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

boro and George w. Bevis of Chesterfield
were married in Brattleboro Wednesday
by Rev. George b. Lawson.
Arthur C. Spencer, who has been in the
law Office of c. c. Fits several years,
has opened an office for himself in EN-
erson building on Elliot street.
DR.. w. H. Lane, who came to Brattle-
boro from Readsboro last week, has open
ed an office in Retting building, in the
rooms formerly occupied by Floyd Smith,
electrician
Michael Hennessy, jr., was arrested by
Chief-of- Police Hall Friday afternoon for
intoxication. He was fined SIS and costs
by Justice Newton Saturday morning, |
and the fine was paid.
Henry E. Adams of Athol is endeavor- |
ing to form a stock company with $780, |
900 capital to manufacture straw and |
palm leaf hats. If successful he expects |
to have establishments both in Athol and |
Brattleboro.
The selectmen voted Monday morning
to issue licenses of the fifth class to c.
T. Graffam, c. +. Thomas, f. II. Holden
&, Co. and George e. Greene hearing
was set for o'clock but no one appeared
except the board, and no objection to
issuing the licenses was made.
Chauncey l. Knapp received 5000 brook
trout fry, which were placed in streams
in Dummerston. Dr. c. r. Aldrich and
Howard c. Rice had a consignment of
SO, 900 which they placed in a tank at
Lewis Johnson's in West Brattleboro. In
the fall. when these fish are well started
toward lingering size. they will be lib
Grated in several streams in Bratteboro
and vicinity
Dr. George b. Hunter of West Bratle-
boro and Miss Edna Wyville Pinden of
| Baltimore, Md, were married April 26
in New York city. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. William Hunter
| brother of the groom. DR.. and Mrs
Hunter returned to West Brattleboro Sat
urday and began keeping house. Mrs.
| Hunter is q daughter of ID. w. Pindell
of Baltimore. DR.. Hunter has been in
| West Brattleboro about five years.
II. l.. Emerson has given a contract to
| Wheeler & Cushman to erect on his
| Green street lot, on the former site of
| the Reed castle, four houses of eight
rooms each, of Colonial style of archi-
lecture. Each house is to be fitted with
| furnace, up-to-date plumbing and all
modern conveniences. Two of these
houses will front directly on Green street,
and the other two will be at the rear of
the lot. Work on them has already be-
| gun.
The funeral of Mrs. Herbert Thurber
was held in the Baptist church in West
| Brattleboro at o'clock Sunday. following
| Wood officiating The attendance was
very large the church being crowded,
and there were many floral remem-
brances The church choir sang. The
burial was i'm the West Brattleboro GEM
etery, the bearers being Warner and
George Thomas, Edward Thurber and
George Allen.
Charles F. w. Cunningham of Hartford,
Conn, has succeeded Victor S. Reed as
| Of ha v NJ 4
special meeting of the directors of the
association was held Friday night, when
it was voted to engage Mr.. Cunningham,
he having agreed to come If called. MIR.
Cunningham is a young man and is
| unmarried He has a mother and sister
who will live with him. He is a graduate
of the Springfield training school and was
assistant secretary in Rochester before
going to Hartford. He has been one OF
the assistant secretaries of the Hartford
I association the past two years. He came
| to Brattleboro to look over the field at the
time of the state convention in Rutland
! two weeks ago.
The regular session OF the probate
court for April was held Saturday. The
will of Eugene Frost was allowed and
James F. Hooker was appointed admin
. istrator with the will annexed, George A
D Boyden, who was named executor
: being deceased. Charles II. Pratt anC
|
missioners and appraisers. The will o
George w. Fisher was allowed and Lu
| cinda T. Fisher was appointed eXecutriX
n The account of James Carey administra
; tor of the Edmund Carey estate. wa:
= allowed. The account of a. p. Carpenter
- administrator of the Elmer w, Rabbit
!, estate of Nottingham. was allowed anC
v distribution was ordered. The accoun
n of George w. Wilder, executor of the will
r of Emma Alexander of Guilford. wa
d allowed.
The special train, bearing the so-cale,
S Ogden party on it's southern trip in tn
= interests of education, ran into a switcl
S engine early Saturday morning in tn
e yard of the Southern railway at Green
y vile, S. c. The engine and several car
= were wrecked. A flagman and three EN-
l, ployes of the dining cars were killed, an,
70 several of the Ogden party were injured
II Prof. Henry w. Farnum of Yale uni
versity had an arm broken and his hea'
+ badly bruised. St. Clair McKelway, edto
= of the Brooklyn Eagle, was pinione'
i under timbers and was dragged out un
v conscious when the flames We're reaching
d him. Several other prominent people VIII
d were in the dining car were slightly in
lie jured Among the people on the trail
IS who escaped uninjured were Rev. an
e Mrs. S. NJ. Crothers of Cambridge, Mass
,e formerly of Brattleboro, and Mr. and Mrs
d w. r. Moody of East Mortified TIL
director of the party, who was taking tn
= people South as his guests to attend tn
= eighth annual conference of education 4
= the South at Columbia, s. c., is RobeT
a C. Ogden, resident manager of Wana
= makers firm in New York city.
;; Four prisoners were taken from New
s. fame to Windsor Saturday by Sheriff
S. Frank w. Mcclure of Brattleboro an
S. Deputy Sheriff Kiniry of Windsor. The
s. were Harold Holbrook, one of the New
ID fame bank burglars, Clinton f. Clark O
Wilmington, convicted OF rape, Jane
Howard, another of the Newfane ban
"a burglars, and Felix Richards of Brattle
" boro, convicted of stealing $42 from II. {
70 | Winchester Holbrook was under setenc
" of not less than 10 years nor more tina
!. 10 years, Clark was under sentence O
:, not less than five years nor more than 81
70 years, and Richards was under sentenc
a of not less than two years nor more tina
~ two and a half years, all at hard labo
N in the state prison. Howard had bee
., at Newfane to testify in the case agains
N Holbrook They We're shacked togethe
, in twos. On Monday morning Sheriff
!, Mcclure brought John f. Mccarthy, on
=, of the Newfane bank burglars, to Brattle
h boro and delivered him to Constable HaT
"a of Springfield and Constable Taylor q
Windsor, who took him to Norfolk Va
to testify in three bank robbery case
and one conspiracy case Mccarthy wi
go south in July and again in Oct
ober to tell what he knows abou
re | various burglarieS.