Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

Brattleboro men who cut ice on Spofford
lake recently took out cakes 30 inches in
thickness.
A number of young people went from
this village to "sugar eat" at John Dix's
in West Bratteboro Tuesday night.
The Springfield Sunday Republican pub
lished "Dr. Hollands Earliest Poem" 1t
was about the bear hunt at Wardsboro in
| 1910. The verses were reproduce in The
| Phoenix at the time of the last big bear
hunt in Wardsboro several years ago.
There will be an important auction at
the Randall & Clapp farm, known as the
depot farm, in Dummcrston, Friday,
March 81, at 10 4. NJ, when so cows and
heifers, one pair of oxen, six horses, and
several wagons, buggies, harness, ETC.,
will be sold.
Robert Shelley was given a surprise
party last Friday evening at his High
street home by a number of his friends.
The evening was enioyably spent in play
| ing hearts. Mr.. Shelley finished work
last week as clerk for f. E. Perry, and is
now employed as travelling salesman for
Blodgett & Dewitt.
The listers will proceed to take up the
| inventories of the tax payers for 1890 at
| Western Engine hall in West Brattleboro
Saturday, Apr. l. They will be in the
| seleetmen's room Monday, Apr. 3. At
both places the tax payers are requested
to deliver their inventories complete, ac-
cordng to law. Blanks may be secured at
the town clerks office or of the listers.
The recent Odd Fellows ball in Athol,
Mass, was a notable affair, 1876 couples
participating, and 800 being taken from
the spectators in the gallery. The Athol
! Transcript says "the concert by the First
Regiment band orchestra of Brattleboro
was one of the most satisfactory musical
treats that has been given in the Academy
for a long time and was far superior to
the Germania bands BOSTON, work few
weeks ago.
The White River junction correspond
ent of Ion's Herald says: "Leading men
of this place. regardless of creed, heartily
unite with church officials in unanimously
desiring the continuance of Rev. A. j.
Hough's pastorate. He has recently been
! invited to deliver the Memorial Grafton be-
fore the junction G.. A. X. post, also the
Memorial sermon the coming May. There
is steady demand for his Mantle and
Spirit, recent order coming from AT
RIGA"
j. W. Clayton, a former Brattleboro
boy who has been prominent citizen of
Athol, Mass, a number of years, will
complete his four years term as postmas-
ter at that place April /. Soon after that
date Mr.. Clayton and his family will 90 to
Stockdale Texas, where he will engage in
business with his brOther-in-law. The
clerks, letter-carriers and a few friends
gave Mr.. Clayton a reception at the home
of Mrs. Henry Cook in Athol one evening
last week. There were songs, reading
and short speeches, followed by banquet
William d. Whitman goes this week to
Randolph where he will have charge of the
grading and canning department in the
Vermont Sugar Makers market. This
concern has been recently organized by the
sugar makers Of Vermont for the purpose
of receiving sugar and syrup from the max
ers and putting it into marketable FORM
Mr.. Whitman has had much experience in
the sugar business, having been in charge
of the cooking and grading of sugar for the
Vermont maple sugar exchange of this
town for number of years.
The opera Pinafore, which is now in
course of preparation, will be presented at
the Auditorium, April ! and s, under the
auspices of the ladies' circle of the Uni
versalist church. There will be two even
ing performances and a matinee on Satur-
day afternoon. The chorus will be made
up entirely of local singers, and the cast
with one or two exceptions, will be home
talent. The opera will be under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Nation of Springfield, Mass,
who probably will come to Brattleboro next
week to take charge of the rehearsals.
Hoyt's "a Milk White Flag is far
more elaborate production in several re-
spects than anything he has attempted and
is thought by many to be the cleverest
thing he has written and it has been one of
the most successful. No one can deny
that "a Milk White Flag" is an ingenious
and meritorious satire and the most of the
situations are certainly very laughabe, even
if they are grotesque in the extreme. Pom
pous soldiers, flirtatous girls, picturesque
drills and effective cOstuming figure large
ly in this production. This play comes to
the Auditorium tomorrow evening, Satur-
day, March %.
Complaint was made to Chief-of- Police
Hall Saturday night that II. NJ. Wilder
was intoxicated and was creating a dis
turbance in his tenement in c. b. Perkins's
house on Elm street. Chief-of-Poice Hall
called on Wilder and invited him to come
over to the lookup. Wilder wanted to
fight, but that disposition left him when
he felt the "twisters" tighten about his
wrists. He stayed in the lookup until
Monday morning, when he was arraigned
before Judge w. S. Newton to plead to the
charge of intoxcation. He pleaded guilty
and was fined S. and costs, amounting to
S12.76, with an alternative sentence of 20
days in Newfane. The fine was paid dur
ing the day.
r. G.. Hardie, the quasi Boston portrait
artist is in Washington for the purpose of
painting portrait of George Washington
in Masonic regalia. His commission comes
from Henry S. Welcome, the American
merchant in London, who recently pre-
scented the portrait of Pocahontas to the
United States Senate. and will present Mr..
Hardie's portrait of Washington to the
Grand Lodge of Masons of Great Britain.
Washington was member of the Masonic
lodge of Alexandria, Va, and upon the
walls of the lodge room hangs portrait of
the father of his country in the regalia of
a past master, which was painted from life
in 1894 by an amateur named Williams,
who was member of the same lodge. 1t
is very poor likeness, and of no value as
a work of art Boston Record.
StrRttOn Lumber COmpRny's Schedule.
The schedule of assets and liabilities of
the Stratton Lumber company, which was
| adiudiaatad hanLrunt March xgas al