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

| Lawrence Il. French administrator OF
the William f. French estate of Hall
fax.
David Downer has bought the Ziba
Ware farm of George Whitcomb. in
Winchester, N. H. Buildings will be
erected on it this season.
DR.. H. ID. Holton who is getting in.
formation in relation to a hospital,
visited the Farren Memorial hospital
| in Montague, Mass, Friday.
The High school base ball team
will cross bats with Vermont Acade-
my at Saxtons River tomorrow. The
boys will go to Saxtons River in
| tally-ho.
Blodgett & Dewitt, who are whole
sale agents for Vermont and New
| Hampshire, will receive their first car
| load of MoXe for this seasons trade
| May list.
L. E. Holden is in Wardsboro this
week with > men setting up the
steam saw mill which Holden & Mar
| tin will use in extensive numbering
| operations.
Adiutant General w. II. Gilmore re-
| ports that the contested election in
| Company | has been decided as legal
! This decision sustains Capt. Haigh and
! leaves him in command of the com
! pany.
The ball game on the island grounds
! Saturday between the High school
and Brattleboro Hosiery company
! teams was called at the end of the fifth
| inning with the score 15 to in favor
of the High school.
The evening class in the business
! branches, penmanship, bookkeeping
and arithmetic, will be formed in the
| y. NJ. c. A. rooms. Young men who
wish to join are requested to leave
their names at once with Mr.. Wilson,
| the secretary.
Mildred Holland, who has been max
| ing one of the greatest successes of
| the season in The Power Behind the
| Throne" has been booked for a second
engagement in that play in Brattle
boro, as one of the opening attractions
of next season.
The auction sale of the Laura j
| Haskins estate Saturday was attend
| ed by large crowd and the articles
| sold brought good prices. The sale
was stopped at 4 o'clock on account
of rain and will be continued at /
| o'clock tomorrow. f. w. Mcclure
acted as auctioneer Saturday on ac-
count of the inability of George p.
| Miller to act in that capacity. Mr..
Miller was afflicted with sore throat.
The warrant has been posted for
| the annual village meeting. to be held
! at the town hall Tuesday May Z, at
| 9 a. m. There are four articles. the
| first three relating to the election of
| officers, action upon reports and rails
| ing of money to defray expenses the
| coming year. The fourth article is
to see whether the village will appro-
| pirate $500 for a series of Is concerts
to be given within the village limits
during the ensuing year by the First
regiment band
Representatives of Homer Wood
| bridge & Co., of Boston, and Hol-
| yoke heating companies have been in
! BrattlebOro this week figuring on the
cost of equipping the High school
| building with new heating and venti-
| lating apparatus. Later they will
| submit bids to the school board. Prin-
| cipal Whitaker and c. II. Thompson
| will visit some of the most modern
| school buildings in Vermont and Mass
| achusetts and witness the operation
of heating and ventilating plants.
The first meeting of creditors in the
| bankrupt estates of Luther Wilbur,
Miller & Kinson, E. Wales and Arthur
| f. Robbins was held Monday and
| Tuesday in the office of the referee.
A. F. Schwenk. f. d. Stowe was
| elected trustee of the Wilbur and Mil
| Ter & Kinson estates and Leroy II.
| COrser was elected trustee of the
| Wales estate. In the Robbins estate
no creditors appeared and as the
| schedule showed no assets the referee
| decided not to appoint a trustee.
The funeral of Ora W. Butterfeld.
whose death was announced last Fri
| day, was held at the house at l o'clock
| Monday, Rev H. r. Miles, of the Con
| gregatiOnal church. officiating f. V.
Morse and Mrs. Lima T. Hubbard
| sang two selections. Wantastiuuet
lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Mr..
| Butterfield was a member. attended
in body and officiated at the burial.
which was in Morningside cemetery.
| The bearers We're jerome Amidon.
G. H. Bond. c. F. Reed. F. f. Perry,
| f. A. Cook and A. j. Currier.
United States District Attorney Mar
| tin returned Tuesday from New York
| where he went to argue before United
| States Circuit Court of Appeals in OBJ
| lection to the granting of appeals of
| two Cinnamon. The Cinnamon were
ordered deported by Commissioner
Johnson of Vermont and the order
was affirmed by Judge Wheeler They
were taken to New York to be placed.
| on board a steamer and while in the
! district of New York they secured
| from Judge Thomas the allowance of
an appeal from Judge Wheeler's order
| At the hearing this week the court
| refused to stay the execution of the
! order in one case and held the other
| case open until October.
DR.. Fred J. Brockway, Al, who died
| at the BrattleborO Retreat Sunday
was a native of South Sutton, n. H..
a graduate of Tilton seminary. the
academic department of Yale and of
| the College of Physicians and Sur
! geons in New York. He had been a
| practictng physician in New York and
was at one time assistant demonstra-
| tor of anatomy in the College of Ply
| sicians and Surgeons. He was a
member of the New York Athletic
! club, American Museum of Natural
| History Academy of Sciences. New
! England Society and several medical
| societies. He leaves a wife and two
| children. The body was taken IN