Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-06-16
GRMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JUNE is, 1905

The bailiffs have posted notices calling
attention of the public to the fact that
they will be obliged to enforce the law
against riding bicycles on the sidewalks
Robert c. Bacon has decided to James
F. Hooker the Elm House at Charlestown
N H., and Mr.. Hooker has placed the
property in the hands OF Julius c. Tim
son for sale.
Weston, Moriarty of Bellows Falls, a
12-year- oid boy, was drowned in the Con-
necticut river Tuesday afternoon while
bathing near the logmen's camp. He
rolled from log and got into an eddy.
He was a grandson of Mrs David Leahy
of Bratueboro.
Riverside Inn, formerly the Peabody
House, South Londonderry, has been sold
to Levi j. Strong, formerly landlord at
the Melrose House in West Brattleboro
He will take possession next Monday.
Mr.. Strong ran the Peabody House sew
eral years before coming to Brattleboro.
A. V. May, real estate agent has
bought the Frost property at the corner
of Main and Flat streets of James F.
! Hooker, administrator of the Eugene
Frost estate. The sale includes the brick
building containing two stores and two
tenemepts, the lot in the rear of the
building and the hay scales on Flat street
The names of the persons for whom the
property was bought are not made pub
lie
The 18th international Sunday school
convention, which will be held In Toronto
June % to 81, will be in many respects
the most important convention ever held
in Sunday school history. The round
trip fare is only $13, with special prvi-
leges of extension and stop-over on the
return. Full particulars may be had by
addressing Rev. Edward M. Fuller, Bur-
lington, field secretary of the Vermont
Sunday School association.
Four Cadillac automobiles arrived in
| Brattleboro Tuesday night for C. II.
Crosby. A. b. Clapp. L. D. Taylor and
Carl Henkel. They were put into COM
mission Wednesday afternoon and Incl
dentally furnished a little amusement while
| they and their owners were getting accli-
mated. One enthusiast spent a part OF
Wednesday evening trying to get his
machine under Roadway, when a by
stander suggested that the machine might
work better II the brake was released.
VIII Mellen, driver for Liveryman G. r.
| Gilman, had thrilling experience Tues
| day forenoon. While driving past the
Estey organ factories the horse observed
a pile of stones in the road, stood on his
| hind legs, turned partly around and came
down over the railing beside the road.
Mr.. Mellen jumped to safety, but the
| horse and open buggy rolled over and
over down the bank, 70 to 100 feet. and
when they landed the horse was so badly
| tangled in the harness that he was I'M
| able to run The animal was secured
| easily and was found to be uninjured,
but the buggy was badly damaged.
Superintendent Mccoy Of the Brattle-
| boro overall company has about 10 ma
| chine operators at work I'm the new fac
| tory in Keene, and the company is max
| ing every effort to get the Keene factory
in full operation at an early date, as
| there are many orders on hand The
| garments that are being made in Keene
| were cut at the Brattleboro factory and
| sent to Keene ready to be made up. The
| cutting department will not be started in
| Keene just at present, but as soon as ar
| rangements are made to receive the cut
| tiers they will move over from the Brat
| tleboro shop. The cutting is all done by
mac.nnes operated by electric motors.
| At a meeting OF the school board OF
district No. Saturday Miss Lucy M.
Stevenson of Lowell, Mass. was APP
| pointed teacher of science in the high
| school for the coming school year and
| Miss Mary L. Deane of Windsor Hill,
| Conn, was appointed teacher. of Latin.
| Greek and history. Miss Stevenson re-
ceived the degree OF b. S. at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology in 1908,
| studied normal methods under a professor
| of physics In Lowell during 1904 and for
| the past year has been science instructor
| in the Horne high school of Bilerica,
| Mass. Miss Deane is a Smith college
| graduate. of the class of 1900, and has
| had five years of successful experience i'm
| high school work. For the past two years
| she has taught Latin. Greek and history
| in the high school of Easthampton, Mass.
The funeral of Miss Ethel NJ Cushing,
who died Friday morning at the Corey
Hill hospital in Brookline. Mass. was
| held at o'clock Sunday, at the home of
| Vernon nd
| attended. Rev. II. r. Miles, of the Con-
| gregational church of Brattleboro, ofici-
| ated and two selections were sung by Miss
| Gertrude Matthews. The burial was in
Morningside cemetery. the bearers being
| Edward Page of Clinton, Mass, Ernest
i Marcy, Ernest White and Carl w Cush-
| ing of Brattleboro Miss Cushing was
| stenographer at the Clark school in
| Northampton. The Northampton Herald
! of Saturday contained notice of her Ill
ness and death and said: "She was a
| rapid stenographer and an accurate ac-
| countant. AS woman she possessed a
most attractive personality and greatly
! endeared herself to all connected with the
school,"
Troop G 18th Cavalry. at Fort Ethan
! Allen, will be at the Valley Fair unless
| plans miscarry. James f. Hooker. of
| the Valley Fair association. has received
! from Senator Proctor a letter written to
/ Senator Proctor by Adna N Chaffee. lieu
: tenant general, chief of staff which is as
/ follows: Your note of June /. saying
that the officers OF the Valley Fair as
! ISOLATION of Brattleboro. Vermont, wish
to have Troop G 18th Cavalry, at their
fair Sept. q and 2S next. is Just received
There seems to the department to be no
objection to this. and / have referred
your note TO the commanding general
Department of the East. authorizing him
to send the troop by marching, forage
and subsistence stores to be sent by rail
to one or two points along the route pro-
vided there is no wagon transportation
at the post to convey the stores. At this
moment l am under the Impression that
the department commander will find II
convenient to send the troop as desired by
Mr. Hooker"
The observance of children's day by the
Congregational Sunday school last Sum
day was attended by a large congrega-
ton, and the program was particularly
we'll carried out The morning church
service was devoted to the observance
The enlarged platform was occupied by
members of the primary department. in
their tiny chairs. and some OF the Junior
department, while 10 of the junior girls,
dressed In white. occupied seats with the
choir and sang two selections besides
participating in a catechism conducted by
the junior superintendent, Mrs F. w.
Kuech. Four children were presented
for baptism. Bibles, handsomely bound
and OF large print, were presented to the