Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-03

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The Congregational Sunday school voted
last Sunday to give SO to the Vermont
Bible society.
The first meeting of the 80 reading club
was held last evening with Mr. and Mrs.
II. X. Whitaker at the Brooks House.
The pupils of Miss Christa Parks pri-
vate school enjoyed a sleghride yesterday
afternoon. On their return refreshments
were served at Miss Parks home on Chap
in street.
Fred S. Brasor has resigned his position
as bass singer in the Congregational choir.
The trustees of the church have engaged
Mr.. Brasor's younger brother Arthur to
succeed him, beginning next Sunday.
Optician II. F. Jordan attended the ban
quet of the Young Mems club in Bellows
Falls last Friday evening. During the
evening Mr.. Jordan entertained the club
with an exhibition of magic and sleight-of-
hand. He was received enthusiastically.
Extensive improvements are being made
in the store of John Calvin. A jointed
hard wood floor is being laid and the cell
ing will be covered with iointed timber.
The stairs leading to the basement have
been moved from the south to the north
entirely across the east end.
E. o. Weeks, vice president of the Ktna
Insurance company of Hartford, has sent
to the Vermont Wheel club a handso he
engraving of Mt. Etna. 1t is in hand
some oak frame and is reproduction from
the original painting by Thomas Cole, val
ued at $4,000, which is in the Wadsworth
gallery at Hartford.
Prof. NJ A. Howe, a Newfaue boy who
was formerly submaster of the Brattleboro
High school, sent to the fourth annual
meeting of the Vermont Botanical club,
held in Burlington last week, specimens of
the smallest towering plant in America.
They were collected in New York city and
he thought they ought also to be found on
ponds in Vermont. Prof. Howe is now
curator of the herbarium of Columbia uni
versity.
Mrs. o. W. Smith, 50, of Greenfield,
Mass, died Saturday of pneumonia. She
had been i'll about week. The funeral
was held in Greenfield Monday and was
attended by Oscar Smith, Mrs. L. A.
Houghton and daughter, Miss Mable
Houghton, of Brattleboro. Mrs. Smith
was sis er-in-law of Oscar Smith. She
formerly lived in Brattleboro, her husband
being at the time tuner for the Estey
Organ company.
The amateur Photographic exhibit in
the parlors of the Young Mems Christian
association closed at 10 o'clock Saturday
night. While the attendance was not a:
large as it should have been the exhibition
was patronized by some 300 people. The
Woman's Auxiliary propose to make the
exhibit an annual feature, and there is nj
doubt that the display next year will bC
superior to the one this year, an interes
in the work having been stimulated.
Josiah D. Whitney of Brattleboro anC
Mrs. Alice L. Hicks of Bernardston
| Mass, were married at the latter plac,
| Wednesday by Rev. II. d. Strong. They
returned to Brattleboro the same day. Mr.
Whitney was for many years at the head o.
the firm of j. D. Whitney & Son, organ
reed manufacturers. Mrs. Whitney wa
| formerly his housekeeper. Her nader
| name was Alice Yeaw, and she was tn,
widow of the late DR.. Hicks of Greer
River.
August Anderson, an Estey Organ Com
pany employe who accidently burned S4t
of his months pay recently, has hearC
| lTOH lllc WntIt ILL
remains of the bills were sent by the PEG
ple's National bank for redemption. On,
of the bills was destroyed beyond recogni
ton and nothing could be allowed Tor it
| The other had just enough of one corne
left so that it was recognizable as a S2t
| bill, and the amount of this bill was re
turned,
"Rob," one of the fire department
horses, was chlorofoImed yesterday morn
ing by Dr. Rathbone. The animal haC
been i'll Is days with a spinal disease, ant
although every effort was made for his re
covery he showed no marked improvement
and was wholly unable to stand. He wa
given the best of care day and night. HI
was about 10 years old and had been il
the service of the fire department over fou
years. He was the best horse in the de
| partment.
II. Fl. Hackley wrote recently to tn
commander of Bipp County Camp, No. 4S4
Confederate Veterans, at Macon, Ga, ant
in return received fac smile of the badg,
which a Confederate veteran pinned on tn
coat of President Mckinley, and which tn
latter wore at public meeting Dec. 19tl
last. The badge bears picture of McKin
ley, the name of the post, etc., and quo
tation from the speech Mckinley made a
Atlanta, in which he said the time hat
come when Northerners ought to join will
Southerners in the care of the graves O
Confederate dead.
DR.. George +. Barber has moved thi
week from Pratt block into his new denta
rooms in Wyman block over Greene's dTu!
store. The new rooms have been fitted III
very effectively. The old partition ha
been taken out and two new ones hav
been put in, dividing the office into thre
rooms, waiting room, an operating room
and a work room. The rooms have beef
newly papered and painted. The lowe
part of the walls of the operating room
has been wainscotted, with cherry finish
Above this is washable paper. In thi
room is a set washstand of marble. Eacl
room has "a radiator connected by iroI
pipes with coal stove in the work room
The rooms are heated by hot water cours
ing through the pipes and radiators. Thi
is the only heating apparatus of its kind il
Brattleboro.
January Probate Business.
The regular January session of the pre-
bate court was held last Saturday, Judg
Waterman presiding. A license was granite
to j. E. Gale, administrator, to sell b
private and public sale the real estate O
the Belonia p. Reyes estate of Brattleboro
Adm +. Miller, administrator, was granite
license to sell by private sale all of tn
real estate of the George A. Walker estat
of Dummerston. The will of John S. Ric
of Wilmington was presented by o. K
Butterdeld. The will of Alonzo M. Carl
ton of Brattleboro, presented by Eliza A
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