Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-15

barn on Pond street.
Miss Dora Mitchell gave a dancing and
card party to company of about 20 at
her home on High street Tuesday evening
Bishop Hall made a special visitation to
st. Michae's church Monday evening, and
confirmed three persons presented by the
rector
The ladies' association of the Congrega-
tional church will hold supper and socia-
BILE in the chapel and parors Thursday
evening at o'clock.
The Prospect Hill Cemetery association
will hold its annual meeting for the cleo
tiok of officers Monday evening at the of
flee of William S. Newton.
Sergeant F. B. Putnam was elected clerk
and Lieut.. G. F. Bingham treasurer of the
Estey Guard at the annual meeting
Thursday evening of last week.
The officers of the Catholic order of For
esters were installed Tuesday evening by
Deputy High Chief Ranger Frank II.
O'Neil of White River junction.
Deputy Grand Master Dean of South
Londonderry installed the officers of Wan
tastiquet lodge Monday night, after which
about so members of the lodge sat down to
a good supper.
There have been four evening meetings
at the Baptist church this week in contin-
uation Of the meetings of the week of pray
er. There have been three afternoon
meetings, including one for children.
II. NJ. Adams has exchanged his MARI
boro farm for residence property-house,
barn and lot-in Newton, Mass. A Bos-
ton man named Chase is now the owner of
the Adams farm. The exchange was made
through S. w. Edgett IL Co.'S agency.
The "Philistine," monthly lea1et of
protest, contains in its issue for January,
the following grind on Kipling in re-
spouse to query from Brattleboro: "No,
Wolcott Balestier's Benefits Forgot is not
an anticipatory biography of his brother"
C. c. Tyler gave "Christmas' dinner
at his home Sunday to several employees of
the American Express company, the event
being postponed until then because of the
rush of work during the holidays. Thomas
Symington of Palmer, Mass, was one of
those present, and letters of regret were
read from two or three persons who were
unable to be present.
F. r. Vaughan has invented a demag-
neither for watches and tools which
Vaughan " Sargent are putting on the
market in large numbers. 1t is attached
to an ordinary incandescent light. The
demagnetizers which have been on the
market heretofore have been quite eXpen-
sive, but this one sells for a small sum.
The annual meeting of the Christian En-
deavor society of the Baptist church was
held after the prayer meeting Tuesday
night. The reports of the officers and
committees for the past six months were
read and accepted and these officers were
elected President, Miss Ethel Bruce;
vice president, Arthur Maynard; secretary,
Miss Mary Croker; treasurer, Miss Alice
Willard.
Mrs. Louisa w. Boyd, who died in Dunn
merston Wednesday, was the mother of
Mrs. George Houghton of BIattleboro.
Mrs. Boyd died of heart disease, with
which she had been i'll for some time. She
was also the mother of Miss Lillian Boyd,
recently with Mrs. S. A Smith in Gull
ford, and of James Boyd who lives at
home. Funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Several Windham county cases are set
for trial at the present term of the supreme
court which is now in session at Mont
pelier. In the case of Charles c. Taft
against NJ. G. Redfeld of ToSnshend, in
which plaintiff obtained judgment for
S13l1.l1, judgment was affirmed. In the
case of Sidney A. Sherman against Fred
NJ. Waite of Brattleboro, judgment on YER
dict for the plaintiff Tor S1336. 70 was af-
firmed
The annual banquet of the Vermont
Wheel club will be given at the Brooks
House next Monday evening. 1t is ex-
pected that 100 or more members will be
present. The company will gather at the
club house and march from there in a body
at S:l5. After the banquet Col. II. E.
Taylor will act as POSTMASTER, and there
will be several responses. The Old Ken.
lucky Concert company will furnish music
during the evening.
The members of Protective grange met
at their hall Monday night and gave a sur
prise reception to Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Pierce. Mr.. Pierce is to retire from the
masters chair after long term of faithful
service. II. E. Taylor, in behalf of the
grange, presented Mr.. Pierce a fine gold
watch and Mrs. Pierce pin and badge,
emblematical Of the order, to which each
responded. A supper and sociable was
afterward had in the banquet hall.
These billiard games have been played
in the Vermont Wheel club tournament:
George f. Foster So, S. w. Knight &c. |
A. Harris so, E. S. Munger AZ; f. S. |
Munger so, f. b. Putnam As; w. II Childs |
l20, W. II. Perry 50; C. A. Harris so, w. !
H. Childs 120, Harris winning by one |
point on the handicap In pool c. S. |
Stockwell has defeated w. II. Perry so to |
As, and w. H. Perry has beaten w. S.
Pratt 90 to 50. In the chess games De-
Witt has beaten Childs, Cudworth has won |
over Hunt, and Hunt has lost to Pettee.
E. Z. Perry won two games last night, de-
feating George +. Foster 120 to 81 and S. |
w. Knight 120 to 80. E. Landry, jr., won
a pool game from Mr.. Foster, 90 to 40.
Cudworth beat Dewitt in chess.
Motorman Frank White of the electric
railroad and Miss Amy NJ. Wheeler of
were married Tuesday after
noon. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. G. o. Day at the brides home. In
the evening Mr.. and Mrs. White were at
the Henkel house in West Bratteboro,
where they were found by the employees
and those connected with the Brattl, boro
street railroad, who went by special car to
West Brattleboro after the other cars had
stopped for the night. A number of West
Brattleboro people, including the band,
were already there and assisted in the re-
ception. The employees of the road pre-
sented Mr. and Mrs. White centre table
and several other articles, and returned
nome at about o'clock.
Rice's Comedians are playing a very sue
,essful weeks engagement at the audito-
rum. The company is the best that has
ever appeared here at low prices, and the
productions have been better than many
Of those so-called star aggregations at the
highest prices. "Under the Lions Paw"
was given Monday night before an audi