Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-09-16

Fred Scott, -, son of Fred T. Scott Of
| Barre was run over and instantly killed
| by an electric car Saturday afternoon
The boy was riding his bicycle and start
ed across the tracks just as car came
along. He was lodging a wagon and II is
thought that he did not see the car.
The Colonial Danes of Vermont in COM
mon with members OF that society
| throughout the country are engaged in an
effort to raise at least S25. 600 toward the
erection of a building in Washington to
be known as the George Washington Me-
mortal building
Ezra Joseph Warner, 70. a prominent
Chicago merchant. native OF Middlebury
and giver Of Warner science hall to Mid
dlebury college, died Saturday. He grad
uated from Middlebury in 1861 and after
wards amassed a fortune in the whole
sale grocery business, using 1t gener-
ously.
While getting out sawdust under a cir
cular saw in the Sinner portable mill in
waterbury Sept s. Fred Walker straight
ened up until his head came in contact
with the under side OF a saw, and a cash
was cut through the skull. He was taken
to a hospital, where surgeons said the
brain was uninjured.
Fred NJ. Crosby. for the past IS months
managing editor Of the Middlebury Regis
ter, resigned his position at that office
saturday evening, to become superin-
tendent of the mechanical department OF
the st. Johnsbury Caledonian. Mr.. Cros-
by mas been connected with Addison
county newspapers many years.
Following a complaint against Rev. /.
| F. Fortney OF Plainfield for alleged breach
OF the peace. lodged by States Attorney
Gates the Universalist church of Plain
field has lodged a complaint against him.
and 1t is said the minister has withdrawn
from that fellowship. The rumor that he
] Al iG h..
HOLSTER OF Barre. president OF the state
| Universaist society
Without having been told of her daugh-
| ter's death Mrs. Mary A. Putnam OF
Montpelier died Sunday evening in the
nome OF her son-in-law, Henry A. Phelps
OF Barre while Mrs. Phelps lay dead in
an adjoining room. Mrs. Putnam was the
widow of Enoch ID. Putnam, for many
years a grocer in Montpelier. Her flu
neral took place Tuesday, the day fol-
lowing that Of her daughter.
The service of Setting apart" Miss
Louisa Brainard as a deaconess of the
Episcopal church was held in St Iuke's
church. st. Adams. Saturday morning
and was attended by a large congregation
made up largely of people from without
the city. Rev. Arthur c. A. Hall, bishop
of the diocease, officiated. This is the
first service of the kind ever held in
Vermont. Miss Brainard will be known
as Deaconess Louisa.
petition has been presented to the
Barre city council asking for an amend
ment to the city charter changing the
| hour of opening the polls at all elections
from O'Clock to o'clock in the morn
ing to accommodate the many voters who
go to work at o'clock and are always
obliged to lose a part of the day when
they cast their vote A special act of the
legislature to bring about a similar
change in Montpelier has resulted in
largely increased vote.
Rutland railroad express train struck
and instantly killed Harold Thompson,
son OF John Thompson of Centre Rutland
| Friday afternoon. The boy and some
companions were playing on a wall near
the track and just as the train reached
the spot the Thompson boy jumped down
in front of the locomotive. No blame is
attached to the engineer. The accident
/ happened within a few rods of the
Thompson home.
The body Of Mrs. Electa Weber Morse,
&c, of Rochester, who escaped from a
Burlington sanitarium, was found in the
woods mile from Burlington Saturday
by Clayton Taylor, a boy who was driv-
| ing cows home. Beside it was an empty
glass, which had contained carbolic acid,
and note saying that i'll health was the
cause Of suicide. Mrs. Morse wrote that
for the past year she had been haunted
by a spectre night and day. She was a
widow.