Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-01-27
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

About 100 couples attended the dance in
Odd Fellows hall last evening.
The directors of the Grange store have
elected T. j. B. Cudworth president and
G. s. Hopkins clerk.
At meeting of the First Universalist
parish last evening it was voted to accept
the resignation of Rev. II. d. Maxwell, to
take effect March 1.
The Atlantic Monthly for February Is
a number of unusual breadth of subject
and all-round interest. BY no means the
least attractive feature for Brattleboro
readers is the delightful article by Rev. S.
NJ. Crothers on 1.-THE Enjoyment of
Poetry"
Miss Edith Emerson, for a number of
months nurse at the Boston City hospital,
is critically i'll at that institution with ty-
phod fever. Her mother, Mrs. S. b. EN-
erson, went to Boston Wednesday to be
with her, and her sister, Miss Helen Emer-
son, followed yesterday afternoon. A
message was received last evening stating
that the patients condition was no better,
and S. b. Emerson and DR.. A. l. Miller
started for Boston this morning.
Marvin Hall, So, died at his home on
Elliot street this morning from the effects
of an attack of grip with which he had
been i'll for some time. The funeral will
be held Sunday afternoon from the house,
Rev. j. D. Beeman officiating, and the
burial will be in Gullford. Mr.. Hall had
spent nearly all of his life in this town,
being employed for long time as plumber
for Willis & Burnham. For the past sew
eral years he had no regular employment.
He married Mrs. Francis Spring, who was
formerly Miss Alvira Burnham of Putney.
She survives him with three children,
Charles of Townshend, Oscar of Bellows
Falls, and Mrs. Nelson w. Cooley of Brat
tleboro.
A pair of horses attached to one of II.
r. Browns hacks became frightened Sun
day afternoon, owing to a mistake in the
Harvesting, and but for the cool-headed-
ness of the driver, Patrick Mcguire, the
results might have been serious. The
team was going up Main street when the
horses took fright and by the time II
reached the Common, Mcguire had lost
control of the animals. He chung TO the
reins, however, and managed to keep his
seat on the box. When the team was
half way down West river hill Mcguire
refined the horses into the barbed wire
fence and although the hack was over.
turned, the animals came to a standstll
Immediately. One of the pair was some.
what cut by the barbed wire, but the hack
was hardly scratched. Mcguire escaped
unhurt except for the shaking up which
he received by falling from his seat When
the hack overturned.
Riley Deming, SO, proprietor of the Rs
leigh Inn at Memphis, Tenn, died last
Thursday from pneumonia following grip
He was born in Bellows Falls, and hl:
father ran tannery at Chester years ago
During the civil war Mr.. Deming was
clerk in the store of Chamberlain d Frank.
in Brattleboro. He married Mary Kelsey
who lived in the family Of her cousin, the
late B. n. Chamberlain. After golnl
from Brattleboro Mr.. Deming was proprie
tor of hat and furnishing goods store II
| Northampton, Mass. He then engaged II
the hotel business, becoming one of tn,
most successful landlords in the country
He was in charge of hotels in Peoria anC
Decatur, ILL.,, and at one time controlled
the Eagle hotel in Keene, n. II. He wa
also landlord of the Deming hotel in Chica
go, and for the past three years had beer
in Memphis, where he made the Raleigl
Inn one of the favorite resorts of the South
He leaves wife and one son.