Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-01-07


The annual meetings of the National |
banks will be held next Tuesday, Jan. IL.
Artist Robert Gordon Hardie has nearly |
a portrait OF Miss Lucy Childs /
of Bennington
The Estey Organ factories were closed
Saturday. Monday and Tuesday, while the
annual inventories were being taken.
February is the date when Mary
French Field will appear in the Auditor
um and will recite some of the poems of
the late Eugene Field. A musical pro-
gram will be rendered.
Judge E. L. Waterman has exchanged a
50.acre farm and 30-acre timber lot in
Jamaica with Hosea Mann of Wilmington
for house on South Main street and the
Morse bull ling lot on South Canal street,
Brattleboro The exchange was made this
week through f. j. Bailey's agency.
Harry Pratt has succeeded Warren G.
Doolttle as proprietor of the American
House. Mr.. Pratt is experienced in the
hotel business, having been connected
with hostelries in Bennington, Brattleboro
and Newfane and he will undoubtedly
manage the house in a manner which will
win favor with the public.
Mrs. L. r. Pratt will not sing in Phila-
delphia next week, as announced, the
manager of the Damrosch company having
asked her to defer making her debut with
Madame Media until the appearance of the
company in New York about the goth of
January The managers letter making
the request was received yesterday morning.
Reed the buncoer, has forfeited his bail
at Gardner and Lowell, Mass. The SIS
tpl iph I'm hill In gpypTal
Massachusetts, towns seems to have been
the price of gaining liberty There was a
report Tuesday that he had been arrested in
New Jersey, but it was without foun iatOn.
Ii is believed that Reed is one of gang Of
swinders who have thousands at their
command.
The snow storm which began the closing
afternoon OF the Did year, continued through
a large part of the night, and on the New
Year people looked out upon a landscape
mautleG IN white. The fall in Brattle5 oro
was about l. inches. but a larger amount
is reported in some of the county towns.
There have been two or three furries of
snow since Saturday. Tuesday morning
brought the coolest weather of this season,
u below zero by the official thermometer.
Howard c. Rice, who has been local
reporter for The Phoenix since Oct /, sus-
tanned a fracture of both bones of the left
leg near the ankle last evening. Two or
three of the young men OF the Office en-
gagged in "boys' play just before the sup
per hour, and as w. L. Hubbard stepped
forward to seize Rice by the collar the lat
ter moved backward quickly and fell
heavily Dr. Gale was summoned imme-
diately, and the young man was carried TO
his home on high street, where the bones
were set.
The Vermont Wheel clubs billiard,
whist and pool tournamnt opened Tuesday
night, with the straight whist contest, in
which 10 pairs participated. The prizes
were won by f l.. Smith and W. Z. Hub
/ bard. The other games have resulted as
| follows: Three ball billiards-Putnam IS,
! Dewitt %. Putnam winning on the handi-
! cap Stockwell so, Gale 60 Stockweli win
| ming on the handicap; four ball billiards
| Bingham l2O. McRae ll2; Bacon POO
Bracket 1l2; pool-W II Perry IS,
! Pratt 81: Austin 60, Durham 80.
Mary Kennedy, 81, wife of Patrick
Manning, died at her home on Vernon
street, Sunday morning at 3 o o'clock, the
cause being apoplexy She was apparent
ly in good health the day before and went
out as usual, but was taken suddenly i'll al
l O. clock Sunday morning. Dr.. Conland
was summoned and when he left Mrs
Manning was apparently sleeping quietly
| but she never awoke. She was born il
Ireland IN 1860, coming TO this country
when young child. She was married tel
years ago in Lawrence, Mass, to Patrick
Manning and had since lived in this town
Prof John NJ Tyler of Amherst colleg,
will give the third lecture in the "Colleg'
course at the Centre church next Tues
day evening, Jan. II, at 5 O'Clock. Hi
topic, "a Yeast Cake" while having Z
distinct flavor for housekeepers, is by NJ
means mere suggestion in cookery. The
lecture, which has reputation of its own
is a popular and vivacious treatment, il
Prof. Tylcr's peculiarly racy vein, OF bio
logical science applied and illustrated by
homely and familiar object f ,eryoR,
ought to hear him. and may the skies be
more propitous than for the former lee
lures.
q. A. Billings, agent for Suffer Bros
came up from Hatfield last night, and vii
look over some of the tobacco crops alonl
the river with a view to buying them
From his point of view growers are asking
higher price than TIE value of the crol
warrants, or that SutteT Bros can afford u
pay, If growers and buyers can get to
gether." the B-attleboro packing hous'
will be opened and work begun in cours'
of fortnight The tobacco bought here
abouts for spotting will be shipped to tn,
Hatfield packing-house. The artificial
spotting experiment appears to have beer
entirely successful, both here and down tn,
river. Steam-heated rooms to produce
sweating by artificial means have been titteC
up in Hartford and 400 cases of the artici
ally spotted leaf have been placed in them
This will make the tobacco ready for tn,
market six months earlier than if left u
take the natural sweat in July and Aug
ust. About 60 days are required for tn,
process. Suffer Bros. have recently Sc
| cured from Havana several hundred bale
of Cuban tobacco which had been bough
there by their agent, and which were re
leased for export by an order of the Span
ish government
The Business of the BrattIeborO Post
Office,
The increase in the business of tn,
money order department of the Brattlebor,
post-otiice has been constant from year tt
year, Notwithstanding the industrial de
preston of the past few years. Last year
increase over that of 1896 was substantial
the figures showing that there were IA
more transactions recorded, representing
S25, $50. "A, than in the previous year
1891 domestic orders were issued
amounting TO S 81, 6S6. .
223 international orders were issued