Vermont Phoenix from Brattleboro, Vermont • 10

10 BELLOWS FALLS. Judge Head's Withdrawal. Judge Lavant M. Read, who has been prominent caadidate for Congress to suecoed Gen. Grout, published yesterday in the local paper his withdrawal from the contest.

His letter, comments made by the Times upon it, are given elsewhere in this paper. The withdrawal is a matter of regret to hundreds of Mr. Read's friends in all parts of the state, and especially to the citizens of this town. It is deplored at this end of Windham county because the causes leading to it were such, as to compel a contest resulting in a probable division when he received unanimous support a year ago, contest which he declines to enter into, and which cannot fail of intensifying the sentiment here that the south part of this county has for many years ignored any rights of citizens of the north end. During the last 25 years Rockingham has not had a single important office in the state, while Brattleboro has held every one from the governorship down.

It has been the unfailing experience that when any position was asked for here the prize has been secured by some Brattleboro party stepping in and taking it, or trying to do so. We will not concede that we have not just as good material here, but we will concede the avariciousness of other localities, and our people are too easily induced to give up their rights. By every possible standard of measurement Judge Read was the man who should bave received the nomination, untrammeled by another candidate in the county. He is honorable in not descending to the usual political methods necessary to gain the place, but it is the strong conviction prevalent here that he could easily have secured the lead. Mrs.

Mary Brockway is in West Fitchburg with her daughter, Mrs. Lester Por- Mre. Eugene E. Keefe, accompanied by her little son, Ernest, has spent the past week in Boston. The E.

R. Robertson house on Hapgood street has been bought by Cushing Adams, who expects to occupy it soon. B. A. Putney of Lexington, 80- companied by his son James of Chicago, has spent the past few days in town.

The on Rockingham street lately run by one Jones has been bought by P. Pollard and J. H. Hume, who have taken possession. Mrs.

Albert Hammett, Mrs. Waldo Coolidge and Leon J. Ball were in Claremont the early part of the week, called there by the illness and death of their aunt, Mr. F. P.

Huntley. Mrs. Charles Martin of Bath, Maine, and Miss Kate Beaton of Prince Edward Island have been called here by the serious illness of Miss May Beaton, their niece and sister, at Daniel Beaton's, her uncle's. The ladies of the Universalist church will bold their annual fair in Union ball Thursday evening of next week. The sale of fancy articles will be held in the afterDOOD.

They will serve one of the fine suppers for which they are noted. Fourteen members of Holy Cross commandery of Knights Templar went to Olaremont Wednesday afternoon, notwithstanding the inclement day, and enjoyed the hospitality of Sullivan commandery, in connection with Beauseant commandery of Brattleboro. The Vermont Homeopathic Medical society held their 49th semi-annual meeting in the parlors of Hotel Rockingham Thursday afternoon and evening last. There was not a large attendance, but very profitable meeting was held. The next meeting occurs in May at Montpelier.

Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Wilder, of Boston, formerly organist and soprano at the Congregational church, occupied their old places in that church Sunday.

It was great pleasure to hear them again. They spent a few days with Mrs. Wilder's parents, Mr. and Mra. C.

H. Sawyer. The High school had solid session Monday on account of the foot ball game played in the afternoon on Drislane's field, between Bellows Falls High school and Brattleboro High school teams. The game re salted in 11 to 6 in favor of the later, will be seen by the detailed report in another column. Miss Lulu Lewis and Harry Wyman were in Springfield Wednesday and Thursday the Epworth League convention delegates from the local league, Mrs.

E. Rowell, Misses Ingenue Fassett Lulu Hart and the pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. F. W. Lewis, were also in attendance.

The Dewey fair of the Woman's Relief corps Tuesday evening was a decided success, netting them about $40 to add to the monument fund. The ball was tastefully trimmed with our national colors, with the face of Admiral Dewey peeping out here and there. A sailor's cap was on exhibition which was worn on board the Olym- The audience who gathered in the Universalist church Monday evening to hear Rev. Albert Hammatt's lecture on "NorWAY, or the Land of the Midnight Sun," were both entertained and instructed. The lecture was illustrated with about 100 stereopticon views, which Rev.

J. E. Farrow exhibited. The lecture was given under auspices of the ladies' aid society of the church. Free delivery of the mails was begun Wednesday morning, one monta later than was at first expected it would begin.

It was rather an unfortunate day for it to be inangurated, being rainy, and the day for the Youths' Companion, making a very heavy mail. The frat rounds would nedeswarily take longer than when the carriers are used to their routes, but with these added is wan impossible for them to get around on time. For the first time since the frat of July the mills under the hill" have been running full time during the whole of this week, and there is a surplus of water ranover the flash boards of the dam loss caused to the manufacturing interhere, because of low water bas many exceeded that of any previous year. The rain and the prospect of its continu-: hailed with delight by hundreds of Bellows Falls citizens. The Christian Endeavor society of the Con church feel that they Are much honored, in that one of th Ir fifth Col.

Edward C. Ongood, has for P. time been chosen president of the Vermont Christian Endeavor union. This the third year in succession, with of bae year between them and the in the office before, When his placed before the convention it was received with great epemphasised by giving him the laying of the and the grading road, has been completed of Bookingham street down Atkinson street of that street and With the of completing THE VERMONT PHONIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, NOV EMBER 8, after which games and music were enjoyed. Henry Tenney expects to go to Boston Tuesday, and the following day will sail from there upon one of the Boston Fruit company's vessels, the Admiral Dewey, for the island of Jamaica.

Mr. Tenney will be accompanied by Edward Arms of Bellows Falls, and they Intend being absent all winter. The harvest drill and supper was deserving of a larger patronage, but undoubtedly the stormy evening prevented many from attending. The 16 young women gowned In white with red stocks and belts looked very charming and performed the different changes in the drill in a pleasing manner. After the entertainment G.

H. Walker took several photographs of the group by flash light. GRAPTON. Willis White and wife of Greenville, have been vlaiting at his father's, W. L.

White's. The Chester stage route changed hands Nov. 1. Warren Hasselune taking Gerald Prouty's place as mail carrier. Commencing Nov.

2 the town library will be open on Thursdays from 4 to 6 P. M. and on Saturdays from 6 to 8 P. M. Mrs.

Charles G. Farrar and son, Kenneth, have recently visited here, but they returned to their home in Newport, this state, on Tuesday last, taking Mrs. Maria F. Walker with them. Miss Abbie Palmer's school at Athens closed last Friday and she was at home over Sunday, but has spent the week with her brother, Francis, at South Londonderry, where he has been teaching.

There was a quiet wedding at the home of Mrs. Henry Willard on Wednesday, Nov. 1, when her youngest daughter, Miss Florence M. Willard, became the wife of M. L.

Hawley of Northampton, Mass. George W. Swazey of Penobscot, was in town on Monday last and took the deed of the farm owned by the late Peter W. Deane, which was occupied for so many years by the late E. J.

Pollard. Mr. 8wazey will spend the winter lumbering in northern Vermont. CHEATER. The store of Adams Davis was broken Into Wednesday night of last week.

small amount of money and suit of clothes were taken. The thieves entered through back window, and seemed to know just where to find what they wanted. Adin Haseltine, formerly of Andover, and Miss Cora Garfield, formerly of Chester, were married here Thursday afternoon at the Congregational parsonage, Rev. Henry L. Ballon performing the ceremony, Mr.

and Mrs. Haseltine are to live in New York. WEST DOVER. James Kent of Montpelier is trying to start a class in penmanship. W.

L. Upton has bills out for dance Nov. 8 at Green Mountain Inn. Mrs. J.

J. Snow, who has been very sick for some time, is now only just alive. Miss Daisy Negus of Millers Falls, a trained nurse, is caring for her cousin, Mrs. J. Snow.

The ladies' aid society will meet with Mra. W. H. Mann next Wednesday afternoon. All are invited.

Frank. Russell, who has been visiting his brother, Charles, in Shushan, N. Y. returned home last Saturday. His brother came with him, returning Monday, We have not heard that any of the hunters who have been out for the past ten days after deer were successful.

Perhape some of the young hunters may bave found one. Judge Read Withdraws. He WIll Not Candidate for Eleelion to Congress Next Year. the Bellows Falls Times of this The follawing will be read with sincere regret by the friends of Judge L. M.

Read, not only in Windham county, but through- out the second congressional district and the state at large: Mr. Editor: -Since the last congressional convention it has been generally understood that I would be a candidate for nomination by the convention to be held next year, and whea Inquired of I have made answer that I still the to take my chancel with the rest. AB matters have shaped themselves, it has become apparent that to hope for succeeD I. must enter upon contest requirio perronal effort on my part in the way of soliciting the support of friends and of people supposed to have in their respective 1. calities.

This I am unwilling to do. I have no upon the office or upon the people, and in fact have had enough of politics. I deem it bent therefore to announce through the Times that Lam no longer a candidate. My withdrawal to in the Interest of no particular person, L. M.

READ. No thoughtful, unprejudiced person can read this candid, clear-cut statement without admiring the man back of It- the man, who, in spite of so-called modern methods in politica, still holds to the policy which has become little more than tradition, that the office should seek the man. Ic is a sad comment on current political methods when the doors of political preferment are barred to our ablest men, our worthiest citizens, because to win there must be "personal effort in soliciting support, highly distasteful to any man with the lenat regard for ethics. It Is true that Judge Read's standard is too high, too ideal, for a subsidised and polluted political arena, yet it is the standard of the best citizenship and the greatest statesmen in the earlier history of both the nation and the state. The Times had sincerely hoped that notwithstanding the multiplicity of candldates Judge Read would consent to again become a candidate and at least stake the outcome on a fight in Windbam county.

While we think he was entitled to the united support of the county in the next convention, and that, if there had been no other candidate in this county, be would have received the nomination and election, we also believe that with another candidate, he could have caally secured a jority of the county delegates. In such an event, and especially with the showing made in the convention last year, Any other candidate from this county would hate allowed his name to go before the convention with results disastrous to his ambition. Judge Read, however, says he has had enough of politics and his friends must abide by the decision. In hie refusal to again become candidate, the district loses the possible services of an able man and a patriotic, conscientious citizen with high civie and political standards. John Alexander Downier a divine er, was mobbed it Hammond, Ind.

few nighta ago, while attempting to deliver address. He chased down by a yelling He trolley cars chead of His 1898. village Tuesday evening, and cabbages, squashes, pumpkins and other, vegetables were left by them at many doors. A Hallowe'en party was held by the Christian Endeavor society at the Congregational church in which entertainment and fun was, mingled with tricks suitable to the evening. The proceeds of the small admission fee and the candy pull gives the society something more than $10 to apply on the $100 they have pledged for the sonage fund.

The Daughters of Erin held a Hallo ve'en party at the Hibernian ball, and various private ones were given. The rain the latter part of the evening interfered with outside fun. Death of Patten B. Ober, Patten B. Ober, whose death was recorded in last week's issue, had been In poor health for many years and since last January, when he had an attack of the grip, he never seemed to rally and his disease, from which he suffered so many years, took a cancerous form and up to the time of his death, Friday, Oct.

18, he WAS constant sufferer. The funeral WAS largely attended Monday at 2 o'clock, Rev. G. F. Chapin of this place and Rev.

Mr. Marggraf of Bellows Falls officiating. Mr. Ober was born Feb. 28, 1820, at the old Ober homestead now occupied by his only surviving brother, Rodney Ober, the farm having been in the Ober family since first cleared and settled by the Obers.

He was married March 18, 1850, to Lucy A. Minard, who survives him. with four children, two sons and two daughters, John T. of this place, Harry O. of Boston, Mrs.

W. H. Greene of Charlestown, and Miss Carrie, who is left at the home with her mother. A veteran of the civil war, servIng bio country with credit, also being greatly Interested in educational matters, he always spent much time and thought in the welfare of our public schools. Rev.

Mr. Piddock spent Sunday with friends here. Miss Coughlin, the trained nurse, Is home for a visit and rest. Mr. Clough, and his brother visited relatives at Londonderry Monday.

Mrs. P. R. Tower is spending the week with her daughter at Brattleboro. Mr.

Adams, who bought the Cassidy farm, takes possession this week. John Eastman moved into the Searles bouse on River street early in the week. Mrs. Emerson of Newport, N. WAS a guest of her sister, Mrs.

Hilliard, early in the week. Charles Frost has been in the village for some days putting his place in order for the winter. The Kurn Hattin boys and their teacher, James Maynard, gave entertainment at Fuller ball Monday evening. Mr. Alexauder is putting down some.

pipe to convey his enlarged water supply to his numerous patrons of the village. The funeral of Susan Farnsworth, only daughter of William Farns worth of Chester, was held Wednesday. The burial was in the village cemetery. Several people from this village attended the centennial on Tuesday at Westminster West. The occasion proved one of rare and very special interest.

The Bancrofts purpose to shut up Maple Grove mansion at once for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft will visit in Worcester, Boston and New York before going Buffalo. Miss Fanny Pettengill visted Wednesday with her sister at Mount Holyoke college.

From there she goes to New York city for visit of some weeks with Mr. and Mrs. George Pettengill. Mr. Clough and family bad the pleasure en Friday to welcome his brother, J.

L. Clough, of Cambridgeport, and his sister, Mrs. F. C. Smith of South Windham, and children.

The brother and sister continued their visit until Tuesday, Mr. Clough and his nephew, Fay Smith, were thrown from his carriage at Pine Hill Saturday evening, but fortunately were not bart. Mr. Moulthrop was tipped out of his carriage and had the misfortune to break several ribs near Sabin's bridge Saturday morning. CAMBRIDGEPORT.

Mrs. 8. J. Weaver went to Boston on the excarsion of Oct. 24 for two weeks' visit.

A bout 80 friends of Mr.and Mrs. Nelson Pierce gathered at their home Thursday evening of last week and gave them a farewell surprise party. They were presented with a bandsome hat rack. The best wishes of many friends go with them to their new home in Bellows Falls. WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Stearns, collector for The BAXTONS RIVER. is in town this week. Monroe Sleeper of Boston is at his father's, B. F.

Sleeper's. Mrs. G. H. DeBevoise is entertaining her sister from Brooklyn, N.

Y. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hills and daughter of Springfield are at D. A.

Hille's. The King's Daughters met with Mrs. Starkey at the Home on Monday afternoon. Edward Banks of Brattleboro de spending some time with his son, Geo. N.

Banks. Mr. Puffer of Malta, and his brother of N. visited at A. M.

Ranney's last week. H. F. Bond had force of men employed taking down his tobacco during the damp days this week. Miss Grace M.

Chase will go to Boston every fortnight during the winter to continge her musical studies. The Washington despatches announce that Ruth H. Spencer has been granted an original widow's pension of $12 a month. It la reported that the farm belonging to the late Chas. Peck will soon be offered for sale by the administrator, Geo.

N. Banks. A delegation from this village went to Westminster West Tuesday to attend the church centennial. All report a very enjoyable time. Walton P.

Farr was in Woodstock last week In attendance upon the Vermont State Christian Endeavor convention, go1ng as a delegate from the local society, There will be an suction Tuesday clock P. on Walker's plazas, of the household goods of Monroe Sleeper. Geo. P. Parker of Putney will be the auctioneer.

The annual business meeting of the Portnightly club will be held with Miss Suste Kellogg on Monday evening. Everyone interested cordially invited to be present The following teachers went to Brattleboro Thursday to attend the teachers convention: Misses Banner, a Johnson and Richardson, and Superintendent of Schools Jan. Sneak chloven are again very much In evidence Mrs. M. E.

Jennison' a pantry was entered sometime Saturday night, and everything estable was taken, and the visited to remind Humanity Demands Them 2 Humanic Shoes for Men. Justice to your feet demands that you wear Hu-man-ic shoes! They fit the feet comfortably and perfectly and wear well. Price $4 a Pair. DUNHAM BROTHERS Brattleboro and Bellows Falls. Convict Coburne Recaptured.

William H. Coburne, who escaped -from the state prison at Windsor last Monday, was recaptured at Randolph yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Lamson. Coburne was the fret convict to escape from the state prison since 1887. He re garded as a prisoner, as he had good record for behavior, and lacked only three months of completing his sentence. The engineers and fremen of the Ratland road also bave grievance.

They have demanded substantially the things asked for and obtained by the Central Vermont men. Chas. E. Jenkins, 52, committed suicide early Wednesday morning at Bradford by cutting his throat. He was a member of the Arm of Brown Jenkins, dealers in meat and vegetables.

The private banking house of Woodbury Moulton at Portland, Maine, one of the largest financial institations In the state, made an assignment yesterday. The Habilities "are $700,000. The Arm held about $200,000, the property of small depositors. Rollin Lynde Hartt, whose recent sparkling and incisive Atlantic articles "The Montanians" and New England, Hill Town have delighted all readers and brought out the widest and abarpest sion, contributes to the November Atlantic The an equally lively and controversy-provoking sketch of the his tory, general characteristics, and. "pretidential" capacities of the Inhabitants of the Buckeye state.

0 M. Barber, state auditor, appeared before the supreme court and made an argument in a friendly suit brought by Alland G. Fay, justice of the peace in Washington county, against the auditor to determine the court fees, if any, that should be allowed justices and prosecuting officers in cases where unsuccessful searches are made for intoxicating liquors. Mr. Barber has refused to audit the bills of costs in cases of searches where no liquor has been found.

One of the city grocers recolves large quantities of egge from bis rural customera In exchange for his merchandise, says the Now England Grocer. I never know him to get hold of the small end of bargala except on one occasion. One day a meek -looking farmer came into his store and saked him what he was paying for eggs. cents dozen." do you pay for nice large eggs? cents. you mean to say that you pay DO more for large than you do for small the farmer with a surprised No, "Do you really mean to tell me that you will not PAY a cent more for large, fresh eggs than you do for little the farmer questioned, bis apparent ment becoming interesting to who was even then gloating he would have to ate of critical elty UNo, my friend, I can for much get for the large of no for the I don't sort of bod abject HO to hi the his trip; MEN'S HIGH CLASS STYLISH TAILORED SUITS AND OVERCOATS.

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PERRY. Clothier. Hatter. The Mile Record. Distance runners have always regarded the hour record as in important one.

For years L. Bennett, better known Seneca Indian, held the record at 11 miles 970 yards. He set up these Agure at Brompton, England, In 1863. In 1884 W. G.

George made an attack on "Deerfoot's" mark and was well inside the time up to the seventh mile when storm of rain made him loss his advantage and he failed by just 32 yarde. In June, 1897, F. E. Bacon, another famous English runner, attacked the hour record, and, with Harry Watkins as pacemaker, went the distance of 11 miles 1243 varda Watkins was quite a factor in the result and afterwards declared he could beat Bacon's figures if given the opportunity. He made the attempt recently at Rochdale, England, and justified his prediction by covering 11 miles 1280 yards in 00 minutes.

He also wiped out the best on, record for 10 miles by going the distance in 51m. 5 1-55. Mayor Roberta of Burlington has called special city meeting for Nor. 10 to the city will instruct the county commissloper to recall the license of the city nOr Agency and close the place. The call is in response to a petition saking that such action be taken, signed by some of the business men of the city.

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