Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-04-02

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The odd Fellows will hold another dance
next wednesday night in addition to the
regular series.
The curtain at the Auditorium will rise
at O'Clock next Tuesday evening when
"O'Dowd's Neighbors" will be presented.
The new whist club met with Miss Dor
othy Mitchell Wednesday evening. The
! prizes were won by Dan G. Webster and
Miss Jane Hall.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Brattleboro Creamery association
will be held in the lower Grange hall next
Monday at 10 \. NJ.
A. V. May has sold for Sidney o. Miner,
the well-known o. l.. Miner place in Cen
treville, to w. E. Thomas of North Hins-
dale. Mr.. Thomas has recently sold his
farm where he has lived for the last 81
years.
The Grand Army post and the Woman's
Relief corps gave a sugar supper and dance
in Grange hall last evening which was well
attended. The receipts were about SO.
The proceeds will go to the relief fund of
the post.
Cavanaugh Brothers will sell a carload
OF young acclimated horses by auction at
the Brattleboro livery company's stables
next Thursday, beginning at 10 o'clock in
the morning. A lot of carriages will be
included in the sale, as stated in the adj
vertisement elsewhere published.
The Murray club held an interesting
meeting in the Universalist vestry Tuesday
evening, the principal feature being a paper
by ID f. Tasker upon the life and works
of Herbert Spencer. The paper was an
able one and was listened to with much
interest. Other numbers on the program
were recitation, 1.-The present crisis" by
Lowell, by Guy Tasker and music by a
male quartet. The club members amused
themselves by guessing as to the identity
of pictures of prominent persons taken
from old magazines.
The Protective Grange Dramatic club
are to give the public an opportunity to
judge of the result of weeks of hard work
on their play, 1.-THE Flowing Bowl"
Tuesday evening, April Is. The club
aim to excel in the presentation of
amateur drama and will make every eff
fort to give a satisfactory performance.
The cast will contain many well-known
amateur actors and one or two who have
never appeared with the club before. Mr..
Leach of Westminster, who scored a sue
cess when the play was presented at that
place, is in the cast.
The town school directors have re;ip-
pointed Miss Mary j. Carpenter town SUI
perintendent and Carl S. Hopkins clerk
They have engaged as teachers Florence
Thurber in district No. / Buell. Robb in
the higher department at Centrevile, and
Lena Crosier in the primary department;
Margaret Hill in West Brattleboro; Belle
Horton in district No q: Lillian Miller in
No. I; Marion Cutler in No. s; Carrie
johnson lin No. 9; Ruth Cronin in No
Il; Sarah McVeigh in No. -. The
schools in Centreville, West Brattleboro
and No. begin April II. The others
will begin April 10.
Chas. II. Yale's Twelve Temptations"
at the Auditorium Monday night. won all
| that any theatrical attraction might wish
a good-sized audience, which was highly
pleased with the production, which is
spectacular, with incidental acrobatic and
| jugglery performances, songs, dances and
character specialties. The setting of the
piece is rich and elaborate for a travelling
company and several 'lightning changes"
were made. The honors of the evening
were easily with Rosario and Elliot, the
acrobats, while Josie SisSon as bright
Eyes" and Harry Brown as "Sonoro
Apropo" were easily the favorites as &C
| tors.
Judge Thompson of the county court
handed down decision Saturday in the
case of A. Starkey, assignee, against b. S.
Balestier and j. NJ. Tyler, trustee, which
was one of the last cases tried at the last
term of court. The case was a chancery
proceeding brought for the purpose of Sc
curing an Interpretation of the will of
Joseph Balestier. 1t was heard upon the
demurrer at the March term and the court
reserved decision. The points raised by
the demurrer were that the assignee had
no right to bring the proceeding and that
the court of equity had no jurisdiction in
the case. Judge Thompson's decision
sustains the demurrer and dismisses the
bill.
KiPling as a Cretan War Correspondent.
The story has gained currency this week.
and is probably well founded, that Rud-
yard Kipling has gone to Crete as the war
correspondent of the London Times. The
information came to Brattleboro in letters
received from the relatives of the Kiplng
family in New York. 1t was understood
by them two weeks ago or more that Mr..
Kiping had been given this mission by the
Times, and that he was then ready to sail
at moments notice. The price named
for this service is 5000 a month. The
latest numbers of the London Times re-
ceived in Brattleboro make no mention of
this engagement of Mr.. Kiplng, but it is
the policy of that paper to use all of its
correspondence impersonally. Edtorially
the Times upholds the government and
the 'concert of Europe" ard ieers at Mr..
Gladstone and the other liberals for their
sympathy with the Greeks. Those who |
know Mr.. Kipling will have no doubt that,
salary or no salary, he would Jump at the |
chance" to go to Crete on an English YES |
sci and take in the Cretan situation on the |
ground, simply for what there is in it in |
the way of adventure, impression and per- |
sonal experience. And there need be no |
fear that he will side with the Greeks in |
his personal sympathies. The Unborn in
stinct of imperialism is too strong within
him for that.
Judge Wheeler and the Joint Traffic
Decision.
The case of the United States govern
ment against the Joint Traffic association
for alleged violation of the Sherman anti
trust law was first heard by Judge II. II.
Wheeler, sitting in the circuit court in New
York city about one year ago. Judge
Wheeler's decision was in favor of the rail
road companies. The case went upon ap
peal to the court of appeals for the second
circuit, where Judges Wallace and La
combe sustained Judge Wheeler's decision
In decision rendered by them week be-
fore last. Almost simultaneously with
this decision came the decision of the