Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-05-19

w. F. Spring has sold his barber shop |
in the milestone, building to William |
Lanahan, who has had charge OF John
Bissetts shop on Elliot street
Misses Ellen and Katherine Ware gave
a hignly enjoyable musical entertainment
last evening to the members of the Home
for the Aged and Disabled.
John Bissett has leased the Brattle-
boro House for the coming year. Mr..
Sullivan, his present partner has no def
mite business plans in view.
The officers of the Vermont Christian
Endeavor Union have arranged for
series of county conventions The Wind
ham county meeting will be held In
Athens MAY 26.
Rev. B. II. Eddy of Pennsylvania,
brother of Emory j. Eddy, preached In
the Baptist church Sunday evening, after
which Rev. Mr.. Lawson officiated at
baptismal service, when three persons
were baptized.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
& whitehall Railroad company will be
held in the Brooks House on Saturday
of next week at 1890 o'clock. The
courtesy Of carrying the stockholders to
and from Brattleboro on that day free of
charge will be extended as before the
management of the railroad passed into
| other hands.
A team representing the Vermont
| National Guard will be sent to the rifle
! competition at Sea Grit, N. j., which
| begins Aug "a The team will be COM
posed of 16 men, but the manner of
! selecting them has not yet been decided.
The several companies in the regiment
will be inspected during the month Of
June, and the annual muster will be held
| in August.
Following their usual custom of at
tending church in body once each year
| Wantastquet lodge of odd Fellows and
| Dennis Rebekah lodge attended service
in the Baptist church Sunday morning.
The attendance was large. The Odd
| Fellows were in regala. Rev. George b.
Lawson preached on Friendship. Love
and Truth" of which the three links are
emblematical, emphasizing friendship in
! particular. Apple blossoms were used
effectively in decorating the church.
The May term of the United States
district court was postponed Saturday by
| Judge Wheeler to next Tuesday. at Brat
tleboro. The grand jury met in Windsor
Tuesday of this week, as required by law,
and after their work was completed court
adjourned to Tuesday The session at
Brattleboro was set for yesterday. but
when the supreme court postponed to to-
day its consideration of Mary Rogers $
petition for new trial II became evident
|
able to attend both courts. so the district
court was continued, by agreement Mr..
Fits being an attorney in practically all
the cases which will be heard.
The Epworth league observed on Sunday
night the 10th anniversary of the general
organization, the usual services in the
Methodist church being given over to the
observance. The official program for the
celebration, 1.-The Epworth Cross" was
| vyag
parts corresponding to the number of
departments in the Epworth league, and
II was built up as the various depart
ments were considered. Reports OF
the local organization for the past year
were given. Rev A. II. Webb gave q
short address, and in addition to the
choir music Miss Elizabeth Lewis and
Arthur Peach sang a duet. There were
handsome decorations of branches and
flowers.
Manley Brothers broke ground Satur-
, day for an automobile station on the So
called Brooks House park in the rear OF
the Brooks House. Work on the founda'
ton is now in progress. The building
will be built of brick, Pellet Brothers
, builders and engineers. having the con
, tract. and it is expected that it will be
( ready for occupancy in about a month
b II will be a one-story building IL fee
high and SO feet long. For 40 feet Of its
| length IL VIII be 90 Feet wide ana the re
! naming part 3S feet wide. Besides hav
ing facilities for caring for public wants
: in the automobile line Manley Brothers
2 will equip the building with an up-to-dat
y repair department and they will con
tinue their bicycle and monograph bust
ness, moving from their present office II
J Retting building to the new building.
+ A choice stock of explosives was hurle,
Z at Policeman Worden by Mrs. Franl
of
they did not hurt him as much as thu
{ blows which she landed his jaw. II
| consideration OF her sex the officer handled
{ her more gently than is customary, anC
= she took advantage of his leniency b!
A | making a scene. When the officers at
I ! tention first was directed to her she wa
= at the railroad station waiting for thu
| night train and was swearing with unusu
al vehemence. He put her aboard the train
= and Immediately she smashed out
d window with her fist. cutting cash II
y her hand. Her conduct was such tina
e the officer removed her and took her 4
s the Brooks House in the hotel barge
During the performance she slipped ava,
r from him and fell on the platform at tn
d railroad station. AS he was picking he
r up she knocked off his helmet and punch
f ed him in the face. At the hotel she lie
d loose a number of -whoops and carrie,
r on in a sensational way until a physician
= gave her a drug which put her to sleep
= In the morning she was allowed to go OF
r her way and she started out about
r o'clock.
Emerson Stafford and Gilbert Ross o
Readsboro began Saturday a search 70
Lester ]. Stafford, their cousin, who dis
appeared last October from the house o
r. N. Fairbank in Guilford, where h
?. lived. They are searching the Cook 10
e east of the Fairbank house. This terri
tory was carefully gone over by John +
Gale, administrator of Staffords estate
= and others last autumn, and while II
= the place where Stafford most likely woul
= go Mr.. Gale has no faith that the bod
t win be found. 1t was thought at on
g time that Stafford went to Bernardstor
= as several people there reported seeing
h person who answered his description, bu
/, Mr.. Fairbank has run down all clews 4
- that direction. Much illegal shooting O
t deer took place in Guilford and Verno
last autumn, and as Stafford acted Wild
t whenever he saw strangers Mr.. Gal
f thinks he may have been shot while run
e ming through the woods and his bod
r put out of sight. 1t Is a singular fac
s that is years ago an uncle of Emerso
|, Stafford, on his mothers side, disappeare
e from West Hawley, Conn, leaving a not
y saying that 1t would be useless to hun
= for him, and although a search wit
bloodhounds was begun within half al
hour no trace of him ever was found.