Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-05-05

DIR. S. N Bemis farm with the executor
who has the property in charge.
The people of the Methodist society will
give reception to their new pastor, Rev.
A. II. Webb, next Wednesday evening
at the church.
The churches return this week to the
summer hours for evening services, the
Friday night meetings being held at 7.45
o'clock and the Sunday evening services
at 7.30 o'clock.
At the special meeting of the Wan
tastiquet Golf club held at the Brooks
House Monday evening James f. Hooker
was chosen president, Ernest j. Water
man vice president and w. p. Hubbard !
a member of the board of governors.
The $50 acre farm in Marlboro known |
as the Carley whitney farm, situated in |
the northeast part of the town near Hig |
ley hill, IL miles from Brattleboro, will |
be sold by auction Saturday, May 10, at |
/ o'clock This has been known as one |
of the best farms in Marlboro and the
buildings are in good condition. Twenty
tons of hay and sugar utensils will be sold
at the same time.
w H. Snow has opened a store for
sporting goods in the Ray building. and
in connection herewith he has an equip
ment of tools necessary for a repair de-
partment He has a full line of base ball
goods, fishing tackle dog supplies, etc,
and has done good business during the
few days that he has been behind the
counter The store has been redecorated
and is attractive in appearance.
William H. Haywood has sold his inter-
est in the Brattleboro overall company
to his partner George w. Darcy of Bos-
ton. The sale was made Wednesday,
Mr. Haywood, who succeeded his father
| in the company has not decided upon
| future course in business Mr.. Darcy
U-fl N he
! factory being in charge of f. H. Mccoy
| superintendent. a. j. Podbury, who has
| been employed by the company, becomes
vice president and succeeds Mr.. Haywood
as selling manager
| The board of civil authority met Satur-
| day night I'm the Vermont National bank
| and had a session of from five to six
hours revising the check list for Tues
days village meeting. over $50 names
| were taken off the list as posted i'm the
| town hall corridor including names of
| persons who had died or moved away
and of delinquent taxpayers. and about
| 400 new names were added to the list
| The tax collectors books and the check
list used at the last town meeting were
used in making up the new list.
Two civil engineers employed by the
| Grand Trunk Railway system came to
Brattleboro Wednesday and went over
the narrow gauge road with view to
making a careful survey Of the proposed
extension of the line to the heavy timber
belt which includes the northwestern part
of this country and sections of other
southern counties in the state. The rail-
road company is disposed TO make the
extension if it can be built without en-
failing loss. The work Of converting the
narrow gauge road into a standard guage
road will be begun within ten days prob
ably. New ties are being distributed
the larger towns in Vermont and New
Hampshire met at the Rockingham hotel
| in Bellows Falls Monday for the purpose
of discussing a proposition upon which
they could combine for their mutual pro-
lection and advancement Managers
from keene, Claremont and Newport, in
New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls
/, Woodstock, Barre and Brattleboro, in
| Vermont, Were present, and all expressed
a willingness to enter into a combination
a circuit, known the Northern Cir
cult" was the result. BY this it is eX-
pected that not only will the managers
be benefited, but the patrons will be Of
fered larger and better productions than
heretofore.
The annual meeting of St Michaels
Episcopal church was held Monday night
when these officers We're elected: Nestry-
r men, Kittredge Haskins, Ernest w. Glib.
son, Fred w. Childs, William f. Haskell
|
t | Nichols, William Cain and f. w. Gipson
f. Junior warden, +. w Gibson; treasurer
W. f. Haskell; secretary, c. r. Frink
p delegates to the diocesan convention
$ Kittredge Haskins, W. L. Haskell ant
+, f. w. Childs; alternates. L. w Gibson
t | Carl Cain ana :. ID. Hobrook. The rec,
4 | tor appointed Kittredge Haskns senior
t warden. During the past year all bill:
i | have been paid, leaving the church FIRE,
S from debt, and the house of worship ha,
been improved by putting in new electri,
fixtures and in other ways.
a The Springfield Union of last Sunda,
h | contained an interesting article on tn,
q old Ryther house in Bernardston. which
= is thrown on the parket by the death o
< Mrs Martha Ryther, formerly of Brat
= tleboro, who died the past winter Mrs
a | Ryther's husband was William T.. Ryther
| His father was DR. Gideon Ryther. sol
. of David Ryther, who spelled his nam
d Rider. An entry on one of the old rec
r ord books i'm Greenfield shows that abou
4 the year 174l David Rider bought 10
= in Bernardston the stage road from
z Brattleboro to Greenfield. The Rythe
o house was built soon afterwards, and tn
= farm has been in the possession of de
n scendants of the family ever since. Tn
d house is an ancient landmark of mucl
. historical interest and has sremarkabl
). paintings ON the walls, the work of
e mysterious stranger who spent a winte
e in the town during the war of 1872.
e Louis LaValley, the barber who bough
n out w. F. Springs shop I'm Whetston
I building when Mr.. Spring moved to Ell
: liot street. disappeared on Canal stree
Saturday afternoon while his wife wa
= trying to overtake him and was relieving
n her mind of anything but pleasant words
d LaValley and his wife have not lived to
Y gether recently, and people who know
: them say that I4aValley has been paying
Il her a sum of money each week b!
8 order of court and that a short time ag
k payments stopped Mrs. LaValley ha
: been living in Springfield. Mass. Sh
:. learned that her husband was in Brattle
e boro and she landed in town on the 81
n train Saturday afternoon LaValley too
# her to the Brattleboro House and thel
X returned to his shop and picked up hi
e tools and left just as she was going iron
n the hotel to the shop People who wer
II in the shop when Mrs. LaValley first mad
n her appearance were convinced that sh
It was not disposed to make peace.
r Next Sunday will be the 22d anniver
Il sary of the Young Mems Christian asso
e citation i'm Brattleboro and the churcl
= services generally will be given up to al
I observance of the anniversary. In tn
II morning Alfred II. Wardle, state Y M
e, c. A. secretary of New Hampshire, vii
. speak in the Baptist church, William
IL Knowles Cooper, general secretary of tn
= Springfield, Mass. association, will b
It heard in the Congregational church an,
Il Of ri cta