Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-09


There will be a dress rehearsal of the
"Octoroon" next Monday evening at the
town hall, and a full attendance is desired.
Judge Shea will be unable to give his
Fort Sumter paper in March, as announced,
and its date has been indefinitely postpon-
ed, to the regret of many who hoped to
hear it.
The Murray club will give a reception to
Mr.. Maxwell, the new Universalist pastor,
in the church parlors next Tuesday even
ing from to 10. All members OF the So
cety are invited to attend.
The members of Protective grange will
give their annual sugar supper at Grand
Army hall next Tuesday evening, begin
ming at o'clock when newsmaple sugar
will be served at "hard tines prices.
For "turned down" man Col Hooker
bore himself admirably in the town meet
ing Tuesday. He gave the impression of
caring more for having the town hold to
sound highway policy than he did for be-
ing road commissioner.
John S. Wright, Greenfield farmer of
moderate means, who walked into the may
ors office at New York Monday and hand
ed over $500 for the fund to be used for
the relief of the poor, is said to have one
time been an inmate of the Brattleboro
Retreat.
Cnt rates west of Chicago have reduced
the first-class rates from Vermont to Cali
fornia points by the Central Vermont lines
to $3.50. Round trip tickets from Chica-
90 to San Francisco cost only 5000 with
60-day limit
The cost to date of the hospital for in
fectious diseases, erected by the selectmen
on the town farm. has been about 1925, as
stated in town meeting. To this sum,
however, $50 or SO should be added for
stating and underpinning before cold wealth
er comes again.
The service at the Methodist church last
Sunday morning was one of much interest.
At the close of the sermon and preceding
the communion service, the pastor, Rev.
A. j. Hough. baptized "a probatoners,
most of them converts of the revival ser
vices which have been quietly carried on
for a number of weeks by the church.
Members of the Epworth league to the
number of about % attended the cottage
meeting and social at the home of Mrs. NJ
+. Wardner on Chase street Wednesday
evening An excellent program was ar
ranged for the social, and various games
were introduced to add to the evening 5
pleasure.
Three cars on the Bratteboro n White
hall railroad were derailed near Townshend
| Tuesday, when the mixed train was max
ing the trip south. An engine and a part
of the cars came to Brattleboro and a
wrecking train was sent up from here.
! The derailed cars being thrown so far from
the track the passage of the passenger
train was not impeded.
j. Dorr Smith, %, son of Lemuel Smith
of West BrattlebOro, died suddenly Sunday
at the home of his uncle, Thomas Smith,
| in West Halifax. He was attacked with
grip but was not thought to be seriously
| i'll until few moments before his death.
! The funeral was held at West Bratileboro
Wednesday, Rev. II. d. Maxwell officiat-
| ing.
The Y. NJ. c. A. management call par
ticular notice TO the fact that all tickets
for Lydia Won Finkelstein's entertainment
are good for the Boston Ladies symphony
banjo mandolin and guitar club concert to
be given next Wednesday evening, March
Il. This event is highly spoken of and
the public may anticipate varied and
pleasing entertainment.
The investigation by the Legislature of
| hdSSdCuuScIIS vi lut lcdot VI Tue OOlutC-
lieut. River road to the Boston d Maine has
come to an end, with nothing accomplish
ed. Mr. Sanford of the railroad commits
sioners was before the committee and said
he knew of no law by which the lease
might be undone, nor any existing law by
which a repetition of the act could be pre-
vented.
There are 1876 children of school age in
the village district, according to the figures
/ of Clerk S. w. Kimball, who has Just
completed a carefully made canvass. Last
year the number was 1862, but at that time
! the school age was between and 20, while
now it is between and p. While there
| is a total gain of "A, there is only net gain
of 81, the change in the law giving an ad-
ditional 80. OF the 1916, go are males
and ST. females. The number between
the ages of > and q is IS; Il and :, 81;
and s, 81: and 9, -; 9 and 10, 70; 1C
and II, rs; II and y. II; Il and -, 80
! Il and IA, 70; II and -, 80. j. and 10
o. IL and II, 81; Il and Is, 90; Is and
10, 81: 10 and 20, rs; 20 and p, 80.
Jordan d Van Doorn's window has been
the cynosure of eyes of all wheelmen and
of many others for several days, the at.
traction being the 1894 Columbia cycles
which are triumphs of mechanical skill
One of the wheels weighs 20 pounds and is
listed at S125, while the other, fitted with
the wooden rims, weighs % - pounds and
with racing tires only q IL. The firm
will carry a full line of other makes, in
Guiding the Victor at Is pounds, listed al
1925: Hartford, 81 pounds, 500; Creden
da, 30 pounds, So; Rambler, - pounds
S125. The new Hartford and Rambler
cycles are now on exhibition at the store
The firm yesterday took the agency fol-
another cycle, the Stearns, which in diff
ferent patterns weighs 20t to pa pounds
and sells for 1925 and $50.
Scott Grand Army post, No. II, of ia
maica dedicated their new hall last. even
ing. The post bought recently a dwelling
house near the Jamaica hotel and fitted the
upper part into a hall, the lower floor beins
used for tenements. A campfire was helC
at the opera hall. Fred l.. Sprague pre-
sided. The local clergymen, Revs. Vim
cent and Earle Col. Hooker, Col. Gould
ing, Col Taylor, Capt. Streeter and P. S
Chase were among the speakers, and ther,
was singing by mixed quartet. Refresh
ments were served. Col. Hooker, Col
Goulding, Col. Taylor, Capt. II. c. Street
err r. E. Gordon, John Stafford, E.
Knowlton, P. S. Chase, Col. Harmon anC
Mr.. Ashley of Brattleboro attended tn
campfire.
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