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

injuries Dy ialllng Wnlle going down cellar
last Friday.
The election of officers of Dennis
Rebekah lodge will occur at the next
regular meeting, Dec. %.
Gum & Co. have sold for Augusta
Moore Of WardsborO, her farm, TO Helen
l.. Hunt Of Connecticut
The Brattleboro Ice company began cut
ting ice on the Frost pond yesterday. II
was IL inches thick and of excellent quail
ity.
Edward Leonard, son of Mrs. Cora Leo
nard, sustained a fracture of two bones of
the right arm by a fall while skating on
West river Saturday.
The probate court has appointed Archie
Kingsley administrator Of the Francis
Kingsley estate of Halifax, and w. b.
Warren and W. II. Houghton appraisers.
The bronze fountain for Morningslde
cemetery has arrived. Work on the basin
will be resumed after Christmas and the
fountain will be placed in position in about
ten days.
The scenery has been completed in the
hall Of the new hotel at West Brattleboro.
The furnishings and supplies of the new
hotel have arrived, and the opening will
probably be held about Jan. /.
John d. Stevens of Chicago, formerly
| Of Brattleboro, is now visiting with his
brother, President Joseph Stevens of the
First National bank, In Greenfield. Mr..
Stevens has been a member of a cattle
commission company In Chicago, but has
recently sold his interest and is undecided
as 10 his future plans.
G. G. Fits has been In Boston this week
as counsel for jeremiah Courtney of Gard
ner, Mass, In his suit against the Fitch
burg Railroad company to recover dam
ages for injuries received in railroad &C
cldent In Ashburnham q year ago. The
suit was settled on the eve Of trial by the
payment of $1,000 TO the plaintiff.
Friendship Circle elected these officers
at its annual meeting Wednesday: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Charles Reach; FIRST vice presi-
dent, Mrs. r. K. Perry; second vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Il. K. Young; secretary, Mrs.
A j. Currier; treasurer, Mrs. Cora Rob.
inson; directresses, Mrs. Dennis Moran,
Mrs. Frank Cook, Mrs. Ora Butterfeld,
Mrs. G. L. Spear and Mrs. N. L. Staples.
Oasis Encampment, /. o. o. F., elected
these officers at its annual meeting last
evening: Chief Patriarch, W. E. Coombs;
senior warden, r. K. Perry; hight priest,
II. j. JOY; junior warden, w. +. Goddard;
scribe, 9. g. Endlich; financial scribe, ID.
w. Tenney; treasurer, d. McGlllivray.
These officers and the appointive officers
will be installed Jan. 3, when It Is expect
ed that the grand officers will be present.
G. E. Gilman held a very successful auc-
| ton of horses at the Elliot street stables
Tuesday. Every one of the % horses put
under the hammer we're sold without re-
serve. Buyers we're present from Keene,
Claremont, Newport, Manchester and
Swanzey, N. H., Manchester, this state,
| Greenfield and all the near by towns. The
prices for the good horses ranged from 500
to $177.50. On the day following the sale
Mr.. Gilman sold handsome pair of grays,
weighing $500, to Chester White of Wards
boro for $500, and a bay mare to Mr.. Put
nam of West Wardsboro for $165.
Mrs. Z. G. Osgood's exhibition of water
colors shown by her at the Brooks House
on Wednesday and Thursday was enjoyed
by many visitors and several sales we're
made. Mrs. Osgood possesses artistic per-
ceptIon and Imagination in an unmistAk-
able degree, supplemented by rare skill
with pencil and brush. She seems to us
TO excel In Interpretation Of bits of nature,
both as seen In well chosen views near her
home in the Connecticut valley aud In her
study Of natures effects at the seashore.
Mrs. Osgood is a diligent student and her
art has developed very perceptibly within
the past year.
Windham County Pomona Grange held
its annual meeting yesterday with Protec-
tive Grange in Grange hall. The quarterly
reports which we're received from the sub.
ordinate Oranges in the county gave much
encouragement. Following the reports of
the county officers, these officers were
elected: Master, @. L. Stacey; overseer,
Fred johnson; lecturer, H. W. Sargent;
secretary, Mrs. Frank Farnum; treasurer,
H. G. Streeter; chaplain, Mrs. Charles
Harrie; steward, Frank Farnum; assistant
steward, Fred Wall; Ceres, Mrs. @. L.
Stacey; Pomona, Miss Ada Eddy; Flora,
Mrs, Fred Johnson; lady assistant stew
ard, Miss Bessie Hopkins. The officers
were installed in the afternoon by G. S.
Hopkins.
Mrs. Ellen William, IS, widow of Moses
Witham, died at her home on Clark road
Wednesday night of dropsy, with which
which she had been confined TO her bed
since last summer. Mrs. Williams maiden
name was Franklin and she was born In
New Hampshire. She married Mr.. William
about 40 years ago, end after that spent
buC SlCdbSN part Vi DTdtllSDOIO.
Mr.. Witham died about q year ago as a re
suit of an accident by which he was
thrown out Of his carriage. Mrs. Witham
leaves one daughter, Mrs. Mary Reese, of
New York city, and one brother, Henry
franklin, who is at the Soldiers Home In
Bennington. Funeral services will be held
at the house at 2 o'clock tomorrow, con-
Quoted by Rev. r. f. Lowe Of the Metho-
dist church, of which Mrs. William was a
member. The burial will be In Prospect
Hill cemetery.
A musical and literary entertainment of
rare excellence Is promised next Tuesday
evening TO the patrons of the Y. M. @. A.
Star course. The third entertainment in
the course will be given at that time by the
Lotus Glee club Of New York, Frank j.
Smith, conductor, and Mrs. Minnie Mar
shall Smith, dramatic reader. The combi-
nation, besides giving concerts in nearly
every state east Of the Rocky mountains,
has appeared with notable success In con-
certs In Europe with such noted artists as
Melba, Eames, Trebelli, Henschel, Lloyd,
Sims Reeves, Patti and others. In report
Ing the work Of Mrs. Smith In Port Ches-
ter, N. Y, the Journal of that place said:
"There is an originality and spice about
this lady's readings and recitatlons that
one seldom meets with. In addition TO a
most musical and perfect voice, she has a
method peculiarly her own. Her voice is,
so to speak, tuned to the plano, and by an
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