Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Mass, yesterday and played at the annual
Thanksgiving ball there in the evening.
The Brattleboro East society will hold
its annual rental Of pews at the Centre
church next Wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock
The evening session OF the Womans
club was held with Miss Edith Stolte Sat
urday evening. Several items of business
were transacted and an interesting paper
was read by Miss Stolte upon "German
Home Life"
The young son of Mrs. L. +. Could the
dressmaker, who came here recently from
Bellows Falls, fell from platform in the
rear OF the tenement above the Main street
bakery Monday, distance Of 30 feet or
more. Fortunately he was not seriously
hurt.
The annual harvest concert OF the Con-
| gregational Sunday school, which was to
have been held last Sunday, was postponed
on account OF the weather and will be held
next Sunday, beginning at O o'clock, In
the church. There will be no other even
Ing service.
The churches and other societies Of Ben
nington have perfected an organization for
the more equitable distribution of chari-
ties. W. II. Fuller OF the Young Mems
| Christian association Is the secretary OF
the new society. Mr.. Fuller was formerly
| general secretary of the Brattleboro Young
Mems Christian association.
The annual meeting Of the Springfield,
Mass, society Of Sons and Daughters Of
Vermont was held Monday evening with
large attendance. The secretary's report
showed a membership of 437. James r.
Hooker was elected a member of the exc
cutlve committee. Arrangements we're
made for a winter series Of socials and en-
tertainments.
The Springfield Republican says: "Rud-
| yard Kipling seems to have made new
record for prices for prose-he already
held the old one His railroad story,
".007," published In Scribner's, numbers
1000 words, and the price was about $500,
or nearly II cents word. Out Of this he
could afford to have the manuscript nicely
typewriter, at a cost Of $3.50"
A noteworthy Thanksgiving guest in
Brat;leboro was Javan d. Salisbury OF
New York, who came Wednesday to spend
the festival with his sisters, Misses Susan
and Mary Salisbury, at their home on Eli
OF street. Mr.. Salisbury Is a native of
Brattleboro and was born at the old home
stead where the Brattleboro House now
stands. He is now 50 years old and has
not been in Brattleboro before for more
than 40 years. Only four or five people
are now living here whom he knew in his
youth. and, he said, 1.-THE only thing l find
which looks natural is Milestone brook
and the dam"
II. NJ. Pike sustained a serious injury TO
his left hand while at work on a resawlng
machine at S. A. Smith & Co.'s factory
last Saturday morning He was saving a
shingle shaped plank, beginning at the
thin end. The plank fed into the machine
all right for while but finally 1t stopped
the machine by its increased thickness
Mr.. Pike threw the lever and attempted to
roll the plank out by taking hold of the
feed gear. While his hand was upon the
gear the power accidentally got turned on
and his hand was rolled between the gears
and three fingers were crushed. II cannot
be told yet whether amputation of the fin
gers will be necessary.
The international Doll Show" which
was held in ketting block, Friday, Sstur-
day and Monday, under the auspices OF the
Woman's club, was financially q success
Over $50, which will go TO the free kinder
garten, was cleared from the entertainment.
When 1t Is remembered that the admission
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that the show was remarkably well patron
lied. In the whole collection OF over 200
dolls there was only a small corn-cob doll
from Vermont, and so the ladies bought
handsome fiaxen-halred doll, dressed II su-
pefbly and added II to the collection, nam
ing II Mary Howe, in honor OF one of
Brattleboro's favorlte daughters.
The annual banquet Of the Amherst
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Bay State House in Worcester, but there
was no such "hot time" as last year when
the freshmen came to the Brooks House.
AT Worcester the freshmen had 80 police
to protect them and although the soph-
omores discovered the place and were in
the hotel before the freshmen arrived, they
were prevented from entering the dining
hall by the officers, and the banquet pro-
gram was carried out without an Interrupt
ton. The sophomores attempted there
the same slick game which they just missed
putting up here, that of appearing at the
hotel In advance Of the freshmen and try
ing TO have the banquet served to them on
the claim that they were the freshmen.
The esteem in which the late Emily Ca
pell Shelton of AnsOnia, Conn.,, formerly
of Brattleboro, was held, Is shown by a
column article descriptive OF Mrs. Shelton's
funeral, which was recently published In
an Ansonia newspaper under the caption
"Sorrow of Community" The article
said that "all Wed with one another to
show in every possible way their sorrow
for the dead and sympathy for the bereaved
ones; every business place closed its doors
and the flags of the public buildings we're
floated at half-mast in honor of the woman
who had endeared herself 10 our people by
her bright, sunshiny, contagious hopeful
ness and joy, and her motherly care and
solicitude for all with whom she came in
contact. And worthily did such woman
deserve the tokens of respect and rightfully
were our people sad at their great loss"
Over so carriages were required to trans
port the mourners from the house to the
church.
MIR. Hipling's Gust So" Stories.
The first one of Rudyard Kipling's
"Just So" stories, which have been so we'll
advertised by the publishers of St. Nicho-
las, appears In the place of honor in the
Christmas number of that magazine which
was issued yesterday. 1t is the story of
how the whale got its tiny throat. This
particular whale of which the story tells
had eaten up every fish in the sea except
one "astute" little fish which hid behind
the whales right ear and from that point
of vantage advised him to try man when
his next fit of hunger came on. He also
told the big Cetaceon at what magical
point of latitude and longitude he would
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