Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-09

Seven persons were baptized at the Bap-
list church last Friday evening.
George e. Adams will sing at the open
! ing of the Congregational Sunday school
next Sunday.
Mrs F. w. Keuch entertained her Sun
! day school class Wednesday afternoon at
her home on Chase street.
Eliz .beth NJ. Cary of Brattleboro was
married to Alanson K. Weatherhead of
! Vernon in Greenfield last week Thursday.
The probate court has appointed Silas d.
Holbrook administrator and r. E. Gordon
and II. Il. Taylor appraisers and commits
sioners of the Jared Hobrook estate of
! Brattleboro.
The w. f. Richardson company is put
! ting in an electric motor and sausage ma
chine in the basement of Richardson build
ing The grinding has been done hereto
fore in Harmony building.
Pocumtuck lodge of Red Men will con-
fer the past sachem's degree upon so to GO
candidates at Greenfield, March 20. Tribes
in Brattleboro, Hinsdale, Northampton
aud North Adams will be invited.
Rev. Edward Ellery, Phi. D., principal
of Vermont Academy, will give the next
paper before the Professional club next
Tuesday evening in the Brooks House on
"The Trust as a Party Issue" Judge II.
! II. Wheeler will lead in the discussion.
William Abrahams 30, died Saturday at
! the Brattleboro Retreat. He had been in
! the institution about two years. He was
! formerly an expert painter, in the employ
! of :. A. Smith & Co., and came here from
Philadelphia. He leaves wife and son.
The Y. NJ. G. A. basket ball team will
! play in Hoosick Falls, n. Y, tonight
! against the association team OF that place,
and tomorrow evening the Brattleboro boys
will line up against the Consolidated team
| formerly Drury Academy Of North
| Adams.
Rev George w. Morrow of Burlington,
! Vermont superintendent Of the Anti Saloon
league, will preach in the Baptist church
next Sunday morning. In the evening, at
| : O'clock there will be union meeting in
| the Congregational church, addressed by
Rev. Mr. Morrow.
/ The Mary Howe LAWN Operate Concert
company, including Mrs. Mary Howe
| LAWN, William Lawn, Lucien Howe, Miss
| Edith MacGregor and Clemente Bologna,
will give concert in North Adams, Mass,
March %, closing the program with the
third act of Faust"
Miss Ada Spauldng died Friday from
pneumonia at the home of her sister, in
| AthoL Miss Spaulding was native of
| Chesterfield, and the body was brought
there for burial on Sunday. Her home a
/ large part of the last Is or 20 years had
been in Bratteboro, with several different
/ families
| The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday
/ contained an excellent likeness Of Rev. y.
a.. &
/ the Brattleboro Y. NJ. c. A. who on last
| Sunday preached his last sermon in Mer-
| chantville, n. j., before going to his new
charge, one of the large churches Of the
| Baptist denomination in Maine.
current news item reads: THE prac-
tice of sending a clerk from the Brattle.
boro post-office to South Vernon and
! Greenfield to assert the incoming mail, in
order to facilitate delivery here by the car
riels, has been discontinued, by order of
the post-office department The practice
was discontinued in October, 1899.
The management of the new Morning
side cemetery has engaged Emerson Esta-
brook of Bennington, a former marble
dealer, as superintendent. Mr.. Estabrook
has had charge of the building of the re-
ceivng tomb, which will be completed
this month, and he has already taken
charge of the grounds. He will move to
Brattleboro soon.
These officers were elected at the semi
annual meeting of the Congregational
| observation-disclosures society Sunday evening:
| President, Robert Gregg; vice president,
Mrs. William Bradley; secretary, Miss
| Pearl Gibson; treasurer, Miss Lillian Park;
corresponding and missionary secretary,
! Miss Minerva Tyler. The reports for the
/ preceding sA months were read.
George +. Sherman of Cambridge. Mass,
/ travelling salesman for Langley, Burr Il Co.
OF Boston, died very suddenly at the Am
herst House, Amherst, Mass, Friday after
noon. He arrived in town on the 2:3l train
and had made his customary rounds and
stopped for few minutes at the Amherst
! House, where he was suddenly taken i'll
and died about p. NJ Mr.. Sherman was
one of the best known and most highly es-
teemed travelling statesmen coming to Brat
tleboro. He had sold to several firms here
for years and was regular visitor in town
once in two weeks. When here for the
last time he said he was feeling poorly.
The cause of death was probably an attack
OF acute indigestion. Mr.. Sherman leaves
family in Cambridge
Walter Thomas, who lives near III. p.
Matthews's farm on the New Hampshire
side OF the river, was seriously injured
| Saturday night. Mrs. Thomas was COM
ing home on the evening train, and Mr..
Thomas drove down to meet her, leaving
his horse on the island so that it might not
get frightened. AS Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
started for home the sleigh slowed on the
ice, throwing the occupants out. Mr..
Thomas's head struck with great force
against tree, and he was rendered uncon-
scous, besides receiving bad flesh wound.
Mr.. Gould, who lives on the island heard
the injured mans groans and had him
taken into the house, where he remained
until he was able to go home. He was I'M
conscious several hours.
The supreme court has reversed the de-
cision of the county court in the suit of
Mcintyre & Wardwell against l. II. Will
Hanson of Brattleboro and has remanded
the cause for rehearing. The case was
tried last June before a jury who, by direc-
ton OF the court, returned a verdict for the
defendant. The case then went to the su
preme court on the plaintiffs exceptions.
The action is that of assumpsit to recover
a claimed balance of between $50 900 and
100000 due the plaintiffs from the defend
ant, growing out of the purchase and sale
OF stocks in 1894. Verdict was redirected
for the defendant on the ground that the
suit was brought against the defendant in
an individual capacity while the evidence
| disclosed the fact that the Dlaintiffa daalt