Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-04-13

The Grange Dramatic cluO VIII meet
this evening at Grange hall.
The knights and Ladies of Honor will
hold a social meeting with Mrs. II. w. Sar-
gent Monday evening.
Prouty & Calvin will close out their
millinery business in Retting block and
will leave the building next week.
The fifth annual reunion and roll call of
the members of the First Unlversalst
church will be held in the church parlors
Wednesday evening, April Is.
A false fire alarm was caused yesterday
noon by the crossing of electric light and
fire alarm wires near Chaplin street. Three
fire alarm boxes were burned out.
The sugar house of D. NJ. Stockwel on
Dummerston Hill, together with pans,
store tubs, $50 buckets, two and half
cords of wood and some other tools, was
burned to the ground yesterday morning.
A fair advance sale of reserved seat
tickets for the Masquerade ball promises
crowded gallery, and well filled floor
is assured. The invitations sent out of
town have brought many responses.
Buchholz, the costumer, arrives this
afternoon, and will occupy the vacant
store at 80 Elliot street. The costumes
will be ready for selection at o'clock this
evening. The invitation to attend the ball
is general
r. E. Townsend, 20, one of the we'll
known and eccentric inmates of the Brattle-
boro Retreat, died last week of gangrene,
which appeared in one of his toes. The
funeral was held in Woodstock where Mr.
Townsend leaves a widow, son and daugh-
ter.
Fifty head of cattle and farming tools,
belonging to the estate of the late K. E.
Stockwell, will be sold by auction Tuesday,
April "a, at 10 \. ~, at the farm on the
Ames hill road The stock is said by ex-
pert judges to be among the best live stock
in southern Vermont.
Lee Hung Nung, Chinaman, was con-
victed of perjury at session Of the United
States circuit court at Burlington this
week He claimed that the picture Of him
self, used in attempting to secure admission
into this country, was taken in Hong
Kong, but the photographer and negative
were found in Richford. Judge Wheeler
sentenced the man to 10 months of hard
labor in the prison at Windsor.
The following officers of the Woman's
auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c. A. have been
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs C. f. r. JENNIE; first vice president,
Mrs. r. f. Lowe; second vice president,
Mrs. II. F. Weatherhead; secretary, Miss
Florence Wellman; assistant secretary,
Miss Kate Wheeler treasurer, Mrs. f. A.
Starkey. A board of II directors was also
elected.
Fort Drummer, Royal Arch chapter,
elected and installed these officers last even
ing; o. f. Randall, f. high priest; w.
d. Waite, king; d. Cowles, scribe; Z. f.
Brooks, treasurer; II. F. c. T6dt, score
tary; j. B. Randoll, c. of H.; H. A..
Walters, p. S.; Harry Rowe, r. A. c.; w.
B. Vinton, NJ. Sd v; d. A. Young, NJ
I'd v; P. F. Connors, NJ. LIST "; Kit
tredge Haskins, chaplain; j. Henry Pratt
and c. F. r. Jenne, stewards; j. A. Tay-
Tor, tyler; E. F. Brooks, trustee.
The south bound mixed train on the
narrow gauge railroad was delayed from
O'Clock yesterday afternoon to o'clock
this morning by an accident between South
Londonderry and Winhall A broken rail
caused the locomotive to leave the rails,
going about II feet from the track. A
wrecking train from Brattleboro reached
the scene about 8 clock last night and by
l o'clock this morning the track was clear
ed so as to allow last nights passenger
train from Brattleboro TO pass. The loco
motive was gotten on to the rails about 6
O'Clock this morning.
The married men of Protective Grange
were given a supper Tuesday evening in
the banquet hall by the married women
and the unmarried people Of the order.
Theimen were entitled to the repast on &C
count of having presented a better enter
tainment than either their wives or the
single people. After the winners had
finished the married women were fed, and
what was left from the second table was
given to the single people. After the sup
per the party adjourned to Grange hall,
where post prandial exercises were held.
Lawyer John f. Gale made an excellent
POSTMASTER, and all accounts we're well
balanced at the close of the entertainment
The proposed survey of the land in the
rear of Hooker block with view to erect
ing an addition to the block, which The
Phoenix referred to two weeks ago, has
been made, and Architect n. A. Plum
mer is now at work upon plans for such an
addition, but at present there is no assur
ance that the addition will be built. Every
thing depends upon what sort of a contract
II. w.
Hooker, the owner of the block, and Dun
ham Brothers, who will occupy the addi-
ton If it is built. The plan will contem-
plate building the addition six stories high,
three stories to be below the level of the
first story of the block and extending back
to the railroad so that goods could be I'M
loaded from the cars into the store. The
dimensions would be about So feet by go
feet, which largely exceed the dimensions
of the present store.
The annual visitation and inspection of
Beauseant Commandery, Knights Tenn
plar, by Right Eminent Jesse E. Thomp-
son of Rutland, grand commander, and
suite, occurred Wednesday evening. The
Temple and Malta degrees were conferred.
The grand officers present were Eminent
Sir Daniel Payson of Windsor, grand
generallssimo, and Eminent Sir D. p.
Webster of Brattleboro, grand captain
general. There were visiting Sir Knights
from the following communicates: Hugh
De Paine of Keene, N. H.; St. George of
Schenectady, N. Y; st. George of Nashua,
n. H.; Winslow Lewis of Salem, Mass,
and De Molay of Boston. At the close Of
the work about so Sir Knights sat down
to banquet. Eminent Commander d.
A. Young acted as POSTMASTER, and there
were responses from the grand officers, and
Sir Knights S. j. Smith, j. H. Hunt, j.
f. Holt, W. II. Bowe, G. s. Howe, W. Il.
Vinton, W. e. Clark, H. e. Taylor, e. C.
Robertson and G. S, Foster.
Death OF Mrs. John RettIng, sr.
Mrs TOuiaa Rattino 10 wifa of Tohn