Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-01-17

The annual meeting of the Brattlc-
boro chapter. Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, will be held in the
Brooks House next Tuesday after
noon.
Four Cinnamon were given a hear
ing before Judge Wheeler Monday in
the Office of Waterman q Martin on
appeal from orders of deportation. Adj
ditional evidence was introduced. Ten
cases were submitted on the record of
testimony taken before the commits
sioncr.
W. A. Davenport, the lawyer of
Greenfield, who had military expert
cncc as a member of company l. Brat
tleboro. was offered the captaincy Of
company l. of the I'd Massachusetts,
regiment Greenfield. this week but
after considering the proposed honor
over night he declined it.
The suit of George Atkinson against
Mrs Bert Miller to recover a balance
of SIS for a job of painting, has been
settled. The defendant paid the plain
tins counsel fees and the taxable
costs and the balance was applied in
full settlement of bill held against
Atkinson by c. f. II. JENNIE.
Four boys bearing the names Of
Clunc. DeyO Demars and Connolly.
II to Is wears Old ran away Saturday.
Chief-of-Poli Hall located them in
Bellows Falls. ChiofofPolice Thomp-
son of Bellows Falls sent Connolly
home on the "owl" train Sunday morn
ing. Cmno returned on a freight train
. Il Il
back Monday.
II have advised my people in Yer
mont. said Representative llaskins
in an interview at Washington Tues
day. ito send me no more petitions on
the oleo-margarine question. The sen
tim6nt in the committee on agriculture
and in the House is so strong for the
bill that the effort is unnecessary.
Then we are all doing everything pos
sible for the bill
The shareholders of the Peoples
National bank held their annual bust
ness meeting Tuesday and elected the
following board of directors: T. J. b.
CudWorth. O. l.. Sherman of Williams
Vile, j. J. Estey George +. Greene,
w H. Bracket and II. p. Wellman.
The directors elected J. j. Estey presi-
dent. O. l.. Sherman vice president.
W. H. Bracket cashier, c. l.. Stickney
and Fred C. Adams tellers and Adm
II. Pettee, bookkeeper.
The annual meeting of the Congre-
gatonal church was held in the vestry
last Friday evening. The report of
S. W. Kimball, clerk. was accepted.
The report of H. H. Thompson. treas
urer showed balance in the treasu
ry c. F. Thompson reported that
the benevolences for the year 1901
amounted to $11O4. not including
those of the ladies' association,
Sunday school and the other organic
atiOns in the church. The present
plan of benevolences was adopted for
the coming year, after which, on ac-
count of the union evangelistiC meet
ing the meeting was adjourned to
next month.
Frederick Pomeroy a native of East
hampton. Mass, and son of the late
julius Pomeroy. died at Columbus Ga.
Sunday afternoon of heart disease
His son, Julius F. Pomeroy has been
in Easthampton on his wedding trip,
and learned of the death of his father
just as he was starting for home. The
wife of Frederick Pomeroy and one of
his daughters died about five years ago
from a burning accident. Mr.. Pom
| eroy leaves besides julius F.. a SON
Frank, in Florida and two daughters
Mrs. Robert Golden and Mrs Charles
Eiflen. both of Columbus, Ga He also
leaves four sisters, Mrs. A. J. Chase Of
Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. Henry
SOule of Brattleboro. Mrs Ella Bement
and Miss Minnie Pomeroy, both of
Easthampton.
Providence was on the side of the
narrow gauge railroad one morning
this week in having at hand a suf-
| ficient quantity of snow to be convert
| ed into water to feed the locomotive
boiler at South Londonderry. The
| boiler became practically empty dur
| ing the night and as there was no wa
ter at hand gang of men shoveled
snow into the boiler turned on steam
which melted the snow. giving water
enough to take the train to the water
| tank at Jamaica. On Wednesday
night the passenger train north from
! BrattlebOrO covered a part of the trip
with a part of the hange on a car
| wheel gone. 1t is hoped that workmen
| will recover the missing part when the
! snow disappears in the spring The
! loss was discovered yesterday morn
! ing, and as it was unsafe to run the
| car longer, and as that was the only
| passenger car at that end of the line,
the passengers on the downward trip
| yesterday rode in the baggage car
The SOusa COncert