Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-03-01
Died from Effects Of chloroform.

by Mr.. Jones family, WIFI Wnoln nc
was to eat, it was discovered That ne
was lying on his bed dead. For the
past 16 years he had been addicted 10
the chloroform habit to allay pain, ana
n partlv filed bottle near him, together
with a handkerchief which had been
saturated with it under his head, indi-
Gated that he had taken an overdose
Internationally. He was unmarried
and had been connected prominently
with a number of the secret organiza-
tions of the village, at one time being
noble grand of the local Odd Fellows
lodge His body was taken to Clare
mont Monday for interment and was
accompanied by eight members of his
lodge as escort
Richard Barker of Norwich Univer-
sity spent Saturday and Sunday at
home.
Communion services will be observ-
ed next Sunday at the Methodist and
Congregational churches.
Miss Bridget McAuliff and Mrs. G.
r. Nourse are acting as clerks in the
new store of Newman & Pollard.
Misses Hilda and Hazel Grout of
Springfield, Mass, have been spending
Miss Iva Young has been obliged to
be absent from her place in Williams
stationery store this week on account
of illness.
Next Sunday morning Rev. j. H.
Reid will preach the second sermon on
"Christian Socialism" the theme be-
ing THE Labor Movement
At the Universalist church Sunday
morning the theme of Mr.. Hammatts
address will be Phillips Brooks. There
will be special music by quartet and
orchestra.
Superintendent E. w. Lord will
move his family tomorrow into the
new dwelling just built for him by
w. w. Slate on Oak street. He has
boarded with Mr.. Slate.
Mrs. Mary l.. Bowers is expected
home for a few days very soon. She
has been spending the winter in Pine
hurst, N. C. 1t is not her intention to
come back for the summer until warm
weather.
Seven from here attended the Wind
ham County Christian Endeavor con-
vention held in Westminster last
Thursday. They were guests of that
union as they are members of Black
River Union.
Butterfield Row, on the West side
of Atkinson street, will have a boom
the coming season as c. w. Butterfield
has decided to erect six or seven more
tenement houses there as soon as the
ground thaws out.
The Christian Endeavor society of
the Baptist church will hold a Long
- fellow social this evening, with reel
cations and songs from the poets
works. Several characters from his
poems will appear in costume.
Willard Bacon, who is teaching
school in Charlestown, is making an
important addition to the musical tai
ent of that village He is a member
of a number of musical organizations
and sings in two of the choirs.
F. w. Goodnow & Co. will take pos
session march Is of the store which
has been occupied by the New York
Racket. Some of the fixtures and
goods of the Racket have been moved
into the dining room of Towns hotel.
State President Edward G. Osgood
will give a report at the Christian En-
deavor meeting to be held at the Con-
gregational church next Sunday even
ing of the goth anniversary meeting,
held in Portland recently. Mr.. Osgood
attended the meeting as a delegate
from the state union.
A full grown deer was seen in the
basin one day last week, it coming to
a point across the river from the farm
house of J. j. Patterson and walking
quietly about a few minutes, then
bounded off into the woods on the
south side of the basin. About two
years ago another one was found on
the same farm, having come up to the
house with the cows at night.
The Epworth league of the Metho.
dist church held a seven-cent social
Friday evening at the home of the
president, Charles l.. Wheeler The
idea of seven was carried out in every
way possible. The admission was
seven cents, every seventh one went in
free, the lamps were grouped in sew
ems, and the figure seven was suspend
ed in various places.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Dion
who died so suddenly at the home of
Rev. Father Reynolds Wednesday
evening of last week, was held at St
Charless church Sunday afternoon
and the body put in the tomb. Miss
Gertrude Dion and her brother Julian
left Wednesday for Nashville, Tenn
with the body, for interment in the
family lot there, that city being their
old home. Besides these two chill
dren Mrs. Dion left three others, all
daughters. Mrs. Owen Sullivan OF
this place is a sister of Mrs. Dion.
The measure that has been before
the New Hampshire legislature the
past month for the establishment of a
separate voting precinct in North Wal
pole has been killed and no change
will be made in the requirement of all
voters going to Walpole village as
heretofore. The bill was reported ia
Vorably by the judiciary committee OF
the house and passed that body, being
introduced and engineered by repre-
sentative Chas. j. O'Neil, but the ju
dietary committee of the senate re
ported it adversely, claiming the move
ment was unconstitutional, and the
senate killed it, mach to the regret OF
Mr.. O'Neil and the entire citizenship
l. 1, go