Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-25

rooms Sunday.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet next Wednesday evening with
Miss Johanna Baker.
The members of the Diamond Whist
club were entertained by Miss Ellen
McGovern Wednesday evening.
Mrs Carrie Warner, who lives in the
Doolittle house on Canal street. is i'll
with diphtheria, and the apartments
are quarantined.
The next dance at Melrose House
viii be given next Wednesday even
ing. The dance Monday night was at
tended by 40 couples.
The annual meeting of the Carpen-
ter Organ company, which was set for
Wednesday of this week. was post
poned to next Wednesday.
The Brattleboro friends of Mrs. A.
l.. Upham formerly Miss Lizzie Swits)
have learned with sorrow of the death
! of her young son which took place re-
Gently from typhoid fever in Water
town, n. Y.
Excursion tickets for those who in
tend to attend the eighth Masonic dis
trict convention at Bellows Falls next
Wednesday will be for sale by d.
Cowles, and may be secured from him
| before starting or on the train.
The White.C Coon MINISTRIES. who
rented Melrose Hall at West Brattle-
boro, to appear under their own man
agement, gave an entertainment Tues
day night, but as the performance
was not satisfactory they did not APP
| pear Wednesday night
Chickering & Sons recently offered
prize of $500 for the best design for
| a permanent program cover for the
new Chickering hall in Boston. 1t
was won by Miss jessie Wilcox Smith
| of Philadelphia. Two well known
! BrattlebOro artists competed for the
prize.
Miss Gertrude Croker and Miss Jes-
| sic Hawley presented reports on the
| twentieth century convention held in
| Burlington at the meeting of the Bap-
| fist Christian Endeavor society Tues
day evening, and Gen Estey gave the
address which he delivered before the
convention.
The Essex Record makes Rev r. X.
| Marvin's Professional club paper.
| Church and the Stage the subject
of half column editorial. The Rec
ord approves of Mr.. Marvin's paper
and says it may be inferred he is
man who sees the phases of life from
a broad horoscope"
The suit of William Riley against
| George Alderman was tried in Vernon
this week before Justice Mortified of
Brattleboro, f. w. Gibson being coun-
sci for Riley and II. G. Barber for
Alderman. The suit was to recover
balance of S24 for labor. The court
| rendered judgment for S11.75.
~ -
Baker of Brattleboro, the painter, died
| in Worcester, Mass, last night. The
| body will be brought to Brattleboro
tomorrow for burial in the Prospect
| Hill cemetery. Rev. X. f. Lowe, of
the Methodist church, will officiate.
Mrs. Wilson was a native of this town.
| Besides her husband and Mr.. Baker
she leaves sister, Mrs. Burnham, of
Brattleboro, brother in Colorado and
a sister in Connecticut.
United States District Attorney ].
l.. Martin, d. E. Ainsworth of Albany,
who is at the head of the New York
state department of instruction, and
j. j. Myers, speaker of the Massachu-
| sets legislature, were the speakers at
the annual banquet of the Greenfield
club in Greenfield, Mass, Tuesday
night. The Greenfield Recorder said:
| Mr.. Martin made a most agreeable
| impreson upon the diners in force
full speech in which he held up to scorn
the observation of Sydney Smith in
| 1920, that the United States was a
| cipher in literature, art, science and
| mechanism"
The hearing upon the petition of
the Central Vermont road asking that
the town of Mortified be obliged to
! pay proportionate part of the eX-
pense to be incurred in building a COM
bined railroad and wagon bridge in
that town. has been postponed until
! Feb. 3, making the second time the
matter has been continued. Many
people in Mortified do not favor the
| idea of joint railroad and wagon
| bridge, claiming it is dangerous and
undesirable in other ways.
+. c. Crosby, says the Brattleboro
| correspondent of the Boston Globe,
has long shown the same pushing quail
tiles which his father had before him.
For the past few years nearly all his
energy has gone into electric railroad
enterprises. Few people in North
ampton really believed that Mr.. Cros-
| by and the Northampton and Amherst
road, of which he is the managing di-
rector, would ever build a bridge
| across the Connecticut river. 1t is now
an accomplished fact. Next spring
the road running to Hatfield will be
| extended, and Mr.. Crosby will put his
energy into building a railroad up
Sugar Loaf mountain in all probable
ity.
News has been received of the death
of Mrs. Rebecca Colt Wells, which
took place at her residence in New
York last Sunday. Mrs. Wells was 81
years old and was the widow of DR..
John f. Wells of Hartford, Conn, a
leading physician of that city, who
died many years ago. She was a de-
scendant of one of the leading Hart
ford families. She was the sister of
Mrs. John c. Wells whose home has
been for so many years until last May
in the well known homestead on High
street. These sisters married cousins.
For long term of years, Mrs. Wells
and her daughter Miss Mary, have
spent their summers at the Brooks
House, and the daughter has been alb
solutely devoted to her mothers care.
A son, Henry Wells of New York, also
survives. The funeral was held in
New York on Tuesday and the burial
was in Cedar Hill cemetery at Hart
ford.
District Masonic Meetings.
A special train win be run from Brat