Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-20

| 20 ana 70.
The Vaughan & Sargent Electric com
pany is wiring the new buildings of the S.
A. Smith company for electric lights.
The Congregational Sunday school voted |
Sunday to appropriate 50 to tuy pocket |
Psalms for the soldiers now at Fort Ethan
Allen.
The town treasury has been enriched |
this week by the payments of fines by two |
or three men who drove rapidly across the |
Connecticut river bridge.
The drovers of Windsor and Orange |
counties have made a complaint to the
state railroad commissioners, claiming ex-
tortionate charges by the Central Vermont
Railway company.
The 10th United States Volunteers left
South birmingham Monday en- route for
Manila. About 100 Vermont boys are in
this regiment including A. V. d. Piper,
Clarence Tenney G. W. Merrill and Ernest
Longuil of Bratteboro.
James L. Elmer's appointment as regi.
mental quartermaster sergeant of the 43d
United States volunteers was announced |
Monday. This regiment will leave for the
Philippines about Nov 10.
DR.. George II. Gorham was elected vice
president of the State Medical society at
the sessions held in Burlington Friday and
Saturday. DIR. II. d. Holton was elected
a member of the legislative committee and
also delegate to the American Medical
association.
George +. johnson and Fred Field, clerk
and marshal respectively of the United
States court, came to Brattleboro Monday
for session before Judge Wheeler for the
allowance of the accounts of the federal
officers in Vermont.
The pony cart containing Mabel Walker
and Ruth Brown was overturned in front
of the post-oilice Tuesday afternoon, the
wheels catching in the car track, and both
of the occupants were thrown out The
pony took to the sidewalk Immediately
after the accident, leaving parts of the cart
strewn from the Congregational church to
Walnut street.
The docket has been issued for the Oc-
tober term of the supreme court, which
will convene at Montpelier Oct. "a. The |
number of cases, 80, is the smallest in
many years. There are 10 state cases
Washington county leads the counties with
10 cases, Caledonia county being second
with Is. Only two cases are entered from !
Windham county. !
Leon Hall of Somersworth, n. H.,
brother of Chief-ofPoice Hall, has leased
the north store in Odd Fellows block. I
near the bridge, and will convert it into a
restaurant Mr.. Hall has conducted a res
taurant in Somersworth five or six years, {
but he has recently sold out. He expects !
to open the new restaurant early next
month and to have its appointments first 4
class. }
From the Greenfield correspondence of {
the Springfield Republican: "Dr. A, C. c
Walker has sold to S. T. Davenport a lot c
south of his residence on Federal street
with front of go feet and a depth of ten Z
rods. Mr.. Davenport will proceed to erect :
house for his residence similar to the !
Eels house on the same street. which has r
come into the possession of Mr.. Eels
again." :
Judge Wheeler has rendered his decision a
in the case of the Crystal Spring Bottling a
company of Barnet matter of the PRAYER of {
William Fl. Preston, trustee of the Crystal
Spring Bottling company, bankrupt of \
Barnet, for an order to assess the stock n
holders of the company to liquidate the v
debts. The order is given for n
the trustee to levy an assessment of SIS a a
share, payable before Nov. l, and If the as 4
sessment is not paid to bring an action in a
the United States court to collect it, n
The many friends of Herbert w. Eddy r
will be glad to learn that he is now sole A
manager of the Brooks House in Brattle- N
boro. Mr.. Eddy left this city to accept a
position in the hotel, of which he is now ~
about six years ago About a h
year and half ago he became a Joint IT
manager of the house with Mr.. Carlisle W
of Boston. Mr.. Eddy is well known abont n
the state, especially by those who have en- r
loyed the hospitality of his house, and his nj
Rutland friends with others wish him all r.
possible success. Rutland Newsl "
Henry Wood, 10-yeaT-old son of the late d,
Henry Wood, was arrested under the tru- of
ancy law Monday by Chief-of- Police Hall
and was arragned before Justice Newton h,
n the afternoon. 1t appeared at the hear N
ng that the boys mother was unable TO {,
govern him and that from the time of the IN
opening of school in September until the m
ruant officer took the matter in hand the ~
BOY had attended school but two DAYS. All ~,
who were interested were agreed that the n
10Y should be sent to the industrial school. ad
10 Justice Newton imposed a sentence of A
wo years. The lad has already served a N
entence of year in the industrial school hC
sheriff X. K. Gordon took him to Yer III
,ennes Monday afternoon. w
The flags which Governor and Mrs. f.
;. Smith presented to Col j. GRAY Estey II,
md the First Vermont regiment at Mont so
'eller last week were brought to Brattle- fri
W. anu niO III POsstSslOu OF COl. ESteV. I'll
Both flags are made of silk and are hand or
embroidered. The coloners flag is blue a.
nd has blue silk fringe. Upon it is en- m,
roidered in colors the American eagle IN,
With the inscription "E Pluribus Unum'n oh
nd underneath the eagle are the words Pr
LIST Vermont Regiment" The regimen no
al flag is the stars and stripes, the stars -ie
eing embroidered and one of the stripes ,io
caring the name of the regiment. The ine
ags are very handsome and they will be ''
rized highly by the militia. 40
Adelia M. Bailey, Al, wife of j. E. ia Go
obs, died Friday night at her home on Ma
lliot street after an illness of several He
lonths. The funeral was held from the on,
ouse Monday afternoon at o'clock, Rev. The
. e. Marble officiating. The burial was ho,
the family lot in Prospect Hill ceme- AM
Try. Mrs. Jacobs was born in Coventry. str,
aughter of Jonathan and Martha Bailey inc
Ter first husband was A. M. Alger of Gov ~,
ltry. They had two children, one of Eo,
HON, Martha A. Alger, survives. Mrs. ed
lcobs married Mr.. Jacobs about eight m,
Ears ago and has lived in Brattleboro anC
nee that time. She carried on the ia
lbs bakery with her husband for about
re years previous to her last illness. She r