Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-31
BRATTLEBORO.

traction to appear at the Auditorium about
April 10, when Della Fox, the comic opera
star, and her large company will appear in
1.-THE Little Host"
The Royal Manufacturing company of
Wendell, Mass, has been pettioDed in
bankruptcy. The Indebtedness is small.
This is the concern which negotiated with
the board of trade last year in regard to
locating in Brattleboro.
Parents having children to be presented
for baptism at the Congregational church
on Easter Sunday are requested to be at
the church a little before II o'clock on
that day. The Easter offering in the
church will be for the benefit of the Sun.
day school.
Revenue stamps to the amount of $1,000
will have to be attached to the deed of the
Central Vermont railroad, which was re-
Gently sold by auction by Judge Waterman,
special master, when it is transferred to
the Grand Trunk Railroad company, the
new purchasers of the Central Vermont
railroad.
Dea. Simon w. Houghton, SO, died Sat
urday morning at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. H. c. Squires. The body was
taken on the II 10 train to Putney, where
the burial took place under the Masonic
ritual. An extended notice of Mr.. Hough-
ton is published in the Putney column in
this paper.
The aged mother of Capt. Marshall II.
Twitchell, United States consul at Kings
ton, Canada, died in that city this week.
The st. Adams correspondent of the Bur
lington Free Press announced the death of
Capt. Twitchell in Wednesdays paper,
but later report states that he is in his
usual health.
The Boston & Maine railroad company
is planning to build an additional track
from Springfield, Vt, station to Clare
mont junction, making a double track all
the way between Bellows Falls and the
Junction. The change will be made to
accommodate the large increase in freight
from the Grand Trunk via the New London
Northern.
Ernest Brown, clerk in the office of the
American Express company, was ordered
to New London Monday to act as express
messenger from New London to Palmer,
having also a short run from New London
to Norwich. The change is only tempo
rary, and Mr.. Brown will return to Brat
tleboro as soon as the regular messenger
on these routes RECEIVERS from an illness
with which he is now afflicted.
The ladies of the Congregational society
served supper in the chapel last evening,
the proceeds amounting to about $25. AT
ter the supper short entertainment was
given. 1t consisted of piano solos by Miss
Helen Crosby, Miss Lucia Foster and
Blanche Powers, recitations by Miss Lii
liam Cray, Edwina Whitney and Harry
Bingham, song by Miss Cora Liscom
and violin solo by Miss Edna Crosby.
Ind Hoko
G. G. Averill of the Vermont National
bank were in Putney Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons to assist in adjusting
matter connected with the Stowell manu-
featuring company which it is expected
will enable the company toscentinue in
business. The factory was shut down
Tuesday noon and at that time there was
little prospect that it would be started
again. The principal reason for the shut
down was that the company was unable
TO secure sufficient number of signers to
notes as security for a loan of $50, 000
There are 100 people in Putney who are
directly dependent upon the company, and
when the probable effect of the shutdown
became apparent there was renewed effort
to adjust the difficulty with the probable
result as stated The concern has been
unfortunate in the death of A. b. Hewett.
one of the principal financial hackers, the
failure of A, F. Kelley, another stakeholder
and financial hacker, the death of Charles
Stowell, a stakeholder and superintendent
of the factory, the death of John W.
Stowell, president of the company, and the
death of Chas. w. Kimball, a prominent
member of the company.
Moses M. NVitham.
Moses NJ. Witham, II, longtime resi-
dent of Bratteboro, died at his home on
Fairview street Wednesday afternoon from
paralysis, after an illness of only a few
days. Mr.. Wtham had been in poor
health since last September, when he re-
ceived serious injury to his spine by be-
ing thrown from his wagon. He was
stricken with paralysis Sunday afternoon,
and after few hours sank into an uncon-
scious condition from which he never raj
lied.
Mr.. Witham was born in Newfeld, Me-,
July 70, 1897. His parents were John
Seaborn and Hannah (Patelo) Witham.
He spent his boyhood in his native town.
but went to Boston when a young man
and worked there four years as truck
driver He came to Brattleboro in 1949
and had lived here since then. Hs worked
for a number of years as a stone mason
and also was employed as a carpenter. He
was member Of the Methodist church.
Mr.. Witham married Sept. A, 1840, EN-
lily Ellen Franklin, and they were to have
celebrated their golden wedding anniyersa-
ny next fall had Mr.. Witham lived. Seven
children were born to Mr.. and Mrs. With
am, but only one, Mrs. Reiss of Meriden,
Conn.,, survives. Two grandchildren and
two great grandchildren are also living.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
at the house at o'clock and at the Metho-
dist church at o'clock, Rev. j. d. Bee
man officiating. The burial will be in the
family lot in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Friends are requested to send no flowers.