Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-14

Mrs. E. j. HOltOn VIII sell quantity |
of household furniture and other per |
sonal property at No. 8 Organ street |
Saturday, June Is, at 1 o'clock sharp.
Mary Howe LAWN has been engaged |
as soloist, and Lucien Howe as accom- |
PIANIST at a concert to be given at the |
commencement at Middlebury college. |
The Bird club have been disappoint- |
ed about getting the stereopticon
views for the Goth and in consequence
the lecture will be necessarily post
poned until June Goth.
The Bird club will observe tomor-
row, Saturday, June Is, as Field day."
meeting at $50 at Mrs. e. r. Stock
wells on Spruce street. All take din
ners.
The first native strawberries on sale
in Brattleboro this year were sent to
the grocery store of A. f. Roberts &
Co. Monday by s. w. Hudson of North
Hinsdale, N. H. They went quickly at
20 cents a basket.
Judge II. H. Wheeler has handed
down a decision overruling the ex-
ceptions taken to the decision of Ref
cree in Bankruptcy Schwenk by GER
tain creditors of Lafleche Brothers,
anu 81 uANihS Vic Dlllhi ups q hlo7
charge.
Archie w. Bemis of South London
| derry filed a petition in bankruptcy
| Wednesday. His liabilities are ap.
| proXimately $3.50, all in bills due in
the north part of the county and his
! assets are $500, partly covered by a
mortgage.
The insurance Press states that hold
ers of life insurance policies in the
United States received 1913 ,59O,S76
last year, of which 81 ,226,912 came to
! Vermont Residents of Brattleboro
received S72,440, Bellows Falls $26,331
| Grafton $4,000, Jamaica $101. Putney
$4,000, Wilmington $4,000, Windham
$4,000.
The revenue stamp reduction will
go into effect July /. After that date
no stamps will be required on bank
checks, bills of lading Tor exports, cx-
press receipts, insurance policies,
leases, money orders, telegraph mes
sages, telephone messages, warehouse
receipts, etc. Stamps in amounts of
81 or more VIII be redeemable on
July l.
o. r. Buttertield, who has been man
ager of the Cooperative associations
shoe store in North Adams, Mass, the
past two years, has resigned the po-
sition, to enter the employ of Dun
ham Brothers in Brattleboro. Mr.
Butterfield, who is a son of Hon. A. A.
Butterfield of Jacksonville was for
merry employed in Durham Brothers
Bellows Falls store
These officers were elected at the
last regular meeting of Brattleboro
Commandery, United Order of Golden
Cross Noble commander, Mrs. Laura
A Goodale; vice noble commander,
Mrs. Mary f. Wardner; worthy pre-
late, Mrs. Abbie E Moran; keeper Of
records, A. Williams; worthy treas
urer John a. Stafford; worthy herald,
f. A. Bagg; warder of the inside gate,
c. w. Berry; warder of the outside
gate, d. J. Moran.
The Inland Printer of Chicago an.
nounces in its current number the re-
SUIT of its envelope setting contest
There were 2l1 competitors and four
prizes. Z. II. Pierce of Ann Arbor,
Mich, was awarded the first prize and
the second prize was divided between
VIII Crombie of Brattleboro and f. G..
Bates of Albert Lea. MINI. The In
land Printer publishes portraits and
sketches of all the winners. Mr..
Crombie, who is foreman of The Phoe-
nix Job Printing Office job room, won
the TypothetR and Platemaker first
prize of $40 in a similar contest in 1899
and the National Printer-Journalist's
first prize this year of 500.
The Peoples National bank has re.
Gently added to its equipment Bur
roughs registering accountant or arith-
mometer for footing up long columns
of figures. 1t is a marvel both for it's
accuracy and as a time saver. 1t is
fitted with a keyboard like a type
writer, and the working of the keys
prints figures on a slip of paper
When the amounts are all registered
in this way the simple moving of a
lever registers the total. A sub-total
may then be taken if desired Large
sums, running into the millions, are
recorded as easily as small ones, and
a valuable feature of the machine is
that ciphers, commas and periods take
care of themselves.
William w. LaPoint, a lawyer, and
manager of the Barre opera house,
was arrested on Friday on a writ of
trover charged with the conversion of
an overcoat, the property of the Union
Clothing store of Barre. LaPoint is
known in Brattleboro through his the
atrical ventures. He has been con-
nected with the management of at
fractions at Brookside park the pres
ent season He was held in $3.50 bail
for return before Justice Scott June
18th. The facts of the case as alleged
are these: Last February LaPoint
went into the store and tried on an
oyercOat saying he would be in again
and get it. The understanding was
that he would pay for it when he took
the coat The next day he came in
and took the coat in the absence of
the proprietor, H. D. Siegel. The
clerk shouted to him to let the coat
alone, but he walked off with it. Fail
ure to pay for the coat results in the
serving of the present writ
In Memory of Miss Annie L. Grout.
Last Saturday aftarnonn tbo Did