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

1 he progressive Us CluD met with MT.
and Mrs. Harry Haus last evening.
The Brooks House bell boys present
natty appearance in their new uniforms of
military pattern.
The Episcopal women will hold their
next sociable at the home of Mrs. f. w.
! Childs next Thursday evening.
Hon. T. Nelson Hastings, president Ct
the New Hampshire senate, will be acting
| governor during the absence of Gov. Roll
Inns in New Hampshire.
The next meeting of the Professional
| club will be held the evening of Feb II,
when Rev. DR.. Marble will deliver the
| paper on "The Decline of Religion
The women of the Congregational society
voted yesterday to paper the rooms in the
new parsonage, to equip the house with
window shades and to build buffers
sink
| The afternoon session of the Woman's
| club will meet with Mrs. L. f. Adams this
afternoon. Germany will be the subject,
and the program will include papers and
musical numbers.
About % members of the Congregation
al Christian Endeavor society had sleigh
ride to Bernardston, Tuesday night. The
Methodist society of that place served sup
| per IN The town nail.
Gerald Stanley Lee, who was Brattle-
boro boy IL years ago when his father was
pastor of the Centre church, has an inter-
esting article on Journalism as a Basis
for Literature in the February number of
| the Atlantic.
c. A. Mason, the Hnsdale lumber deal
er, has bought of Henry Clark of Brattle-
boro the Stockwel steers, which took the
first prize in the drawing match in the
class weighing less than $500 pounds at the
Brattleboro Valley fair last autumn.
The record of the Brattleboro Creamery
association for December was: Pounds OF
cream, 81 SOC; pounds of butter, Is 3sS;
pounds of butter fat, II, 400; price per
pound of butter fat, IS cents; price per
pound of butter, 246 cents; expenses,
S554 H.
When Capt Haigh was at the officers
school at Burlington he received the money
due the members of Company l, 1st Yer
mont Volunteers, for services from the
time of their enlistment in Brattleboro to
the date of mastering into service Of the
United States. Many members of the
company received their payment at the
armory last evening.
Mrs. Lucina Harris, 81, widow of Clark
Harris, died Tuesday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs Roswell Frost, in the west
ern part of the town. Mrs. Harris was
for many years a resident of Wardsboro.
She had been helpless in recent years from
| the effects of a shock. The funeral was
held at the house yesterday, and the body
will be taken to Wardsboro today for burial.
The first of the series of concerts and
dances by the First Regiment band will be
given next Tuesday evening at the armory.
The pleasure of dancing to a brass band,
which many of the young people have
never experienced, will doubtless draw a
large attendance at all of these gatherings.
Every arrangement has been made to as
sure good time to those who attend. A.
II. Hines will act as prompter.
The Baptist Christian Endeavor society
will celebrate their tenth anniversary with
appropriate exercises next Wednesday
evening. A banquet for members and in
vited representatives from other similar
organizations in town, together with their
resident pastors, will be served at $3.50
O'Clock, followed by after-dinner speaking,
music, etc.
About 80 friends of Mr.. and Mrs W. G.
Rockwell gave them a surprise party at
their home on Frost street last evening,
the occasion being Mr.. and Mrs. Rock.
wells 25th wedding anniversary. The
evening was spent in cards, refreshments
of ice cream and cake being served. Be
fore their departure the guests left Mr.. and
Mrs. Rockwell several valuable presents.
The steam saw mill in Marlboro owned
by Burt Chelis of Claremont, n. H., was
burned to the ground Wednesday evening
about $50 o'clock. The fire started
around the chimney of the engine, and al
though it was discovered almost immedi-
ately nothing could be done to check the
flames. The employees of the mill who
were in house few rods away saved a
small quantity of finished lumber, but sew
eral thousand feet of boards were destroy
ed. The mill was in charge of Fred Waite.
G. f. Thompson adjusted the loss at S2125.
The property was insured in the Vermont
Mutual and the Palatine Insurance com
panies from which Mr.. Chelis will receive
. 5000.