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


merly known as the Deerfield Valley
stock farm, has been sold by Perry
Brothers to Mr. Seymour of Randolph
The 5.45 train north Wednesday
night was about two hours late, hav-
ing been held by the superintendent
at Springfield for the arrival of trains
with the New York mail.
The insurance on T. J. Knights
property, which was burned Sunday
morning, has been adjusted at a little
over 5000. George w. Fishers damage
on his house has been placed at S23.04.
The Y. M. G. A. and the Hosiery
base ball teams will play the second
game in a series of three tomorrow
afternoon at $50 on the island Mon
roe will be in the box for the Y. M. c.
A. team and Crowell for the Hosiery
company.
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin Dean of Tou-
galoo University, Mississippi, will give
an address in the chapel of the Con
gregational church tonight in behalf
of the American Missionary associa-
ton and their work among the freed
men of the south and the mountain
highlanders of Kentucky and Tenne-
A horse attached to a milk wagon
from the Briggs farm became fright
ened Tuesday morning at the ele-
plants in Mains circus parade and
started to run from in front of Morris
& Gregg's store. The driver young
Frenchman named Plant, pluckiy
held on to the bride and was dragged
to the Brooks House corner, where
the horse was stopped. The driver
was then given the glad hand by sew
eral who admired his exhibition of
pluck.
There was a freight wreck on the
&c narrow guage railroad Wednesday af-
ternoon opposite the railroad station
in Brattleboro, in nearly the same
place and from the same cause as one
two weeks before. AS the afternoon
freight train was passing the switch
near the ticket office about $50 o'clock
the truck under one end of a car Jump
ed frog, and two cars were pulled
off the track and bumped along the
ties about two cars length A car
loaded with boards tipped over, and it
was necessary to cut hole through
the end of the car and unload the
boards before the car could be righted.
The operation lasted until late in the
evening.
Miss Florence Crouch, 81, daughter
of Charles Crouch of Brattleboro, died
yesterday from consumption at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. H. L. Nichols,
in Hale. She had been in declining
health for a year or more, but the
end came suddenly. She was born
and lived in Brattleboro IS years
but the last three years of her life
were spent in Greenfield and at Hale
with the exception of last winter
when she went to Florida with Mr.
and Mrs. Nichols, thinking the change
of climate would be beneficial to her
health. Her mother died several
years ago, and brother, Clarence
Crouch, also died from consumption
The funeral will be held at Hale at
2 o'clock this afternoon, and the Blu,
rial will be in the cemetery there.
The annual meeting of the Yer,
mont Society of Colonial Danes, OF
which Miss Anna Park of Bennington
is President, will be held in this place
Wednesday, Sept. 18. At $50 a. m
the business meeting will be held in
the chapel of the Congregational
church when the president will deliver
her annual address, reports of other
officers will be made, memorial tri
butes to deceased members will be
read, and annual election and install
lation of officers will be held. At 2
o'clock p. m, the monument erected by
the local members of the society, on
the site of Fort Dummer, about one
mile south of the village on the farm
of E. H. Putnam, will be dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies at which
Col, Geo. w. Hooker has consented to
preside. The ceremonies will consist
in part, in the unwilling of the mon,
ument by one of the direct descend,
ants of those who occupied the fort
1924 to 1863; historical address by
Hon. Hoyt H. Wheeler, Judge of the
United States court; short addresses
by others, with vocal music by a Sc,
lect quartet, To all of these meetings
the public is cordially invited.