Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-01-28
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

The Red Men will hold a meeting this
evening
The conference between the local insur-
ance committee and the New England eN-
change relative to a reduction of fire insur-
ance rates in Brattleboro has been post
poned until this afternoon.
About 80 of the Practitioners of the Epis-
cOpal church met with Mrs. VIM S. Guild
on Linden street Wednesday evening.
Charades illustrating the titles of we'll
known books formed a pleasant feature,
and refreshments were served.
The January number of the Boston N
Maine Courier contains a four-column ar
ticle on the Springfield electric railroad,
written by the Boston N Maine agent at
Charestown, n. II. The article is illus
trated with half-tone cuts of +. c. Crosby
and NJ A. Coolidge and a summer car
filled with passengers. Sketches of Mr..
Crosby and Mr.. Coolidge are also given.
The hearing in the case of the Brattle-
boro Jelly company against the Reformer
Publishing company, which was to be Civ
EN- before o. E. Butter6eld, referee, We'd
nesday was continued to to-morrow. The
suit is for 5000 for power. The defend
ants claim for offset is now $1,000, includ-
lIB Jllt ududSb W lJpt3 lOSS III pIOuuCJ,
ETC., because of alleged poor power.
Miss Belle E. Coolidge, 81, of Felchville,
whose serious illness was announced last
week, died at Rutland Monday after near
ly years illness. She was born in An
dover and for the three years previous to
her illness she taught school in Rutland.
She was formerly a teacher in the High
school building in Brattleboro. The fun
eral was held in Felchvlle Wednesday af-
ternoon, Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. o. Coolidge Of
Brattleboro being present.
If the claims made for DIR. Virgil Blan-
chard's "total combustion stove" describ-
ed on another page of this paper, are
well founded and are substantiated in prac-
teal use, it is the bonanza invention of the
age as a money-saver and money-maker
1t is not very long ago that experts We're
saying that not over 10 per cent of the
energy in a pound of coal was being utiliz-
ed in the best known appliances for com
bustion, the other 50 per cent going up
the chimney or the smoke-stack.
Captain Charles d. Sigsbee, the COM
mander of the battleship Maine, which the
government despatched to Havana Mon
day, is an older brother of l.. p Sigsbee,
who was for several years in the grocery
trade in this village with Wells S. Frost,
under the style of Frost & Sigsbee, and
who left here in 1888. Capt. Sigsbee was
then attached to the Blake in the coast
survey service. His present position is one
which the government would only entrust
to a man of proved ability, discretion and
self-control. L. p. Sigsbee is now a resi-
dent of Denver, Colo.
Joseph Ferriter, son of Luke Ferriter,
will be the first Brattleboro man to face
the rigors of the Klondike in search fol
wealth. He will start on his journey next
Monday. He will join at New York a
party organized by Hugh Murray, re
turned Alaskan miner of nine years. eXpe
rience. The party will go to Portland,
Oregon, buy their outfits there, and pro-
coed by steamer to Dyea, Alaska. The
trip from there will be made overland
through the Chilcat pass, and then dowr
the river to Dawson. The party expect tC
reach their destination next May, and Fer
ritter is planning to spend two years il
! Alaska.