Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-07


The Green Street Book club will hold
It's annual supper and sale with Mr.. and
Mrs @. A. Harris, Wednesday, Dec. IL,
Wantastiquet Golf club will hold its
first social at the Brooks House this eve
ming. Cards and dancing will be the at
fractions.
Fifteen couples attended the sociable held
by the Pilgrim Fathers in Red Mems hall
Tuesday evening. The next soclable will
be held Jan. 10.
Holden & Martin have bought recently
two or three wood lots In Wardsboro.
They will set up steam mill In Wards
boro next spring.
The trustees Of the Brattleboro Savings
bank met Wednesday and declared the
usual semi-semial dividend of one and
three-fourths cent.
Rev. Edward T. Mathson, the new rec
tor of St. Michaeps Episcopal church, will
come to Brattleboro Monday from Ansonia,
Conn. He will be instituted as rector on
Sunday, the 10th, when Bishop Hall will
be present.
J. o. Spring of Bellows Falls, county
commissioner, has appointed the follow
ing town liquor agents In Windham coun-
ty: Brattleboro, s, w. Richardson; Graf
ton, Lyman e, French; Londonderry, A.
A. Bailey; Rockingham, II. A. Wheeler.
The first winter meeting of the Baptist
Social Union will be held in the church
parlors Dec IS. The banquet will be fol-
lowed by an address by Rev. George f..
Horr, D. D., editor of the Watchman, the
well-know UNCONVENTIONAL paper.
Arthur G. Birch, employed in the w,
+. Richardson meat market, and Della h.
Ingram of Newfsne were married by Rev.
H. r. Miles at the Congregational parson
age Nov. g. They at once began house
keeping in one of W. A. Morse's tene-
ments on Elliot street.
G. K. Gilman will receive at his Elliot
street stables next Friday a carload OF
heavy draft horses from Iowa. This ship.
ment, together with 39 horses of the same
class, acclimated, now on hand, will be
sold by him by public auction on Tuesday,
Dec. IS. Further notice will be given by
advertisement.
Tlans were begnn at New York Mon
day for an INSTRUMENTATION movement
to celebrate the beginning of the goth cen
fury by systematic effort to evangelize
the nation through the medium of the ex-
listing churches and church societies. 1t is
said that the late D. l.. Moody suggested
this idea, but it was put into practical
form by William P. Hall, the inventor Of
the block signal and former Brattleborc
resident, who is known as "the business
man evangelist"
Among the cases set for trial before the
December term of the Bennington county
court which convened Tuesday, is that Of
the Bennington and Glastonbury company
against Moses Newton, and others, which
is practically Gen. John Mccullough and
others against the Deer6eld River company
The case is one of trespass on the timber
lands of the plaintiffs. The suit is for
10000, land to the extent of 10000 acres
is covered by 1t, and the claim is for triple
damages under the statutes applying 10
the cutting of trees entirely without right,
Sheriff A. W. J. Wilkins has thus far
appointed the following deputies: Brat.
tleboro- Alonzo Starkey, Il. Z. Gordon, F,
W. Mcclure, E. S. Hall: Bellows Falls
Arthur Il. Thompson, Dorr M. Thaver;
East Dummerston-Adin r. Miller; ia
maica-J. Q. Subway; South London.
derry-J. w. Melendy; Saxtons River
Baxter NJ. Walker; West Townshend-
Oscar R. Garfield; Wardsboro-E. M.
Fits; Westminster George w. Metcalf
Wilmington-J. Henry Kidder. Other
deputies will be appointed next week.
The Worcester Telegram of q recent
date, in an account of a concert given in
that city by the Brown University glee,
banjo and mandolin clubs, made only one
individual mention, and that in regard to
Brattleboro boy, q senior, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John A. Davis, as follows
"The clubs were assisted by NJ. P. Davis,
who is also tenor in the glee club. Mr..
Davis's speciality is reading and he made a
pronounced hit. He a natural comedian.
His facial expressions are wonderfully
clever, and his offerings were greeted with
encores from the highly pleased audience"
Brattleboro Chapter of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution held their regular
meeting at the Brooks House Tuesday
evening. Owing to the storm only few
members were present. An ancestry paper
was read by Miss Slate. Mrs. Levi Fuller
was elected delegate to the state conference
to be held at Brandon, Dec. 10. The an
nual meeting for 1901 comes on New
Years day, and it was voted to postpone
it until the next day, Wednesday, Jan. 2,
and as the December board meeting falls
on the coming Christmas day 1t was also
voted that the board should come together
Wednesday, Dec. 20. Members will please
bear this in mind.
James W. Shipman, formerly of vii.
Evansville, whose Uncle Toms Cabin com.
pany went to pieces in Brattleboro last
summer, was arrested Saturday at Massa,
besic, near Manchester, N. H., by Deputy
Chief Of Police William O'Brien of syria
cuse, N. Y. Shipman, who is charged
with grand larceny in Syracuse, was lodged
in the Manchester police station. Ship
man recognized his Uncle Toms Cabin
company, after short stay in Winchester,
and his troupe was travelling in wagons
from Dover to Manchester when he was
apprehended. 1t was stated In Manches,
ter that Shipman was under bonds in the
case at Syracuse, and that the time limit
had expired.
Mrs. Sarah Miller BOynIOn.