Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-04-15

show were about $500.
The last Masonic soclable Of the season.
which was postponed from the 18th. will
be held Thursday evening, April 81
/ Bratteboro lodge, No 37S New Eng
/ land order of Protection, will have u con-
undrum supper from until : o'clock i'm
/ Red Mems han Monday evening, April 49,
to be followed by dance.
| \ public hearing on the various appli-
cations for licenses for the sale of in
/ toXicating liquors i'm Brattleboro will be
/ held before the board of license commits
! siouels at & o'clock tomorrow night. in
/ the office of the selectmen.
The village bailins are arranging to
have the railroad bank in the rear of
the buildings on the east side of Main
street relieved of its spring covering of
tin cans, papers and rubbish.
The Briggs house on High street will
/ he sold by auction April p by r. Il. Cor
don. administrator Mr. Gordon also will
sell by auction May : the two houses on
South Main street. and other property.
owned by the Moses Dcyo estate.
\ meeting of the board of bailins and
/ the board Of civil authority will be held
at the Office of Bacon Il Hooker Satur-
day evening. April 30. at 80. for the
purpose Of revising the check list which
Will ho used at the annual village meeting
/ Tuesday, May 8.
Col. John Hunt has obtained pensions
J for the following named people: Original.
/ William y. Lawson of Northhcld: GYM
/ thia L. Park of Bcrnardston; Lorenzo
/ Leach of Guilford; reissue. Daniel Robbins
| of Green River; increase, Lyman Wood of
! Putney and George c. Allen, Brattleboro.
The funeral of Harriet Waterman Bat
tey, infant daughter of Fred f. and Laura
| Waterman Battey of South Main street
was held at the house Saturday at 10
O'Clock, Rev. Il. c. ). Osgood. officiating
The burial was in Prospect hill cemetery.
! The child died on Thursday at the age of
% days.
Fred c. Leitsinger. organist and choir
! director at the Centre church and leader
of the First Regiment band has received
/ a call from Rutland to succeed the late j.
| Harry Engels as. organist i'm the Congre-
gational church and leader of the Rutland
city band. He has not decided as to
whether he will accept the offer.
The Bratteboro Womans club will hold
its next meeting in the Brooks House
parlors at $50 Wednesday afternoon,
April 20. Miss Marguerite Tucker will
| give the paper of the afternoon. the sub
| ject being THE Progress of Journalism
from the Sailing Packet Period to Wire
less Telegraphy." \ quartet will sing old
time songs.
The Vermont liquor law provides that
|
state or national elections. Last Satur-
day no sales were made. as special town
meeting was being held. The question
was raised as to whether the meeting was
an election day, but the holders of licenses
preferred to be on the safe side and there
| fore refused to sell intoxicants during that
| day.
| George a. Billings. formerly New Eng
! land agent for suffer Brothers, Is now
| president of the East Hartford Tobacco
! Storage company which will do general
wholesale and packing business in leaf
! tobacco. The 1903 tobacco crop is pretty
/ we'll sold out. and at low prices Billings
| Brothers OF Hatfield Mass. recently sold
their crops to the American Tobacco com
pany.
\ bay mare. weighing about 1000 pounds
was stolen from Joseph T. Days barn in
! Wilmington Tuesday night. also Con-
| cord buggy. harness and black robe. Mr.
| Day and his brother tracked the horse
/ toward Brattleboro but lost the trail
! They came To Brattlchoro Wednesday and
| reported the loss to Chef-of- Police Han.
| who telephoned to officers in surround
| ing towns.
Chauncey !. Knapp is making the an
| nual canvass among the business men of
| Main and Elliot streets to raise money
/ to provide for street sprinkling this year
| The sum needed Is $l05O and at the pres
ent time upwards of $3.50 has been
( pledged. Owing to changes i'm business
/ concerns several large subscriptions
| which have usually been available will
not be secured this season
| \ Brattlehoro physician was called to
| the new Connecticut river bridge by tele-
! phone from the brewery last night to Ike
! care of a man who was so afflicted with
cramps that he was not able To travel
| The stranger was put into "a coupe and
| takcn to the town hall building ana Chief
| Han was asked to put him in the lock up
| but as he was brought from New Hamp-
! shire chief Han declined to take care of
! him.
John u. Rockefeller recently paid Max
well ENarts, of Windsor and New York
| 5000 for "A gray driving horse. This horse
VAS bred by Mr. Thompson of London
| derry. was sold by him to Henry u. Clark
| of l'rattlehoro. Mr.. Clark was a prize
winner with the animal in the driving
class at the Valley Fair in 1902. The horse
was seen at that time by Mr.. Cabot of
Windsor, who soon bought him. and later
sold him to Mr.. Evarts.
The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. f. Thorn
as of Chesterfield was held April G. Rev.
+. r. AIathison, of the Episcopal church.
officiating in the absence of Rev F. w
Lewis Her sister. Mrs Gushing of Wa
| verify, Mass, was not able to be present
The burial was in the family lot in Pros
pect hill cemetery. When she was -
years old Mrs. Thomas began work in a
printing office in Brattleboro and be-
came very proficient compositor.
Frank II. Brown, formerly of Brattle-
boro who is now proprietor of a clothing
store in keene, went to Springfield
Mass, last week, to attend a trial in a
suit for $4,000 damages which he had
brought against the Springfield Street
railway company. satisfactory settle
ment of the case was arranged out of
court. The accident on account of which
the suit was brought occurred a year ago
when Mr. Brown sustained dislocated
shoulder broken arm and injury to his
eyes and one leg.
The outer brick wall which will sur
round the new vault in the Peoples Ma
tional bank practically has been completed
this week by j. c. Pellet. 1t extends |
from the basement store formerly oc-
cupied by Brosanhan & Sullivan, up
through the directors room in the bank |
and through the probate office. The vault
in Waterman & Martins Office will be torn |
out and new one will be built over the |
new bank vault. This will materially en-
large Waterman Il Martins Office, but |
Will cut off part of the probate office.
A caucus of the Republican voters of |
Brattleboro has been called by the Re- |
publican town committee, to be held in |
Festival hall at $50 o'clock tomorrow |
evening Nine delegates will be elected |
to attend the second district convention |
in Montpelier next Tuesday, also nine del