Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-04-27

The committees will be appointed for
general church work at the Baptist church
this evening.
Major F. L. Howe of Mortified has re-
ceived orders to inspect Company l in
Brattleboro June 8.
The Brattleboro Bird club will hold its
next regular meeting with Mrs. Geo. e.
Crowell, April 80, evening.
Hermann Rohde has bought the Anna
Schildmiller house on the south side of
Frost street. He will take possession
May /.
The street railroad company began run
ming open cars the last of last week. The
cars have been newly painted and put in
first class condition.
The village meeting will be called to or
der next Tuesday at Q A. NJ. There is only
one ticket in the field, and the present in
dications point to no opposition to the old
board.
Charles T. Wheeler will sell at auction
May 8, at 10 A. NJ, his house at "a Western
avenue, and also personal property, includ-
ing wagons, farming implements, tools,
ETC., and small lot of household furni-
| ture.
Lieut.. w. N. Batchelder of Chester, a
| nephew of NJ. d. Batchelder of Brattle-
boro, was the third man across the bridge
in the famous charge made recently by a
part of the 46th United States Volunteers
at Taal in the Philippines.
The smelt fishing season is over at Spot
ford lake, after lasting one week. The
small brooks and the inlets of the lake
were visited every evening" and hundreds
( of pounds of fish were caught in the ag-
gregate, although the smelt were not as
numerous as in the last two former sea-
sons.
Two decisions in the cases of the deport
ed Cinnamon, heard last week before
Judge Wheeler at Brattleboro, were receiv-
| ed at the clerks Office in Burlington Sat
urday. The respondents were discharged.
The order of deportation in these cases
was issued by Commander Young at
Newport.
Mrs. j. d. Beeman, wife of the Metho-
dist pastor at South Royalton, formerly of
Brattleboro, died Saturday evening from
heart failure. She had been suffering with
pneumonia, but was considered out of dan
ger, and had taken her meals at the table
on the day of her death. She leaves, be-
sides her husband, one son, Mason.
President futile of the Boston a Maine
railroad, in his argument before the rail-
road legislative committee at Boston Mon
day in favor of the lease of the Fitchburg
to the Boston Il Maine, said that the Con-
necticut River railroad, although capital
lied at only about SO, 000,0 could not be
rebuilt for $12, 1000, 600 and that the road
had been more than self supporting.
The auction sale of so head of cattle,
farming tools, etc, belonging TO the estate
of +. K. Stockwell, was largely attended
at the farm on the Ames Hill road Tues
day. Large purchases of cattle were made
by j. w. Davis of Charlton Depot, Mass,
and Samuel Rockwell of Stafford Springs,
Conn. The old town farm was sold at
auction to Fred Marsh of West Brattle-
boro.
The two street watering carts and the
seven stand pipes owned by the K. L.
Stockwell estate were sold Monday by C.
G. Staples, administrator, to John p.
Nichols. Mr.. Nichols was at once en-
gagged by c. l. Knapp to sprinkle the main
streets of the village for $25 a week, Mr..
Knapp having raised by subscription
about $3.50 for that purpose. Mr.. Nichols
had the stand pipes repaired Tuesday, and
on Wednesday he began running the carts.
He will keep both carts going as needed
cover about the usual territory.
"Pocket Island" is the title of a plain
unassuming tale of New England country
life by Charles Clark Mum. Mr.. Mum,
who lives in Springfield, Mass, is known
in Brattleboro on account of his frequent
visits here as a travelling salesman, and
his book should prove especially interest
ing to those who know the author. Though
written in a straightforward and unpre-
tentious manner Pocket Island" contains
much which is worthy of thought. Mr.
Mum has a happy faculty of expressing
poetry in prose. Around the charming
love story which he has used as a founda-
ton he has woven pictures of boy life on
the farm, glmpses of the rocky shores of
Maine, and touch of -visaged war.
So real are Mr.. Munn's descriptions of the
pleasures and pastimes of the typical
country boy that it is not hard to believe
that Mr.. Mum himself was once a boy.
Pocket Island" is on sale at Clapp &
Jones's book store.