Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-01-20


Rev. Mr.. Goodwin of New Jersey will
preach in the Congregational church next
Sunday and possibly the Sunday following
The "Old Homestead" which will be
played here Jan. %, has a new snow scene
in the last act with sleighs and sleigh
bells.
DIR. II. H. Dinsmore has sold his house
on Forest street to II. B. Haus. The sale
was made through the agency of F. j.
Bailey.
The Wudham County association of
Congregational ministers will hold meet
ing at the Brooks House at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon of Feb. 6.
The Baptist church will go to Hines
burgh on a sleigh ride next Wednesday
night. The women of the Baptist society
at that place will furnish a supper
The Brattleboro Gaslight company
elected these officers at its annual meeting
Monday evening: President, DR.. II. d..
Holton; clerk and treasurer, G. F. Thomp-
son; directors, DR.. H. d. Holton, o. d.
Esterbrook, j. L. Martin, g. c. Averlll
and G. Fl. Thompson; auditors, Geo. A.
Boyden and E. b. Barrows.
The Estey Organ company is manufact-
uring at the present time an organ which
will exceed in size any organ ever made at
their factories. 1t Is of a special design
and will be supplied with the most modern
improvements such as pneumatic couplers,
etc. 1t is being built for a firm in Ger
many and it will be shipped in sections,
the parts filling several large cases.
AT special session of the probate court
Monday John Kennedy was adiudged in
sane and destitute and was ordered sup
ported at the Brattleboro Retreat. A pc.
tition was granted H. II. Thompson to
sell at private sale the personal property Of
the estate of Honora Cummings, late of
Brattleboro. II. f. c. T0dt was appoint
ed administrator of the estate of Samantha
S. Robbins of Brattleboro.
The Sunday school of the Centre church
held its annual meeting last Sunday. Fol-
| lowing the acceptance of the officers re-
ports these officers were elected: Superin-
tendent, II. II. Thompson; assistant SUI
| perntendeHt, Mrs. +. l.. Smith: treasurer,
G. Ii. Thompson; secretary, K. Il. Bemis :;
| librarians, l.. A. Whitney, Alfred Thomp-
son and Howard G. Rice; book committee,
Miss Mary Cabot, Miss Helen Fletcher
and Miss Helen Emerson. Mrs. c. F.
Thompson resigned as chairman of the
book committee,
The body of Mrs. Andrew Horton, who
died in Springfield, Mass, last week Thurs.
day, was brought to Brattleboro on the
late train Friday night. The funeral was
held at the house on Canal street at ?
O'Clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. f. +. Mar
BILE officiating. The members of Dennis
Rebekah lodge, to which Mrs. Horton be-
longed, attended in a body. Solos were
rendered by Mrs. John Davis. The burial
was in Prospect Hill cemetery. The
bearers were A. j. Currier, w. d. ellison,
Abbott Stone, N. l.. Staples, w. F. God
dard and Oscar Willard.
The library building given to Menasha,
Wis, by Elisha ID. Smith, a native of
Bratteboro, has been completed, dedicated
and opened to the public. 1t contains
over 5000 volumes. Mr.. Smith gave over
O,OOO for the library building, and an
additional endowment of $4,000. He
also gave the city several acres of land for
park. Mr.. Smith is a son of the late
Henry Smith of Brattleboro. He went
west about 1850 and after carrying on a
mercantile business in Menasha started a
wooden ware manufacturing business
there which has been very successful. Mr..
Smith remembered his native town several
years ago by giving the Brattleboro Home
for the Aged and Disabled 5000.
The annual meeting of the Centre Con-
gregational church was held Friday even
ing. The reports showed that benevolent
contributions amounting TO S1575 had
been made during the year. There were
three additions to the church membership.
Six members died during the year and five
members withdrew by letter. The old off.
I'll
w. Kimball; treasurer, II. II. Thompson;
treasurer of benevolent contributions, c. F.
Thompson; church committee, f. C.
Crosby, S. B. Emerson, G. C. Averill, c.
Ii. Thompson, l.. A. Gregg; Sunday
school committee, E. c. Crosby, Mrs. C. b.
Rice, Miss Helen Fletcher, Mrs. II. H.
thompson, Ernest r. Bemis, Walter A.
Gilbert.
There was hearing before j. H. Merri-
field Tuesday in the case of Miss Sophia
Z. White, who recently sold her farm on
West Hill in Putney against w. G. Doc
little of Brattleboro to recover the price of
a heifer sold to Doolittle at Miss Whites
auction. Doolittle claimed to be entitled
to reduced price on account of false war
ranty. Doolittle bought quantity of hay
at the auction and Miss White insisted
that it should be weighed in Putney where
her agent could attend to it. Doolttle
claimed damages because he wished to
take the hay in another direction where 1t
could be weighed as we'll as at Putney.
He finally gave up the hay, leaving the
heifer the only thing in dispute. He also
finally agreed to pay for the heifer If Miss
White would allow him So for his days
loss in attending the auction. This Miss
White refused to do. Judgment for Miss
White to recover the full price of the
heifer. Waterman for plaintiff; Barber
for defendant.
Mrs. Warder's paper before the Alliance
study class Monday evening, announced
under the enigmatical title of San I'm
known Corner of the United States"
proved to be an account of the native pop
ulation of New Mexico and of their won
derful civilization, which had begun to
grow old even when Columbus first saw
the new world. After describing briefly
the physical characteristics of this strange
land of rock-hewn cities, mighty canyons,
petriied forests, richly-stored mines, swift
flowing rivers and fertile parks, the essen
tial part of the paper was taken up in a
carefully-studied, entertaining, and we'll
told description of the manners, customs,
traditions, architecture, occupations, and
religious conceptions of a people whose
history, in respect to the type of civiliza-
ton which 1t reveals, is more interesting.
instructive and remarkable than that of
any people who have ever lived within the
borders of our country. The field of study
thus opened up Is one which might well