Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-11-09

the Pilgrim Fathers sociabes In Red Mems
hall Tuesday evening.
The annual meeting OF the Columbian
book club will be held with Mrs. @. II.
Davenport on Oak street next Tuesday
evening at T,30.
Leslie Smith has bought a large wood
lot In Londonderry, and will keep force
of men at work throughout the winter,
clearing III the timber.
II. s. Streeter Of Greenfield will give the
first lesson In his dancing school In Grange
hall next Monday evening. Frank ii.
Shaffer will be the pianist.
Godfrey, son Of Mr.. and Mrs Charles r.
Crosby, sustained q painful injury Tues
day by falling upon an iron rake, three
teeth penetrating the leg.
One of the periodical raids was made on
the brewery on the island Friday, followed
by one Of the periodical payments Of fine
of $62 In the Hinsdale police court.
Brattleboro friends Of DR.. Alfred Jeffer-
son, formerly physical instructor in the Y.
NJ. O. A., have received news of his mar
riage to Miss Molie Carnaby Of Omaha,
Neb.
Teachers examinations will be held at
Wilmington Nov. % and 49, Bellows Falls
Nov. 20 and 81; and at Brattleboro Nov.
80 and Dec. l. Attendance both days is
required.
Mrs. E. A. Chamberlain gave a birthday
party Thursday, when she entertained
eight of her former schoolmates. Games
and music formed part of the diversions
Of the occasion.
DIR. j. s. Dutton tested some cows be-
longing to W. w. Slate for tuberculosis at
Saxtons River Tuesday. He found three
out of herd OF nine we're diseased, and
they will be slaughtered.
w. B. Mettey has leased of K. @. Crosby
the building in West Bratteboro which he
formerly conducted as a hotel He will
run 1t as barber shop at present, and later
he will give boxing lessons.
The Sunday school committee of the
Baptist Christian Endeavor society enter
tanned the officers and teachers of the
school in the Baptist vestry Monday even
ing. Reports OF the state Sunday school
convention in Barre were read and fruit
was served.
Hal w. Brown of Sheburne Falls,
Mass, the actor, well-known in Brattle-
boro, has brought suit for $25 900 against
Brady & Ziegfeld of New York city, own
ers of the horse which ran into Mrs. Brown
last September, inhlcting injuries which
caused her death.
Uncle Sam has ordered two portraits of
w. X. Stuart, one each of his favorlte
sons, William Mckinley and Theodore
Roosevelt, and he will call for them next
Monday evening at Canal street. They
will be shown to anyone who happens
along there during the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Weatherhead,
who were killed by the pay train on the
railroad crossing at Northfield Sunday, had
many acqualntances in Brattleboro, Yer
non, and in Guilford, Mr.. Weatherhead' S
native town. Mr.. Weatherhead was a
brother Of Mrs. David j. Weld of Brattle-
boro.
The Professional club will hold its first
meeting for the season of 1900. 1901 next
Tuesday evening In the Brooks House par
lors. A banquet will be served, which
will be followed by paper by Rev. < Q.
s. Osgood upon "Shall 1t Be China for the
Chinese?" @. G. Fits will lead in the
discussion.
An important auction sale OF cattle,
horses, sheep, team wagons, harness, farm
ing tools, etc., is announced for next
Tuesday, November 10, beginning at 10
O'Clock, by Charles l.. Stacey, who has
recently sold his farm in Centrevllle. The
bill of particulars is given in the advertise
ment in another column.
The sociological committee for the fort.
nightly club Of Keene has invited Mrs.
VIM. G. Horton, president of the Brattle-
boro Bird club, A. S. B. R., TO give bird
talk before the club on children's day
later in the season. Mrs Horton has &C
cepted the invitation and will illustrate
her talk by mounted specimens and ac-
companying nests.
Mrs. W. @. Horton has received word
from Prof. Davenport of Boston, a fern
specialist, that the fern which she found
several weeks ago and which he and DR..
Robinson, curator Of the herbarlum OF Hal-
ward university, have been trying TO iden-
tify, belongs to variety hitherto unknown.
Prof. Davenport will preserve the fern,
and will name 1t after Mrs. Horton in &C.
cordance with the established custom of
naming plants, etc., after their discoveries.
The annual meeting Of the Brattleboro
Woman's Indian association was held al
Mrs. j. M. Tyler's on Wednesday last.
Mrs. G. b. Rice was elected president,
Mrs. j. M. Tyler, secretary and treasurer.
II was voted to send the usual barrel OF
Christmas supplies TO the Indian hospital
for women and children, Grow Creek,
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interesting account Of the Navajo Indians
given. A good number of the members
we're present.
Edward Martin was arrested in the
bowling alley on Flat street Tuesday night
on complaint made TO Policeman Z. r.
Thayer. Martin was intoxicated and was
making q disturbance. Mr.. Thayer gave
him until Wednesday morning in the lock-
I up in which to sober of, and he was then
arraigned before Justice W. S. Newton.
Martin pleaded guilty and was fined $50
for third offence of intoxication. The
fine and costs amounted to $685.. The
fine was paid yesterday.
The International Sunshine society held
q meeting at Mrs. j. K. Halls on Satur
day, Nov. 8. 1t was voted to send q
Christmas box to the headquarters In New
York for distribution by the president gen,
eral, Mrs. Cynthia WestOver Alden. All
articles designed for the box should be
sent TO Mrs. ]. <. Hall, Chaplin street
during the last week of November Mag
azines, books, pictures, silk pieces, wors-
teds, or any article that would be appre.
ciated by the "shutins" and the lonely
will be most acceptable.
News has been received of the marriage
of Miss Florence NJ. Leitslnger, daughter
] of Casper Leltslnger of Deep River, Conn,
to Frederick q. Comstoek. The ceremony
} was performed at the home of the brides