Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-10

There will be a special sale of new and
second hand furniture at Gilson's auction
room In the Grange building tomorrow.
George Eels has bought of r E Gordon,
administrator, the Elijah Reed house on
South Main street. MI. Ees buys for an
inv, stment.
Work has been begun in the Electric
Hosiery company's establishment, but
thus far IL is Of an experimental sort.
About II hands are employed, but it will
take another week to get ready to fill
orders.
There will be a hearing in the probate
office in Bellows Falls at 1 o'clock, Feb.
Is, before A. f. Schwenk referee in bank
ruptcy for Windham county, in the petit
ton in bankruptcy of Charles NJ Blake of
Bellows Falls.
G' K. Gilman has sold "a horses At his
Elliot street stables within the past few
days. Among these sales was an extra
good team horse sold TO the Estey Organ
company. Mr.. Gilman will receive an
other consignment of horses next week.
The bill of the Central Vermont & New
London railroad company for extending
the time for taking tolls at the Mortified
bridge, was filed last week Just in time to
be admitted to the legislature, and was re-
ferred to the committee on railroad bridges.
Niles N. Wilson and Miss Sophia Hassel-
gust OF Brattleboro were married at the
home OF Rev. j. d. Beeman last Saturday.
MISS Hassequist has been employed in
the house of Gen. j. j. Estey. Mr.. Will
son Is the proprietor of a carriage shop on
Flat street.
Mrs. Bingham, widow of the late Rev.
}. 5. Bingham, died at Dubuque, Iowa,
Monday. j. S. Bingham was a brother
of the late b. F. Bingham and was pastor
in Wes;field and West Rutland before GO
ing West about 20 years ago.
j Henry Kidder of Wilmington has
been appointed administrator of the Mary
Z. Cushman estate of Wilmington Nathan
Green and Clark Chandler have been APP
pointed appraisers and commissioners.
Adm +. Miller has been appointed admin
istrator of the Willard Dodge estate of
Dummerston. Nellie NJ. Coolidge has
been appointed guardian of Flora b. and
FLOYD &. Coolidge, minors under the age
of II years.
A man from Shutesbury, Mass, came to
Brattleboro last Saturday and went to
Newfane to spend Sunday with his brother,
arthur Williams" who was one Of the
:hree persons who stole horse and sleigh
from Lveryman II. r. Brown Jan.
The mans object in coming to Brattleboro
was to attempt to secure Williams's re-
lease by furnishing bail, but he was unsuc-
cesstul He said that the prisoners real
name was Arthur Green and that the theft
OF Mr.. Browns team was his first offence
against any of the laws of the land Mil
dred Smith, another of the trio, was re-
Gently released Oh bail in Springfield,
Mass, but she was reirrested on the charge
of shoplifting.
Louis Henkel, clerk in the office of the
American Express company, will be eX-
press messenger, for the present, between
BrattlebOro and Palmer. Mr.. Mcintyre,
the special messenger who has had this
run since Mr.. Patch was taken i'll. has
been given another run, and the Brattle-
boro Office was asked to fill the vacancy.
Ernest Brown, who has been on the deliv-
cry team, has been taken into the Office to
succeed Mr.. Henkel and George Whitney
has been given the team to succeed Mr..
Brown. This arrangement will be kept
up until Mr.. Patch returns to his post.
G Jorge b. Greg ware, who has been en-
ployed as the Postal company's messenger
boy, went Thursday to Boston to accept a
position as a Postal operator He began
work for the Postal company as messenger,
Feb. /, 1896, and two years ago took up the
study of telegraphy at the suggestion of a
friend, who furnished him with the Morse
alphabet. Through the kindness of j. r.
Tones he was allowed to send and receive
messages on the main wire. His good
work was soon called to the attention of
the assistant superintendent and resulted
in an offer of his present situation.
1t is a notable record of personal work
which is given of Miss Jessie A. Acker.
man, the second round-the- world temper
ance organizer, who is to be in Brattle-
boro on the oath inst. Immediately after
her graduation Miss Ackerman entered
the temperance mission work, and was
sent to establish life-saving stations in
Alaska. From that field she was sent on
her first journey around the world. In her
travels she wore the white ribbon and
with simple eloquence preached the Cos
pei OF temperance along a trail that meas
ures 10000 miles. She held 141T meet
ings, gave $40 lectures and 447 informal
talks, spoke of temperance and purity on
IL steamers and vessels of war, also in 1872
pulpits. She visited 1140 Sunday schools.
l76 day schools, initiated CAT Good Tenn
plars, fastened the white ribbon upon 5000
and received the pledges of 90
600 men. After a rest of two years she
has resumed her work and all will find it a
rare treat to listen to her.