Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-03-28


April and 5.
Columbian lodge, No. SO, F, & A. NJ,
worked the first and second degrees
Wednesday evening. The third de-
gree will be worked by this lodge Fri
day evening of next week.
The working staff of Quonektacat
tribe of Red Men went to Mortified
Tuesday night to assist District
Deputy J. e. Mellen in his work with
the tribe recently instituted in that
town.
A special communication of Brattle-
boro lodge, No. 1902, f. & A. NJ, was
held Tuesday evening, when the Enter
ed Apprentice degree was worked AT
stated communication of the lodge
last evening the Fellow Craft degree
was worked
Rev. DR.. Marble called on his con
gregation last Sunday for special col
lectons to raise the money to meet a
deficit of about $500, which had been
incurred during the year from extra
expenses above the estimates. The
money was raised in a short time.
The street railroad motive ma
chinery and the overall factory in
Centreville have been run entirely by
water power the past two weeks. and
the prospect is that this power will
be in use several weeks to come. The
result is large daily saving in ex-
pense.
| A case which was correctly diagnos-
| ed as chicken pox on Clark street last
week was watched closely two or three
| days. there being some apprehension
that the disease might be smallpox, as
Mrs. Herr, the woman who was i'll,
came here from Gardner, Mass, where
several smallpox cases have been quar-
antined.
The Springfield newspapers publish
ed last Friday an item from Greenfield
stating that James Welch had died
in the state prison at Windsor Welch
was one of the three young highway
men from Greenfield who shot Joseph
NJ. Houghton in Guilford. The state
ment was incorrect. WEIGH has been
ailing for some time. and is at present
in the prison hospital, but he is not
confined to his bed.
Oney p Peltier. IA. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. Peltier died Wednesday morn
ing at his home on the Waite farm.
He had been i'll about eight days with
measles followed by spinal meningitis.
He was born in West Chesterfield. but
had lived with his parents in Brattle-
boro several years. The funeral will be
held at the house at 2 o'clock today
and the body will be taken to West
Chesterfield for burial
In addition to their regular summer
tour of Europe, which is to leave New
York July LIST, Rev. and Mrs. l.. d.
Temple now of Pennington. n. j., are
arranging a late summer and early
autumn tour, sailing from Philadelphia
August 2, and occupying II days, at a
very low cost. An advertisement in
this paper calls attention to this tour
and circular of information will be
mailed upon application.
The probate court has appointed
William F. Collins administrator of
the estate of his mother. the late Mrs.
Emily Graves Collins. j. Q. Shumway
has been appointed administrator OF
the Josephine Cunningham estate OF
Wardsboro Susan w. Kellogg OF
Westminster has been appointed trus
tee of the fund for the benefit of
Daniel Kellogg, jr., under the will OF
Daniel Kellogg. ST., in place of John
H. Williams of Bellows Falls, resigned
Brookside park will be used for pic.
mic purposes and some tent shows may
appear during the coming season. but
the rustic theatre will be removed and
will not be rebuilt. The electric rail
road managers do not believe the pat
ronage in the past warrants the ex
penditure necessary to give a sat
isfactory theatre for summer purposes
and they would not wish to erect
another cheap structure like the one
which collapsed the past winter. Only
a few companies that appeared there
! have had a paying business, and three
! troupes went to pieces last year in
consequence of the small attendance
when here.
w. G. Doolittle says he has decided
to employ all workmen and laborers
who work ten hours a day, namely
carpenters, painters masons. lumber
men. etc. Mr.. DoOlittle does this in
view of the Q hour labor movement al
a time when he is planning extensive
building operations. Mr.. Doolittle is
, now erecting on Elliot street on the
site of the old rink building a three
story six tenement fiat containing A.
rooms. He will also build this season
| house on the farm in Dist. No. own
ed by Mrs. Lucy Doolittle, and a barr
on his tract of meadow land near the
old Chesterfield ferry. Mr. Doolittle
may also decide to put up another six
tenement house fronting on Sprinl
street, on the lot in the rear of the
one on which he is now building.
, The body of Mrs. Mary " May. "A
who died in HOlyoke Monday, was
brought to Brattleboro yesterday an(
was taken to West Chesterfield TO
burial. Rev. r. X. Marvin of Brattle
boro officiating at the committal ser
vice. Her death took place at tn,
home of her son, eX-MayOr Dennie L
8 Farr of Holyoke. She had been il
for some time, but her death came sud
denly. Besides the son at who's,
home she died Mrs. May leaves anothe
- son in Holyoke, Holt F. Farr, a son
7 Fred NJ, in Keene and a daughter
Ellen s.. of Holyoke. Mrs. May wa
y born in Deerfield, n. H., in 1928. He
a first husband, Larkin L. Farr, died il
/. 1868, and her second husband, Henri!
May of Westminster, died about 81
}, wears ago. For 20 years Mrs. Ma!
e lived in Holyoke with her sons.
- An important local business trans
: action took place this week in the sal,
of the fancy and dry goods store o
Fletcher K. Barrows to Major c
Houghton and Arthur P Simonds, twt
I, young men of business capacity VIII,
: are well known throughout the town