Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-18

hampers to the boilers under the town
house.
There will be a special rehearsal of the
warriors degree at the wigwam of Quon-
ektacat tribe this evening. A full attend
aDce is desired
ID. p. Prescott has gang of men build
ing a new dam on the site of the old
one which was washed out on the Brook
road last spring.
F. B. Alvord, who has been manager of
Pine Grove Springs at Spofford lake for
the past two seasons, has leased the resort
of j. II. Stearns for term of three years.
The front portion of Hackley & Moran's
storeroom, at the Canal street corner, has
been partitioned off to give Geo. A. Bar
ker more room for his increasing business.
The ladies' aid society of the Methodist
church met with Mr.. and Mrs. w. d.
Perry Wednesday evening. An enjoyable
evening was spent, with refreshments of
cake and coffee.
The trustees of the Vermont savings
bank declared last week the legal dividend
of two per cent for the current six months,
now allowed by law. 1t will be payable
on and after Jan. /.
An innocent little mouse ran out of a
woman's cloak sleeve in one of the Main
street stores this week. A special photo
graph is needed to give a correct idea of
the scene which followed.
The outside work on Rev. f. A. Sack's
new house on Western avenue will be COM
pleted next week. The house will then be
closed for the winter. The inside work
will be begun early next spring.
The annual election of officers of Bling
ham chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
on Tuesday evening, resulted as follows
w. NJ, Mrs. Hattie S. Taylor; w. p, O.
E. Randall; treasurer, F. d. Weld; secre-
tary, Lucie |. Bracket; A. NJ, Emma K.
Rowe; conductor, Mary 4. Randall; as
sistant conductor, Maverette Foster.
Conroy d Fox, the cleverest Irish come
dams now before the public, will appear
with very strong company of comedians,
| singers and dancers at the auditorium to-
| night in their great success, "O'Flarity' S
Vacation" which is said TO be the most
laughable farce comedy ever produced.
Tickets are on sale at the news store.
Vaughan & Sargent have taken the
agency for the goods of the American
Electric Heating corporation of Boston,
and will carry in stock attachments for
heating griddles for cooking, for soldering
irons, and for many other purposes. The
attachment is made to an ordinary incan.
descent light after removing the glass
| globe. Water may be heated to the boil
| ing point in three minutes, and a steady,
even temperature is applied to soldering
irons, glue pots, etc.
Twenty-Five of the friends of H. c. Titus
made his South Main street home bright
with music, both vocal and instrumental
last Friday evening. There we're humor-
Gus songs by Mr.. Evans and Mr.. Deyo
clarionet solo by Mr.. Titus with piano ac-
compartment by Miss Burnett, and a song
by Miss Burnett. An impromptu orches-
ira composed of Miss Jennie Demars, pi
ano, Mr.. Deyo first violin, Mr.. Demars
second violin, Mr.. Titus clarionet, made
! lively music. The Misses Tunberg and
Darling were especially pleasing with their
voices and guitars. Refreshments of cake
and coffee were served during the evening
and the company departed at late hour.
The Ruthians gave a winter picnic at
| the Baptist church Wednesday evening.
| The dining room and parlors were deco
rated with trees and shrubbery and were
carpeted with pine needles. Across one
end of the dining room was a painted
mountain and lake scene and in various
places were printed signs warning visitors
to keep off the grass" etc., which
| gave "realistic" effect. Food was fur
nished in baskets and coffee was served.
In clump of shrubbery on one side of the
loom was table of nuts, candy and lem
onade. After supper male quartet sang
selections and there were Rotations and
songs by the children. During the latter
part of the evening came a series of sack
and potato races. The entertainment
closed with an auction of the trees for
Christmas use. About $50 persons were
| present.
The large ball room of the Waldorf hote
in New York was filled, Monday morning,
with fashionable crowd of admirers who
listened to the 18th Bagby concert, in
which the soloists were William LAWN OF
Brattleboro and Mile. Seygard, the noted
prima donna. Mr.. Bagby is a New York
philanthropist who, with the members OF
the A b. circle, devotes himself to syste.
matte work among the families of the tene
ment house district, for whose benefit the
concert was given. The net proceeds, tC
be divided among the poor, was over $1,000
Anton Seidl and his noted orchestra fur
nished instrum ntal music. Among the
audience were Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer
Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. William c. Whit.
ney, Mrs. Belmont Tiffany, Mrs. George
Hoffman, Count Vinci, and other leaders
of the 400"
| A street urchn accidentally dropped a
nickel through the grating in the sidewalk
| in front of one of the Main street stores
recently. The loss was comparatively a
great one and the lad entered the store and
lamented his misfortune to the lady in
charge. She took compassion on him and
| gave him the amount of his lost fortune,
whereupon he Immediately proceeded to
fish out the lost nickel, and departed with
the evident satisfaction of one who had
realized hundred per cent upon an in
vestment. Another gamin, barely old
enough to abandon dresses, who doubtless
deemed it an accomplishment to be able 10
initiate those more advanced in years,
stood upon the bank corner Saturday night,
and was vigorously putting away at an old
pipe, when another lad, evidently associated
with him in Sunday school work, happened
along and exclaimed, "I'll tell on YOU
"You needn't tell my Sunday school
teacher" said the first boy, "these amt
nothin' but dried leaves, anyway" "Huh
dried tobarker leaves" was the clinching
rejoinder.
The fifth annual report of the Estey Or
gan benefit association shows the total
number of members to be 1893. There
were % accidents to employees the past
year. Fourteen claims were paid, in six
accidents no claims were made, one acct
dent was to a non-member, one claim has
not been settled, and one claim was pre-
scented but not allowed. The balance on
hand last year was $156.35, the receipts
from members fees was $l9S, the amount