Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-07

Milestone brook.
There will be no more regular Sunday
evening lectures at the Universalist church
until after Thanksgiving.
The grocery store of A. F. Roberts IL
Co. has been made more attractive by
painting and papering and the addition
of electric lights.
S. w. Edgett Il Co. have sold the A.
r. Rice farm of 500 acres in Marlboro to
Mr.. Belden of Alstead, y. H., who will
clear off the timber.
Tones, Il Heaphy at the Brooks House,
are the local representatives of f. A. Rog-
ers Il Co. of Boston, brokers dealing in
stocks, grain and cotton.
Work will be begun soon upon the new
house which j. A. Pullen is to build on
the corner of Chaplin and Oak streets.
Much of the lumber is already on the
grounds.
O. j. Butterfield of Wapole has con
tracted to furnish Baxter Brothers with
10000 boxes, to be used at the corn can
ming factories in Windsor, Westminster
and Bratteboro.
There will be a demonstration of the eX-
cellence of "NIother's Oats throughout
next week at the store of A. F. Roberts "
Co. by a representative of the American
Cereal company of Akron, Ohio.
The Empire Steel and Iron company,
formed recently in New York, has bought
several large idle steel and iron plants in
Southern states, including the one at
Fort Payne, Ala, in which Nermonters
sank thousands of dollars 10 years ago
Baxter Brothers, proprietors of the
CnanAo1ya phfp,aI
to Brattleboro two carloads of tin cans for
use the coming season. They will send
force of men here in few days to manu-
facture whatever other cans will be need
ed.
Mary Dupont, who has been associated
with Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Milton Royle,
has signed to originate the role of a coun
try girl in Jacob Lifts production, 1.-The
Clubs Baby" This actress is the wife of
a former Windham county boy and she
has several relatives in Brattleboro. She
was here two or three seasons ago in
capt. Impudence."
The 10th anniversary of The EXchecquer,
a cooperative investment organization of
20 young business men, was celebrated
Monday night, when II members sat down
to one of the choicest banquets ever served
at the Brooks House. The table was
beautifully decorated with Faster lilies and
a large centre piece of green foliage and
roses. Before the banquet two or three
selections were sung by the Yale students.
After the banquet the annual business
meeting was held.
Daniel Manning, commonly called
Dummy" was arrested by Chief-of- Police
Hall Tuesday night for intoxcation. He
was placed in the lookup for the night,
and on Wednesday morning he was ar
raigned before Justice w. S. Newton. He
pleaded guilty to second offence of in
toxication and was fined $40 and costs,
amounting to $1451, which has been
paid. States Attorney Barber conducted
the prosecution and submitted his questions
in writing. Manning said he obtained
the liquor at the brewery.
The state board of railroad assessors of
Michigan, at their meeting for organiza-
ton in Lansing last Friday, elected Ora f.
Butterfield of Ann ArbOr secretary. Mr..
Butterfield is quoted by the Evening Times
of Ann Arbor as saying that the salary of
the Office is $500 year, and that he is al
lowed expenses while travelling on bust
ness in connection with the board Mr..
Butterfield is a former Brattleboro boy
who has been practicing law in Ann Ar
Dor since his graduation from the law
school of the University of Michigan sew
eral years ago. He has been one of the
aldermen of the city and also city attorney,
The check list of voters for the annual
village meeting has been posted in the
town hall. The meeting will be held May
? in Festival hall. Matters which will
for cnttlnDlant 1T tho inn,
have not taken definite form yet, but it is
understood that there is to be sharp oppo-
sitiOn to the present board of bailiffs and
it is also understood that the issues will be
drawn upon the same lines over which
there was a contest last year The men,
bers of the present board will be candi-
dates for reelection. One of the articles
which will be included in the warrant for
the meeting will be in regard to dispensing
with the Australian .ystem of balloting
Frank Moss, a summer resident of South
Newfane, has been chosen counsel of the
Mazet investigation committee of the New
York assembly which will probe the Tam
many corruption in the metropolis. Mr..
Moss was associate counsel with John w.
Golf, now recorder, in conducting the affairs
of the LeXow investigation committee five
years ago. Afterward Mr.. Moss was made
a police commissioner by Mayor Strong,
and he sat in the board with Theodore
Roosevelt, now governor of New York,
and for time was president of the board
Mr.. Moss is connected with DR.. Park
hursts Society for the Prevention of
Crime. Mr.. Moss has no ties with Tam
many and his experience in the Lexow in
vestigation and as police commissioner
have made him the most formidable law
yer in New York to conduct the proceed
ings of the Mazet committee.
a Concert at Rutland.
The concert given in city hall last even
ing by Madame Stella Brazil and the Hoff-
man string quartet was very well attended
The audience was an appreciative one and
nearly every number was encored. Madame
Brazil has a contralto voice of exceptional
depth and richness and she captivated the
audience at her first appearance. Her best
number was perhaps the "Habanera"
from Carmen" although her magnificent
voice also showed to good advantage in
Damrosch's Danny Deever," and the
dainty little love songs by Hawley were
very fine. j. Harry Engels played her ac-
compartments. The work of the Hoff-
man String quartet was well-nigh perfect
and they were encored again and again.
Their first number, the Dittersdorf group.
and the andante cantabile from Tschai-
kowsky were eXquisitely rendered. The
concert was one of the finest ever given in
Rutland Rutland News of Tuesday.
Annual Meeting Of the Baptist Church.