Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-10

Office
Three persons united with the Con
gregational church at the communion
service last Sunday
The annual meeting of school dis
trict No. 2 will be held at the High
school building the evening of the 2lst.
Fourth of July" russets were
brought into market last Friday by
John s. Wood of West Brattleboro.
The apples were smooth, perfectly
preserved, and of good flavor.
The last meeting of the creditors of
William A. Gorham of Jamaica was
held Monday in the Office of Referee
f. d. E. Stowe. A dividend of three
and half per cent. was declared
payable July 16. Frank e. Barber is
trustee of the estate.
The passenger traffic as indicated
by the receipts at the Bratteboro tick
ct Office is unaccountably large this
summer. The receipts at the local Of
flee for the week ending Tuesday
were the largest for any one week in
the history of the railroad. The
freight business also is unusually
large.
Mrs. C. |. Stafford has sold her stock
of ladies' and children's furnishing
goods in the Retting building on High
street to Pierce & Co.. of Springfield.
Mass, through f. j. Bailey's agency.
Pierce & Co. will sell out the entire
stock by auction. beginning at $50
o'clock tonight and continuing every
afternoon and evening.
Thomas Judges suits against Dan
Doyle and f. NJ. Breslin. the Central
Vermont Railway company trustee,
came before Justice Merrifeld for a
hearing Monday. \. c. Spencer APP
pearing for the plaintiff and A. +.
Schwenk for the defendants. Both
suits were brought to recover for rent.
| The defendants gave judgment and APP
pealed to the county court.
The Brattleboro Overall company be-
gan moving their business this week
from the Centreville factory to j. T.
Hildreth's building on Elm street the
| inside of which has been built over to
large extent. Some 40 machines and
large amount of cloth have been
moved, and it Is expected that the rest
of the machines will be moved and set
up during the next two weeks.
The saw mill and woodworking shop
of the Greenfield Lumber company.
near the Boston e Maine railroad
tracks in Greenfield, was burned early
Tuesday morning. causing a total loss
of $4,000. X. l.. Haskins. who went
from Brattleboro to Greenfield few
years ago, was owner of the plant. and
it was leased to Burnham & Todd.
! The mill had not been running the
past few weeks. The cause of the fire
| is unknown
| At the request of Mrs. Jennie b.
| Powers and some of the live-stocl.
! shippers Station Agent Burke had the
/ freight cars on the track east of the
/ freight depot platform moved Monday
so that teams loaded with hogs and
calves could back up to the platform
to unload. This plan will be pursued
in the future and will greatly faci-
itate loading small stock. An unu-
sually large number of calves and
hogs were shipped Monday.
Mrs. Flora Herrick. who opened
millinery store in Crosby block last
spring, was adjudged bankrupt We'd
nesday by Judge Wheeler. Her
schedule shows liabilities amounting
to S1029 and assets amounting to 1855.
The liabilities include a chattel mort
gage issued to r. Balestein of Hart
ford. Conn. amounting to $500. and
unsecured debts of 1896. due princ-
pally to BrattlebOro persons The as
sets are made up as follows: Stock
in trade. $50; accounts due. $50; prop
erty claimed to be exempt. 500 sew
ing machine. So cash for bankruptcy
fees, $50
j. w. Prouty has sold his photo
graph studio near the Brattleboro
House to Mrs. India F. Clark of otter
River, Mass. who has taken posses
sion. 1t will be conducted by Mr.
Clark, who has been in the photograph
business nearly 20 years. Mr. Prouty
bought the studio of ID. d. Dunklee
| . years ago and has conducted it
nearly all the time since then with the
exception of two or three years Since
April l Mr. Prouty has been running
a printing Office in Albany y. Y. which
was left to him by his brother. J. II.
PrOuty. Mr.. PrOuty was in Brattle-
boro over Sunday to close the deal
with Mr.. and Mrs. Clark.
From 10 to 100 members of the Uni
versalist Sunday school went to Spot
ford lake Tuesday on their annual
picnic. The party included a tally
no load. two two-horse loads and a
number of single carriage loads Bert
Wood was bugler. The teams left
BrattlebOrO at o'clock in the morn
ing and returned at night. A basket
picnic was held at Silverdale. A large
part of the time was spent on the
water, swimming, rowing and on the
steamer and there was dancing in
the pavilion and bowling in the bowl
ing alley. The weather was perfect.
the lake like sheet of glass, and
every circumstance in favor of the
picnic party.
John Austin, &c, died about 8 o'clock
Monday morning at his home at 16
Canal street. On Wednesday after
neon of last week, while sitting in the
Office at the American House, he was
stricken with paralysis. which affected
his entire left side. He was taken
home in the evening and was able to
make himself understood for a few
days but for SO hours before he died
he was unconscious. Mr.. Austin was
born in County Kerry, Ireland, and
was son of James Austin and Mar
greet Moriarty. He came to America
when he was 20 years old. For about
two years he worked in the carding
department OF a cotton mill in Chico
pee, Mass, after which he came to
Brattleboro. A few years later he
went to Virginia. where he spent sew
eral years in railroad work, return
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