Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-22

Dennis ReDekah lodge VIII nave an cleo
| ton of officers at their regular meeting
/ Tuesday evening.
c. f. Young's theatrical company of
/ Worcester, Mass, has engaged the town
hall for Jan. 20, 80 and 81.
/ The Wheel club was beaten by the pick
/ ed team in the bowling match Tuesday
/ evening, the score being 2l02 to 20SG.
! The measles are rcvelng with Miss CLAWS
/ Chase street school OF the 43 pupils in
/ the school only 10 were present Tuesday.
Merton G. Robbns's Worlds Fair lee
/ ture, with 20 entirely new views, will be
given at the town hall next Thursday
/ evening.
/ Eddy a. Son of Greenfield are moving to
! that place the business of the Vermont
/ Manufacturing company, which they bought
several weeks ago.
Rev. Allan Brown of Tufts divinity
| school preached at the Universalist church
| Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Bell, who was expect
| ed, was unable to come on account of illness
/ Alfred Holden is proud man this week,
as he holds the reins over the new pair Of
/ handsome chestnut horses attached to his
| coupe. He bought them at Walpole,
/ y. H.
"Chld life is a very handsome souve-
mir issued by the Hartford Fire Insurance
/ company, the oldest company in Hartford,
ana distributed by Cudworth n Childs, the
/ local agents.
Nothing has been heard from the Tim
/ the Tinker company, booked months ago
/ for appearance at the town hall Jan. ,.
and 1t has probably gone the way of many
other companies.
Several of the primary schools will oh
serve Christmas bv trees and ,pecial oyer
c,es al their rooms this afternoon. AMONG
the number are I'm. schools of Misses Rr.
sor, Elmer Newman aud Clay.
The early freight met with ,mash-up
at South Vernon Tuesday morning. Four
or five car, OF both roads were damated
slightly. and the main lines were blocked
\ wrcckius train was sent down from
here.
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9, i'i .lNlV 'n"Se 'He>e uIhctrs al
.I'e Il" VA meeting tuesday, evening; Pres
IN, w ~ r. iuH "IlSoH' uiS' wee president,
VI NJ ~" ,i'I' rs SeCohu wee president
w w III" "oo"euoush; secretary Mrs.
M, man uHcC.ois' M. r. Dung, Mrs.
w Ne!es' Mrs' T. l. barnes Mrs \. ii.
Mi. anu hIs' H. b. LArhih We're gen
uIheIy ana happlly surprised tuesday even
ING al their Centreville home, by party
OF friends mostly members OF the Relief
corps ana odd Fellows, who came to re-
NINA lhein OF thelr 2oth anniversary of
I ., marriage ID during the evening Col.
IL f. layior' III lie" htting ana earnest
"Vrus, presented them with handsome
Jan anu push chall' par OF nice vases,
anu o'her articles lhcludlng mysterious
looking DoN, "hlch the ladies' were not
Pe'Ini'tel 10 inspect out Judging from the
ouoi vi me CuAteh'S lhey guessed IL might
ehd IN smoke
a Christmas gift which is unique, be
sides possessing a decided individuality, is
souvenir spoon which Ranger a Thomp-
son have had made for Warren Howe of
Vernon. Mr.. Howe's homestead is the
oIu 0aTtWeI pace IN vernon, where, in
i'1U' JOSIAH Sart"ell punt block-house
ior uelehce against the Indians, aiterward
hnoMH as forl oart"ell In the gold
liheI DOW OF the spoon Is engraved fac
siihlie oil me Ola mouse, while on the
nahdle' OF ora Ehgllsh design, Is etched
the name or Sartwell. The recipient
oi 'he sllt VIII pe likely 10 put II among
MS most cherished belongings.
Mrs. Mary Whitaker of Wardsboro, who
went 10 Springfield. Mass, last week with
her son, Oscar L Drury, died suddenly at
his home in that city Tuesday. She had
been suffering from a complication of dis
eases, but death resulted from heart dis
ease. Mrs. Whitaker was born in Dover
about 90 years ago, being a daughter of
Daniel Brown Her first husband was AL
fred Drury of Andover, y. H., but they
lived at East Dover, where he died in 1866
Her second husband was Aseph Whitaker
who died in Wardsboro in lSSS. Mr.
Drury is her only living child, and she also
,eaNeS Two sisters and brother, Mrs. Gill
pert cav OF bratttleboro, Mrs. Paris Raw
son SOL, OF Newfane, and Willard Brown of
W llmlngton. The body will be brought to
brattleboro TINS morning and taken TO East