Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21
BRATTLEBORO.

The Brooks House Pharmacy shows in
the display of pipes which fill the north
window two relics which were captured in
a raid in an opium joint in Boston.
The meeting of the Woman 3 club hav-
ing been postponed from Dec. 21 to %,
the meeting of the evening session will
also be postponed one week, to Jan. 2.
A. V. Mays agency has sold for Harlan
FL. Howe his farm, known as the Luther
Dustin place, to Herbert G.. Barber. Mr..
Howe took Mr.. Barber's house on Prospect
street in part payment.
Arches of evergreen and lattice work
are used with beautiful effect in the Christ
mas decorations in Fenton g. Co.'s store.
The arches are illumined with tiny, col
ored electric lights, and in the rear of the
store is the welcome, "Merry Christmas"
produced by electric lights.
The young men in Durham Brothers
shoe store have shown ingenuity and ar
tistic taste in arranging a Christmas scene
in the store window. The scene shows
Santa Claus with his pack, a fireplace
with glowing embers, stockings waiting
to be filled, and other features typical of
the New England idea of Christmas Eve.
Celuloid dust from the saw benches ig-
nited in the cast iron blower pipes at the
Estey Organ factory, and the flames ex-
tended to the wood work in the basement
of No l shop. The fire was put out with
Babcock extinguishers, and with a hose
Tuu from shop No. 2. The damage was so
slight that no claim will be made to the in
surance companies.
A New England Education League lee.
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Woman's club to be given on the evening
Sanborn of Concord, Mass, is a member
of the American Social Science assocla-
ton, of which the late Charles Dudley
Warner was president, and his topic will
be ''Social Changes Ia the Half Century,
1S50-1900." The public is cordially in
vited to attend the lecture. Further an
nouncement as to hour and place will be
made next week.
The Hartford, Conn, Times of Monday
contained the following notice of the pro-
motion of former Brattleboro boy to a
responsible position: "F. T. Reid will
take charge of the Hartford factory of the
Shelby Steel Tube company's works in a
few days. He has been appointed general
superintendent of the factory. Mr.. Reid
succeeds Joseph l.. Cook, who his been
in charge about ten months. Mr.. Reid
has been in the employ of II. K. Lee, the
mechanical engineer in the rear of No.
223 State street.
Sixty printers from all parts of the
United States competed for the four prizes
offered by the Printer-J Journalist, a trade
paper for printers and newspaper workers,
published in Chicago, for the best design
for a cover for its January number. The
first prize was won by W.sB. Crombie of
The Phoenix Job Printing Office. Mr..
Crombie has few equals as a jab compos-
itOr, excelling in original and artistic work.
His design for the cover of the Printer
Journalist is simple but very effective.
This is the second first prize, open to com
petition to the printers of the country
which Mr.. Crombie has won within two
years, and another workman in The Phoe-
nix job Printing Office, Mr.. Herrick, was
also first prize winner 10 a similar con.
test. There is probably no job printing
Office in the country that has won three
such notable honOrs within so short time.