Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-09
THE VERMONT PHGNIX, BRATTIEBORO FRIDAY, MAY

w. N. Batchelder will lead the young
mems meeting in the Y. NJ. c. A.
rooms Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Silas W. Richardson, who died Sat
urday night, was insured for $4,000 in
Fort Dummer Colony of Pilgrim
Fathers, of which he was a charter
member.
Quonektacat tribe of Red Men will
confer the Chiefs degree on several
candidates this evening. A large
delegation is expected from Mortified
to witness the work.
The marriage of Howard Crosby
Rice and Miss Amy Stetson Jones will
take place at IL o'clock Wednesday,
May 2l at Miss Jones's home on Oak
street. No invitations will be is
sued.
The selectmen will meet tomorrow
morning to select a successor to Silas
W. Richardson, to be recommended
to the county commissioner for APP
pointment as town liquor agent.
There are large number of appli-
cants.
The annual 40-hours devotion in st.
Michaels Roman Catholic church will
begin next Monday morning. Rev.
Father Cunningham will be assisted
by several visiting priests, Rev.
Father Conner of Rutland occupied the
pulpit last Sunday.
Rev. Guy Lamson has been only a
month in his new field as pastor of
the Baptist church in Montpelier but
the audiences have increased largely
and last week the church debt of 5000
was raised. Several new members
will be received the 18th inst.
Mrs. Jennie B. Powers was in Town
shend this week to investigate a case
of cruelty to a child. She found a
horrible condition of things, and the
case was at once placed in the hands
of the town authorities. who have
promised to see that it is given proper
attention.
Rev. O. f. Thayer formerly of MARI
Dor has written a letter from Ward
ner. Idaho, in which he states that
he is working in a mining town of
5000 inhabitants and % saloons with
only one pastor besides himself. He
says: Laws are violated here where
they have high license more than in
Vermont with prohibition"
Alma S. Akeley. 81, died at her home
in West Brattleboro Sunday of ap.
oplexy. She was the widow of
Thomas Akeley, who died in October
1892. She was born Feb. 30, 1921
and was daughter of John Shepardson
and PAMELA Stedman. The funeral
was held at the house at o'clock
Tuesday, Rev. L. NJ. Keneston offici
ating. The burial was in Prospect
Hill cemetery. Mrs. Akeley leaves
son, Charles, in West Brattleboro
Sedgwick post, G. A. R., has elected
about 20 associate members from
among the patriotic citizens of Brat
tleboro who are not Grand Army men
Others will be elected. The reason
for electing associate members is that
the veterans are diminishing in mum
Der and need assistance for a proper
observance of Memorial Day and in
spring the young with patriotism. A
fee of 81 a year entities the new mem
bers to all the privileges heretofore
| accorded associate members.
Dr.. Farrar Cobb of Boston. the sur
geon engaged by the trustees of the
Thompson fund to confer with loca
physicians, Mr. Fox, an architect rep
resenting the Boston house of McKim
| Mead & White, and Mr.. Thompson OF
Boston, a landscape gardener, were in
Brattleboro Monday to inspect the
proposed site of the Thompson hos
pital on the Hall place. They will
prepare a plan for a hospital embody
ing the ideas of the Brattleboro ply
sicians, to whom it will be submitted
Mrs. Almira Akley Bixby. widow Of
Samuel H. BiXby of Guilford, dice
Monday at the home of her daughter
Mrs. f. H. Pike, at 81 Canal street
She had been i'll four days with pneu
monia. She was a daughter o
Thomas Akley and was born il
| Guilford. She had lived in Brattle
boro but short time. She leave!
a son, A. II. BiXby of Guilford. TIL,
funeral was held at 81 Canal stree
at l O'Clock Wednesday, Rev. Mr.
Morse of Hinesburg officiating. TIL,
burial was in West Brattleboro.
A young child of Mr.. and Mrs. An
sci Pierce of Elliot street was missed
by the mother one day last week. anC
after looking through the house Mrs
Pierce went out into the yard to en-
quire of some other children The,
replied that the child was Gin tn,
we'll A 'passer-by heard the re
mark and Immediately rushed to tn,
WELL where he found that the chilli
had been saved from drowning b,
lodging on some water pipes. TIL,
planking over the we'll had become de
cayed and had broken under tn,
child's weight.
The case of the state agains
Charles Cushman, charged with sell
ing intoxicating liquor, which was Sc
for hearing Monday. was continued
two weeks. When Cushman was ar
raigned before Justice Newton tw,
weeks ago last Monday the case wa
continued two weeks in order that tn,
state might have an opportunity to 10
cate an important witness who hat
left town. On Monday of this weel
the witness had not been located anC
therefore another continuance wa
granted with the understanding tina
at the end of two weeks the case would
be mol pressed unless the witness wa
on hand.
Invitations have been extended t,
several clubs in the Connecticut Val