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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
WESTMINSTER WEST.

The Grange held its annual supper
Thursday evening, Jan. s.
Q. b Clara of PruyinCctown, Mass is
at his fathers, J. II. Clark's
J. O. Codding went back to his school
in Hinesburg the first of the week.
Miss Nellie Cutting after spending
two weeks vacation At home, returned
to take up her school work in Hamilton.
Mass, last Saturday.
Henry Ranney and Ralph Harlow Of
Brattleboro high school have gone back
to take up the school work after the win
ter vacation. Miss Lizzie Ranney Of the
same school, who has been at home i'll
since Thanksgiving, is still unable to
return.
At a recent meeting OF the Sunday
school the old officers were reelected
Walter Buxton. superintendent; r.. II.
Ranney, assistant superintendent Mrs.
T. c. Fisher secretary and treasurer.
Mrs. r. ii. Ranney was chosen superin
tendent Of the home department.
At the annual church meeting last Sat
urday, good number of members and
their families being present dinner pro-
vided by the committee was partakeu Of
at noon in the veshy, after which meet
ing was held in the audience room of the
church and reports were listened to from
various departments of the organization,
which showed things to be in good con-
dltlOn generally. j ne DeneNOlenCeS were
somewhat increased from last year.
The following is from the Columbus
| Wisconsin, Republican of Dec 20: AN
other of the old settlers of this vicinity
passed away in the person of Mrs. o, r.
Lucy. She was born at Westminster
West, Vermont, Jan. 21, 1928. She was
the daughter of Robert r. and Polly
Miller, and on April %, 1S4s, was married
| to O. r. Lucy In the early summer OF the
year of her marriage, in company with her
husband, she removed to Wisconsin and
| settled on the farm where for many years
| she has continuously resided, and where
on Monday of this week she died. Mrs.
Lucy was the mother of six children,
| two of whom, Cornelia, and Mrs. c. Hop
lIins, have preceded her into the great be-
| You'd. Her surviving children are Edwin,
| Cheney o., Walter r., and Mrs. Fred
Hurd. She was buried from the old
| homestead on Wednesday of this week at
| one o'clock, the Rev. Herbert Hopkin,
\ pastor of Olivet Congregational church,
| officiating. The very large number of
sorrowing friends who gathered at the
house, and followed the remains to their
last resting place in the Columbus ceme-
| terry, showed the warm place which Mrs.
Lucy occupied in the affections of all
who knew her"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11

men escaped, leaving no clue to their
identity Slater leaves a widow and two
daughters.
All the negro troops of the regular army
the 9th and 10 cavalry and 25th infan-
trN-havc been ordered to the Philippines
The assignment has no connection with
the Brownsville agitation, as it is now the
turn of these regiments to take their
share of the foreign service. While i'm
the Philippines soldiers receive 20 per
cent more pay and one year counts as two
years toward retirement
John c. Seufert, a fireman of the New
York city fire department, was rescued
tuesday after an experience rivaling that
of Miner Hicks i'm California. lie was
buried under an immense pile of debris
by the collapse of a burned paper ware
house in Roosevelt street and was under
the ruins 80 hours before his fellow fire
men succeeded in reaching him Two other
tiremen who won't down in the wreck
were killed. 1t was supposed that Seu-
fert had persisted until his signals by rap
ping were heard.
Postmaster General George Il. Cortel-
you resigned Monday as chairman of the
Republican national committee. Harry 5.
New, vice chairman, will become acting
chairman. Mr.. New is publisher of the
Indianapolis Journal and son of John
{. New, famous politician. Mr.. Cortcl-
you is slated to succeed Leslie NJ. Shaw
as secretary of the treasury upon the re-
tiremcnt of the latter, within a few
weeks. Mr.. Cortolyou has had a remark
able career, having risen from the posi-
ton of a department clerk. He was stem
ographer for President Cleveland, assist
ant secretary and secretary to President
Mckinley and secretary to President
Roosevelt, also the first secretary of the
department of commerce and labor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
LIneoId as a Man Of letters.

Nothing could have amazed Mr.. Lincoln
more thar to hear himself called man OF
letters: and yet IL would be hard to find
in all literature anything to excel the
breVity and beauty of his address at
Gettysburg or the lofty grandeur of this
second inaugural In Europe his style
has been called model for the study
and imitation of princes, while in our
own country many of his phrases have
already passed into the daily speech of
mankind,
His gift of putting things simply and
clearly was partly the habit of his own
clear mind, and partly the result of the
training he gave himself in days of boy
ish poverty, when paper and ink were
luxuries almost beyond his reach, and
the words he wished to set down must be
the best words, and the clearest and
shortest to express the ideas he had in
view This training of thought before
expression, OF knowing exactly what he
wished to say before saying 1t, stood him
in good stead all his life; but only the
mind of a great man, with a lofty soul
and a poets vision; one who had suffered
deeply and felt keenly; who carried the
burden of a nation on his heart, whose
sympathies were as broad and whose
kindness was as great as his moral pur-
pose was strong and firm, could have
written the deep, forceful, convincing
words that fell from his pen in the latter
years of his life. It was the life he lived.
the noble aim that upheld him. as well
as the genius with which he was born,
that made him one of the greatest writ
ers of our time.-[ Boys Life of Lincoln
in st. Nicholas Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
VERMONT BRIEFS.

Fire al Bristol Monday destroyed f. G.
Lavarn's saw mill and machinery and
c. II. Mayo & Co S machinery and stock
Edward Potter. carpenter employed in
the construction of the Hulett building i'm
Rutland, was fatally injured Tuesday.
He lost his balance and fell 25 feet from
staging to the ground. He was uncon-
scious when picked up and died in a short
time.
j. F. Mahoney, chief of police in St
Adams, who brought a prisoner to the
house of correction in Rutland Friday for
confinement, had to take the man back
The officer was ignorant of the new state
law, which makes it obligatory for per-
sons convicted of intoxication and breach
OF the peace to serve their sentences in
the counties where they were convicted.
Matvi Lapac, 25 a Poander, was in
stantly killed by the falling Of a load OF
marble blocks at Proctor. while at work.
He was pinned down and his skull frac-
tured, both legs broken, his chest crushed.
He was also injured internally Iapac
was on the loading dock, with other
workmen stacking up and loading marble.
Suddenly pile of three heavy pieces
which Lepac had just placed in position
toppled over and fell on him His parents
live in Poland. but he has a brother liv-
ing in Proctor.
Walter Granger, son Of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles II. Granger of Rutland, sailed
Saturday from New York on a fossil
hunting expedition to the bad lands Of
Egypt, in the interest Of the American
Museum of Natural History, New York.
Mr.. Granger has been connected with the
museum 16 years and has collected
hundreds of fossils of reptiles and mann
mails in the western states. chief Of which
is the broHtosaurus, now on exhibition at
the museum He goes to Africa under
the direction of Prof Henry Fairfield
och of 1aa don artr ont of
paleontoogy. The expedition will touch
at the Azores, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples
and Algiers, and will disembark at Alex
andria, They will work in the Fayum
basin, so miles from Cairo, the bad lands
| being similar 10 the Wyoming fields.
| Englishmen have been successful in col
| lecting there during the last five years.
| Unless they have exceptional success the
Americans will leave Naples for home
| March 20.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES.

Raymond, 5, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Willis of South Ashfeld, died
Monday from diphtheria. Another son,
aged eight, died the previous Wednesday
from the same disease The only sur
viving child in the family is a girl Of
three.
Thomas Carey 81, died of pneumonia
in Gill Friday. He was widely known as
a farmer, trapper and trader. Years ago
he was very sHilful in securing the skins
of wild animals. He was a genuine
Yankee and delighted i'm making a trade.
For Is years and until his last sickness
he had lived alone. He is survived by two
sons.
Representative Lyman w. Griswold has
filed an nti-discriminatory bill in the
Massachusetts Legislature, designed to
protect independent oil dealers from un-
fair competition of the Standard Oil COM
pany. The bill was practically recon-
mended by Gov. Guild in his message and
similar measures have become laws in
Kansas and other Western states, where
they are said to have worked WELL and are
to be recommended by several governors
to their legislatures, including Gov. Folk
of Missouri. The bill would prevent the
Standard from selling oil at a lower price
in Springfield and other places than in
Boston, to drive out such people as the
Hisgen Brothers, who are selling indie
pendent oil.
Mr. and Mrs, William l.. Cmtterbuck
of Sc Chapman street Greenfield, had
been married so years Jan. s, but owing
10 the condition of Mrs. ClutterbuCk, who
is recovering from an illness of several
months the event was not celebrated.
Mr. Clutterbuck is a native of Manches-
ter England. Mrs. Clutterbuck's maiden
name was Frances Moore and she was
born in Wardsboro, Vt. Her father died
when she was a child and she was adop-
ted by Moses Bennett of Salisbury. Their
wedding took place in Fitzwilliam, n.
II. There are two sons living, william
who lives in Fitchburg, and George, a
| resident of Holyoke. daughter died
at the age of six years. Mr. and Mrs
| Clutterbuck lived "a years in Baldwins-
vile, where Mr.. Clutterbuck was en-
ployed in a chair factory Their home
! has been in Greenfield the past p years
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
GRAFTON.

Erwin Watrous is at home.
Miss Amy Davis is spending a few days
i'm Putncy.
D. d. Kent is occupying John McGrecn's
blacksmith shop.
Miss s l.. Daniels is spending the win
ter in New York city.
f. w. Cove went to Wlmot, y. H.,
Monday for few days stay.
Miss Annie Blodgett Of Saxtons River
is the guest Of Miss May Thompson.
Mrs Matte Prouty and daughters have
been visiting relatives in Bartonsvillc.
Union services have been held here this
week in observance Of the week of prayer.
Miss Bertha Bacon Of Bellows Falls
has been spending a few days with Mrs
+. w Cove.
DIT Han staples OF Waltham, Mass.
was at W. r L. Walkers from Saturday
until Monday.
The ladies Of the Congregational So
cicty will serve an oyster supper at the
chapel Tuesday evening Jan. Is.
Mrs. O. l. Wilson and sons, who spent
several weeks in Newport. y. H., return
ed to their home here last week
Among those on the sick list are Mrs.
]. W. Eddy. Mrs. James Stowcll. Mrs.
j. Henry Stowell and Harvey Hemcnway.
Chaplin Howard entertained his friend.
II. T. Seidenstickcr Of Yale university.
from Thursday until Tuesday OF this
week.
Mrs. /. NJ. Clarke left Tuesday for
WaukcEan. H., where she will spend the
rest OF the winter with her son. +. l..
Clarke.
The annual roll call Of the ConErega-
tional church was held in the chapel
Thursday afternoon. Jan. 3. in connection
with the preparatory lecture and annual
business meeting Of the church Greet
ings were received from several absent
members and J. II. Bradford OF Washing
ton. a son OF a former pastor.
The following is OF interest to pcopl"
! here, as Prof Wilson'S summer home is
| in Grafton: The president and fellows
/ OF Harvard university announced tho sc-
/ lection Of George Grafton Wilson, Phi. D,
/ OF Providence. r. l.. an eminent Amcri-
/ can economist and sociologist. as lecturer
/ on international law in the Harvard law
| school during the remainder Of tn" cur
! rent year. Or. Wilson will conduct some
/ OF the courses formerly given by Prof
| Strobel who resigned the professorshp
/ of international law recently To serve the
/ government Of Siam in the capacity ~
/ legal adviser Or Wilson received the
/ degrees Of \. b. a NJ. and Pm u. from
Brown. and later studied at several
/ French. German and English universities.
/ specializing in economies ana sociology.
] He is author of several works on these
I subjects which are held i'm high "stima-
/ ton by modern educators. The appoint
/ ment is temporary and lasts until the
/ termination Of the current academic year,
but II Is probable that II DR.. Wilson finds
/ his work satisfactory he will be retained
/ longer by the Harvard law school in
/ asmuCh as the latter considers itself very
/ Fortunate 10 obtain his sorvices-[ From
| Boston Daily Globe, Jan. .
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11

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rev. W. +. NnlIcomp attended the
ill"'S'ers "'ee'l"b III Nc'no u'SuaN'
After the morning service last Sunday
SIX young people united with the church.
j. W. kcrwin of stony Brook Mass.
was a guest over Sunday Of MIR. and Mrs.
W. 5 Fem
Duane Ellis has bought the real estate
on upper Main street formerly owntd by
Mrs. William Cole
Miss Eliza wilkins will go this week
to Susauebanna. Pa. to spend the re-
mainder of the winter with a sister.
p L tIarris o,d s,r,n,. md >trs p,ro
and son. guests AT Madam SEEMS, have
returned to their home i'm Kingsburv.
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very uuIaNorap'S' goo" q""'l'N OF Ice
mas oeeh secured
MIS-. D. l. ntIpS mas gone 10 h"S'oh TO
say t"v IelllHilueI "I inc "'"lcI, S'ld
lor FneIps VIII spehu part oil 'he time
with her IN b"S'oh.
Boyden Grange held its annual meeting
last Friday evening. After the Install
alton of officers a chicken-pie supper was
served. Changers from Walpole, SaNtons
River, Westminster West and Rocking
ham were present
4 historic gift has been recently made
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11

A suit of custer against Mayor Nc
Clellan was brought in the New YORK
supreme court by Attorney General jack
son. in the name of the people OF the
state. 1t is alleged that w. r. Hearst
was legally elected to the mayoralty III
1905.
Scranton, Pa, a city of 10000 popula-
ton has had over 1000 cases OF typhold
fever within a few weeks and about oo
deaths. The infection came from contain
mated water. There has been similar
trouble in Pittsburg Pa, with about the
same number of cases as in Scranton
A petition in bankruptcy against former
Mayor Josiah Quincy was filed in Boston
recently by creditors holding notes for
$1,000. Mr. Quincy in a statement, ad >
mitted his inability to meet claims against
him and said that his liabilities, incurred
through misplaced confidence in former
business associate, would aggregate
$3.50 1000
Samuel Slater, so, the night Waterman
at the dye works of the Saylesville bleach-
cry, in Providence, r. l., was shot ana
killed early Tuesday by burglar. Slater
discovered two men in the finishing room
and when he demanded their business
one of them shot him in the stomach. The
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
E. H. Harrlman's Enormous influence in
Railroad World.

The enormous extent of the influence of
y H. Hartman in the railroads of Amer
lea was revealed al a hearing before the
interstate commerce commission at New
York Friday, when it was admitted that
the Union Pacific Railroad company, the
Southern Pacific company, the Oregon
Short Line and the Oregon railroad and
navigation company are practically under
the same administration, Mr.. Hartman
appearing as president of each company,
with but slight variation in the lists of
the other officers. The Hartman inter-
cSts also control three big ocean steam
ship companies with lines of steamers
running between San Francisco and Port
land and ports of the Orient, and the
Morgan line of steamers plying between
New York and New Orleans. The So
called Hartman companies also have
large holdings of stocks in many other
railroads. and since July l. 1906, have
bought stock to the aggregate value OF
sos 293, 745 In the Illinois Central Baltl-
more & Ohio, New York Central, Chi
cago & Northwestern, Chicago, Milwau-
kee &, St. Paul, and st. Joseph and Grand
Isle railroads. When inquiry was made
as TO where this immense sum came from
to purchase the stocks the reply was that
the Union Pacific showed last July a
surplus of $51, OOO,O 900; that the oregon
Short line declared a dividend OF so per
cent. on its stock, held by the Union Pa
cifc and in addition contributed out OF
its general assets TO the purchase money
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
STATIONS RIVER.

Mrs Lula Rawson returned to her work
in Brattlcboro Sunday.
Mrs Dora ODER of Athens visited Mrs.
c. l.. Gale Wednesday.
Fred and Simon Davis Of Alstcad Wis
tied their mother Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Gale of Towns
bend visited at w. a. Marvin's Sunday.
Mrs Kitty Smith and Miss Bonnylin Of
Athens visited Mrs G. l.. Gale Thursday.
Ray Swan has finished work in the
wooden mill and gone to Maynard Mass,
tn work.
Mrs. otis Wilson and two children of
Grafton, were at G, n. Smiths Thursday
and Friday.
Charlie Tcnncy moved from Rocking
ham last week to the Westgate house on
Pleasant street
Nial and Harry Bemis Of Athens have
been in town with a machine saving
wood for different people
Mr.. and Mrs Curtis Drolett moved
Monday from the Frost building TO West
minister street in Bellows Falls.
c. II. Shcpardson and d. f. Pollard, who
bought the goods in Moore's cash store,
have moved them to Bellows Falls.
WIN Stoodley and son. Curtis have re-
turned to Hiusdalc after spending several
days with Mr.. Stoodleys daughter, Mrs
Ray Swan
The games OF hockey on John Austin's
meadow Monday between the team from
Proctor and Vermont academy resulted
in a score of . to o in favor Of Proctor.
Ellsworth Richardson's house was quar-
rantncd sunday for diphthcria. Hattie,
daughter was sick. ana since then
Marion her younger sister, has been
taken with II.
The quarantine for scarlet fever has
been taken from Mrs. Joe Smiths house.
Miss Daisy Houghton is sick with the
fever at her home at Barber park Her
sister. stella. and father are staying in
Bellows Falls, and a brother, Don, is at
L l.. knnMltnm,s.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
THE HEART CAN'T STAND RHEU-
MATIc ACID POISONING.
To Free and Correct the Blood a Urlc-o
Treatment Is Advised.


There is great danger in those sharp,
shooting pains through the chest around
the region of the heart. 1t means that
poisonous uric and rheumatic acid are
there ready to spring and grip ushtly
the muscles controlling the hearts ac-
ton. Don't neglect these warnings, they
are the danger signals nature flashes to
YOU for help. You must neutrallze ana
drive these dangerous poisons from the
system, or sooner or later they Will over
come you. ,--.. IL.
The only true way to cure rheumatism
is to get at 1t from the inside with Urlc-O
1t acts with marvellous swiftness upon the
muscles kidneys and blood. Clears out
the sand-like deposits in the muscles
forces the kidneys to perform those du,
ties for which they were designed ana
neutralizes the acid within the blood;
Your physician will admit that this is
the only true way to cure rheumatism
permanently, and should know. that
tJric-O is the one remedy that will do II
successfully and permanently. Uric-O IS
a LIQUID taken internally, three times daily
and does not contain a drop of alchohol,
opium or other dangerous poisons. IT is
good for rheumatism In any form. Sclat-
lea. muscular, infammatory and articular
rheumatism all yield readily to Uric-O.
THE store of the Brooks House Pharmacy
Is the home of Uric-O in Brattleboro and
n YOU call there they can tell you Of many
wonderful cures that Uric-O has made
right here in your own home town. lie
sells II for use and 81 the bottle or you
can obtain a trial bottle free by writing
fo the makers of Uric-O, the Smith Drug
Co, Syracuse, N. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Bomb Thrown in Fourth St.
National Bank, Philadelphia
Cashier and the Man Who Demanded
Loan of $4,000 Killed, Score Of People
Injured and Bank Wrecked.


Two men were killed, a score injured,
two probably fatally, and the interior of
the Fourth Street National bank building
at Philadelphia wrecked Saturday, by the
explosion of a bomb dropped by man
who had demanded loan of $4,000. The
bomb thrower was blown to pieces, In
fragment of his clothing was found
bunch of keys marked r. Steele, Garner,
la. The other man killed was w. u. Nc
Lear cashier of the bank. man
answering the description of the bomb
thrower earlier in the day demanded a
loan of $500 from the Equitable Trust
company on securities which he claimed
to have. A stranger, poorly dressed, who
looked like a Russian and carried a small
parcel, walked into the Fourth Street
National bank shortly before 10 O'Clock,
and succeeded in gaining admission to the
office of the president, r. II. Rushton,
He said his name was G.. +. Williams and
that he wanted to borrow $4,000. Mr..
Rushton was convinced that the man was
a crank but was not apprehensive OF
danger. He directed the man to the cash
Ter in the banking department, and then
called a colored messenger, William
Crump, to see that the man was taken
out of the building The stranger de-
manded the $4,000 of the cashier and on
being refused the money threw the bomb
on the floor. The terrific explosion fol-
lowed, killing McLear and blowing the
bomb thrower to pieces. Crump. the
colored messenger, made an heroic at
tempt to seize the parcel which the man
was about to drop. but was an instant
too late. Crump was badly torn and If he
survives his terrible injuries Will be bind.
A man named Robert Steele formerly
lived in Garner, Iowa. He left there six
years ago. after he had failed in business
and later was on the police force in Chi
CagO.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11
Gregory's Seeds.

Year after year, for over half a century
thousands of practical gardeners and
planters, both in the United States and
Canada, have been planting Gregory's
seeds, and they have done so because
they know that these seeds have all been
thoroughly tested, and the results are
always satisfactory. All growers of veg
etables flowers and fruit should secure a
copy of Gregory's new catalogue for 1907.
1t is rich in practical instruction. Adj
dress J. J. II. Gregory & Son, Marblehead,
Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11

Theodosia Garrison and Frances NJ.
Livingston have collaborated on the novel
which takes up the first portion Of the
1872 pages of the Peoples Magazine for
February. This story, entitled THE Last
Van CleeVe," deals with the life of the
three remaining members of a proud and
once wealthy metropolitan family. The
piteous pretenses of the mother and elder
daughter, the fine sincerity and courage
Gus self reliance of the younger and more
likeable sister, are well contrasted Two
love stories run side by side in the novel,
which also shows not little of the life
of a comic opera troupe on the road.