Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

The SUBJECT OF lnulNiuuai NohmuhiVh
cups will be brought up next Sunday az
the Methodist church, and the members be
given an opportunity to vote upon 1t.
At the regular meeting of the Alliance
study class held in the Brooks House re-
ception room Monday evening Mrs. S. K.
Lawton read paper upon Hypnotsm.
The neckyoke of the Brattleboro and
Jacksonville stage broke Monday about
two miles west of West Halifax. The
horses ran to the village, smashing the
sleigh and slightly iniuring one passenger.
Beedles orchestra of Keene has been
engaged to play at Winchester, N. H., the
evening of the 30th, when the Merchants
association will give banquet and ball
for the benefit of Landlord Richards of the
Winchester House.
Now its the 10th volunteer regiment
which has distinguished itself in the
Philippines. At Taal two companies of
the 4Gth with three companies of the 3Sth
ran up against 800 Tagals, and after a
brief engagement the Tagals Initiated the
tactics of their favorite leader Aguinaldo
and ran. This is the regiment in which
four Brattleboro boys and about 100 other
| Vermonters are serving.
The Keene Sentinel has the following in
its notice of the entertainment given by
the Fortnightly club of that city last Fri
day evening: Mr.. Alfred Thompson of
Brattleborc made his first public appear
ance here as a tenor singer, and quite
charmed his hearers. He has a fine voice
well cultivated, and has the promise of
musical career. Each of his selections was
so heartily encored that he responded with
another.
Tommy Guiheen, the promising young
ball player who has played as short stop ana
pitcher on Bratteboro teams the past two
seasons, has had an offer from Manager
Manning of the Kansas City base ball club
to play on that team in the Western league
next seeson. Mr.. Guiheen expects to
leave for Kansas City early in March.
Manager Manning played on the Boston
National league team years ago, and has
the reputation as one of the best managers
in the country to develop young players.
A. j. Falcon, who has been chef at
| Priests restaurant for over two years past,
sewers his connection with the work Sat
urday, Jan. 27. He will go into the bakery
business for himself in Orange, making
specially of ice cream and confectionery,
having bought brand new outfit for the
transaction of the business. Mr.. Falcon is
an expert workman and came from Brat
tleboro, VT, to this place in October, 1897.
His friends hope for the success of his bust
ness venture Gardner, Mass, Journal
of Jan. Is.
The games at Hoosick Falls, n. Y, and
North Adams, Mass, which the Y NJ. c..
A. basket ball team was to have played
this evening and tomorrow night have
been postponed as the armory at North
Adams is undergoing repairs. The team
will play in Brattleboro next Tuesday
evening against the Gushing Academy ag-
gregation and on the following Thursday
will line up against the Holyoke High school
boys. Both of the visiting teams will
come with good records back of them.
Holyoke High school has not been defeat
ed this year and on Monday night it won
from Vermont Academy 1918. Brattle-
boro defeated Vermont Academy the week
before 1919. Cushing Academy is the
team BrattleborO defeated at Ashburnham,
Mass, recently by score of 60
Mrs. Helen NJ, wife of Charles Wood of
Winchester, n. H., died Friday night at
the Massachusetts, general hospital in Bos-
ton after an operation for the removal of a
tumor. Mrs. Wood was 26 years old, and
was daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Titus of Brattleboro. She was married
eight years ago to Stllman Snow of Win
chester, who died in 1896, leaving her with
| two little boys, now 7 and years old
Mrs. Snow became the wife of Charles f.
| Wood last September. Beside her hus-
band, children and parents Mrs. Wood
leaves a brother and two sisters. The
funeral was held at Winchester Monday,
Rev. c. F. Roper officiating. Beautiful
floral tributes bore silent testimony to the
love and esteem in which Mrs. Wood was
held.
The Murray club of the Unlversalist
church held an enjoyable musical and lit
erary entertainment in the vestry Tuesday
evening, at which good number were
present. The program was as follows:
Piano duet, Miss Grace Harmon and Miss
Josephine Tyler; violin solo, Miss
Grace Eels; selection by the Centre
church male quartet; recitation, Miss
Zetta Weld; piano solo, Miss Addie
Warner; selection, banjo club; solo, Wal
ter S. Stearns; selection, mandolin club /,
recitation, Pauline Morris; song, "Nobody
comes to WOO me-" Miss Alice Allen; Sc
lection, banjo and mandolin clubs; banjo
solo, Louis Knight; male quartet. The
banjo and mandolin clubs referred to are
composed of pupils of Miss Mercy Cox
manGolins, Howard c. Rice, Arthur b.
Akeley, George E. Adams; banjos, Jesse
K. Haynes, Louis knight, Miss Alice
Phillips, Lucien d. Stedman; guitars, W.
Frost Minor, Miss Lizzie Tuthill; flute,
Fred G. Adams. This was their first APP
pearance in public, and the enthusiastic
applause of the audience attested the ex-
cellence of their work. The entire pro-
gram was well rendered and each number
received merited applause.
Al q. Fields Greater MinstreIs Feb. =.
AL G. Fields greater minstels, now
world famous, will again visit Brattleboro