Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-10
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL.

James Fisk Hooker will be the Memo
rial day orator in Brattleboro this year.
George Martin and Charles Moore
caught 40 goodsiZed trout in New
Hampshire waters one day this week.
Power will be developed at the West
Dummerston plant of the Brattleboro
Gas Light company tomorrow for the
first time.
Leon f. Hall has bought of Sidney
Hall. his brother. the latter's interest
in Halls restaurant and will conduct
the restaurant alone.
F. H. Mccoy of Boston is superin-
tendent of the stitching-room in the
Brattleboro overall factory, succeeding
Sanford Daniels, resigned.
Arthur w. Childs of Manchester, N.
H., came to Brattleboro today. He
will go to Newfane this afternoon to
testify in the suit of J. o. Frost against
the North British & Mercantile Insur-
ance company.
Durham Brothers sold their shoe
store in Bellows Falls yesterday to
. Harold Hatch, who has been clerk in
the store. An inventory is being
ham Durham Brothers bought the
store 10 years ago.
Invitations have been received for
the wedding of P. w. Guheen and Miss
Anna Harper of Albany, n. Y. The
ceremony viii take place in the church
of the Guardian Angel at Albany Tues
day night. Mr.. Guiheen, whose home
is in Brattleboro, was clerk in the
Brattleboro freight Office for a num-
Der of years.
The spring term began in the town
schools Monday with these teachers:
No. !, Miss Lizzie Maher; No. 4, pri>
mary, Caroline Mae Keneston, gram
mar, Margaret Hill; No. 5, primary
Sadie Winchester, grammar, Mrs.
Horton; ninth grade Anna X. Per.
kins; No. 6. Irene Perry; No. 7. Grace
Bailey: No. s, Miss Field; No. 10, lisa
phine Stockwell No. II, Mrs Valeria
Jakway; No. Is, Edith Hunt.
The will of George A. Boyden has
been probated and allowed and Chas
A. Boyden has been appointed exec
utor John NJ. Nourse has been ap-
pointed administrator of the Della A.
Nourse estate of Dummerston. J. Q.
granted a license to sell the real es.
tate belonging TO the Josephine Gun.
ningham estate of Wardsboro.
A chimney in the watercure build.
ing on the south side of Elliot street
burned out Tuesday afternoon and if
the flames had not been discovered
early serious fire would have result
ed. The flames were seen by Chas.
Cook, one of the firemen, and he and
Ben Devoe eXtinguished them with
hand eXtinguishers which they took
from the steamer house. They went
into L. c. Miller's tenement on the
top floor of the l. of the building, pull.
ed down the stovepipe and turned the
contents of three eXtinguishers into
the chimney.
Ansbach, the magician, amused and
mystified an audience of about 200 peo-
pie in the Brooks House last evening,
giving one of the most clever sleight
of hand performances ever seen in
town. He uses hardly any apparat.
us in his repertoire but relies upon
speed in manipulation and in his own
words the development of the un.
looked-for." The unlooked-for was
certainly developed in all of his tricks
and the audience was kept in a state
of wonder for nearly two hours. Mr..
Ansbach will appear in Putney Tues.
day evening and in Bellows Falls and
keene later in the week.
THE Ladies of Crawford" a three
act play of the early forties, the scene
of which is laid in an English village,
will be presented in Grange hall next
/ Thursday evening under the auspices
of the Fessenden Helping Hand soci-
ETY.. The play is very enjoyable.
The old-fashioned costumes add a
/ quaint charm to the story of the elite
of Crawford" who though in reduced
circumstances, always were "genteel."
Raspberry shrub and seed cakes will