Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-24

A new iron smoke stack has been raised
at the Sunset Paper mill on Elm street.
1t is the Swedish Lutheran church that
has been wired for electric lights by
Vaughan & Sergeant.
j. l.. Martin has been appointed admin
istrator of the Leila E. w. Tyler estate in
in place of George b. Hit, deceased.
The auction sale of the Charles Squires
home farm in Gulford, which was to have
taken place last Saturday, was postponed.
Charles A. Squires sold his farm in
Guilford yesterday to f. II. Tones of
Hinsdale, N. II. The sale was made
through the agency of A. V. May.
The water pipes running from West
Brattleboro to Crowel's reservoir have
been frozen up this week. Workmen have
been digging them up since Monday.
The work of cleaning up and repairing
the big factory at Centrevlle was begun
this week. The engine bought of the Es-
tey Organ company is being moved into the
factory.
A trunk line switch board is to be put
into the local Office of the New England
Telephone and Telegraph company the
coming summer. The local lines will be
operated from the present switch board,
necesstating one new operator. The
change is made because of increased amount
of business.
An offer has been made to the Episco-
pal society for the sale of the lot on which
its church edifice stands. The offer comes
from men who wish to erect on the lot a
block for business purposes. 1t is under
stood that some of the members of the So
ciety are in favor of selling the lot and
building church elsewhere.
The committee on entertainment for the
big meeting of Odd Fellows which is to be
held in Brattleboro May 1920 are sending
out preliminary circulars in relation to the
meeting, and they request every Odd Eel
low, whether member of the lodge or not,
to hand his name TO l.. j. Retting, chair
man of the committee on arrangements
The safe which was in the office of S. A.
Smith & Co. when the factory was burned,
was moved to the factory of J. T. Hill
dreth and was opened Saturday. The safe
opened on the usual combination, but not
until several attempts had failed. The in
side of the safe and the papers and docu-
ments were not in the least damaged by
the fire.
An official of the post office department
in Guatemala sent a communication in
french 10 MAJ. Il. w. CulluS u suOlJ llut
ago asking for one of the old BTattleboro
postage stamps. The communication was
received this week. The last Of these
send fac smile Of the stamp in response
to the request.
Horace c. French has received the prizes
which he won in the Recreation rife com
petition. The third prize was lady's
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Kodak. The prizes were competed for by
the best masksmen all over this country,
and the fact that Mr.. French won in such
company is good proof of his ability. He
also received honorable mention tor the
seventh best score.
About 20 sports from this village went
to West Brattleboro Monday night to wit
ness several bouts between the pupils of
w. b. Mettee's boxing classes. During
the evening one or two "sluggers" from
this part of the town tried conclusions
with West Brattleboro pugilists. The
matches were all of friendly nature, how
ever, and none of the participants suffered
serious punishment
John Blanchard of Marlboro met with
slight accident at the Washington street
crossing yesterday noon. He started to
track, but as soon as the sleigh struck bare
ground the whiflletree broke and the horse
started to run. The horse freed itself from
the sleigh and from part of the harness.
Mr. Blanchard was thrown out on to his
shoulder, and he was also badly bruised
about the head.
One of the promoters of the ''plug" hat
fashion in Brattleboro was somewhat sur
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Mass, Wednesday night to find the num-
Der of young men who had adopted the
fashion during his absence. He also was a
trife faxed at the enthusiastic welcome he
and his party received at the railroad sta
ton, and at the manner in which he was
escorted through Main street. The only
consolation offered him was that junior
bank clerks who will insist upon wearing
such toggery must be prepared to face the
consequences.
travelling salesman who has repre-
scented well-known Boston house, recent
ly asked several men in the county to cash
checks for him Marlboro man cashed
one for $50, Newfane man is reported to
have cashed one for $50, and there are
said to be other victims. The checks
came back with the statement that there
were no funds in the bank on which they
were drawn. An investigation is now be-
ing made. The salesman has been we'll
known hereabouts several years. He fin
ished work recently for the house which
he has represented.
Mrs Mary (Cronin) Lynch, 81, of st.
Johnsbury, mother of DR.. Z. r. Lynch of
Brattleboro, died Monday morning after
short illness with typhoid fever. She was
born in Ireland and came to this country
when she was II years old. She married
John Lynch of St. Johnsbury 10 years
ago. Mr.. Lynch died four months ago.
Mrs. Lynch leaves brother in Ireland,
three sons and a daughter, DR.. +. r.
Lynch of Brattleboro, W. NJ, of Boston,
Rev. j. A. of St. Aloysius church, st.
Johnsbury and Miss Mary d. of St. Johns
bury. Solemn high mass was celebrated
at st. Aloysius church Wednesday morn
ing, Rev. Father Lynch acting as celebrant
The following is from the Brattleboro
correspondence of the Springfield Republi-
can Wednesday: "While rummaging over
a lot of old papers yesterday, Brattleboro
business man ran across an ancient deed,
bearing date of May, 1896. The docu-
ment, which is written on parchment, con-
veying three houses from William Lloyd to
William Griffith in the county of Middle
sex, Eng, and Elizabeth his wife, and old
er daughter OF Daniel Chadwick, in the
county OF Nottingham, is excellently pre-
served, with seals intact, with two revenue
stamps of the denomination of sixpence
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