Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-02

district and circuit courts.
Mrs. Frank c. Field entertained num-
Der of her friends at five o'clock tea last
Saturday afternoon at her home on
Western avenue.
Protective Grange will serve a gridde
cake supper in the Grange banquet hall
next Thursday evening for the benefit OF
the relief fund.
Senator Proctor has introduced bill in
Congress to, grant a pension to Henry W
Walker. The bill and the accompanying
papers went to the committee on pensions.
Deputy Clerk f. w. Gibson and Miss
Helen Fenton, stenographer, went to Ches-
ter Tuesday to the examination of Charles
E. Hall, bankrupt, before Gilbert A. Davis,
referee.
The regular monthly business meeting
of the association and board of directors
of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be held in the as
ISOLATION rooms Monday evening. A good
attendance is desired.
John G. Baker sold last week a pair of
well matched speedy chestnut mares to e..
NJ. Rockwell, the silk manufacturer of
Leominster, Mass, who bought them for
driving purposes.
Durham Brothers will give a compli-
mentarv banquet to their 80 employees at
the Brooks House this evening. The
event takes place in connection with the
saesmen's school which the firm is hold
ing the last three days of this week. Music
will be furnished by the Bratteboro man
dolin, banjo and guitar club.
James A. Hernes "Sag Harbor' will
entertain the largest audience of the sea-
son at the Auditorium tomorrow evening,
Judging from the advance sale OF tickets.
The sale opened Monday morning at s
o'clock at the box office, and when Manager
Fox began to check off seats there were
nearly 50people in line. BY Monday night a
large part of the seats had been taken, and
there has been a continual sale since then.
The Womau's club will meet this after
noon with Mrs +. II. Holden. A sympo-
stun on "Housewife's Dav' has been pre-
pared, the questions for discussion being
"Hostess and guest, "the art of economy"
the ounce of prevention" and the SER
want problem The evening session will
meet with Mrs. A. NJ. Harlow in Crosby
block next Wednesday when the same pro-
gram will be carried out.
The Fletcher saw mill which was re-
Gently sold to the Potter, Powers company
week after having been closed several
weeks for repairs. The machinery was
sent away to be overhauled, the dam and
fume have been put in frst-cass condition
and other repairs have been made. The
mill has prospect for a large business
this spring.
Capt. w. T. Haigh will place in the
Brattleboro Free library one of the souve-
mir badges presented to Company |, First
Vermont Volunteers, by Col. w. Seward
Webb of Shelburne. The metal bar is
made from part of the Spanish cruiser
Maria Teresa, which was sunk in the naval
battle at Santiago The badge would have
been given to Joseph Vollenger, a private
in Co. |, had he lived.
The second dance given by the First
Regiment band, which took place in the
Armory Tuesday evening, was even more
successful than the first in the series,
judging from the large attendance. Over
IS couples participated in the dancing,
which continued from to II o'clock. The
concert given by the band from to 9
o'clock was enjoyable, Sousas latest
march 'The Man Behind the Gun" being
an important part of the program.
A. E. Torrey of North Hinsdale, while
walking beside load of lumber on the
Hinsdale road recently slipped and fell on
the ice at point near Sand hill, and dis
located his ankle. A neighboring farmer
carried him to his home, a physician was
summoned, who reduced the dislocation,
but it will be some time before he will be
able to use his leg j. B. Taylor, who
lives near by, sawed two fingers of one
hand, the same day, while working in his
sons saw-mill.
The Greenfield Gazette and Courier, in
its report OF the operate concert in that
town last week, says: Gan unexpected
episode was the going out of the electric
lights while Stella Brazil was singing a
solo. Without a seconds warning the hall
was dark. The stage manager jumped for
the button that turns on the arc light, and
probably not much more than quarter of
minute had passed when the big light at
the ceiling was turned on. A few minutes
later the incandescent lights came on again.
Mrs. Pratt kept on singing and Mr.. Howe
continued to play without the slightest ap-
pearance of break, remarkable exhibit
ton of elfpossession."
1t will please the wide circle of friends
of Rev. Lewis Grout to know that his
monograph on the war in South Africa,
first read before the Brattleboro Profess
sional club, and then printed in pamphlet
form, has met with deserved recognition.
The second edition, which went on sale
last week, has been exhausted, many or
ders coming from out of town. The Bos-
ton Journal devoted a half-column edito-
rial to "The Boer and the Briton," quot
ing the statements of fact by Mr.. Grout in
support Of its own contention that the war
is unjustiiable on the part of Great Brit
ain, and recommending the pamphlet "to
all who wish compact and intelligent
presentation of the facts in convenient
form"
A current item about movement by the
Daughters of the Revolution for reun-
ion of Vermonters to be held at Montpel-
Ter next summer evidently started in a
guess at the facts, At the meeting of the
Colonial Danes of Vermont" held at
Bennington last fall, it was proposed that
a movement be started for a "Vermont
homecoming week" next summer, after
the plan followed in New Hampshire last
year. This was only suggestion, how
ever, for these women recognized that the
success of such a movement must depend
on the feeling toward it of the governor
and other leading men, and that the nitia-
tive must be taken by them. So far as
the Colonial Danes are concerned the
movement has only gone so far as the APP.
pointment by the board of management OF
committee, of which Mrs. Kittredge
Haskns of this village is member. The
| plan, as now understood, does not contem.
plate meeting at any one place, but a
general homecoming of Vermonters or
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