Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-15


A Boston bookseller asks the question:
"Has Brattleboro gone crazy on the sub
ject of birds?"
Gilbert Murray Of Brattleboro was fined
50 for drunkenness in the police caurt at
Greenfield Tuesday.
The acreage of tobacco In the Connec-
ticut river valley will be 10 to 20 per cent
greater this year than in 1892
Native grown strawberries will be on
the market in few days and there is a
prospect Of more than an average crop.
H. b. Chamberlain has been appointed
special census enumerator to take the
manufacturing statistics for Brattleboro.
A tally-ho party of Ii drove to North
field Wednesday to attend the graduation
exercises of the Mortified seminary. They
went as guests of Gen. j. j. Estey.
The case of John L. Ray against Miller
e Kinson, which was suit to recover 1924
for rent, has been appealed to the county
court, the defendants giving judgment.
The marriage of Charles Herman Clark
and Miss Georgia Martin Fox was cele-
brated Tuesday, at the home Of the brides
mother Mrs. Cora Fox, at LAT Keap street,
Brooklyn The bride has many personal
friends among the young people of Bratte-
boro.
Mrs. Harriet II Cone, widow of Ezra
Davis, whose death occurred in West Ches-
terfeld June after long Illness with
cancer of the stomach, was the mother of
Charles Davis and Mrs A. J. Pierce of
Bratteboro. She also leaves three other
children, Will and Myron of West Chester
field, and Henry Of Keene.
Sexton f. j. Kuowlton of the Prospect
Hill cemetery has bought National burial
device for lowering caskets. The device
is placed over the grave and the Casket
placed upon it; then by a slight pressure
of the foot against a lever the concealed
mechanism of the device is set In operation
and the casket safely and quietly sinks
into the grave The device is one Of the
most modern inventions in this line.
The horse attached 10 Stacey's milk
wagon became frightened az a bicyclist
while standing on Forest treet Tuesday
afternoon and ran down Forest TO High
street. Here it was unable TO turn the
corner, and landed in a heap in Rev. K. +.
loves door.yard. Two wheels were
taken off and the wagon otherwise broken,
the harness broken, the horse somewhat
bruised and quantity of milk spilled.
O. y. Turner, for the past three and a
half years superintendent of the electric
light station, finished work there yesterday.
| He is succeeded by Henry Brown, who
| formerly worked for the company, but
! who has recently been engineer at the Cen
treville plant of the street railroad COM
/ pany. Human Gee succeeds Mr.. Brown
as head engineer at Centreville. Mr..
| Turner has no definite plans for the future.
The five divers, the featured stars of
the big vaudeville show at the new Rustic
| theatre, Brookside park, next week, do a
musical act of high merit. They play,
besides many novel and self-construct-
ed instruments, the polian chimes and
| Swiss bells. Philip Hale, the foremost mu-
| steal critic in Boston, paid them the follow
| ing compliment in the Boston Journal:
THE divers are musical and their act is
the best | have ever seen in the musical
| line at Keith's.'
Children's day will be observed by Pro-
! tective Grange with a basket picnic at the
picnic ground near Brookside park on
! Saturday, June % A special car will
start from Prospect Hill at 10 o'clock.
| This car will 90 to West Brattleboro and
return to the park. The return trip will
be made about 1 o'clock. These grounds
have been prepared at much expense and
it is hoped that the members of the Grange
as well as the children will take this oppor-
tunity to enjoy an outing.
Ned Marsh, a former bell boy at the
American House and the Brooks House,
probably is not the soldier whose death
was reported last week in Gen. Mac
Arthur's dispatches from Manila. Ned
| Marsh is a corporal in company ID of the
2Gth Volunteers, the Vermont company
commanded by Capt. Brownel of Burling-
ton. Company D has been stationed on
the island of Pdnay. Edwin Marsh, who
is reported to have died of variola. is
stated in the dispatches to have been a
member of the 10th Volunteers, the regi-
ment in which Piper, Longuei, Tenney
and Merrill are serving.
The improvements are practically COM
pleted at Brookside park. J. f. Mann of
Hinsdale has been at work all the week
painting scenery. The stage will be well
equipped. One hundred new cherry chairs
have been bought for use in the theatre.
Electric lights have been placed outside
and inside the theatre this week Rustic
seats are being placed in the grove and
other improvements made. People are
already beginning TO patronize the park
daily. An officer will be at the park at all
times when there is a public entertain.
ment. The managers will allow nothing
to be presented on the stage which is not
of refined and attractive character.
Announcement was made yesterday OF
the appointment of j. A. Allen as station
agent at Brattleboro, to succeed j. \. Ca
bana, who resigned several weeks ago. MI
Allen took charge of the station today
He is already well known in Brattleboro,
and his appointment gives pleasure to all
whose business brings them in contact
with the railroad interests. He held the
position of station agent at New London
seven or eight years, and was then for sew
eral years trainmaster of the New London
division. During this time he often Wis
tied Brattleboro and made many warm
friends here. Last fall he resigned his po
sition with the New London road, and ha.
since been yard-m master for the New York
New Haven & Hartford road at Worces-
ter. Mr. Allen has a wife and three
daughters. His household goods are al
ready for shipment here, and his family
will come here as soon as suitable arrange
ments can be made. They will receive q
cordial welcome.
A Homemade Automobile.
A. E. Parks automobile is nearly com
| Melted and the first trial will no mad,