Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-01-06
N PHGNIX BRATI EEBORO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6s 1899

Rev. G. o. Day will preach In North
ampton, Mass, next Sunday.
The factory of S. A. Smith q Co. was
closed for the day yesterday while repairs
we're being made on the boiler
The special committee of the Congre-
gationa church have engaged Prof. A. X.
Merriam of Hartford, Conn, TO preach
next Sunday.
The Brattleboro chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, will hold It's an
nual meeting at the Brooks House tomor-
row at 2 o'clock.
The evening session of the Woman's
club will meet next Monday evening with
Miss Minnie Brasor on Canal street. Miss
Eva Gowing will read paper.
Is Mr.. Kiplng coming back to Bratte-
boro? A London despatch of the Bird inst.
says: Rudyard Kipling, with his wife and
family, will start for America on Jan. 20.
N. l. Hawley gives his customers de-
tails of his annual stock-taking and clear
ing-out sale, now in progress, In advertise
ments printed on pages five and seven OF
this paper.
The corporators of the Vermont Saw
ings bank will hold their annual meeting
in their banking rooms next Wednesday
afternoon at l o'clock, at which time the
report of the treasurer will be made and
officers elected for the year.
Rev. j. j. Lewis of Chicago will deliver
his illustrated lecture, "In Old New Eng
land" at the Unversalist church next
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr.. Lewis
will be remembered in connection with his
celebrated lecture on the passion Play"
which he has presented here several times.
The Minneapolis Times says that Capt
II. K. Tutherly of the First United States
cavalry, and for several years instructor in
military science at the University of Yer
mont, and well known TO all military men
of the state, spent the holidays with friends
in Minneapolis. He is now stationed at
Fort Yates, N. D.
The New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone company is sending out reply postal
cards this week TO persons not supplied
with telephone service, enlistng their at
| tention to the new measured service tele-
phone which the company furnishes with
metallic circuit and long distance trans
mitter for $25 year.
Mrs. Joanna Lattimer Pomeroy, s.,
wife of DR.. S. F. Pomeroy of Springfield,
Mass, died yesterday afternoon of pneu-
monia. She was a sister of Mrs. Voor-
hees, who lives with Mrs. L. W. Stoddard,
and an aunt of Mrs. Stoddard. Another
sister was the wife of the late DR.. o. r.
Post of Brattleboro. Mrs. Pomeroy had
been in i'll health for year.
Miss Josie A. Turner, who has spent
several months at the home of her brother,
o. n. Turner, superintendent of the cleo
trio light station, and who has many
friends in Brattleboro, was married Satur-
day night to Elmer A. Fitch of Providence,
r. /. The marriage ceremony was per-
formed at the home of Miss Turner'S
father, L. K. Turner, in Baldwinville,
Mass, by Rev. J. w. Hurd.
Maj F. w. Chlds has received this
week, an interesting souvenir of the battle
of San Juan. 1t was sent him by Charles
Fullerton of Chicago. 1t consists of a
er-knife, the blade of which is of
mahogany. made from a portion of the
fort at San Juan. The handle is made
from part of an exploded shell which
was fred into the fort during the battle
of July 3 and T. The souvenir Is the idea
of company G, First Illinois infantry, and
its sale is for the benefit of the company.
The Newport, n. H., man who attempt
ed to obtain money from a Brattleboro
grocer, as told in The Phoenix two weeks
ago. left Brattleboro this week He also
left several bills unpaid which the holders
are willing TO discount if any one wishes
to buy them. The man is said to have
had one victim in a nearby town whose
confidence in him was so great that she
gave him all her ready money. The man
owes for his board and lodging at the no
tel and he also owes for at least two livery
hires and for money which he borrowed
on the strength of his representation that
he was expecting a check in "a day or
two"
The congressional delegation who &C.
companed the body of Senator Morrill, to
Vermont consisted of Fl. II. Powers, ].
Hamilton Lewis, Mr.. Bankhead and Mr..
Foss, members of Congress, Senators Proc
tor, Faulkner, Chandler, Tillman, Nelson,
Mitchell, Fairbanks, Col. r. j. Bright,
sergeant-at-arms of the United States Sen
ate, Ralph Riddleberger, assistant sergeant
alarms, and F. A. Spean, undertaken.
The members of the family and their
Morrill,, Sidney Morrill,, Jesse Morrill,,
Miss Louise Swan, DR.. w. E. C. Swan,
Mrs. Baxter, w. NJ. Hatch, Rev. E.
Bradford Leavitt, Geo. NJ. Taylor and
and Gen. j. G. Mccullough. The
train bearing these people, accompany
ing the bodies of Senator and Mrs,
Morrill,, was an hour and half late when
it reached Brattleboro, passing through
here about 11.40, drawn by two Iocomo-
tives. The train (the 4 O'clock express
from New York; was nearly an hour
late when it reached Springfield, Mass,
and it lost time all the way up, being
three hours late when it reached Mont.
pelier. The intense cold made rail
reading unusually difficult. Those from
Brattleboro who joined the party here
and attended the funeral at Montpelier
were Judge j. M. Tyler, Speaker Has
kins, DR.. Holton and Gen. Estey. Judge
L. NJ. Reed went from Bellows Falls,
Automobile Story DIscredited.
Col. Pope, who is the head of the Pope
Manufacturing company, manufacturers OF
the Columbia bicycles, was interviewed by
a reporter of the Hartford Courant last
week in regard to the report that Count de
Jotemps, who married Miss Edna Hall OF
Brattleboro, had contracted for 5000 auto.
mobiles to be shipped from this country 70
Europe at the rate of 500 a year for the
next ten years. Col. Pope gives little
credence to the story. He is regarded as
the leading manufacturer of motor car.
riages in this country and the matter was
not mentioned TO him until after il was re.
ported in the newspapers. He has never
heard of the American Motor. General