Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-10-17

works are buster than they have been
before for many years.
d. q. Jones's barns at Cuttingsville
were burned Friday.
1t was rumored in Montpelier last week
that Olin Merrill would not be can
didate for reappontment to the collector
ship when his present term expires. j.
l.. Southwick, managing editor of the
Burlington free Press, was mentioned
as his probable successor.
New York and Boston capitalists have
formed "A stock company to enlarge the
Blair d DE Larm veneer seat works in
Newport. There is u prospect of great
boom for Newport, as an extensive bust
ness will be developed, which will make
Newport the largest veneer manufacture
ing town in the United States.
The body of Joseph Bennett of South
SALISBURY, about So, was found Saturday
night "A short distance from the County
street crossing of the Rutland railroad
in Bennington. Several bones had been
broken and the hip dislocated. 1t is
thought he was struck by "a train. He
lived with son in South SALISBURY,
but came to Bennington to visit his two
daughters.
Fred Brown, IL. who shot and killed
Homer Duke, another lad at Marshheld,
July Is last, and who was indicted for
murder by the grand jury in September,
was brought into Washington county
court for trial Thursday. Through his
attorney he pleaded guilty of manslaugh-
ter and was sentenced by Judge Watson
to the state industrial school at Yer
gennes for the remainder of his minority.
The north end of Grand Isle may
be rich in mineral treasures. Major
Alex IL, Davis, proprietor. of Haywood
Farms. gathered during the summer
from the beach near his summer home,
$50 pebbles, which he submitted to his
jeweler, who pronounced them to be
worth from 50 to 81 each. The kinds
selected are known i'm geology as moon
stones, a very choice verety of feldspar
either flesh color or white and partially
transparent. They are valuable as orna-
mental gems.
Mrs Mary Wells Burdick, aged SO
years, 6 months and S days who died
Oct. s at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Lucretia Clarke. in Factoryville, Ches-
ter, was a real daughter of the Ameri-
| can Revolution, her father, William
| Brown. having fought at the battle of
! Bunker Hill. Mrs. Burdick was one of
| IL children and was born in Bradford, n.
IL. She had read the Bible through
nine times. She wore glasses until she
was 60 years old, when her second sight
came to her. She had lived with her
| daughter many years. Mrs. Clarke is
| rs and the birthday anniversaries of the
| two women came on the same date Mrs.
| Burdick was the oldest person in Ches-
| ter.
The National Society, Colonial Danes of
America In the State of Vermont elected
| these officers at the home of Mrs Bradley
b. Smalley in Burlington Monday:
President. Mrs. Albert Il. Richardson OF
Burlington; honorary president, Mrs.
Bradley B. Smalley. of Burlington; first
vice-president. Mrs. Ellen ID. Brookes
| Brown, of Burlington; second vice-presi-
| dent. Miss Mary l.. Arthur, of Burling-
ton; secretary and registrar, Mrs. Henry
S. Bingham, Of Bennington treasurer
| Mrs. Horace IL. Dyer of Rutland; board
| of managers, Mrs. Bradley b. Smalley
| of Burlington; Mrs. J. Holmes jackson,
of Burlington, Mrs. ]. G.. Ullery of Brat
tleboro. and Miss Gertrude NJ. Denni-
| son, of Royalton.
DR.. Abel NJ Phelps. orthopedic special
| list, who died in New York last week
in his SD year, was born at Alburgh
| Springs, of the old Connecticut family
| of his name, to which also the late Ed
ward j. Phelps and William Walter
| Phelps belonged. He was a graduate
| of the university of Michigan, and be-
| came surgeon for the Vermont Central
| railroad and for large iron mining COM
panies He later studied surgery under the
| great Vienna surgeons and introduced
| American methods of orthopedic work
| Returning he became professor of ortho-
| pedic surgery at the University of Yer
mont and soon after given the SINH
| lar position at the university of the city
| of New York. In 1887 he was given
| the chair of the same speciality at the
| postgraduate hospital. He was presi-
| dent in 1894 of the American orthopedic
| society. and in 1900 of the New York
state medical society. DIR. Phelps in
vented many special operations and sur
gical appliances. and was a masterful
| teacher.