Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-05-12

Judge L. NJ. Read is to deliver the Me-
mortal day address at Tunbridge.
Yesterdays Washington dispatches told
of the granting of patent to n G. Will
liams of the Vermont Farm Machine COM
pany on a centrifugal cream separator.
The Odd Fellows of the local canton are
practicing evenings for the parade to be
held in Brattleboro next week in connec-
ton with the annual meeting of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows of Vermont.
Complete and nicely executed plans and
specifications for the upraising and rebuild
ing of Towns hotel are being made this
week. 1t is expected they will be ready
early next week for different contractors
to bid upon, as number have already ask
ed for the opportunity.
The German measles have come among
us again. AS yet there are not many
cases, but as some of these are among pu-
pills of the schools it is feared that they may
spread. Miss Lucy Taylor, teacher in the
third grade, building No. 4, was out of
school all last week i'll with them.
w. H. Bodine has moved this week from
DR.. Gorham's house on School street to the
| Charles Hapgood house on Atkinson street,
which he recently bought of Mrs Blood.
| During the summer he will build house on
| the lot ad jacent to the one where he now
is, which he will reside in himself, leasing
the one which he occupies now.
Some fine catches of fish are reported by
the Bellows Falls delegation twenty eight
| in number) visiting Sunapee last week
Mr. and Mrs. Swain entertained all the
visitors at the lake Saturday evening at a
sugar party held at their cottage, Dew
Drop Inn. Plenty of snow was found in
the woods back of the cottages.
1t was decided Monday by the teachers
of the graded schools at their monthly
meeting to hold the annual exhibition of
school work at the High school building
June 7, and o. The pupils of the grades
in that building will give musicale in
connection with it, under the direction of
Miss jackson, supervisor of music in the
schools.
Greatly to the relief and comfort of mer-
chants and all who have occasion to visit
the Square, c. H. Nichols began Monday
to sprinkle it. Some of the streets are
also sprinkled If it were possible for the
voters of the village to feel that it were
best to do it at the expense of the corpora
ton it would be great relief Then
everyone would bear their own proportion
of the expenses and not get the dust from
| Iu6 SJIeeC edCu Sue, PERHAPS, even IL Out
have it sprinkled directly in front of his
own grounds. Now the expense is being
met by subscription and only a portion Of
the streets are watered
The announcement of the death of Mrs
Lowell Stearns Monday afternoon frou
pneumonia was received with sorrow anC
surprise. Very few had known of her i'll
ness, so short had the time of it been, only
since Saturday evening. She had been suf
fering from a cold for several days, blu
with no thought of pneumonia until then
The funeral was held Wednesday after
noon at Mr.. Stearns's home on Barker
street, Rev. c. R. B. Dodge officiating, witt
interment in Oak Hill cemetery. Mr.
Stearns and his two little children hav,
the sympathy of all. Besides these a sis
ter, Mrs, Lewis E. Swain, of Wilmington
and brother, Charles f. Mitchell of Clar
emont, are left to mourn her loss.