Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-01

to Geo. W. Knowltou.
A Washington despatch announces the
granting Of $40 additional pension to DAY.
id n. Tolles of Bratteboro.
Beauseant Commandery Of knights
Templar, will hold a special meeting to-
night to work the Temple degree.
The regular meeting of the Knights and
Ladies OF Honor will be held at Red Mems
hall next Monday evening, June 4.
f. j. Holman, president Of the Yer
mont Loan and Trust company, will be at
the Brattleboro offices of the company to-
morrow.
II. r. Brown has recently added a mum
Der Of new rigs to his livery, including a
pneumatic-tired surrey and several single
seaters of the same kind.
Tickets for the concert by the First
Regiment band. which is to be given in
the Auditorium next Tuesday evening,
will go on sale at : o'clock tomorrow
morning at the box office in the town hall
building.
Representatives of the Dalrymple Iron
works of Fair Haven have been in town
this week raising the new 60-foOt smoke
stack over the boiler house of the Centre
vile factory. The stack is three feet in
diameter. 1t was raised entire by the use
of tackle blocks and guy ropes.
The Northampton and Amherst railroad
company has been viCtimized to the amount
of SO to s. a day, estimated, recently by
people who have stolen rides by mixing up
with the legitimate passengers as they were
being transferred across the Hadley bridge.
The company now issues checks to obviate
the difficulty.
A force of men have been at work this
week rebuilding the wall in the rear of the
Vinton paper mill, which was taken out
several weeks ago when the dam gave way
under high water. When the wall is fin
ished the dam will be repaired. The dam
is not used for power, but for the protec-
ton of the wall against the action of the
current.
Director Crosby discharged two or three
of the Italians employed on the Hatfield,
Mass, extension of the Northampton and
Amherst electric railroad Friday and en-
countered a small strike as the result, some
20 of the other Italians leaving with the
men who were discharged. Another gang
of % men was sent for and the work was
but little delayed.
Take your own census before the emu
merator comes around. Set down the num-
Der of acres in each crop, quantity grown
and its value. Put down also the number
of live stock, value of products from dairy,
poultry, etc. Let it be in black and white
when the census man appears, and then
you will not have to guess and the census
of 1900 will be reliable.
The Boston Globe said in a recent issue:
cat the Rugges street Baptist church
yesterday afternoon, Master Gerald Lam
bert, the sweet little boy soprano, who
sang there at the concert on November l.,
again sang with as much sweetness as
ever, The Holy City 'One Sweetly
Solemn Thought, and Il Think When /
Read That Sweet Story of DID, " Master
Lambert will appear at the First Regiment
bands concert next Tuesday evening.
An automobile, propelled by gasoline,
came to grief near "Murder Hollow" Sun
day morning 1t was in the hands of H.
K. Burr and c. f. Davis of Northampton.
Mass, who were making the trip from
Northampton to Bellows Falls While the
auto was going at a rapid rate it struck
an inequality in the road and was over
turned and temporarily disabled. one axle,
the steering lever and other parts being
bent The machine was returned TO Brat
tleboro and repaired, and the men retained
to Northampton without visiting Bellows
Falls.
ef-of-Police Hall received a letter
Tuesday from a Springfield, Mass, man in
regard to the pickpockets who were ar
rested in Brattleboro Friday. The man
had been 20 Hartford, Ct, and when he
arrived back in Springfield. his pocket
hnOk in vubf ~, no had e.IEl
having been taken, he supposes. from his
inside vest pocket. On Wednesday Chief
Of Police Hall received a letter from police
officials in New Haven, Ct, who stated
that the three men arrested here We're
probably the ones wanted for pocket
picking in that city.
Chester w. Thomas has resigned his po-
sition in charge of the lower market for
the Richardson company and will finish
work there tomorrow night. Mr. Thomas
retires on account of his health and his
advancing years. He has been in the en-
ploy of the Richardson's for 81 years, and
for the past IL years has been in charge of
the lower market. Many customers of
the concern, who have long maintained re-
lations of personal friendship with Mr..
Thomas, will regret his retirement. For
a long term of years, before entering the
employ of w. F. Richardson, he was in
the same line of work for Hannibal Had
ley.
In commenting upon the proposition to
build new freight station in Brattleboro
the BrattleborO correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe says: "A new station has been
needed for long time, and it will be vel
coined by every one having business there.
The railroad business is now handled at
long range and in a more arbitrary way
than was the custom under the Vermont
Central. BrattlebOro shippers say that the
railroad freights are fair, and no higher
than they are at places like Greenfield,
where there is competition. There is some
complaint from those who ship only a
short distance, either o1t of or into Brat
tleboro. For instance, Charles H. Ashley,
a Deerdeld drOVer, says that the rate on
cattle from Deertield 90 Brattleboro is ex-
cessive. He has to pay much more to send
cattle from Deerfield to Brattleboro, dis
lance of 25 miles, than he would to send
them from Greenfield to Boston, more than
100 miles. Mr.. Ashley says that Brattle-
borO people demand better meat than dc
their Greenfield neighbors, and are willing
to pay more for it,"
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