Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-03-21
VERMONT BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, MARCH

Company l, vermont NatlOnal Gudru, |
began last evening to hold weekly /
drills in Festival hall.
The annual sugar supper by Protec-
tive Grange will be held in Grange hall
next Tuesday evening from 6 to 8
o'clock There will be a dance from
8 to ~ o'clock. Dugan and Hines
furnishing the music.
Manager Fox has cancelled all the
attractions which he had engaged to
appear in the Auditorium for one
month from last Friday night. None
of the past five performances was be-
fore a paying audience.
The house and lot on Walnut street
owned by the estate of p. Barrows will
be sold by public auction on Wednes-
day, March 26, at 2.30 p. m. The
house will be open for inspection an
hour previous to the sale.
The road at the top of the hill north
of the cascade was cut to pieces by
the water recently. The sand was
washed away to a depth of several
feet, and the bank on the west side
was undermined so that several large
trees fell into the roadway.
The body of William G.. LeRay, for
many years a resident of Brattleboro.
who died at his home in Halifax March
~, was brought to Brattleboro for
burial in Prospect Hill cemetery Sat
urday. He leaves a wife and one
son. Richard LeRay. James LeRay
of West Brattleboro is a brother.
Col. J. Gray Estey and Capt. ]. Harry
Estey have been appointed adminstra-
tors of the estate of Gen. J. J. Estey
and w. H. Bracket and C. A. Harris
have been appointed appraisers and
commissioners. Gen. Estey did not
leave will, following in this respect
the example of his father, Jacob Estey.
The Crosby storehouse contains one
of the most valuable stocks of good
of any building in town. Suffer
Brothers. the tobacco dealers have
there leaf tobacco valued at $40, 900
to $4,000, and the stocks of Crosby
& Co. and Blodgett & Dewitt bring
the aggregate value of the commodities
under one roof to upwards of $780,
900.
Mrs. Frank Baldwin's dancing class
es will hold tonight in Grange hall
their closing exhibition and dance.
The children will give an exhibition
from to $50 o'clock. including May
pole dance, etc. and from then until
| o'clock there will be a dance for
which Leitsinger's orchestra will fur.
nish music. Refreshments will be
served.
Edwin f. Kendall of Brattleboro
filed petition in bankruptcy Wednes
day. He states in the petition that
he has no money and has no money
m I,
Central Vermont Railroad company
which has been trusteed by creditors
His liabilities amount to $3.50. the
creditors for the largest amounts being
c. w. Puffer, William Winslow. Schor
ling Johnson and the Grange Block
association.
The will of George H. Newman. Of
Boston, on file in the Suffolk probate
, office. contains a bequest of $4,000 t
the Brattlebboro Home for the Aged
and Disabled. and another of $4,000 Z,
the Unitarian Society of Brattlebboro
the latter gift being in memory o
his father George Newman who wa.
a deacon of the church many years
Walter l.. Boyden. Albert H. Wiggir
} and Albert II. Newman are named ex
ecutors, and the will bears date o
March 20. 1901.
< Salt Lake City despatch to tn,
t Denver Daily Mining Record saws
? "A letter from Philadelphia states tina
| the owners of the Pioneer group which
10 was purchased last year by the Tone
+ pah Mining company for 1886 900 hav,
. refused an offer of $4,000 600 from
4 none other than Charles d. Lane. VIII,
: is still dickering with them for tn
! hnc a1, - N.
o worth of ore now at the surface. no
o to mention that which has been opene,
y up as depth has been attained" Thi
d is the mine which John F. Andersen
bought last June for himself and othe
: Philadelphia capitalists.
i reunion of twelve relatives an
n intimate friends with Norman +
l. Cabot at the Exchange hotel in Mont
l. gomery, Ala. was described in tn
t. Montgomery Advertiser of March /:
l. The Advertiser also reviewed Nj
= Cabots business career. including tn
= 20 years which he spent at Wetumpkf
+ He went to that town in Alabama /
L 1889 at the age of 49, and built up
r. prosperous business. He did not g
e to Wetumpka this year because tn
L tender associations of the old tow
t would have overcome him. He ha
s been in Birmingham with his nice,
Mrs. Jeanette Lynch, and his nephew
~ Marston Cabot, the past month. Afte
y, the Wetumpka party they bid him
. fond farewell and returned to thei
= home. Mr.. Cabot went the same da
9 to Birmingham. After remainin
y there two weeks he will start nortl
y spending several days in Washingto
!, en- route. The Advertiser publishe
!, an interview, in which Mr. Cabot +,
~ called men and events in Montgomer
g and Wetumpka before the war.
d ST. Patrick's Day Celebration.
r. The sons and daughters of Erin hel
l. their annual celebration of St Pa
e rick's day in Festival hall with tn
e usual large attendance and financif