Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-22
BRATTLEBORO.

Three hundred and eighteen men have
joined the Estey Organ company benefit
association.
A Brattleboro boy. whose name is not
known, had his hand caught while coupling
cars at Williamsville yesterday, necessitat-
ing the amputation of one finger.
The Republican club committee on NOM
nations will hold meeting at the new
club room tomorrow evening, to arrange
for a league meeting, which will probably
be held on Saturday evening of next week.
The present week has brought an agree
able change in the weather to a series of
clear, cold days, with frosty mornings. The
light fall of snow which came early in the
X, followed by rain, has made excellent
IT roads. The weather has caused I'M
kable improvement in the public
n and the doctors are confident that
orst of the grip epidemic has passed
g Odd Fellows of District No. II,
J5risng the Brattleboro, Bondville and
south Londonderry lodges, held a meeting
with Wantastiquet lodge Tuesday evening.
The attendance was good considering the
prevailing sickness, about 200 members
being present. A delegation of about %
Odd Fellows came from Hinsdale. The
three degrees were worked by Wantasti-
quet lodge
Mrs. Mary r., wife of Norman CobL of
East Putney, and mother of ID. p. Cobb of
BrattlebOro, died on Tuesday from an at
tack of the grip, aged 81. Mr., Norman
Cobb is now critically i'll. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cobb had been married nearly 90 years,
and their golden wedding and Goth wedding
anniversary celebrations were events which
are well remembered. On the last occa-
sion five of their six sons were present.
Mrs. Cobb's death makes the first break in
the family circle. She has one brother
living-Prentiss d. Carr of Townshend.
At the funeral on Wednesday the sons act
ed as bearers.
The $4,000 deal between officers of the
Fraternal Circle and those of the Rising
Sun endowment orders has occupied the
time of the municipal court at Boston for
several days. On Wednesday F. III. Flagg,
formerly of Brattleboro, and former trus-
tee of the Rising Sun, gave his testimony,
which took about two hours. He claimed
to have been shut out of the deal, but the
plan that he and others formulated was
carried out. The defence rested its case
without putting on a single witness, and
lawyers for the defence subsequently asked
for reduction of bail for their clients, which
was granted
The go or more members of the North
Star Is months endowment ORDER who
have paid assessments of between $50 and
$40. and ON whose certificates $50 is now
due, according to the conditions of the con-
tract will receive cold comfort from the
statement in the Boston Record this morn
ing, to the effect that the order was put in
to the hands of a receiver by Justice Dun
bar of the fifth session of the superior
court at Boston yesterday. The certificates
of the BrattlebOrO members became due
Jan. /, and were to have been paid Jan.
10, but at the meeting on that date the SUI
preme officers telegraphed that there had
been some delay and that they would be
here to make the payments on the last of
the month.
The most active business place in Brattle-
borO during the present month has been
the town agency, the affairs of which are
so faithfully and carefully administered by
Mr.. S. W. Richardson. The ordinary
sales at the agency range from Sl2 to $50
a day, but since 1892 came, with its ''de-
pressing weather and grip accompani-
ment, the agency business has taken pos
tive 'boom.' On not few days the sales
have amounted to upward of $50, and
high water (?) mark was reached last Sat
urday, when the receipts were SIT. This
is no laughing matter, for the sales are to
all parts of the county and are due to the
prevailing malady-but at the same time it
is no matter if one laughs, simply because
one cannot help it. Mr.. Richardson has,
during this time, been unusually strict and
careful in regard to his sales, requiring
physicians certificate in every case where
he entertained any doubt, but the business
has fourished in spite of him, and he sly
ly declares that if the county will keep up
the grip and the bad weather he will pay
off the town debt in two years. So far
this month the sales amount to $1,000 in
round numbers. For the last day or two
the business has fallen off.