Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-09

Edwin p. Adams has been appoint
ed administrator of the Alonzo Whit
ney estate of Brattleboro.
w. r. Strong of Landgrove has filed
a petition in bankruptcy. His liabil-
tiles are $4S7 and his assets 1920
j. E. Hall and S. w. Edgett were
appointed a committee at the Bap- |
tinst church last Sunday to try to ar |
range for special rates on the railroad |
between Brattleboro and Mortified |
next Monday, when special missionary |
services will be held.
The Vermont Wheel club appropri- |
ated $3.50 for the annual clam bake and
field day at the regular monthly meet !
ing held Tuesday evening. The field
day will be held as usual on Labor
day. II. r. Randall, c. r. Crosby, T.
Frank Turner f. b. Putnam and G.. L.
Stickney were appointed a committee
of arrangements.
The great ravine which parallels the
railway up Mt. Washington has been
named officially Burts Ravine in mem
! DRY of Henry M. Burt. who established
and published the daily paper, among
! the Clouds" on the summit of Mt.
| NdSuluBlOu 20 years. MI. DuIls WIN
was at one time a publisher in Brat
tleboro, was afterward connected with
papers in Northampton and Spring
field.
DR.. H. D. Holton delivered an ad-
dress Monday night before the sum-
mer school in session at Barton. He
went Tuesday to Plainfield to investi-
gate an outbreak of typhoid fever.
The disease has been prevalent in that
town in the summer for several years,
and eight or ten deaths have occur
red. DIR. Holton was also called to
Montpelier to examine the city water
supply.
An item which has been published in
several papers to the effect that ex-
Gov. Holbrook and Judge Newton will
speak on recollections of Daniel Web
ster at the Stratton Old Home Week
meeting, is erroneous. A meeting will
be held on Stratton mountain next
Friday, on the spot where Daniel Web
ster addressed the log cabin conven-
ton in 1S40 and although Gov. Hol-
brook and Judge Newton might tell
some interesting "reminiscences they
do not expect to do so. At least they
do not intend to attend the meeting.
Franklin E. Head of Brattleboro
has been engaged as principal of the
High school in Walpole, n. H., be-
ginning Sept. Z. He will also act as
supervisor of the village schools in
the matter Of discipline. The High
school, which has 80 or more pupils
at present. will be put on a college
fitting basis, and it is expected that
: this change will result in an increased
: attendance. Mr.. Head is a graduate
of the Brattleboro High school and of
Dartmouth College, and for the past
two years he has been principal of
Nottingham academy in Jacksonville.
The cover of Alexander Black S
novel, The Girl and the Guardsman, is
, ornamented by handsome pictures
supposedly representing the hero and
the heroine, and these two pictures
also appear in the illustrations
: throughout the book. 1t has recently
! been discovered by Brattleboro friends
: that THE Guardsman" is n picture OF
Walter Pettee, the successful young
artist. who formerly lived at West
Brattleboro. He served in a Brooklyn
cavalry regiment in the Porto Rican
campaign. Mr.. Pettees mother is now
spending some weeks with friends in
, Brattleboro, and his sister. Mrs. F. U.
Simpson, is at Pine Grove Springs for
the season.
A hearing is in progress at the
grand jury room at the court house
before Judge +. l.. Waterman of Brat
! tleboro that is of more than ordinary
interest because of it's age. The hear
ing is on the settlement of the final
account of ID. p. Walworth as admin
istrator of the estate of b. w. Bar.
tholomew, who died in Washington
= Vt, about thirty years ago. The case
5 has become complicated through the
{ death of several administrators, and
, the present hearing will probably oc.
: cupy the entire week. Young & Young
T. of Newport appear for the Walworth
r estate and F. ]. Martin of Barre. F.
2 c. Williams of Newport and H. A.
= Huse of Montpelier for the N. w. Bra
e ley estate.-[ Montpelier Journal OF
t Tuesday.
The Windham County Veterans
association will hold its annual re
union next Friday on the Valley Fail
S ground. Dinner will be served on the
i basket picnic plan, thus avoiding a
n large amount of work that has had tc
s be done in former years. Severa
: companies, including Co. F, of the 4tt
e Vermont regiment, will hold reunions
n in the forenoon. and in the Afternoon
there will be a camp fire with speak
d ing by Congressman Haskins, James
: Fisk Hooker and Judge Lavant NJ
n Read Electric cars will run to the
t grounds. The First Regiment banC
e will furnish music. It is expected thai
e the railroads will give half fares. The
t reunion will be over early enough fol
e those living on the line of the Brattle
= boro & Whitehall and Boston & Main,
h railroads to leave for home on tn,
S 5.45 trains.
!. Ten New England Leaders" is tn,
p title of 4S0-page volume by Willis
l. ton Walker, Phi. D., d. D., just issueC
:. by Silver, Burdett & Co., of New
York. The list includes ten of tn,
men who have been instrumental il
moulding the polity and doctrine O
.. the Congregational churches in New
n England. The list includes William
a Bradford, John Cotton, Richard Math
70 err John Eliot, Increase Mather, Jo1
n athan Edwards, Charles Chauncy
IS Samuel Hopkins, Leonard Woods an
s Leonard Bacon. In reviewing tn
# book the Waterman of yesterday said
N I'm nearly all respects these lecture
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