Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-02-17
BRATTLEBORO.
Tickets for Fields Ministries are now on

Tickets for Fields mnstrels are now or
sale at the News store.
At meeting of the Daughters of Yer
mont held in Boston yesterday Mrs. Har
riett Brasor-Pratt and Mrs. Mary Howe
LAWN were elected honorary members.
Capt. W. T. Haigh has been ordered tc
prepare supplementary payroll covering
the period from the time the company /
boys enlisted up to the time they were
mustered in at Fort Ethan Allen.
About 20 members of the Baptist society,
mostly SO. C's," gave Mrs. B. n. Cham.
berlain surprise visit at her Green street
home Thursday evening. The visitors
brought their suppers. After supper So
cial diversions and games were enjoyed.
E. A. Starkey d Co. have this week
closed out their branch store in Whining.
ton, which they have maintained for the
past IL months, on account of their inabl-
ity to secure an advantageous location
Fred Greasy, who has been the mana ger OF
the store, has finished work for Starkey &
Co.
The damage to o. A. Alvord's Elm
street residence by the burning of S, A.
Smith q Co.'s factory has been adjusted
through A. w. Childs d Co.'s agency at
STA. Ii. E, Taylor & Sons agency has
paid Henry r. Brown $266O, the amount
of his loss on carriages in the Hildreth
paint shop.
Judge E. l.. Waterman, whom Judge
Wheeler appointed master, Jan. n, TO sell
the Central Vermont railroad, has ad-
yertised the road for sale at st. Adams at
40 o'clock a. NJ, March 81. The master
will receive no bid unless the bidder de-
posits with him $3.50, 900 in cash, or $780,
600 in bonds at par, secured by said mort
gage dated June s, 1888, OF 81 ,000 900 in
bonds at par, secured by said mortgage
dated Oct. 26, 1892, as a pledge that
such bidder shall make good his bid and
complete his purchase, if upon being re-
ported to the court the same is accepted
and confirmed"
1t is expected that the present town off
GERS will be candidates for reelection at the
annual March meeting, and, so far as is
known, there are no candidates against
them. Aside from the routine business
articles will be inserted in regard to ex-
empting from taxation the S. A. Smith
company, the property of the Snowflake
Canning company in Brattleboro, the fac.
tory of the Snowflake Canning company
helu III IiuoI ny II. II. AudtnS, y. w. Dun
ham and G.. o. Robbins. There will also
be an article to see if the town will instruct
the selectmen to contract with the Brattle-
boro Gaslight company for five years out
side the village The only lighting done
by the Brattleboro Gaslight company for
the town outside the village limits is on
Western Avenue. The old contract for
this lighting has expired and the selectmen
refuse to renew it without a vote of the
town.
The docket for the March term of the
county court is in the hands of the printer.
In accordance with an act passed at the
last session of the legislature the court will
convene at 2 o'clock p. NJ, on the first
Wednesday after the first Tuesday in
March instead of at 8 o'clock A. NJ. on the
second Tuesday. Judge j. M. TYLER of
Brattleboro will preside There are 142
common law cases, Fl divorce cases and
IL criminal cases. There are 10 cases In
the chancery docket. About 60 cases are
set for trial by jury. The case of Helen
b. Clark against the Employers Liability
company Is the first case set for trial, hay-
ing been given that position by agreement
at the last September term. The other
more important cases set for trial by Jury
are; Boyden, administrator, against the
Fitchburg Railroad company; Cutler, adj.
ministratrix, against the Fitchburg Rail.
road company; Mcintyre & Wardwell
against |. II. Williamson, involving oboul
$4,000.