Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
THE RECORD OF 1900.
IMPORTANT LOCAL EVENTS.
Concise Chronological Summary of
Important and Startling Happenings
in All the Towns of Wlndham
County.

in All the Towns of Wlndham
County.
January.
The first day of the year was marked
by two golden wedding celebratons-those
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Adm a. Dutton of Dunn
merston, and Mr.. and Mrs Walter 5.
Bennett Of BrOOkline. A notable inn
provement was MADE in the postal ser
vice in Brattleboro during the first week
by the consolidation of the West Brat
ueboro post office with the Brattleboro
office and the institution OF a carrier for
West Brattleboro. Subsequently the
service was further improved by the ex-
tension OF rural route No. l and the es-
teboro and Guilford.
Fire, originating in an overturned lam
tern, uesIroyeu the mouse, parh ana con
ney, Jan. 8, involving a loss of 5000.
Brattleboro was thrown into a state of
excitement Jan. IL by the news of the
sudden disappearance, the evening before,
of Miss Mary Ayers school teacher,
and by the finding of evidence that she
had committed suicide by drowning. The
Vermont Dairymen's association and the
Vermont Butter and Cheese Makers as
ISOLATION held their joint annual session
in Brattleboro Jan. to IL.
VIII Moultrip of Cambridgeport was
killed Jan. % by the explosion of a
the following day Moses Hammond of
Bellows Falls fell down an elevator
shaft. His neck was broken. Putney
destroyed the house and contents, valued
at Sl2O0, owned by Mrs. Leonard Cory.
during the month were Joseph W, Dex-
ter of South Newfane, Charles b. Thomp-
son of Grafton, Deacon Charles W. Has as
tings of Windham, and Rev. William w.
Fessenden of Brooklyn, n. Y, formerly
of Brattleboro.
February.
Timothy Shea, employed by the Lyons
Granite company in West Dummerston,
was fatally injured at the quarries, Feb;
II, by fall from a blondin. The record
of rainfall on Feb. Is, when the precipi-
tation in Brattleboro exceeded 2.95 inches,
was the greatest for a year. but little
gill OF Saxtons River, Elliot Harris of
Dover, Hiram Edison Smith of Guilford,
w. S. Bennett of Brookline and William
=. Fitch of Brattleboro died during this
month.
March.
Edward Banks of Brattleboro received
injuries by falling down stairs in West
minister, March 4, which resulted in his
death Adeibert j. Stearns of Windham,
a well-to-do farmer, was killed March
by being dragged by an OK team. His
skull was crushed. Gen. G. II. Bond of
Brattleboro was appointed a messenger
in the United States Senate March s.
On the same date three boys from Green
field, Mass, held up and shot Joseph NJ
Houghton of Brattleboro on the road to
Guilfofd. They were sentenced to state
prison for terms ranging from Il to ~
years.
An overdose of aconite, taken with sui.
cidal intent caused the death of Mrs.
Harrison Howard of West Townshend,
March H. An interstate convention o!
the Young Mems Christian associations OF
Vermont and New 4IIampshire was held
in Brattleboro March Is to Is. Francis
Farr of SaXtons River was killed March
70 by the explosion of dynamite sticks
which he was warming on the kitchen
stove. The Estey Organ company dis
posed of its interest in the Estey Piano
company in New York in March. Death
claimed during the month, James Q.
George Leon Walker of Hartford Conn
formerly of Brattleboro and leader il
New England Congregationalism.
April.
An engine in the Fitchburg railroad
yard at Bellows Falls struck Daniel Nc
Auliffe, April and inflicted fatal injuries
James ]. Flynn of Newfane shot him.
through the heart on the same day;
a a1Fe s Ifsr %ii in west Townshend April
20, causing loss of $780, DR.. Fred C.
Crosby of Bratteboro was run over in
vehicle and was almost instantly killed:
James II. Franklin of Townshend ana
Rev. John r. Haskins of Grafton died
in April.
The house and barn on the J. S. Whit
ney place in Marlboro, valued at $lOOO,
were burned May Z. unique event LOOK
place in Brattleboro May g. when Mrs
Il. l.. Putnam Of Brattleboro ana Mrs
L. F. Rogers of Barre, Mass, twin sisters,
and their husbands, celebrated their gol-
den wedding anniversary. Rev. J. II;
May 10 after a pastorate of IL years. The
finding of the body of Angus Flnlayson in
a canal in Bellows Falls May % was con
sidered as evidence of accidental death
by drowning. Deaths recorded in May
include those of Thomas A. Moore of VIII
lamsyille, James CraWford OF P4 Wnst
and Deacon EbeneZer {. White OF west
Townshend
June.
road from Bellows Falls to Saxtons River
was run in June. The barns and contents
owned by IL FORESTER and Of ds sSyea
June H. The Goth anniversary of the or
ganization of the First Baptist church or
nected Herewith was celebrated June H.
in jamaica were burned June IS. Brat
tleboro was honored June 26 by the nomi-
nation in district convention OF Col. Kit
fridge Haskins, who was subsequently
The house Sc and barns Of Henry ", Hall
of Newfane were burned June 80 by a
fire of unknown origin. In TINS no. IN
West Townshend and Calvin l.. Barber or
Bellows Falls.
July.
The postofflce in Putney was advanced
from the fourth class to third class In
this month the Kurn-Hattin Home IN
Westminster received bequest or SZOOV
Keene N. II. Walter Colburn of Colrain,
Mass, was drowned in Jacksonville
July 4, while swimming. The deeomp0s-
ing body of a woman, supposed TO De
Miss Kate Teehan of Bellows Falls, was
found July IS in the Connecticut river
near East Putney. Two barns in Town
shend, owned by John c. Whitcomp, were
burned July %; The fire was though nlsnl
to Casius Underwood of Readsboro, July
70 in a shocking manner. He fell upon
a saw in a mill in Nottingham and his
right arm was severed near the 1 shoulu o,i,
A. j. Pike of Jacksonville, Lorenzo
boro, and JamesW. Gould of Windham.
August.
f. L. Pierce's chair stock mill in West
minister was burned Aug. 9, causing
$500 loss. Hundreds of former residents
of Wilmington returned to that town our
ing the week Of Aug, 10 TO ION ION III 1 Tn,
F. Hall was caught in caYe,in II
Wardsboro Centre Aug. %, and died sool
after being extricated. Two children o
drowned aethe mouth of Williams rive
Aug. g. while endeayoring TO escape iron
a man at whom they were frightened
w. Clayton Miller of West Brattlebor
died Aug 6.
September.
Alonzo p Clough of Jamaica me
death Sept. by falling from a ladder
Fire in the Island House in Bellows ran
Sept IA, did damage TO the amount o
$500 The Valley Fair, the event Of tn
year in BrattleborO, occurred Sept. 70 an
q. The Gilman stable and properly O
the John Baker premises on Elnot streel
Brattleboro, were damaged by hre sep
10 ha