Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-04-29

week
The board of bailiffs and board Of civil
| authority will meet at 80 o'clock to-
morrow evening I'm Bacon & Rockers
Office to revise the check list to be used
at the village meeting next Tuesday.
Levi J. Strong, the owner of Hotel
| Melrose I'm West Brattleboro will take
possession of the house when II. b.
| Haus's lease expires i'm June. and will
thereafter conduct it as a temperance re-
sort.
Mrs. Richardson. mother of Mrs Will
liam f. Patch, died April 16 at her home
i'm Groton. Mass, where she had lived
more than so years. She was i'm her seth
year Mrs. Patch was with her during
her last illness.
The body of DR.. George p. Cook was
| taken from the Prospect Hin tomb to
| Dummcrston Saturday for burial The
body of Gladys Crouch, daughter of the
late Clarence Crouch. was taken from the
tomb this week and buried i'm the West
! Brattleboro cemetery.
The license commissioners will meet
at o'clock tomorrow evening. in the Sc
| lectmens room to give a public hearing
on the applications Of c. c. Turner and
! George Danyew for first class licenses to
| sell liquor i'm the Brattlcboro House and
| American House respectively.
| OnarleS r. North. OF the New England
| Insurance Exchange. has been i'm Brat
tlebOro this week. on Tuesday he made
a new survey of the Stowen factory in
! Putney, on which the insurance win be
rewritten at a lower rate because of i'm
provements which have been made i'm the
risk
The requisite inventory and formal
transfer by Acting Postmaster Wilcox to
| Postmaster Taylor of all government
| dc a nd t.,
will be made next Saturday night. after
| the closing hour Col. TAYLOR assuming
| the duties of his new position from May
| |. He has designated Mr.. Wilcox to the
department as his assistant
The Sunshine circle. branch No >, met.
unexpectedly to Mrs. Nash. at the Home
! for the Aged and Disabled. yesterday
| afternoon, to congratulate her on pass
| ing another milestone in life's journey.
In behalf of the circle DIR. Holton pre-
scented Mrs. Nash with a picture and a
| beautiful box made of foreign woods by
Mr. Blanchard, one of the inmates of the
| home. All We're entertained by readings
and music. Miss Lulu Greasy presiding
at the piano. Refreshments were served
by Misses Ware and Hemenway and Mrs
! Ryder.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Willard who lives
with her daughter, Mrs. ~ II. White. at
| 30 High street. was given n birthday party
! Monday afternoon at the home of another
daughter Mrs. a. F. Boynton it being
! her S0th birthday anniversary. Fifteen
| people sat down to supper, among them
being Mrs. Charles II. Prescott Of Bris-
| toll, n. H., Mrs. c. c. Clancy Of Newton
| Upper Falls Mass. Mrs G. H. Fawcett
and son of Brooklyn and Mrs Charles
| Bliss of Orange. besides Brattleboro rel
| atives, including an only sister. Mrs
| Akey of Canal street. Mrs Willard re-
/ 90 ma II
| gifts.
Little, if any. excitement is i'm prospect
at the annual village meeting i'm Fes-
tival hall next Tuesday. The meeting
will open at 9 o'clock. and the balloting
by the Australian system. will continue
until o'clock. Only four names of can
didates for bailiff will be printed ON the
ballots and only four persons will he
elected to that office unless the voters
write some other name on the ballots. The
article to see what salary the village will
vote to pay it's officers may provoke a
little discussion, but sentiment appears
to be in favor of paying them a nominal
sum. The other articles in the warrant
are routine.
An attempt has been made recently to
work the old swindling game from a
Spanish prison on Brattleboro men. Let
ters received purport to come from a man
who has been sent to Jail for a political
offense, and who has beautiful daugh-
ter whom he wishes to send to this
country. He asks the receiver of the
letter to become the guardian of the girl
and to direct the expenditure of her for
tune of $4,000 Ii is understood that
when people have been gullibe enough to
reply to these letters an answer has
come back requesting funds sufficient to
bring the daughter to this country with a
priest who will deliver the money for her
support 1t is an old game. in the same
class with the gold brick swindle.
a pair of horses owned by Howard &
Yearly ran away yesterday morning but
they had good reason for doing So
Chief Police Hall, Policeman Worden.
II. c. Winchester and Michael Black were
going to Newfane in a surrey. Mr. Win
chester driving the horses When going
down the hill near the Brattleboro Re
treat one of the joints where the pole
was secured to the vehicle gave way and
the surrey began going zig-zag from one
side of the road to tire other. Chief Hall
ana Policeman Worden jumped out
safely, but Mr., Blacks coat caught in
a wheel and he was thrown on his back
ana hurt so that he was taken into the
Retreat for treatment. Two wheels on
one side crushed to the ground and the
horses ran some distance. but Mr. Win
chester did not let them get away
Rev. F. w. Lewis started Monday for
A@oS -hhSeiSSj Cdl', u dlleIlu the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, to which he was elected at the
recent session of the Vermont conference
The other members of the delegation of
which Mr.. Lewis is chairman, are the
Rev. c. s Nutter, d, D.. of St Adams.
Mrs. a. II. Webb of Bradford and Hon.
Frank Plumley of Mortified Mr. Nutter
will be accompanied by his wife, and the
Rev. Mr.. Webb will also be of the party
Through Pullman cars will be provided,
and from Chicago the train will be run as
a special, the delegations from many con-
ferences joining at that place. The route
will be through Kansas City and over the
Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe road.
the train stopping over Sunday at the
grand canyon of the Colorado. in Ari-
IONA.
DR.. F. II. OConnor came here from
Bellows Falls yesterday. He will open
his office in the Peoples bank building
and will live at the Brooks House Mrs
O'Connor. who is now visiting in Bur
lnston, will join him here the latter part
of next week. DIR. O'Connor has prac-
ticed with great success i'm Bellows Falls
the last five years, and general regret is
felt in his removal from that village. on |
thursday night of last week the Knights |
of Columbus presented him with a charm |
and chain. On Wednesday night of this |
week the ladies' auxiliary of the Ancient |
Order of Hibernians surprised him at his |
house and gave him a handsome gold |
watch. During his residence in Bellows |
Falls he directed the choir in st. Charles |
church, and the singers gave him IA |