Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-18
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.
5RATTLEBORO.


Masqueraders to play a return en-
gagemcnt in the Auditorium in March.
Brattleboro men are said to be look
| ing at the Hetty Green property in Bel
! lows Falls with a view to buying it and
utilizing it for hotel purposes.
The snow fall of the storm which
continued intermittently from Thurs
! day to Saturday brought a fall of nine
| inches, making the first good sleighing
of this season in Brattleboro and the
river towns.
The annual meeting of the Pros
IpcCt Hin Cemetery association. which
was to have been held Monday eve
ming at the Office of William S. New
ton was adjourned to next Monday
| evening at Z o'clock.
The special meetings i'm the Baptist
| church have been continued this week,
services having been held every oven
| ing. The meetings have been led by
| Rev. +. =. Marble and Mrs ONley has
| conducted the singing. The closing
meeting this week will be held to-
night
The next meeting of the COngrega-
tional club will be held in the Brooks
House next Tuesday evening. A ban
Quet fully up to the standard of the
one served at the first meeting, will be
provided, after which a paper will be
read by Rev. II. x. Marvin, of the Uni
versalist church, upon The Church
and the Stage
The small stage entrance at the
| Auditorium has been enlarged this
week to twice it's former size. When
the building was remOdelled a small
| and a large stage entrance were made,
but the large one which was designed
to admit scenery. large trunks, etc,
was put so near the rear wall that with
other buildings as near as they are
it has been impossible to utilize it
for the purpose for which it was in
| tended.
Letters are being sent to the pas
tors of thousands of the evangelical
churches of the country by VIII r.
| Moody and those associated with him,
asking that a collection be taken on
Sunday, Feb. TO- for the endowment
| fund of the Moody schools at East
| Mortified. Mt. Hermon and Chicago.
| The birthday of the founder, Dwight
| l.. Moody. comes on Feb. ;. The
Christian Endeavor societies will have
special exercises on Feb 3.
\ man from Guilford who left his
horse standing on Main street several
hours. unfed and unwatored, and pro
tected only by a light blanket, found
when he was ready to return home
that the horse was being cared for in
stable. He had the bill of keeping
to pay. and had he refused to settle
he would have had the alternative of
facing prosecution by the longnamed
society
Laurence Minot and Richards NJ
Bradley have been appointed trustees
of the Thomas Thompson estate, the
beneficiaries of which are the needy
seamstresses. sewing women and shop
girls of Brattleboro and Rhinebeck, \.
Y. Negotiations are in progress look
ing toward an early settlement of the
estate Laurence MinOt is>brOther of
the late William Minot, jr. the former
trustee of the estates Mr. Bradley is
the elder son of Col Richards Bradley.
Elmer Knapp of Newfane shot a
lynx Saturday near the Dover line, for
which he was paid a bounty of 50.
Upon discovering the animals tracks
Mr.. Knapp went to the house for his
gun and tracked the lynx over a mile
to tree which had been uprooted by
the wind. When Mr.. Knapp was
about 20 feet from the tree the lynx
put its head out from under the roots.
Only one charge of shot was necessary
to kill the animal, the fun charge
striking it in the face. 1t weighed %
pounds. Mr.. Knapp exhibited it in
Brattleboro Monday. 1t was the sec
ond lynx brought into town within
week
The contest in the Lydia NJ. Willis
will case, which was to have been
taken up again in the probate court
Saturday, was settled practically in
accordance with the demands of Masa
Willis, husband of the deceased. Mr..
Willis had waived the provisions of
the will, claiming his rights to her es-
tate under the statute. The heirs of
Mrs. Willis claimed that there was
an ante-nuptial agreement to the effect
that neither Mr.. Willis nor his wife
would claim any part of the others
estate, and they produced evidence
tending to show that such an agree
ment was made. No evidence was in
trOduced by the other side,
w. f. Goddard, district deputy
grand master, installed the following
officers of Wantastiquet lodge of Odd
Fellows Monday evening: N. g., A. w.
ROel; V. G., A. F. Roberts; recording
secretary, A. j. Currier; financial sec
rotary, c. l.. Cobb; treasurer, c. e.
Sturges; warden. John Cain; conduc-
tor, W. e. Coombs; r. S. n. G., S. NJ.
Yeaw; l.. S. n. G.. NJ. r. Micott;
r. S. V. G., c. G. Whitney; l.. S. V. G.,
A. Knudson; r. S. s., w. T. Haigh
H. S. S.. l.. H. Slater; chaplain, Rev.
n. A. Wood; |. G.. f. A. Cook; o. G.,
A. f. Perham. The installation was
followed by a banquet and after-din-
ner speeches.
Stetsons Uncle Toms Cabin COM
pany gave matinee and evening per-
fOrmances in the Auditorium Satur-
day before small audiences. The
company is made up of about 20 peo-
pie, mostly Colored. Considered as
professionals, their acting was crude,
but there were several good features
in the performances No programs
were given out, so the names of the
actors are not known. Uncle Tom
was fairly good, but the girls who
played the parts of Topsy and little
Eva eXcelled. The tiny barouche car
rying little Eva and drawn by two
Shetland ponies added much to the
beauty of one scene, and the scenery
used in the closing act was very
pretty. The specialties introduced a
cake walk, which was well executed,
and some ragtime songs by four girls,
which amused the audiences.