Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-21


iuries Monday by falling from the roof
of house on which he was at work
in Marlboro.
r. Frank Turner has bought a house
in Marlboro, south of Marlboro South
pond, and is having it fitted for an at
tractive hunting lodge, with broad We
randa outside and large fireplaces in
side.
Edward Quinn of Brattleboro stands
ready to meet any man in Vermont of
his weight, 126 pounds in scientific
boxing contest. If Quinn is unsuccess-
full in getting a match in this state, he
will issue a challenge through one of
the Boston papers, offering to meet |
any boxer in New England of not over |
l26 pounds weight.
The leading New York Sunday news
papers will come to Brattleboro during |
the summer by special train, beginning
Sunday, June 80. They will reach |
Brattleboro about o'clock. News
dealer Fox will send a team to Spot
ford lake with supply of Sunday pa
pers so that the summer visitors there
may have them two hours or more be-
fore dinner time.
The engagement is announced of
| Miss Mary French Field, daughter of
| the late Eugene Field, of Chicago, to
! William c. Engler Soon after Fields
| death, five years ago, Miss Field be-
came public reader, presenting the
works of her father so entertainingly
as to become widely popular She APP
peared in Brattleboro and visited the
scenes of her fathers boyhood in New
fame. Mr., Engler is a Marylander.
He is secretary of a big manufacturing
concern in Chicago.
Charles w. Berry of Richmond, who
has been employed in G.. e. Gilmans
stable on Elliot street, was arrested
Saturday by Chief-of-Police Hall for
intoXication. The arrest was made on
complaint of citizens on Forest square
where Berry was making a disturb
ance. Berry was kept in the lookup
until Monday morning, when he was
! arraigned before Justice w. S. New
ton. He pleaded guilty and was fined
80 and costs, which was paid. Berry
disclosed that he obtained liquor at
the brewery. He returned to Rich.
mond Monday afternoon.
: Bert L. Sargent, who gave up his
t position as conductor on the electric
. railroad last winter to become clerk
1 at the Melrose House, will return as
t conductor this week. His place in the
hotel will be taken by Charles II
Stockwell, a former motorman anC
more recently the proprietor of the
Hinsdale stage route. George Reed
conductor on the electric road. finished
: work Wednesday. He will go in
few days to Manchester Centre. thi!
state, to work in the meat marke
d owned by H. A. Walker, formerly pro
y prietor of the cash meat market il
d Brattleboro.
Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fellow
II and Dennis Rebekah lodge held a me
V mortal service in their hall at o'clocl
> Sunday afternoon, which was we'll al
e tended. Vocal selections were render
e ed by Arthur L. Maynard and Fran
y II. Brasor, and a memorial address
IS was made by Rev. r. F. Lowe. Dele
u cations were sent to the cemetery /
Is West Brattleboro and Morningsid
T. cemetery, and the others marched /
regalia to Prospect Hill cemetery
N where the graves of deceased men
e. bers of the order were decorated
at Flowers were placed on 40 graves {
Mt Odd Fellows and eight graves of r.
o. bekahs.
III Mr.. Eames, representative of tn
III Continental Tea company, who hired
o. broncho formerly used in the mail Sc
~ vice of c. S. Stockwell one day la
e, week, took off the bride and attemp
as ed to feed the animal near William
vile station. The idea of freedo
I'd having been impaired the horse star
tie ed down the road. Mr.. Eames climbC
ly into the back of the carriage. but {
u al GAINING tbn Gnot W. nnuprlpcC n CT
re the horse. The animal kept up a goo
he gait several miles, but on comiI
y. around the curve above the pumpiI
ut station collided with a lumber tear
lp- wrecking the carriage and thrown
he Mr.. Eames out. The horse, on bell
I'D freed, came at a moderate pace in
We the village and to the stable.
The closing exhibition and ball
Ar Mrs. Frank Baldwin of Charleston
1e. N. H., and her dancing classes W
Of held in Grange hall Tuesday event.
of and was well attended. The young
he children gave an exhibition from
10 9 o'clock, some 25 taking part. d.
lis ing the latter part of the exhibition
ON minuet was danced by Dorothy Nj
for ris, Edward Fletcher Miriam Howa
n. and Roy Monroe in colonial COSTUME
the The little folk executed the dance WI
at much grace and dignity. This W
ter followed by a grand march, led
Godfrey Crosby and Lucia Gleast
49, in which all participated. From 8
, ,os- to o'clock the dancing was open
Iay, the public. Leitsinger's orchestra
ma ITn nished excellent music. Flagg Bro
ne ers served refreshments in Gran
lIs' banquet hall about II o'clock. M
IN Baldwin was practically unknown
D uo Brattleboro when she started
ina classes, but by teaching practi
~, dances, such as the young people v
l1 find serviceable, she has become pc
Lod' lar with both pupils and parents, E
nod will doubtless have large classes wi
she returns to Brattleboro next seas
the Horse and Carriage Recovered.
w., John Barrett has learned that
600 taking of his horse by Fred Cobb
.o,,, week was a case of deliberate hol
I'm stealing. AS told in The Phoenix
NV Friday Cobb drove William Bryant
+bo teamster in Mr.. Barrett's emp
200 away from the team on Wednesd
,tos took one of the horses and clea
Wa. out. 1t appears that he borrowed
INV buggy and harness and drove
tt Whites livery stable. His story at
The stable was that he was going out
foot ereal miles after his mother He S
- ! sna was an old ladV and he wante