Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-25

damaged by fire a few weeks ago.
The West Dummerston granite quarry
will probably be closed In a few days, as
the seasons work is nearly finished.
The Sunday school of the Unlversalist
church will serve supper and give an en-
tertainment for the children tonight
The annual Christmas party of st.
Michaeps church will be held in Red Mems
hall on Monday, Dec. %, at 7 o'clock.
About the usual number of packages has
been handled at the post-ofiice during the
Christmas rush. Two substitute carriers
have been doing delivery work this week.
Don Wilder, who has had job shop at
the corner of South Main and Canal streets,
has leased the quarters in the Ctowell
building heretofore occupied by Titus &
Co.
There will be Christmas concert at the
Methodist church, tomorrow, Friday, even
ing, at Z o'clock. The distribution of
presents from tree will come after the
concert.
The ladies' aid society of the Methodist
church will hold social at the home of
Mrs. N. N. Darling on South Main street
next Wednesday evening. Refreshments
will be served.
The hotel mems benefit association of
Chicago has paid to the administrators of
the estate of the late Edward A. Tyler
$500, which completes the settlement of
all his policies.
The centre of the central fire alarm sta
ton and engine house has settled several
inches because the truss rods were too
small to give adequate support. New rods
have been put in this week.
| Tho V NJ hoe balI taar, ba
issued a challenge to the Yale university
players. Yale will play at Springfield
Jan. 10, and a large guarantee will be Of
fered the collegians to come here.
The directors of the Bratteboro &
Whitehall railroad met at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning at the office of President G.
F. Thompson and elected G. II. Thompson
treasurer, to fill out the uneXpired term of
the late Col. George S. Dowley.
The creditors of Beatty S. Balestier held
meeting at the probate Office Wednesday
and chose A. Starkey assignee of the es-
tate. Mr.. Balestier was examined with
reference to the property in his possession,
but no new facts were brought out.
The choir of the Baptist church rendered
the oratorio Shiloh at 6 o'clock Sunday
evening under the direction of l.. w. Haw-
ley. The oratorio is Christmas service
and was pleasingly rendered, taking the
place of the regular evening service.
Major Beck, who has run successfully
the public inn at the West Brattleboro
terminus of the electric railroad, has
leased the large house which Holden &
Martin built on Linden street two years
ago and will open it as first class board
ing house.
The announcement in The Phoenix last
week of the marriage of Winifred Randall
of West Chesterfield and Miss Agnes Scott
was a surprise to the atter's Brattleboro
friends Miss Scott has been attending
the High school in the class of '99. Mr..
and Mrs. Randall will make their home at
West Chesterfield. -
Some friends of Nor,sfch university have
placed at the "a r-,sal of President Brown
several zee scholarships in that insti-
tutior for the remainder of the college
gear. Any young men desiring to avail
themselves of the opportunity should APP
ply to President Brown at his residence
during the next two weeks.
The first of the series of lectures in the
course arranged by the young people of the
Baptist society will be given in the church
next Wednesday evening, Dec. 80, by Rev.
L. d. Temple, whose subject will be,
"a boys experience roughing it over seas.
He will give an experience with steerage
passage across the Atlantic, sightseeing in
London, Paris and Berlin, and glimpses OF
student life in the universities of G0ttingen
and Leipsic.
The annual meeting of Quonektacat
tribe of Red Men was postponed from Fri
day night to next Wednesday night.
Three new members have just been re-
ceived into the tribe, and four applications
are to be acted upon. A copy of the new
work which will go into effect with the
tribes of the country at the beginning OF
the new year has been received. An APP
plication for a charter for a tribe at Will
mington has been forwarded to the great
council.
The Junior Christian Endeavor society
of the Baptist church joined the Senior so
ciety in Christmas service at the regular
. meeting Tues day evening, The meet
ing was in charge of Mrs. L. W. Haw-
ley and consisted mainly of readings by
the older members, Rotations by the
children and singing by three quartets.
The responsive or antiphonal singing by
two of the quartets was an enjoyable
feature.
George, son of L. F. Adams, submitted
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to the operation known as advancement
, of the eye at the New York opthalmiC
+ hospital on Thursday of last week. Thi:
operation was for the correction of extreme
strabismus. 1t was a long and difficult
! process, but is believed to have proved
= very successful. The boy was attended by
3 his father and by DR.. Fred Crosby, who
3 has since remained with him, and who /:
expected TO return with HIM from New
. York tonight
> A break down occurred at the electric
; light station at about o'clock Tuesday
, evening owing to the giving out of some
defective bolts in the inside mechanism Of
, the cylinder of the Rollins engine. The
, crank and some of the cylinder rings were
a broken, doing damage to the amount o.
! 5000. The small Fitchburg engine which
usually runs the electric railroad was useC
! to run the electric light generator and thu
electric road transferred to the new Fitch
burg engine which is held for emergencies
. of this kind. The electric lights were on
and the electric road was without powe
from five to ten minutes while the transfe
was being made.
] A special Christmas praise service wa
9 held in the Congregational church Sunda!
= evening. 1t was arranged to illustrate tn
: providence of God in Christian Americi
Q showing, by the different tunes, the ad
: vance in Christianity from the early strug
r gle to the more hopeful and cheerful life o
, the present day. A double quartet, con
4 slsting of the regular church choir assiste'