Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-27
THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, OCTOB

The w. A. Dutton marble shop has
placed a handsome monument of Barre
granite on the family lot of the late o. L.
Miner.
George r. Aplin Of East Putney was APP
pointed trustee OF the estate of n. Cobb,
IT,, bankrupt of Putney Falls, at a meet
ing of the creditors in Brsttleboro We'd
nesday.
The Baptist parsonage in West Dunn
merston, which caught fire Tuesday even
ing from the burning out of a chimney,
was insured in the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance company through the agency of
c. f. X. JENNIE.
The Epworth league held the first of a
series of sociables at the home of Rev. and
Mrs r. f. Lowe Wednesday evening.
About so persons were present, and the
evening was delightfully."- spent with games
and refreshments.
Geo. M. Bolton, one of the leading
Connecticut photographers, opened his
third annual art exhibit in his studio in
Rockville, Conn, Monday. Ia the loan
department were seven photographs of
Mrs. Mars Howe LAWN by John c. Howe
of Bratteboro.
The Odd Fellows entertainment com
mittee are Issuing invitations to a series of
select sociabes to be held in Odd Fellows
hall on the following dates: Oct. 81, Nov
9, Nov %, Dec ), Dec. IA, Dec. 2S, Jan,
IL, Jan. %, Feb. 8, Feb. 10, Feb. 2S,
March s, March ~, April IL. These So
ciables are not open TO the public.
e. c. Crosby and c. w. Wyman were
elected directors of the Northampton
Amherst electric railroad az meeting of
the stockholders held in Northampton
Tuesday. f. S. Coolidge of Fitchburg is
president of the company, Mr.. Wyman
clerk and treasurer and Mr.. Crosby one OF
the three members Of the executive COM
mittee.
The Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium class work
began Tuesday night with 20 men on the
floor. The evening classes are in charge
CT II. r. Horton, and the afternoon classes,
the first of which was held Wednesday,
are in charge of Rev. n. A. Wood More
interest is being shown in the gymnasium
work this season than for several years
past.
The concrete walk is being extended
along the Retreat estate beyond the farm
| buildings, past the Roel house and the
cold spring and will be carried up the hill
to the Lodge. 1t is the most thorough and
satisfactory piece of work OF its kind
which has been built in town, and in tn,
end will be an object lesson in the economy
OF doing such work to stay.
w. II. Snow, formerly baggage master
| on the Central Vermont railroad, ha,
! leased the Brooks House billiard and poo
rooms and will have charge OF them thi,
winter. The tables have been entirely re
fitted and are now the equal of any in
town. Mr.. Snow contemplates putting q
bar in one end of the room for the sale o.
soft drinks.
Edward Haskell, son of Mr.. and Mrs
William Haskell,l who was a member Of
company | at Chickamauga and who after
ward enlisted in the hospital corps of tn,
regular army, writes from Porto Rico tina
he has been assigned TO do carpentry worl
there. He says soldiers are charged i'm
mense prices for goods, and 1t is cheaper L
send home for some of the material need
ed in his work than TO make purchases oil
the island
The following is from the Athol, Mass.
correspondence in the Springfield Sunda,
| Republican: "Charies |. Rice, proprieto
of the large dry goods store in the PequoiJ
hotel block, is seriously i'll with consump
ton at the home of his parents IN Beverly
His father is in Athol most of the time
and has assumed the management of tn,
business. The younger man was married
only a short time ago His wife, who wa
Miss Agnes Coolidge, has been i'll at tn
hotel for some weeks, but she expects sool
to go the home of her aunt In Brattleboro.
Vermonrs prOhibtory law as seen b.
Charles HOyt was presented at the Audito
rum Friday evening in the comedy emit
tied "a Temperance Town" Exaggerate,
conditions are pictured, but Mr.. Hoy
throws a strong light upon the hypocris
and cant which appear IN connection will
certain phases Of the prohibitory law, an,
satirizes the alleged purists who forget Il
be humane. George Richards as "Minl
Jones'" the town drunkard, was the life o
the piece, and Eugene Garfield as "Bingo'
was the second character in Importance
In spite of the fact that the support wa
not especially strong the play was thor
oughly enjoyable, and gave great satisfsc
ton to good-sized audience.
There was hearing before Justice 7
j. b. Cudworth Tuesday in the case o
John Manley against Miss Harriet Bardel
to recover the last two payments elaine,
to be due on bicycle which the plaintiff
sold the defendant last April, but whicl
the defendant returned to the plaintiff
few weeks later claiming that the whee
was not as represented. In July suit wa
brought before Justice Merrifed TO re
cover the first two payments, but the cour
rendered a verdict for the defendant A
Tuesdays hearing the defendant pleade
the judgment in July in abatement, claim
ing that the former suit was to recover tn
entire balance due on the wheel. Tn
plaintiff denied this, and the case was con
tinued to tomorrow in order to have Jus
tice Merrifeld as witness.