Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-11-17
THE VERMONT PHGNIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, NOvEMT

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ton, N. II.
There will be a special meeting of Quo
nektacat tribe of Red Men this evening for
a rehearsal.
The probate court has appointed Frank
Worden administrator of the Israel Stowe
estate of Halifax.
The annual meeting Of the Prospect Hill
book club will be held at the home of d.
E. Tasker next Wednesday evening.
DR.. H. II. Dinsmore, who went from
here to North Woodstock, N. H., few
months ago, has formed partnership with
DR.. Bell, the other physician in that town.
Agnes, the six year old daughter Of Mrs.
William Lee, died at the home of Mrs. Lee
on Elliot street Wednesday night. The
child had been Ill with diphtheria and scar
let fever.
ANYWAY has sold Warren G.. Dooittle's
building lot on Pine street to James @.
Patterson of Bellows Falls, who contem-
plates building this fall.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
Woman's Indian association will be held
at Mrs. j. NJ. Tyler's on Thursday after
noon, Nov. %, at o'clock. A full at
tendance is desired.
r. G.. Renne, whose crimes are referred
to in another column, pleaded guilty at
Greenfield Tuesday and was sentenced to
not less than four and not more than five
years in state prison.
o. p. Cassavant, formerly barber in
BrattleborO, has opened a new lodging and
boarding house at Claremont. He has run
the Tremant House in that place, and has
recently been proprietor Of the inn at As
cutneyville.
A meeting of company was held in the
armory last evening, when 1t was decided
to hold ball on Wednesday evening be-
fore Thanksgiving. Lieuts. F. b. Put
nam and Z. j. Waterman, Sergeant j. G..
Sullivan and Privates T. W. Golden and
Ben Williamson were appointed com
mittee of arrangements.
The first basket ball game Of the season
will be played at the Armory Wednesday
night, the 22d, between teams captained
by Howe and Cundff. Two teams will be
chosen from the II or 10 players who are
trying for positions on the regular Y. M
G. A. team. Allen and Plimpt6n, regular
players in '07 and '9S, will play.
The San Francisco correspondent of the
Dramatic Mirror has the following notice
of Mrs. Will Schuster's appearance in
L'Africaine: Gamma LIGHTERS impersona-
tion of the slave girl was, to the writer's
mind, the best thing she has yet done.
Her singing of the exquisite music was
very fine, and she played up TO Salassa ad-
mirably."
A meat market was opened in the store
of <. c. Benson on Prospect Hill yesterday
for the accommodation of the residents Of
that part of the town. 1t is in charge of
O. w. Butterfield, who has had much ex-
perience in the meat business. Mr.. Ben
son will take orders for meat and groceries
at the same time. II the business pays a
refrigerator will be put in next summer.
d. p. Perry, brother OF w. ID. Perry of
this town, and former resident of Brat
tleboro, was one Of the posse of Is depu-
ties sent from Meadvlle TO Titusville, Pa,
last Saturday to assist in preventing a
mob from lynching one of the burglars
who took part in the shooting affiay in
which Chief-of Police Daniel McGrath
and patrolman were wounded.
The first snow storm Of the season came
Saturday, but the snow melted quickly.
Sunday morning, however, the ground
was covered with snow, which did not dis
appear entirely for three or four days, the
weather being unusually cold for this time
of the year. In some of the hill towns of
the county sleds have been in use this
week. The storm extended over large
part of New England, and in Maine a fall
| of to IA inches was reported.
The annual gentemen's night of the
Brattleboro Woman's club, which occurred
| Wednesday evening in the Brooks House
parlor, was a delightful social event, en-
/ hv lar0a fafpnanu Taffginuarfs
| orchestra of FIVE pieces gave selections at
intervals during the evening, and vocal
solos we're rendered by Fred Adams, Misses
! Cora Liscom and Marian Minor, and a
duet by Miss Ethel Bruce and K. V. Morse.
| Light refreshments were served in the re-
| ception room, Mrs. @. II. Thompson
and Miss Edith Estabrook pouring the
coffee.
The Brattleboro Book club held its ffti.
eth annual meeting and sale at Mrs. j. NJ.
Tyler's Wednesday evening, Nov. 10. The
old board of officers was reelected, viz
Mrs. James Dalton, secretary; Mrs. j. NJ.
| Tyler, treasurer; Mrs. n / Hawley, Mrs.
Royal Tyler and Mrs. Warder, committee
on books. The club was organized in 1916
by Larkin g. Mead and Madam Higginson
OF the original members Mrs. Royal Tyler
and Mrs. j C. Wells are the only survivors
The Westminster Review and Littel's
have been taken continuously by the club
and are still on the list.
Judge E. l.. Waterman and Lawyer c.
G. Fits, attorneys for the Society of Seam
stresses, Needle-wOmen and Shop-girls Of
Brsttleboro, have this week filed in the SUI
preme judicial court of Massachusetts, in
Boston the society's answer to the petition
of William Minot, jr., trustee of the estate
of Thomas Thompson, the philanthropist,
asking the court 10 pass upon the validity
of. the trust. The answer is formal set
ting forth of the facts already known to
the Bratlle public in connection with
the will of Mr.. Thompson which bequeath
ed one half the income of the Thompson
estate of about 100000 to the needy
seamstresses, neede-women and shop girls
of Bratteboro.
Frank w. Pratt, who was sentenced to
lS months imprisonment at Greenfield
Wednesday on the charge of lewd conduct,
Is the father of Frank Pratt, the young
horse thief, who was sentenced to the
house of correction at the last session OF
the Windham county court, and who es-
capped with other prisoners few days later
and has not been apprehended. The
elder Pratt was formerly known as "tht
boss of Shutesbury'' and came very neal
to controlling the politics of this town
where "they raise huckleberries in summer
and hell in winter" The elder Pratt de
posted $500 bail when arrested severa
months ago. He forfeited his bail anC