was very
l. wooden as an actor, and the fact appeared
), during the evening that he was GUIDED
) a condition not unusual to the eX-champion
> pIgilst, who declared in the hour of his
; defeat by Corbett that what really dOwneo
: him was "booze." Sullivan created some.
= thing of commotion in the dressing room
) by firing two or three blank cartridges OF
: a revolver. The company appeared here
I, under the local management of Fenton
; and Stickney.
A Corn Canning Factory Assured.
1t is now definitely settled that the pro-
.. ject to establish a corn canning factory
here this summer will be carried out The
land wherein the buildings will be erected
has been staked out this week and the
work of putting up the buildings will begin
! as soon as the contracts are secured by the
board of trade. This announcement
would have been made last week but for
the fact that the question of a location for
> the buildings had not been entirely solved.
Several weeks ago Henry Allen, who owns
land on the east side of the railroad and
: just south of the Central Vermont rail
roads land, offered to sell certain parcel