Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-04
PHOENIX, FRIDAY,

Hackley & Moran are to build an Office
in their furniture store.
The annual election of officers of Tyler
camp, Sons of Veterans, takes place at
Grand Army hall tonight
The Epworth league will hold a chicken
pie supper and sale of fancy articles in the
Grange banquet hall from to $3.50 o'clock
next Thursday evening
The Brattleboro amateurs will present
the play "Imogene, or the wltchs secret
in Odd Fellows hall Wednesday evening
Dec. IT, under the auspices of the Odd
Fellows.
A. V. May has sold for Alfred r. Steb-
bins six building lots in West Bratteboro,
known as the Mason lots near j. G. New
toms, to Charles II. Prentiss, who will
build in the spring.
L. S. Hayes of Bellows Falls was in town
Saturday to adjust the Martin and Dutton
| insurance in the recent fires. The Martin
insurance was adjusted at $1,000 and the
Dutton loss at 5000.
The annual pew rental of the Brattleboro
East society occurred Wednesday evening.
The usual amount was realized from the
rentals, which we're to practically the same
persons as last year.
David Bailey of Chesterfield loaded car
with 100 barrels of winter apples, Wednes-
day, and went with them to New London.
He has sold two more carloads and will
ship them as soon as possible.
The committees of the Christian En-
deavor society, the Ruthans, and the
young ladies' auxiliary of the Baptist
church hold meeting tom ght to com
plete arrangements for winter lecture
course.
The National Life Insurance company
has paid the estate of exGov. Fuller $1,000,
through the local agents, II. f.. Taylor e
Son. Proof of death was furnished Mon
day and a check for the amount received
Wednesday.
The late reports from DR.. G. S. Pratt,
now of Orangeburg, S. c., state that he is
improving rapidly in health and is in bet
ter condition than at any time in the past
two years. DIR. and Mrs. Pratt expect TO
return to Brattleboro early in January.
Invitations have been issued for a series
of social gatherings to be held at Masonic
hall under the auspices of Bingham chap
ter, No. 30, Order of the Eastern Star.
The dates of the gatherings are Dec. 8;
Jan. 9; Jan. 81; Feb. 3; Feb. IS; March
8. The evenings will be spent socially and
In dancing.
The Wheel club appointed committee
of about 20 members Tuesday night TO ar
range for the winters entertainments and
to report at a special meeting next Tues
day evening. A billiard, whist and pool
tournament a series of ladies' nights and
members nights; ball; a minstrel show
and other projects will be considered.
The accounts of the great Cuban victory
mention Lieut.. Rockwell, an American, as
an associate of Linn, the electrician, who
, touched off the mine which killed 700
Spanards. Charles Rockwell, son of DIR.
w. II. Rockwell, is the young man to
? whom reference is made. He left America
} on the Three Friends expedition and was
given his commission soon after his arrival
in Cuba. He is closely associated with
r Gen Maceo, and is in the latter's camp.
, One of the handsomest 1897 calendars
that has been issued is that of the National
Life Insurance company Of Montpelier, of
which II. f. Taylor d Son are agents. A
fine engraving represents a meeting of the
tribes by moonlight at Rock Dunder in
Lake Champlain. Rock Dunder rises 80
feet above the water in Burlington harbor,
and it is said to have been the natural
> boundary stone, marking the line between
a the territory Of the Iroquois and Algon-
, quin Indians.
| oSbh A@o6ou vi MASS, WIN
, was killed in Springfield Friday night, was
a resident of Brattleboro about 20 years
ago and was relative OF Mrs. n. I. Ryan
i and other members of the Lilis family OF
, Brat,leboro. HeIwas 43 years old and I'M
married. Eagan boarded the wrong train
I. and when he realized his mistake jumped
, off when the train was going at rapid
j rate. His skull was crushed, death result
S ing in about - minutes. The body was
:, brought here Monday and taken TO the
4 Roman Catholic church, where funeral
D services were held. The burial was in the
| Catholic cemetery, where Eagans father
was buried years ago.
4 The Boston Journals Burlington cor
respondent reviews the work of the Yer
mont legislature, and refers TO a few of the
leaders, the Bratteboro member being
compimented thusly: "Col. Kitterdge
. Haskins of Brattleboro was another man
who had something to say about the max
ing of laws, and although he was not al
ways on the winning side, yet he was con-
sidered by many as perhaps the ablest man
to advocate cause on the floor of the
house that there was in that body. The
Colonel could show himself at the best ad-
vantage when trying to 'squelch his op.
ponents whom he thought were overzealous
( in advocating an undesirable measure"
t The Fortnghtly club held their second
e regular meeting last Tuesday evening at
the parsonage of the Centre church. The
. first paper in the winters series on Ameri-
can history was given by Mr.. Day, upon
the causes which led to the American Rev.
= olutlon. The presentation of the subject
was followed by discussion, and by the
} reading of the Declaration of Independence
and of poems by Emerson, Lowell and
1 Macmaster by various members of the
club. The succeeding topics to be pre-
scented are: "The making of the constitu-
tion," "The Monroe doctrine" "The
4 work of Henry Clay" 1.-THE conquest of
secession" and "The rise of Populism."
The next meeting of the club will be Dec.
) 10, and will be a social meeting at the
: chapel. Plans were matured for the pro-
posed course of lectures by professors of
, New England colleges on the university
5 extension plan, and the first lecture will be
? given at the Centre church chapel on Tues
. day evening" Dec. 20. These lectures are
to be open to the public.