Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-02-02

The annual meeting of the Universalist
church will be held tonight.
Quonektacat tribe Of Red Men will meet
this evening for rehearsal of the Warrior
degree.
The auditors began yesterday their regu-
! lar annual session, which will continue
from 10 to Is days.
Friendship circle will meet in Odd Eel
| lows hall next Tuesday evening. Supper
will be served at 9 o'clock.
The full military band will give a short
concert and furnish music for dancing next
! Tuesday evening at the armory i'm the first
of series of assemblies to be given by the
! First Regiment band.
| The first sociable in series by the Cath
Ollie Order of Foresters was held i'm Red
Mems hall Tuesday evening. About 40
couples participated in the dancing. Music
was furnished by Ambrose Knapp and
Norcross.
A full attendance is requested for the
regular meeting of Fort Dummer Colony
Pilgrim Fathers, next Tuesday evening 1t
is expected that several candidates will be
initiated and that debate by members of
the order will be a matter of interest. s..i
AL. G. Fields minstrels, which will ap-
pear at the Auditorium next Wednesday
evening, have fine orchestra and band,
and the usual parade and concert are Civ
en-. Mr.. Field has always kept faith with
his patrons and he seems to have outdone
all previous efforts with his company for
this season.
"Hick'ry Farm" which will be pre-
scented by the Grange Dramatic club next
Thursday night, is one of the best plays
that the club has ever brought out. The
merits of the play, with the new scenery
especially for this performance, and earn
est work that has been done to perfect il.
ought to make production of great inter
est.
There will be no prosecution of +. G..
Frost on account of the beer seized i'm the
recent raid at his bottlng works on Flat
street, an analysis of the beer showing il
to contain only a very small per cent of
alcohol. The case of the state against Mr.
Frost, growing out of the seizure of gov.
eminent license, will not be tried until
after the present session of the supreme
court.
The adjourned annual meeting of the
Carpenter Organ company was held Satur-
day, Jan. ~. The old board of four d.
rectors was reelected: Geo. +. Crowell.
G. II. Davenport, Martin Austin, ir., b.
II. Mitchell. The directors afterwards
chose George E. Crowel, president: c. II.
Davenport, treasurer; NJ lrtin Austin, ir.
secretary and general manager; John ii.
Morse, superintendent. The 1899 bust
ness was the best done since 1894. the in
crease in business being about equally di.
yided between foreign and domestic trade,
the domestic increase being principally In
the West. The business has opened up in
a very gratifying manner for the New
Year.
Mrs. Fred Morris of Guilford while
driving out of DR.. Hamilton's yard Tues
day, lost control Of her horse and was
thrown from her sleigh. The animal
rushed down North Main street, the shafts
OF the sleigh dragging behind, and soon
came in contact with DR.. c. S. Pratt's
team, which was hitched in front of the
doctors house. The loose shafts hooked
on to the Doctors covered sleigh and turned
1t bottom side up, while the runaway horse
swung around in a circle and shot off ON
tangent towards the High school building.
The doctors sleigh was badly demolished
but his horse did not attempt TO run away.
Mrs. Morris was not seriously hurt by her
tall and drove home later in the afternoon.
The Boston Journal of Jan. 2s con.
tanned the following in regard to the enter
tainment which will be given at the Audi
forum Tuesday, Feb. 8, under the aus
pieces of the Woman's club: cover 100
stereopticon pictures were used last even |
ing by Albert Armstrong of Boston at the
Young Mems Christian Union in the pre-
sentation of the picture play of j. NJ.
Barrie's Little Minister This now
famous story was portrayed by Mr.. Arm. |
strong in dramatic and realistic wav. and
the approval of large and deeply inter !
esIed audience was frequently manifested" |
Seats will go on sale tomorrow, Saturday.
morning, at 10 o'clock at Greer e's drug |
store for the Little Minister" picture |
play, to be presented at the Auditorium |
next Tuesday evening.