Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-07-26
There will be another dance at
Brookside park tonight.

Brookside park tonight.
A bulletin of the treasury depart
ment shows that the North Park ma
tional bank of New York city has been
approved as a reserve agent of the
Peoples national bank of Brattleboro.
Mrs Thomas of North Hinsdale the
well known market gardener began de-
livering sweet corn in Brattleboro Sat
urday. Although the spring was cold
and somewhat backward Mrs. Thomas
says her corn was ready for delivery
as early as ever.
The Windham County Veterans as
sociation will hold it's annual reunion
Friday, Aug. 16, on the Valley Fair
grounds. Dinner will be on the basket
picnic plan, and there will be the usual
camp fire after dinner. Electric cars
will run to the grounds.
II. G. Barber, Brigham F. Phelps of
Westminster and Albert G.. Rice of
Grafton have been appointed commits
| sioners to hear the case of the village
of Bellows Falls against William ].
Webb on a question of damages grow
ing out of the building of an aqueduct
across Mr.. Webb's land.
The annual field day of the Knights
! Templar Communicates of Keene, Brat
| tleboro, Bellows Falls and Claremont
will be held in Keene the first week
in October. DR.. George H. Gorham of
! Bellows Falls, Eminent Commander of
Holy Cross commandery, is chairman
of the union field day committee.
! A petition to the selectmen has been
| largely signed by the business men
of the village asking for the appoint
ment of Everett r. Thayer as first town
constable to succeed Col. Thomas
Harmon, who will move to Bennington.
Mr.. Thayer who is now one of the spe-
cial police and janitor of the town hall,
is well fitted to fill the position.
A Denver despatch says that Francis
| Truth, the divine healer" who has
1 recently been arrested in that city
charged with practicing medicine with
out a certificate, went to Denver from
New Orleans, where, it is said he did
not meet with favor. He is doing a
large business in Denver, his waiting
room being filled all day with persons
having all sorts of ailments.
Three accidents have taken place
at the Estey organ factories recently.
A. L. Perham split the middle finger
of his right hand on circular saw
| Tuesday. N N. Newell lacerated the
little finger of his right hand on a sur
face planer Monday. William Boyce Is
incapacitated for work, his hand be-
ing injured by wire in a brush, re-
sulting in blood poisoning.
The trustees of Brattleboro Academy
in West Brattleboro have engaged
Frank e. Perkins as principal of the
school the coming year, and he will
| begin his work the first week in Sep
| TENDER Mr.. Perkins has been a sue
cessful teacher and under him the
school will continue the high grade of
preparatory instruction which 1t has
maintained in the past. Miss Octavia
w. Matthews will return another year
as his assistant.
w. B. Mettey has arranged an ath-
letic carnival, to be given in Grange
hall Tuesday evening, July 80. The
entertainment will open with two
bouts in which local boxers will ap-
pear followed by club swinging and
an exhibition of buck and wing dane
ing. The concluding event will be a
15-round scientific sparring bout be-
tween kid" Bean, featherweight of
Canada, and Eddie Quinn of Brattle-
boro, formerly of Brooklyn, winner OF
20 contests. Music will be furnished
during the intervals.
A drawing has been made of the
bronze panel which will be set into the
granite block which will mark the site
of Fort Drummer. The panel will be
three feet long by two feet high, and
will bear the following inscription
submitted by Congressman Haskins
This monument marks the site OF
Fort Dummer. Constructed by the
Province of Massachusetts Bay. 1924
Dismantled by the Province of New
Hampshire, 1868. Erected by the Co
lonial Danes of Brattleboro and vicini
ty 1901" 1t will bear the official
insignia of the Colonial Danes of Yer
mont.
Michael Kelley, who has been al
work in Mansfield, Mass, came to
Brattleboro this week to tell the vii
lage authorities what he knew about
the events preceding the death OF
James ]. Griffin, but the particulars
which he related turned out to be Of
no value. Kelley wrote to a Brattle
boro woman that he knew something
important about the case and for that
reason he was asked to come to di
vulge. He stated that at o'clock or
the night of Griffin's disappearance
Griffin, James Boyce and Dummy
Manning were seated on grass plot
at the east end of Grants granite yard
that they gave him some liquor which
was so nauseating that he threw it up
and that while his internal apparatus
was at the height of it's commissions
I they deserted him. Boyce and Man
ming state that it was Kelley who fur
nished the liquor, but they agree as t
its rankness. After leaving Kelley
the three came across the river bridge
Griffin went down the track toward his
house, and Manning and Boyce wen
home. Volunteers are wanted to Offer
more testimony in the case.
: Letter to n. r. Brown,
| Il