Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-13

Tor week Tor their rail- purchases.
The First Regiment band will give
an open air concert in West Brattle-
boro next Tuesday evening.
Alden Bass, who starred in A Poor
Relation last season, has been engaged
by Jules hurry to support Archie Boyd
in Vermont.
F. A. Stone had the index finger of
| the right hand cut off at the first joint
on surface planer at the Estey organ
factories Tuesday.
The Doyle house on Elliot street,
which was sold by auction Saturday
| by r. e. Gordon, administrator, was
bought by Mrs. Mary Devine Landerfn
of Chesterfield.
Several trains have been run in sec
tions during the week to accommodate
the large number of people returning
to the cities from the White Noun
tains and other summer resorts.
d. F. Shea, proprietor of the Elliot
street fish market, has sold $50 baskets
of peaches so far this season and will
have 40 baskets more today, making
600 baskets in all. He will have about
200 baskets next week
At the meeting of the board of man
agement of the Vermont Society of
Colonial Danes held Monday with Mrs.
Wallace C. Clement in Rutland, it was
voted to hold the annual meeting OF
the organization in Brattleboro, Sept.
IS, when the marker on the site of
Fort Drummer will be dedicated,
Mai. and Mrs. F. w. Childs and the
cum, NOR guoctc opd racid aOte on mos
Hill had a neighborhood clam bake at
Hillcrest Friday afternoon, prepared by
Mr.. Leach of Guilford After dinner
the participants of the bake repaired
to the Hillcrest casino. where musical
selections were rendered by Mrs.
Mary Howe-Lavin and others.
A petition has been sent this week
to the Central Vermont management
for a stock yard and chute to be built
at Brattleboro for loading stock on the
cars. 1t is a requisite Of our railroad
facilities which has long been needed.
The petition was signed by all those
who ship stock from Brattleboro, and
by large number of business men.
The Congregational Sunday school
will observe Sunday. Sept. 20, as rally
day A school motto will be adopted
at that time and the session will be
given up to a special program which
will be well worth the attention of all
interested in the school. The school
has recently become an auxiliary of
the Vermont Branch of the Woman's
Board. The library committee will
begin at once the selection of a long
list of new books for the library.
Members of the Brattleboro Chap.
ter, Daughters of the American Revo-
luton. are cordially invited to attend
the reception given by the Vermont
Society of Colonial Danes at the
Brooks House on Tuesday evening
Sept. II, from to 10 o'clock; also
the meeting of the society in the
chapel of the Congregational church
Wednesday, Sept. is, at $50 a. m.
and to the dedication exercises at Fort
Drummer at 2 p. m.
Alice G. Weeks, Vice Regent.
Work has begun for the erection in
the railroad yard near the Swift beef
establishment of brick pumping sta
ton to take the place of the one now
in use north of the railroad bridge
The water tanks will be built on the
high rocks west of the railroad station
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with new boiler. engine, and other
equipments. The change will necessi
tate only one stop of the passenger
trains, the water being taken while the
locomotive is directly in front of the
railroad station.
James Sullivan, an employee at the
granite quarry in West Dummerston
was arrested by Chief of Police Hal
Monday night after creating a dis
turbance on Main street while intoxi
Gated. He was kept in the lookup
until Tuesday morning, when he was
arraigned before Justice Newton
|, charged with intoXication and disturb
ing the peace. He pleaded guilty &C
both charges and was fined on each
count s. and cost, amounting to ovel
$22. He was unable to pay so Justice
Newton imposed alternative sentences
of 20 days in Newfane jail for intoxi
cation and about 60 days in the house
of correction for disturbing the peace
{ Chief Hall took Sullivan to Newfant
Tuesday night. Sullivan disclosed
that he obtained his liquor at the
, brewery.
: The news of the attempted assas
sination of President Mckinley al
Buffalo Friday afternoon first reached
Z Brattleboro by telephone over the
wires of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph company about hall
an hour after the shooting took place
5 For short time, soon after 6 o'clock
a report was widely circulated that the
President was dead, but the bulletins
, soon gave assurance of hope of the
Presidents recovery. Through the
courtesy of Manager Henkel of the
local telephone exchange, the news o.
the tragedy was given to The Pheni1
to be bulletined, and the news of the
presidents condition received at fire
, quent intervals during the evening il
, response to inquiries through the cen
, trail telephone office in Springfield
was also given to The Phoenix and was
bulletined for the benefit of the public
This information was supplemented by
private advices direct to The Phenil
by telegraph from Buffalo, and the
next mornings newspapers proved
) that every despatch was correct.
Joe Yape, Chinaman, was on tria
in the federal court in Middleboro
Mass, Friday on the charge of being
! a fugitive from justice. 1t was alleged
that he committed perjury in Brattle
boro by swearing that a 12-year-olt
boy named Joe Win Shung was his
son, the latter having been on tria