Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

evening. Dancing and cards will be en-
joyed.
The fve-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs
l.. b. Yauvey died Sunday of spinal men
ingitis The funeral and burial took place
Monday.
The transport Meade, carrying the 43d
United States Volunteers, including Lieut..
}. Leslie Elmer, arrived at Alden, the
Southern extremity of the Red Sea, on
Monday.
Rev. c. o. Day will preach in the Cen
ire Congregational church next Sunday
morning, at which time he will present the
cause of the Congregational Education so
ciety, of which he is the secretary.
The annual stipend of $500 due in Nov
ember from the New London railroad TO
the Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad was
paid this week to Q. f. Thompson, presi-
dent of the Brattleboro & Whitehall road.
Will Brosnahan, II, was sentenced to
two years at the State Industrial school at
Vergennes Tuesday for truancy and wilful
and continued disobedience of school
rules. He was taken to the institution by
Sheriff Gordon.
J. o. Smith has arranged through the
agency of A. V. May for the sale Of his
hack, coupe aud mail business to A. T..
Cobb, formerly proprietor of the hotel at
Chesterfield. Possession will be given as
soon as the appraisal is completed.
Jonathan G. Howe of Walpole, N. H.,
formerly of Brattleboro, fell 20 feet from a
tree recently and was seriously injured,
but he is improving He is a member of
Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fellows and
Sedgwick post, G. A. X. He has been
cared for by T. W. Eason.
A paper has been circulated in town dur
ing the past week in an effort to raise
money to aid the family of l.. F. Shields,
who went from here TO Boston last spring
Mr.. Shields and his eldest son John are
both at Rutland, Mass, where they are be-
ing treated a: the Home for Consumptives.
f. P. Butts of Hartford is reported to
have been appointed chief engineer for the
American writing paper company, in which
office he will have charge of the mill con-
struction and machinery of the company.
Mr.. Butts is now member of the firm of
Butts & Crosby of Hartford, his partner
being Frank w. Crosby, formerly of Brat
tleborO.
Another improvement in the Brattle-
borO post-ofiice accommodations has been
made this week. The office will close at
o'clock at night, as formerly, but clerk
will remain on duty inside to send out
mail for the 1910 train and also to receive
the mail from the two night trains from
the south. Mail matter left at the office
as late as 9:30 at night will be sent out on
the 1910 train.
The report of the inspector of finance
shows that the Burlington savings bank
stands first among institutions of its class
In Vermont, with 16,329 depositors and
deposits of $3.50, S797l. The Rutland
savings bank stands second in the list with
10,57S depositors and SO. 81 ,565. 40 depos-
its, the Vermont savings bank Of Brattle
boro third with 1920 depositors and SO,
178, 706 81 in deposits.
Rev. Louis Grout has received several
complimentary letters from professors in
various educational institutions in regard
to his paper on 1.-THE Boer and the Britou
in South Africa" which he delivered re
Gently before the Bratteboro Professional
club. He has also received from Edwin ID
Mead, editor of the New England Maya
zine, an invitation TO deliver the paper be
fore the Twentieth Century club of Bos-
ton and TO dine with the club.
The exhibition in Grange hall Saturday
night by the Empire Moving Picture com
pany of Athol, was ragged, due partially
to the unsatisfactory electrical connection
with their cineograph. The moving pic
lures were good and included scenes from
the Dreyfus trial, the Dewey land and nav
al parade, and the battle of San Juan Hill
The best part of the entertainment wa
the Photographic concert, the instrument
being as perfect as any machine of its kline
ever seen in Brattleboro.
Rose c. Hildreth, %, wife of Floyd +
Defiance, brakeman on the Boston 4
Maine railroad, died at her home on Ellio
street last Friday noon after a short illness
with paralysis. The funeral was helC
from the house Sunday morning, Rev. r
r. Lowe officiating, and the burial was IL
Chesterfield, N. II. Mrs. Defiance was
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hildretl
of this town. She was married TO Mr.
Defiance in November, 1898. Besides he
husband and two-weeks-old son she l
survived by father, mother, three broth
ers and five sisters.
The Woman's auxiliary connected with
the Dairymen's association have engaged
Walter A Gilbert, Alfred Thompson
Walter S. Stearns and Arthur II. Brasor Il
sing Tuesday evening, Jan. 8. The or
chestra will furnish music also 1t will
be remembered that Mrs. Janet NJ. Hill O
Hyde Park, Mass, editor OF the Boston
Cooking School Magazine, is TO give lee
ture upon "The Ideal in Home Cooking
that evening. Hon. Mason G. Stone, stat,
superintendent of education, will also Civ,
an address. G. W. Scarf will read poem
entitled "Let us Magnify our Calling"
1t has been reported "upon the author
ity of the narrow gauge roadmaster'' tina
the company has decided to widen thu
track from Brattleboro to South London
derry to the width of the standard broat
gauge and to have the work completed b.
July 1. The officials of the Brattleboro &
Whitehall railroad company have heard o
no such decision. Moreover, the interes
alone on the excess of cost of broad gaug,
over the present narrow gauge road would
pay two, If not three, times the cost o
maintaining force of transfer men which
is now necessary at the station in Brattle
boro, and as broad gauge road would
draw no more business than the marrow
gauge is now getting, unless it was mad'
TO connect with the Rutland railroad Of
some other line, 1t is probable that July
will not have witnessed any widening o.
the narrow gauge track.
Lorenzo whitney Ordered TO Pay Hi
wife So a Week.
Judge Tyler filed Monday his order IL
the case of Mrs I,OranZO WhitnaV aOains