Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-26

an apron sale next Friday evening,
to be followed by a dance.
The late Ora w. Butterfeld carried
an insurance policy for $4,000 in the
local lodge of Pilgrim Fathers.
The smelt fishing continues to be a
failure at Spofford lake. although the
small streams have been lined with
men each night.
The Epworth league held a candy
pull at William Winslow's Wednesday
evening, going in teams provided by
Mr.. Winslow. A part of the evening
was spent playing games.
DR.. II. d. Holton of the state board
of heath was in Poultney Wednesday
to see that every precaution is taken
to prevent the spread of small poX,
a mild case having appeared there.
Miss Mary Crowell gave a card par
ty in the Brooks House last evening
in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
Putnam, who expect to go next week
to their cottage on Ames hill to spend
the summer.
Miss Cassie Timson. who has been
and is great sufferer from a nerve
trouble, is now slowly improving,
although it will be several weeks be-
fore she will be out again Clare
mont, y. H., Eagle.
Corporal Ned Marsh of Brattleboro
did not return to this country with
Company ID, of the 2Gth regiment
The roster shows that he was mus
tered ont in the Philippines. He prob
ably enlisted for further service in
another regiment.
+. 5. Weatherhead, photographer
at Easthampton, Mass. has taken W.
J. Cady of Holyoke into partnership.
Mr.. Cady has been in the business in
HolyOke for about lG years. Both
men are well known in Brattleboro
and have relatives here.
Judge Waterman was in New York
the first of the week arguing before
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals the case of the Bbber White
company against the White River
Valley Electric Railroad company
Jose Parker d Co., intervening petit
TONERS, appellants.
DIR. William Henry Draper, a native
of Brattleboro, is critically i'll with
pneumonia at his home in New York
He was a professor of clinical medi
cine in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons is years, and has been iden-
titled with New York hospitals 40
years. He is a brother of the late
Frank f. Draper who married Mary
Cune of Brattleboro.
a farewell banquet to Arthur w.
Childs was given at the Brattleboro
House Saturday night by II. r. Law
renee, 10 members of 7 he Junta be
ing present. \ choice course dinner
was served. There were no formal
post prandial exercises but impromptu
singing and story telling enlivened the
closing hour of the occasion. Mr.
Lawrence was also the host at a sim
liar affair at the Brooks House last
evening, when company including
several couples of young married
people who have been intimate with
Mr.. and Mrs. Childs paid them fare.
we'll wishes.
The memorial to Richard Morris
Hunt, the architect, in Central park
mall opposite the LenoX library. has
been completed by the erection of two
heroic statues by Daniel Chester
French. Architecture at one end of
the eNcdra, is a noble female figure
holding in one hand a model of the
administration building at the Colum-
bian Worlds fair, which was one of
Hunts masterpieces: at the other end
stands another divine creature to rem
resent both Painting and Sculpture.
and holds in the right hand a mallet.
and in the left a palette and statuet
OF the Parthenon pediment. Between.
in the centre. on its high pedestal.
rests the bust of Hunt, also Mr..
French's work. The architect of the
memorial is Bruce Price
\ pleasant event took place last
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
\. +. BOynton. Mrs. Elizabeth VIII
lard, mother of Mrs. Boynton. reached
her 18th birthday anniversary yester-
day and in honor of the occasion Mrs.
Willard and other members of the
family were invited to the Boynton
home for supper. Mrs. Charles
Clancy of Newton Highlands. Mass.
daughter of Mrs. Willard. had pre-
Nlously arrived there unknown to her
mother, and how complete the sur
prise was can be realized only bv
those present Mrs. Leonard. Mrs. viii
lard's daughter who lives in Boston.
was unable to be present, but the
other five daughters, including Mrs.
\. II. Nhlte, Mrs. Drown and Mrs
Knight were in attendance. Mrs.
Charles Fawcett of Brooklyn. n. Y.
granddaughter, was also present.
Judge Start has filed his decretal
order in the chancery case of Charles
+. Putnam against Lincoln H. Sawyer.
both of Nottingham. a bill was
brought by Putnam to restrain the de-
PENDANT from depositing sawdust and
mill waste in the stream at his mill
IN Nottingham. A. +. Cudworth was
appointed special master at the March
term to hear the testimony in the
case and on his report submitted to
Chancellor Start with briefs by the
counsellor, the chancellor issued an
order enjoining the defendant perpet-
ually from depositing in the stream at
any point above the orators mill shay.
ings, sticks of wood, debris and refuse
from the defendants mill other than
sawdust, and also finds for the orator
to RECEIVERS damages in the sum of
S25l.0O and his costs. C. S. Chase of
Nottingham was counsel for the ora
tor and O. E. Butterfield for the de.
PENDANT.
Besides the opening chapters of Miss
Johnstons new romance Audrey" and