Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-09-30
INT PHGNIx BRATTLEBORo, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

]. A. Taylor's Frank r. is entered in
the free for all race at Claremont next
week.
Three children were baptized at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday before the
hour for regular service.
S. w. Edgett & Co. have sold the 35-acre
farm of j. II. Frost OF Vernon to Clarence
Lowe of Stratton. Mr.. Lowe buys for a
home.
There will be regular meeting of Pro
tective Grange Dramatic club next week
Friday evening at Grange hall. A large
attendance is hoped for.
Several persons reported to the officers
that they had lost their pocketbooks
Thursday. Two or three were positive
that their pockets had been picked.
The Woman's club has invited the
Daughters of the Revolution to attend the
meetings of the State Federation Of Wom-
ans clubs, which are to be held here Oct.
SO.
The Woman's auxiliary will hold their
first regular monthly meeting for the year
at 8 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon at the
parlors of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION.
There will be a joint meeting of the
Woman's club, both divisions, at Mrs. Geo.
f. BARRIERS on High street, Saturday even
ing at 100 This is an Important meeting,
and every member is urged TO attend.
+. Wales has decided to open dancing
school in Brattleboro the coming season,
and the first gatherings will be held in
Grange hall Saturday, October 8, the af
ternoon class meeting at 2:30 and the eve
ming class at s.
e. j. Devine left this morning TO act as
advance agent for the Frank Tannehill
company in the farce comedy, Nancy
Hanks. Mr.. Devine will join the COM
pany at Greenfield and tour with them
through the South and West.
Lizzie Jane White, 81, died Wednesday
from consumption at her home In Keene.
She and her sister, Mamie White, were for
merly employed in the American House
and In the Brattleboro House. The funer-
al will be held at Keene Saturday morning.
The fall schedule of the railroads will
go into effect next Monday. The White
Mountain train and the early morning
train north will be discontinued. The
time cards have not yet been sent out so
the full changes cannot be announced I'M
til next week.
The window of Morse & Simpsons shoe
store has been the centre of attraction for
many children as we'll as grown folk the
past week, on account of its containing q
miniature wheat threshing machine in
process Of operation. The thresher Is run
by miniature portable engine, and oper-
ated by number Of dlminutive figures.
Next Sunday evening at 1880 at the
Universalist church, the Rev. j. j. Lewis
of Chicago will give his celebrated lecture
on 1.-THE Passion Play of Oberammergau."
This lecture, which Is superbly illustrated,
has given Mr.. Lewis a national reputation,
he having delivered it about 1900 times In
the last eight years. All are cordially in
vited.
The boys battalion, which made such o
creditable showing in the parade, took the
occasion when together In q body TO re-
member Rev. G. o. Day by presenting
him with a gold mounted combination
pen holder and pencil. Mr.. Day has done
much in behalf of this organization and
taken great interest In its development,
and he cannot but appreciate the gift as
token Of love and esteem from his young
friends.
No disposition has yet been made Of the
case of George Hidden against the Brattle-
boro Overall company In which the orator
asks for the appointment of receiver to
wind up the affairs of the company. The
company has made proposition to Law
yer Alexander Dunnett of st. Johnsbury,
counsel for the plaintiff, and has filed a
bond as evidence of good faith, but the
proposition has not been accepted.
The prisoners who were sentenced at the
last term of the Windham County court
were taken from Newfane this week by
Sheriff Gordon, who escorted Omer La
Bounty of Guilford and Charles j. Ross
of Jamaica TO the state prison at Windsor
Monday; Michael Hennessey of Brattle-
boro and Martin Knight of Wilmington to
the house OF correction at Rutland Tues
day; and Eli Bartlett of Rockingham to
the industrial school at Vergennes the
same day.
NJ. S. Patnode, 60, Frenchman from
st. Pie, p. O., was killed Wednesday
morning at South Deerfeld by the special
excursion train bringing people to Brattle-
hero. frem Springfield and other places
south. Patnode was a drinking man and
the indications are that he was walking on
the track while intoxicated. He had board
ed south-bound train earlier In the day
and was put off at Deerheld, as he had no
ticket. he had been visiting his brother
in Shelburne Falls.
The case of Robert @. Bacon, represent
ing E. b. Alexander of Leyden, against
Martin E. Whitney of Guilford, which was
begun Tuesday morning, was finished
Tuesday night. The plaintiff attempted to
recover 500 for some horses which he sold
TO Whitney. The defendant claimed that
the horses were not as was represented to
him and that he had rendered their full
value. The court allowed $55 for the mis-
representation and rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff to recover $45.
During one of the exhibitions of the
Orient sextuplet ridden by Arthur, Edgar,
and Will Sanders, John Howe, Harry
Wales and David Shaw, at the fair grounds
Thursday afternoon, the young son Of
George Harris jumped off the fence on to
the track In front of the machine and was
struck and knocked senseless. The child
was taken home and 1t was found that
there we're no serious injuries aside from
several bruises about the head and face.
Nearly all of the men on the sextuplet
were more or less scratched.
As announced last week, Rev. Howard
Il. Russell, d. D., of Ohio, superintendent
of the American Anti-Saloon league, has
been engaged TO give temperance addresses
in the Brattleboro churches next Sunday,
the purpose being TO make the occasion a
temperance rally day. DIR. Russell Will