Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-21
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The banks will be closed tomorrow,
Washington's birthday.
An old folks dance will be held at
Melrose hotel in West Brattleboro
Wednesday evening, March 5.
Four candidates took at the post
office Wednesday the civil service eX-
animation for a clerks position.
One case of scarlet fever is report
ed a daughter of Mrs. b. G. Prouty
on Elliot street being i'll with the dis
ease
From 80 to 35 children are now i'll
with measles in the village, but there
are almost no serious cases, About
rs cases have been reported during
the present outbreak.
The street railroad company has
sold the dynamo and station equip
ment for electric lights to H. NJ. Shaw
of Hinsdale, who will probably use the
apparatus for private lighting pur
poses.
Nettie Harlow went Monday to Bur
lington to see her brother, Nelson Joli-
vette, who is at the Mary Fletcher
hospital. Mr. Jolivettes leg was am
putated at the knee recently on ac
count of a cancerous growth.
The condition of Lawyer H. G. Bar
Der, who has been critically i'll this
week with pneumonia, has improved
during the past two days. 1t is be-
lieved that the worst of the disease is
past and that unless complications set
in Mr. Barber will recover.
The Congregational club will hold
n1r do,
evening in the Brooks House. A ban
quet will be served at 7.45 o'clock
The occasion will be observed as lad
les night, and at the close of the ban
quet a program will be rendered by
the Harvard male quartet, one of the
best male quartets in this country.
c. w. Sprague of Vergennes, the
well known cattle buyer has been in
Brattleboro all this week buying regis
tered stock for expectation. He has
visited some of the best known farm
ers in this section and has secured
several fine head of cattle which he
will ship to South Africa. Mr.
Sprague has been to South Africa
twice, and relates some very interest
ing experiences.
DR.. H. l.. Waterman, the health Off
Ger, has directed certain improve
ments to be made in West Brattleboro
academy, where he found a very UNI
sanitary condition. on making an in
spection last week. He has directed
that the water which has been stand
ing in the cellar all winter be drained
eff, that the outhouses be put in proper
condition, and that means of ventla-
ton be provided
About 200 people attended the lee
ture in the Congregational church by
Rev. H. r. Miles Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Miles lectured for the benefit of
the Fessenden Helping Hand society.
taking for his subject Highways and
By-Ways in Europe" relating princi-
pally his experiences in Holland and
Switzerland. The lecture was illus
trated with stereopticon views and
was highly instructive and enter
tanning.
A stranger giving his name as John
II. Kelley and his residence as Derry,
N. H., borrowed money yesterday
morning after making one or two I'M
successful attempts, with which to pay
his fare home. He claimed that he
bought ticket few days ago at the
Brattleboro railroad station and that at
Someone; he said, robbed him, leaving
him without a cent He said he had
no idea who robbed him, but thought
the robbery took place at the station
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, at their last monthly business
meeting, were able to report the most
satisfactory allaround work of any
year since the founding of the or
the financial year March /. The work.
however. has been curtailed to a GER
tain extent by the lack of funds. the
money received having been hardly
sufficient to meet the expenses for the
year. Subscriptions for the coming
year will be solicited soon. and it is
hoped that the friends of the associa-
ton will not abate their practical in
terest but contribute if possible even
more generously than ever to this
work.
e. H. Fitzhugh, vice president and
general manager of the Central Yer.
mont railroad, called upon c. F.
Thompson, president of the Brattle-
borO & Whitehall, on Wednesday. and
had frank talk in regard to the in
forests OF the little road. He assured
Mr., Thompson that everything needful
would have prompt attention He has
already given an order for the con
struction of a new water tank to re-
place the one burned at South London
derry last summer. He said that ac-
comodationS for transporting freight
would be furnished as fast as possible.
Mr.. Fitzhugh is known to be a man
who carries out his promises, and his
statement this week is regarded as
the most hopeful news for the Brattle-
boro & Whitehall road that has been
heard in the past two years.