Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-02-25

extinguished before it had caused serious
damage.
The total snow fall since Nov. l. is
over nine feet. In the open country on
the lowlands the depth is now about two
feet. In the woods in northern exposures
it is probably from three 10 four feet
The first ladies night brought l2O peo-
pie TO the Vermont Wheel club rooms
Monday night A large part Of the com
pany joined in dancing in Grange hall. but
the billiard and card rooms were in use
throughout the evening
The annual town meeting will begin
next Tuesday promptly as o'clock Bal
lot boxes will be placed on the south side
Of the hall for voters with names begin
ming with letters A TO X inclusive and on
the north side will be the polling place of
/ those with names beginning with letters l.
| to 4 inclusive. The voting will be by the
| old-fashioned system.
Henry Weymouth. for SO years con-
ductor on the Connecticut River railroai
| died suddenly last Friday from apoplexy
at Walpoe, y. H. He was 50 years old
and is survived by a widow and four sons
! Mr. Weymouth lived In Brattleboro sew
eral years, and was also resident of South
/ Vernon at one time. His home had been
in Walpole for the past 20 years
Principal Patterson of the Hinsdale
/ High school was unable to deliver his lee
ture on Dickens before the MURRAY club
Monday night on account of the storm.
The program was changed 10 include the
reading by Rev Nj Max well of an article
on heredity which appeared recently In the
Springfield Republican. piano solos by Mr..
HolbroOk OF heene, and a song by Frank
Brasor
L. L. Roberts has traded his large store
and tenement block, centrally located in
the village o. Winchester, y. H.. to L. l..
Holton Of that place, taking in exchange
Mr.. Holton's stock Of dry goods, boots,
shoes and fancy articles in the store in the
block and his dwelling house on Parker
street, Winchester Nj Roberts will take
possession of the store as soon as the in
ventory is completed
Deputy Sheriff F. W. Mcclure will sell
by public auction at the Vermont y ational
bank at 10 o clock on the morning of March
T., 20 shares of capital stock in the bank
standing in the name Of Mrs. Fannie
Baker of Putney. The property is taken
by virtue Of an execution in favor Of the
bank and against y. F. and Lucy b. Kelley
of Minneapolis, and Fannie A Baker and
Abbie Z. Russell of Putney.
Real estate exchanges at F. j Bailey
agency this week as follows new house
just completed in West Springfield, Mass.
for residence property. BY ;. Z Walton. 10
c. H. Thompson Of Bratteboro in ex.
change for a block OF building lots on VIII
ton street, Springfield. recently bought by
Mr.. Thompson also a house and lot in
West Dummerston to L. 5. Langdon for a
block Of building lots on Franklin street.
Rockville, Conn. and a house and lot in
Warren, Mass, with 5 G.. Knoa for a 30
acre farm in MaIlow, y. II.
J. W. Shelley Of Putney, special agent
of the Equitable Life Assurance society.
will establish an agency in Bratteboro in
week or two which will be in charge Of
D. y. Bartlett, formerly in the office of
the Vermont Loan and Trust company.
Mr.. Bartlett left Brattleboro some nine
years ago TO become secretary OF the I.
NJ. c. A, at West Troy, y. Y. He went
to Nashua, y. H., in May, 1893. to become
secretary of the association there, and at
the time of his resignation last August the
membership of the Nashua association had
increased from 32j to 63l. Since then
Mr.. Bartlett has been assistant state sec
rotary for the associations of Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island He finds that the
amount Of travel that the position re-
quires is more than he cares to do and he
has therefore decided to go into the life in
surance business. Many persons will wei
come his return to Brattleboro.
Rev. L. Q. S. Osgood furnished an hour
delightful entertainment Monday evening
in his paper on Judge Samuel Sewall and
his times read before the Alliance study
class. Puritan by descent and training
and natural sympathy, and yet living and
taking a conspicuous part in public affairs
when Puritan severity was beginning to
give place TO less rigid modes Of life and
thinking, Judge Sewalls career furnishes
a prolific theme for oRe who like Mr.. Os-
good, himself llneal descendant from the
Judge, knows how TO discover and disclose
the generous breadth of his life and char
acter. The story was largely drawn from
the judges own journal, kept with pune
tilious detail and revealing alike his high
ideal of life and duty. his severe and. TO
us, often gloomy introspection. and. along
with these qualities of the Puritan con
science the fobles and van.ties which
made him human, and which in our love
and sympathy while they make us smile.
! 1t was an impressive and even dramatic
| point which was touched when the story
was told Of how the judge, who bore a
| prominent part in the condemnation of the
Salem witches, convinced afterward of his
error, and filled with remorse and contri-
ton, looked the haunting memory in the
face, and, rising in his seat in the Old
South church, stood with bowed head while
his "bill' of confession was read by the
minister in the presence of the congrega-
ton. Ever afterward, to the end of his
lie, one day in every year was kept by the
judge in rigid selfseclusion, with PRAYER
and fasting. in atonement, or least in deal
ing thus with himself for his sin. At the
close OF Mr.. Osgood's paper Mrs. TYLER
read, as fitting complement, Whittier's
poem.
Met Death on the Inflated Clara Nevada.
One of the g. victims of the steamer
Clara Nevada, which fouudered of the
Alaskan coast Feb. 6, was +. W. Sapor-
tas, formerly OF New York. whose wife
has spent much time at the Brooks House
and who has many personal friends here.
Mr.. Saportas had been living in Skaguay
the past eight months, having important
contracts with the American and Canadian
governments in regard to the despatching
of mails and TO sending supplies to the
mounted police, lie took passage on the
Clara Nevada at Skaguay, leaving his
brother, w, F, Saportas, at that place.
His destination was Seattle where he was
to buy horses to be used in Transporting
supplies over the dreaded White Pass
The large quantity of powder carried by
the Clara Nevada for usp in Tho Traad vpaO