Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-20
HlNSDALE.
Landmark Of 100 Years DESTROY.
ed by Fire.

Old Cheekered House was a Famous
HOstelry in Stage Coach Days
Was Fire lncendiary7
An alarm was given Saturday MORNING
at about 1.20 o'clock for a fire in the old
Checkered House. The fire department
ana large majority of the citizens were
soon on the scene of the confederation.
winch had already made such progress
that no attempt was made TO save tba
pulIdlng the firemen combining their
EFFORTS to the saving of adjoining build
ings. The checkered house was an old
landmark, and a popular hosiery in its
day, which was in the early mart of the
century, when stage coaches were the
common mode of conveyance, but in the
later years 1t had fallen into decay and
become an unsightly blot upon the viii
lage landscape, standing in a desira HE
location and in the center of the village.
Inc house was built in 1900, and opened
with a dedicatory ball i'm January. 1901
II had many owners in its century of
existence, but although dingy and
weather beaten, the painting of red and
Whhe checks, which was put on by one
OF the landlords Ora Barrett prior to
1870 remained the same. Nelson Richard
son. an aged townsman still living was
one OF the painters who did the work
For the last half century it has been
used as a tenement house. and accommo-
dated six families, until the past few
years, when it had become wholly unin-
habitable and its general tumble down
appearance made ii an object not to be
regretted. An unsuccessful attempt was
made to burn it on the night before
July 4th. Undoubtedly the present fire
was the work of an incendiary. An ex-
plosion was heard a few minutes before
he Haa mo- I 1
that some at first thought 1t to be one
of the boilers in the mill. The property
belonged to the Corkey estate
Henry Higginson is on the sick list.
Dan Purcell made a short visit in Bos-
ton recently.
Mrs. G. S. Howe was on the sick list
the first of the week.
o. s. Higgins is building a new tobacco
barn 16SXS0 feet in size
Guy N. Smith is seeing the sights at the
Pan-American exposition.
Mrs. o. H. Smith went to Norwich, Vt.
Saturday for an extended visit
Mrs. Geo. N Smith has been spending
a few days with Keene friends.
Miss Marian Robertson is unable to at
tend school because of Illness.
Mrs. Fred Berkinshaw visited in Lowell.
Mrs. Maria a. Spooner is assisting at
Mrs. w. F. Whites for a short time
D. L. Sanderson and wife visited a son
and daughter in Clinton, Mass, last week.
Ernest Minor has moved from one of
Geo. NJ. Wright's houses to the Briggs
place.
Dr. and Mrs. w S. Leonard and Miss
Margaret Leonard visited in Dublin over
Sunday.
Clarence Booth has began work in Hol-
mans machine shop, intending to learn
the trade
Mrs. Edwin Robinson is i'll with a fever
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. S. Leach.
Percy Booth is now janitor of the Con-
gregationaI church, succeeding David
Bell, resigned.
w. G. Smith and wife recently enter
tanned his brother. Walter Smith, and
wife of Boston.
a. w. Bliss and family attended the
funeral of his mother at Newfane VT
last week Thursday.
Miss Anna Avery of Colchester, Conn,
has been the guest of Miss Belle Tenney
at Mrs. S. X. Hildreth's.
Albert Perham has moved his family
from Perhamville to one of the Stebbins
tenements off Main street.
Hon. L. F. Liscom has had a large
force of men cutting and housing his
crop of tobacco this week.
Mrs. Guy c. Lamson of West Cornwall,
VT, visited at S. X. Hildreths and called
on other friends last week.
Mrs. j. G. Bridge has been spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs. Open
heimer, in Springfield, Mass.
Mr.. ]. p. Wellman, wife and daughter
of Keene spent Thursday with his
mother, Mrs. Zylphia Wellman.
Mrs. Herman Butler of Springfield,
Mass, has come to stay with Mr.. ana
Mrs. E. N. Blanchard for while.
Mrs. Edgar Burroughs is slowly recov-
ering from a very severe lameness, from
which she has been suffering several
weeks. -
C. E. Weed and family left Tuesday
morning for a two weeks vacation
which they will spend in Manchester and
vicinity.
The three months old child of Napoleon
Shelifoe died last week in Dana, Mass.
The mother, Mrs. Sheifoe, died recently
in this town.
Mr. Fredericks who has lived in C.
C. Holton's Canal street house for the
past six months, has moved his family
to Windham, VT.
A large number of the dwelling houses
in this village displayed flags draped in
mourning, and also pictures of the late
President on Thursday.
The lawn party which was to have been
held at Mrs c. A. Fletcher's by the Re
bekahs last week Thursday was given up
because of unfavorable weather.
Clifford Royce is working in oaks s
bakery during the absence of Guy Smith.
Mrs. Hosford of Everett, Mass, is the
guest of her son, d. A. Hosford.
Mrs. Elizabeth Markey put out a flag
Thursday which she made at the time of
the assassination of President Lincoln
and used at her home in Brooklyn.
Mrs. F. s. Wilder of Millers Falls was
in town Saturday to attend the funeral
of her half brother, Edgar Barrett. She
returned to her home Sunday morning.
The friends of Mrs. Elmra Evans, who
has been very dangerously ill at Millers
Falls, will be glad to know that she has
so far recovered as to be about the house.
Miss Daisy Streeter, who was recently
operated upon for appendicitis in a Bos-
ton hospital, is gaining rapidly. Her
brother, Levi Streeter, spent Sunday with
her.
DR.. Carl T. Richards, who has been
practicing medicine in Leominster, Mass,
has removed to Maynard Mass. DR..
Richards is a son of E. ]. Richards of this
village.
Chief Engineer F. A. Buckley has
bought 500 feet of new hose for the fire
department, to replace what was destroy
ed at the recent fire near the railroad
station.
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