Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

W. II. Haigh Is sending his customers
handsome illuminated calendars for 1901
from special designs.
Fort Drummer Colony of Pilgrim Fathers
will hold its annual election of officers
next Tuesday evening.
DIR. William H. Garrish of Portland,
Me-, died at the Brattleboro Retreat We'd
nesdav The body was sent to Portland
yesterday morning.
Quonektacat tribe of Red Men will work
the adoption degree this evening and will
nominate officers to be elected Dec. % for
the ensuing six months.
A delegation from Bingham chapter,
Order of Eastern Star, will attend the
meeting of the chapters In district No. 8,
in Springfield next Tuesday.
A curfew law is under consideration In
| Somerville, Mass Rev. H. d. Maxwell Is
one of the pastors who signed a petition
for the enactment of the law.
F. j. Bailey's agency has sold the Asa
p. Goodenough house in West BrattlebOro
to Will e. Coombs of Canal street. Mr..
Coombs will move there next spring.
A letter received Wednesday announced
the safe arrival of William LAWN In Lon
don. Luclen Howe and Mrs. LAWN re-
turned from New York the first of the
week.
G.. E. Gilman announces an important
auction next Tuesday, Dec. Is, at 10
o'clock, when 40 heavy team and farm
horses will be sold at his stables on Elliot
street.
Allen H. Cox, son of DR.. Gardper Cox
of Holyoke, and a nephew of A. V. Cox,
has recently passed the severe competitive
examination for admission to the school of
Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he will study
architecture.
Miss Louise Davenport gave an enjoya-
BILE graphophone entertainment Wednesday
afternoon at the Home for the Aged and
Disabled. 1t was greatly appreciated by
the members of the home, as attested by
their hearty and unanimous vote of thanks.
The Green street book club held its an
nual supper and sale at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. 9. A. Harris Wednesday evening.
About Do persons were present and spent
the evening in delightful way. The sale
of books was by auction, G. L. Stickney
showing superior talent as acutioneer.
The first meeting of the Alliance study
class will be held at the Brooks House re-
ceptiou room Monday evening, Dec. II, at
1880 o'clock. Rev. E. Q. S. Osgood will
repeat for the benefit of the class his pa
per on China delivered before the Profess
sional club. Members and friends are
cordially invited.
E. L. Merrifield of the Continental ho-
TEL this city, has just returned from Eng
land, quite recovered from the severe ILL
ness which sent him abroad. Mr.. Merri-
field says he has had the experience which
few men have had, of reading his own
obituary, "They first had me crazy, then
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still here, and as we'll as ever."-[ New
York Press of Dec. 5.
1t is probable that the street railroad at
the corner of Oak and Chaplin streets will
not be moved until spring. The order of
the commissioners, which might as well
| have been made two months before it was,
states that the railroad company shall
move the track within a month after the
town gives 1t a guarantee that the town
will pay half the expense, but on account
of the ground being frozen the town will
save expense both to itself and the rail-
road company by not making the guaran-
tee until spring.
The Brattleboro Gas Light company
calls attention in another column of this
paper to the Importance TO all property
holders of observing great care in the treat
ment of electric wires. 1t is dangerous
for any inexperienced person to NEEDLE
with these wires in any way, and 1t is for
the mutual safety of property-holders and
of the Electric Light company that no at
tempt is made to put up, remove or change
wiring without the assistance or advice of
a competent electrician. The Gas Light
company and the Vaughan & Sargent
Electric company are both competent
and experienced concerns in this respect
and will do all wiring in accordance with
the rules of the New England Insurance
Exchange. Any wiring which is done con-
trary to these rules subjects the property
holder to liability of forfeiture of his insur-
ance in case of fire.
The Gay Masqueraders make their first
appearance at the Auditorium tomorrow
with a company of vaudeville and farce
comedy artists of rare merit, headed by
that sterling comedian, Harry NJ. Brown,
who plays the part of Hezekiah Phos-
pilates, a Down East farmer For eight
years past Mr.. Brown has been the leading
comedian with Charles H. Yale's DEVILS
| Auction and Twelve Temptations COM
panies. The vaudeville cast is made up of
the Evans, Gaffy and Mackey; Brown,
Harrison and Brown, comedian farceurs
Nettie Huffman, male impersonator; Hass-
mer and Olivette, song illustrators; Phelps
and Willing, singers and dancers; the Je-
rome sisters, acrobatic dancers; the Misses
Hopkins Temple-SnowO Olson ladies' quar-
tet, making in all one of the strongest at
fractions on the road. The scenic and
electrical effects of the company are said to
be one of the hits OF the season.
j. Everett Alden, now of Tcrrington,
Conn, formerly OF Brattleboro, was a
member of Company r, 4th Vermont regi-
ment, in the civil war, and was captured
when his term of enlistment had nearly
expired. he was taken with others to the
southern prisons-Libby, Danvllle, Sa-
vanah, Miller, Andersonville, being in the
latter many months. Mr.. Alden has re-
Gently compiled list of market prices in
Andersonville prison July 1, 1854, from
which these quotations are made: Tea,
spoonful, Soc. -four, quart, $3.50; soap,
pound, 81 10; butter, pound, 81; sugar,
pound, So 50 eggs, raw, per dozen, 50 so;
onions, 35c. to 81 each; potatoes, dozen,
$3.50; tomatoes, per dozen, $2 sweet
corn, one ear, Soc; cooked eggs, each,
S5c. pies, each, So; pork, one pound, 81;
ham, one pound, So; blankets, So to $18
each; thread per skein, 25c. In the money
market 81 in Confederate money repre-
sented 81 greenback, $35 Confederate 81
gold, and $50 Confederate 81 silver.
This is What They say.