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

series of socals ON Thursday evening of
next week
A meeting of the Murray club will be
held next Tuesday evening at the home of
T. j. b. CudwOrth on High street.
The telephone exchange has sent out
this week a new list containing the names
of 176 subscribers.
The Estey and Carpenter organ factories
are to be shut down today, while the an
nual inventories are being taken.
A misplaced switch threw a car on the
narrow gauge road off the track in the rear
of Pratt, Wright Il Co.. yesterday morning.
The first Brooks House dance on Tues
day evening was delightful social affair,
with 10 to 80 couples in attendance.
There is a report on the streets of the
sale of the fine Sherman Paris estate at
! Charlestown, n. H., to a New York man
who cried to buy place in Brattleboro.
j. ID. Lawrence of Bellows Falls has
| booked the Mozart SeXtet Concert company
for appearance at the Brattcboro town
hall Jan. -.
w. F. Richardson d Co.'S span of horses
INDUCED in runaway yesterday morning,
starting from High street. The wagon
was partially demolished.
All of the out-of-town rates at the tele-
! phone exchange have been changed through
orders from the headquarters at Boston.
Some of the rates have been increased and
others decreased.
John C.. Pellet has sold the house at the
corner of Washington and Central Sly ..,,es
which . he recently bought TT Mrs. Tolles's
estate to F. i. fiooung, the grocer, for
! G7SZ-'o%J. Mr.. Young has already moved into
the house.
The German American Fire Insurance
company of New York and the People 5
| Fire Insurance company of Manchester,
\. H., have withdrawn from the state on
account of the heavy losses of the past
| year, which We're caused in part by the
Middlebury and ST. Adams fires.
A fire, the origin of which is unknown,
broke out between the partitions at the
American House last Saturday. The dam
age was not serious but there was some
difficulty in eXtinguishing the blaze, it
being necessary to cut open the partition.
The loss was fully covered by insurance
with CudwOrth IL Childs
! Last week announcement was made that
the joint installation of the officers of the
Sons of Veterans and Ladies' Aid society
would be held on the evening of the 18th.
Since then orders have been received from
the division commander of the Sons of
| Veterans which makes it necessary for
| Tyler camp to hold its installation this
evening. The installation of the Ladies'
Aid officers will take place next Monday
evening
| A landslide caused the wrecking of IA
night express to Boston on the Cheshire
tracks near Fitchburg, Mass. last Tuesday
night. The engine plowcd into the OBJ
structiOn and was tipped over and the bag
gage and passenger cars were partly thrown
from the track Engineer f. u. Clifford
and Fireman ii. w. Weymouth of Bellows
Falls went over in the engine. Weymouth
was badly bruised on the left Side and
slightly Scalded, and Clifford was some
what bruised. Weymouth was former
resident of Brattleboro.
The Non-Secret Endowment Order held
a meeting last Wednesday, when the fol-
lowing officers were chosen: President. W.
| ii. Mead: vice president. Mrs. W. ID. Gil
SON. secretary. ID. l.. Herrick: treasurer,
| Thomas Harmon: councillor, Charles X.
! Lincoln: medical examiner, Dr. J. W.
! Gregg; conductor, J.. Fay Bowker guard
ian, w. \. Cunningham; trustees. ChaS Il.
| Lincoln, :. j. Jones, Fred 5. BraSor: audi
tors, II. \. Walker, NJ. w. Stickney, Hen
ry NJ. Weeden. On the 18th of January
these officers will be installed and it is eX-
| pected that the supreme officers from Wor-
cester will be present,
There was notable Christmas gathering
at Mrs Harris Stockwcll's in the West vii
| lage last Friday, when party of 10, includ-
ing children, grandchildren and one great
grandchild, ate Christmas dinner, with
this venerable but well preserved old lady
Among those who We're present from a dis
lance were Mr., and Mrs. Nelson Cole of
! ThompsOnville, Conn, and their grand
daughter, Reta Cole. who is the great grand
child of Mrs. Stockwell, already mentioned;
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stewart of Springfield
Mass; Mr.. and Mrs. George Stockwell
and daughter of North Adams, Mass. and
Miss Minnie Stockwell of Worcester. The
excellent dinner was greatly enjoyed and
the occasion will long be remembered by
all who were present.
The following appeared in the Rutland
Herald of Wednesdays 1T is probable
that there will be several changes in the To-
cation of the priests in the Catholic diocese
of Vermont within the next two weeks,
but no appointments have yet been made.
tween Poultney, Middlebury and Brattle-
boro, and priest will probably be stationed
in Barre. 1t is expected that the bishop
will make the definite announcements the
latter part of this week" The entire
Brattleboro community hope that no
change will be made which will take Rev
Father Cunningham away from his Brat
tleborO charge. Since the above was in
type it has been learned that Father Cotfey
of Rutland is to be transferred to White
River Junction, Father Brown, who is in
Brattleboro this week, to Rutland, and
Father Lane of Middlebury, who was for
merly of Bratteboro, to Poultney.
Beginning with today, Jan. !, coupon
| tickets will be for sale at all stations on the
line Of the narrow gauge railroad to
Northampton, Holyoke and Springfield, on
the Connecticut River road, and to Hart
| ford, New Haven and New York, on the
New York, New Haven Il Hartford road
/ Tickets can be procured to New York eth
er by rail or by water and rail. Tickets
can also be bought to all points on the Yer
mont Valley and Sullivan County railroads,
the Central and Rutland divisions of the
Central Vermont system, and the Passump-
sic division of the Boston d Maine system.
There is a possibility of special return
tickets from stations on the Brattleboro d
Whitehall road to local points on the New
London road being issued before long, all
of which, it is needless to say, will be duly
appreciated by the travelling public, 1t is
hoped that tickets to Boston and other
Fitchburg railroad points may be included
III due time.
Mr. VIM. j. LAWN was the tenor soloist
at the production of "The Messiah by the
ChicapO ADOllO Climb at the great Audito