Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-09-28
BRATTLBBORO.


DR.. Lynch's dog was run over and kill
ed this noon on Elliot street.
The public schools have been in session
only two days this week on account of the
Valley Fair.
A collection will be taken at the Roman
Catholic church Sunday in aid of the suf-
ferers al Galveston.
The Bird club will meet with Mrs
Crowell next Monday evening. Subject,
<'The Woodpecker Family"
Tickets on sale at the news room Satur-
day morning at 8 o'clock for the moving
pictures, which will be the attraction at
the Auditorium Tuesday evening, Oct. 2.
The floor in Mrs. Dowley's barn collaps-
ed yesterday, and horse which had been
left there by NJ. Howard, Kipling's coach
man, fell to the cellar The horse was not
injured.
The High school foot ball team will
open the season by playing Vermont Acad
envy at SaXtoDs River tomorrow The
boys will leave here at 11:l0. They are
scheduled to play at 3:15.
Beginning next Sunday the electric car
will be run on half hour time on Sundays,
meeting at the common switch only.
Three cars will be run week days between
the hours of II 20 and TAO for the pres
ent, the third car being taken off three
hours earlier than usual.
The 10th annual meeting of the Yer
mont Baptist State convention was held in
the First Baptist church on Tuesday even
ing. The officers not being present. Rev.
DR.. Marble was elected moderator and
Rev. N. E Wood, clerk The convention
adjourned to Tuesday evening, Oct. 0, at I
o'clock.
The following is from the New York
Clipper: e j. Devine, last seasons bust
ness manager for Charles Cowles's Coun-
try Merchant company, aud recently for
Ed. Fuller's Minstrel Party, has been en-.
gagged for like position by Manager Gus
Bernard for Ullie Akerstrom's tour in "The
Doctors Warm Reception"
Walter Barrows, who lives at the Wilder
farm, heard a commotion in the hennery
yesterday morning, and on going there
found big coon in possession. The coon
had eaten two hens and was beginning on
third. Mr.. Barrows seize club and
killed the animal before it could escape
through the hole it had torn in the wire
netting in entering. The coon was young
but large, weighing IS pounds.
Among those who attended the funeral
of Mrs George K. Warner were Mr.. and
Mrs. Deforest Shattuck, and son Bernard,
of Hatfield, Merton Shedd of Highgate
Springs, Mrs Mary Sheldon of Leominster,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Hills, Mr.. and Mrs A.
B. Warner, Mrs. Hattie Newton, Miss
Mary Warner, and Miss Lucy Warner OF
Bernardston, Mrs. Villa Burnham of Mont
ague, and Mrs. K. W. Whitney of Milford,
Mass.
The offerings at the Auditorium Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings were Ed
ward Harrigan and his company in "Old
Lavender" and Charles HOyt's farce, "a
Tin Soldier" Mr.. Harrigan is an actor
of ability, but the company which sur
rounded him Wednesday and Thursday
ing with East side New York life, as Old
Lavender does, is not appreciated in Brat
tleboro at its best. A Tin Soldier is in the
same vein as all Hoyts productions, but
hardly equal to some of them.
An uncommon runaway accident, result
ing in the death of the horse, occurred on
Walnut street last Saturday night. Mrs
G. w. Bliss of Prospect Hill drove her sor.
rel horse along that street about O. &c
O'Clock, and the barking of dogs caused
the animal to turn into the gutter, one OF
the wheels striking against q post. The
horse quickly freed itself from the carriage
pulling Mrs. Bliss to the ground. 1t Their
ran through Terrace street on to Main
street and disappeared. search was al
once begun and was kept up for three days
but no trace of the horse was found Or
Wednesday Mrs. Bliss received news from
Westminster that the horse was in West
minister and was dead. 1t ran direct from
Brattleboro through Putney to Westmin.
ster, where it left the road and followed
Nhn aoIr :
vert, through which it stepped and broke
one of it's legs. L. was found the mex
morning, and the selectmen ordered it shot
The GrIst at Justice NewtOm's Mil.
-Four "druuks" and "hObO' constituted
the grist at the police court Friday morn.
ing. The victims of intoxcatiOn were
put through the usual disclosure mill in
addition to being fined, and the invariabl,
answer was "over the river" con the
bridge" or at the brewery" The frs
victim, verdant looking youth giving hi,
name as Frank Pike and hailing from
South Halifax, had been arrested by OFF
Ger G. F. Mason. He escaped with fine
of s. and costs, which was paid by a
friend. Edward Thyer of Halifax plead
ed not guilty and then admitted being
drunk. A fine of $40 and costs came his
way. Henry Maley of Putney paid a 6n'
of S. and costs for imbibing too much
f'red eye" Thomas Beaupre, a respecta
BILE looking Frenchman stone deaf and un
able to speak English, also suffered the
penalty of s. and costs. Paul Devine act
ed as his interpreter.
Peter Mcfarland, youth with a wei
developed case Of shat tired feeling" who
was with Dan Hayes when the latter was
arrested Thursday for breaking a chewing
gum machine at Suffied, Conn, severa
weeks ago, was questioned by Lawyer A
+. Schwenk for the benefit of the detect
ives. Mop artland said he had been "oI
de road" since May looking for job HI
admitted having been ''jugged" at TORY
vile, Conn, for Vagrancy and claimed tC
be in Brattleboro looking for work HI
was ordered out of town by Justice New
ton after one of the Pinkerton men hat
given him a sound bit Of advice.