Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-03
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The Brattleboro directory, to be issued
by Raymond & Co. of Greenfield, will be
ready for delivery about April 1.
Bills amounting to about 5000, due the
bankrupt estate of John H. Black, Bel
lows Falls milk dealer were sold by auc-
ton in the county clerks office yesterday
by Frank E. Barber, trustee. They were
bought by John f. Gale for 81.
Deputy Sheriff C. l. Knapp held an
auction sale of some of j. J. Rafter's
household goods Saturday near the
American House, selling enough to satisfy
A. c. Spencers execution, amounting to
$50. Other goods will be sold later to
satisfy two other executions.
Town meeting will open in Festival
hall next Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock,
with the usual two polling places, DR.. H.
d. Holton presiding. The ballot box for
town officers will be turned at 2 o'clock,
after which the other articles in the war
rant will be taken up. The ballot box on
the license question will remain open until
3 o'clock.
A meeting of the commissioned officers
of the Vermont National Guard was held
in Burlington Monday and Tuesday for
instruction and drill. Col. ]. Gray Estey
directed the course or instruction. Be
sides Col. Estey the Brattleboro officers
present were Capt. E. w. Gibson and
Lieut. Charles H. Davis.
William T. Haigh. former captain of
the Estey Guard, has been elected lieu
tenant-colonel of the state regiment,
PatriarchS Militant, of which Col. E. A.
Spear of Woodstock is the new colonel
and Herman Joy of Brattleboro the new
major Canton Palestine of Brattleboro
has elected these officers: Captain, w. ].
CAIN lieutenant, L. H. Slater: ensign,
George Metcalf.
1t was decided at the quarterly meet
ing of the Vermont Press association held
in Burlington Friday night to have the
next gathering in Brattleboro in June.
1t is expected that on that occasion an
address will be delivered by George NJ. B.
Harvey, a native of Peacham, this state,
who is widely known as the head of the
Harper publications and of the North
American Review.
1.-THE cleverest play in years is the
high praise that has been accorded The
Mummy and the Humming Bird where
ever 1t has been presented The plot of
the play is a familiar one-the husband
absorbed in material affairs, the young
wife hungering for companionship, the
brilliant and romantic foreigner, and the
usual result; but there is so much that
is new in the unraveling Of the entangle-
ments that one is first surprised, then
local management has already been ap-
praised of several large theatre parties
that will attend when The Mummy and
the Humming Bird is presented at the
Auditorium March is.
A convenient pocket-sze directory and
lecturers program of Protective Grange,
of which II. w. Sargent is master has
been sent to members OF the organiza-
ton. 1t gives the names of members, of
whom there are 372, mostly residents of
BrattlebOro, the various committees, the
dates of meetings for the year with the
names of those in charge, the names of
members who have died since the Grange
was chartered, May, 81. 1878, of whom
there have been So, the names of the 10
past masters and their terms of office,
and list of the present officers. Pro-
tective Grange is the largest Grange in
Vermont. The first master was II. X.
Chamberlain. H. w. Sargent, the present
master is also district deputy.
The suit of Henry r. Brown, admins
traitor of the estate of John V. Johnson,
against the New York New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company, to recover
damages in the sum of 10000, has been
removed from the county court to the
United States Circuit court on petition of
the defendant. George A. Weston of
Bellows Falls, representing the railroad
company, was in Bratteboro Monday
county court records. The suit was
brought recently by Waterman & Martin
Mr.. johnson was killed in Hawleyville,
Conn, while in the employ of the COM
pany, being struck by a locomotive, and
the allegation is made that the locomotive
failed to give warning of its approach
Mr., Johnson's wife and children live in
Brattleboro
Favorable action was taken Saturday
at separate meetings of the Northampton
~ Amherst, the Greenfield, Deerfeld &
Northampton, and the Greenfield & Tur-
ners Falls street railway companies on
the proposition to consolidate the three
companies under one management, or
rather to make the two latter companies
part of the Northampton & Amherst
company. The Northampton G. Amherst
company voted to authorize the issuance
Of stock to an amount equal to the total
of the stock of the three companies, for
distribution in exchange for the present
stock. 1t is purposed to put the stock
of the Greenfield & Turner's Falls road
in at 1873, that of the Northampton &
Amherst road mt par and that of the
Greenfield, Deerfield & Northampton road
at 60. One stakeholder in the Greenfield
y Turner's Falls company, who holds Sc
shares, intends to take the matter be-
fore the railroad commissioners in an
effort to defeat the consolidation. The
plan is to elect Edward c.. Crosby of Brat
teboro chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the consolidated company and
to operate the three roads under the
name of the Connecticut Valley Street
Railway company.