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

to Mrs. N. f. Cabot
The Sunday school of the Baptist church
will meet at the church at $3.50 tonight
and hold class suppers and class reunions.
The body of Samuel Stickney, who died
Sunday at Mllers Falls, was brought here
Tuesday afternoon and taken to West
Dummerston for burial.
Sherman & Jenne have paid to E. l..
Waterman, administrator of the estate of
the late ex-Gov Fuller, check for $1,000
on the Mutual Life Insurance company of
New York.
Charles Robbins, 20, who died at Ches-
ter last week, was an uncle of 9. o. Rob-
bins of BrattleboTo, and brother of 7. II.
Robbins, the we'll. known Chester merchant.
Mr.. Robbins had been postmaster and town
clerk Of Chester and was acquainted
throughout Windsor county.
Dennis Rebeksh lodge elected these Of
licers at the annual meeting Tuesday night:
Noble grand, Mrs. Ida Goodenough; vice
grand, Mrs. Marcia Harvey; secretary,
Miss Florence Lamson; treasurer, Mrs.
Ida Spear; trustees, Mrs. Cyrus Reed,
Mrs. j. I. Hildreth, Mrs. Eta Evans.
The Ever Faithful circle of Kings
Daughters have sent a Christmas box TO
the hospital at Baldwinville, Mass, and a
box of literature TO North WATERFORD,
Maine. A meeting will be held at the
Congregational chapel Sunday afternoon
at o'clockin charge of Mrs. E.L.Parker's
Sunday school class.
The annual meeting of Oasis Encamp-
ment, |. o. o. f., was held last Thursday
evening, officers being chosen as follows:
Chief Patriarch, II. S. Goodenough; high
priest, II. j. Joy senior warden, w. f.
Goddard; junior warden, f. X. Thayer;
scribe, c. &. Endlich; financial scribe, d.
W. Tenney; treasurer, ID. w. McGilivray,
At the Unitarian church Sunday the
Christmas sermon by the pastor was pre-
coded by Sunday school exercise which
| included responsive reading, and carols
and Rotations by the children. Miss
Emma Gregg assisted Mr. Miller in the
singing, her selection being "He shall feed
his flock" from the Messiah. Mr.. Miller
sang Nazareth" by Gounod and Christ
mas song.
Goddard and Pentland exhibited their
game bantams at the New London poultry
show last week, and won on silver duck.
wings, first on cockerel, first on pullet, and
special for best pair in class; black breast
ed red, second on cockerel with score OF
"a, pullet score 93 and no premium, show
| ing that the class was holly contested.
| Will j. Pentland also showed black breast
ed red games, winning second on cockerel
and second on pullet.
The annual meeting of the Estey Organ
Benefit association was held Monday after
noon. The report of the past year, which
was read by the secretary, II. F. G. T0dt,
was approved. Jerome w. knight and p.
+. Connors were appointed a committee on
behalf of the employees, and G.. A. Hines
was named by the company as the third
member. II. F. c. Todt was reelected
secretary. 1t was voted TO continue the
association another year, under the same
general plan as heretofore.
Rev. L. d. Temple delivered the second
and last of his lectures on his bicycle trip
abroad at the Baptist church Monday even
ing. His subject was Cycling through
Scotland" and he gave an account of a
ride of 500 miles from Edinburgh north
through the highlands to Inverness, back
along the Caledonian canal to Glasgow and
then through the Robert Burns country in
the southeastern part of Scotland. The
lecture was very interesting and was well
received, although the audience was CON-
paratively small.
DR.. Webster and Town Treasurer Brack-
EFT returned from Boston last Friday
night, bringing the news that all the details
had been arranged for the issue OF the new
town bonds. The bonds are to be taken
by Lee, Higginson d Co. of Boston on
joint account with w. c. Simons of Green.
field. The attorneys of Lee, Higginson d
Co. have passed upon the bonds and pro-
nounce them legal and satisfactory in every
way. They will be taken by the brokers
as soon as they can be printed and made
ready.
w. +. Valentine, the forger who worked
bogus check of $50 upon II. NJ. Wood
has been sentenced to ten years in Sing
Sing for a similar crime in New York city
He was brought to the district attorney.
Office in New York Monday, when he made
a full confession, showing the operation.
of Charles Mclaughlin and Daisy Hamp
ton, who are in the Tombs awaiting tria
on a charge of swindling. Stephen A
Dutton. a member of the same gang, wa:
sentenced Monday to serve three years il
states prison and to pay fine of 5000 fol
swindling in connection with real estate
transaction. Mclaughlin was at the head
of the gang, which is alleged to have secur
ed thousands of dollars by its operations in
all parts of the country.
No company has been received at Ii,
auditorium with greater enthusiasm thi!
season than Conroy & Fox and their merry
makers in so Flarity's vacation" Friday
night. The play turns on the adventures
of two rich Irishmen who are at Atlantic
City for a vacation, their wives suppOsinI
them to be elsewhere. The arrival of the
wives complicates the situation, but al
finally ends happily. The humor of thu
piece does not degenerate into Stiffness, a.
has been the case In several comedies con
structed on similar lines. John g. Fol
and John II. Gibbons were good repre-
sentatives of the pros porous and pushing
Irlshmen who like a good time. Harry o
Haynes as Simpson Primrose Green, tn,
negro waiter, shared honors with the stars
and Katie Allen Fox was a young woman
of chic costumes, who danced gracefully
and sang sweetly. The singing and aero
baltic specisltles were excellent.
The resignation of Rev. E. Bradford
Leavitt was accepted at a special meeting
of the Unitarian society held at Wells hal
Monday evening. Resolutions were adopted
expressing deep sense of regret at the sew
erance of relations which, during the pas
torate of Mr.. Leavitt, shave proved in
creaslngly helpful, uplifting, and a con
slant source of inspiration to everything
high and enrolling" The resolutions alsC
bear testimony TO Mr.. Leavitt's "enthusl
astic, jealous, and conscientious efforts TO
the upbuilding of the society,"" to the higl
character of his pulpit work which ha
won him an enviable reputation in the de
nomination, and to the wise and charita