Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-15


/ to Maine several weeks ago, is now i'm
the insane asylum at Augusta. He is
| failing rapidly and his death may oc.
cur any day.
Willard Russell of West Dover and
| Thomas II. Gordon of Wardsboro have
! been granted increase of pensions
| from IS to Sl2 per month, through the
efforts of Col. John Hunt, pension at.
| torney.
The chimney of George Rice's house
on Pine street burned out Saturday
night and some of the timbers around
the chimney were set on fire, but
neighbors shoveled on snow. which
put out the flames.
Howard Crosby Rice of the Ansonia.
Conn, Evening Sentinel, formerly of
| The Phoenix. has written recently
some clever humorous stories. One
entitled Thought He Was Teddy" is
reprinted in another column.
The contract for carrying the mail
for the next four years between VIII.
mington and Brattleboro has been
awarded to Frank G.. Smith, the pres.
ent proprietor of the stage line. Her
| bert Larrabee has the Jacksonville
and BrattlebOro route and to Levi
Moore has been awarded the short
| line between Green River and Hale
post offices.
Plays that appeal to church-goers
are the prevailing stage fad nowadays.
The Christian" Little Minister"
| and way Down East" are looked
upon as the sure winners of the pre-
No.
which comes to the Auditorium. Feb.
20, is said to have cleared over $4,000
profits for VIM. A. Brady during its
l6 weeks production in Boston.
Ivan w. Goodner, formerly a stem
ographer in the Office of the Estey
Organ company. and now a practicing
lawyer in Pierre. South Dakota, was
recently appointed one of the two re-
gents of education for that state.
Mr.. Goodner is also states attorney
for Hughes county, in which Pierre
is situated, and holds the military
rank of colonel through service on the
governors staff.
Mrs. Clarence Hildreth. who went
to the Massachusetts General hospital
with the intention of having an opera
ton performed for the removal of her
left kidney, writes that the physicians
are undecided as. to whether The oper-
alton is necessary. She has already
undergone one operation there for the
removal of a tubercular abscess on the
kidney. Two operations for the re
mOval Of assesses have previously
been performed in Springfield, Mass.
Judge Wheeler in the United States
district court at the Brooks House
Tuesday heard the case of A. a. But
terrified, administrator of Homer +.
Hicks, a former merchant at Reads
boro whose involuntary petition in
bankruptcy was filed December %,
and who died January l. The judica-
ton was made January 10. The ad-
ministrator prayed for dismissal of
bankruptcy proceeding on the ground
of Mr.. Hicks's death before the judica-
ton, which the creditors, represented
by A. p. Carpenter of North Adams
contested. Martin & Gibson appeared
for the administrator.
The adjourned brewery case of Mon
day was before Judge Howe in the po-
lice court at Hinsdale Friday. The
judge actually beamed upon Tom"
Cummings, the ostensible proprietor
The judge had seen him before and
quietly suggested as a curtain raiser"
the modest sum of SG2 and a fraction
for "one second offense' in the line
of beer Thomas Raleigh also paid
fine and costs of the same magni-
tude for a like infraction of the pro
hibitory laws of New Hampshire,
which seem to be singularly inopera-
tive, so far as permanent results are
concerned.
f. +. Battey, manager of the Hough-
ton deer park in Halifax, says the re-
port that several animals escaped
after a severe storm a few weeks ago,
was erroneous. The wire fence was
broken by a falling tree on Kingsley
hill. but none of the animals approach
ed the break which was repaired
quickly. The elk and deer hide under
the spruces during the severe winter
storms, keeping under cover two or
three days. If the wires are broken
there is ample time to find and to
repair the break before it is seen by
the animals. There are now 250 to
300 deer and Is elk in the park.
Way Down East" which comes to
the Auditorium Wednesday, Feb. 20,
the charming idyl of New Hampshire
farm life, is meeting with enormous
success throughout the country. it's
four months in Boston having been
followed by enthusiastic acceptance
in every other city visited. Its adroit
blending of comedy and pathos, and
the admirable acting of a strong com
pany has made it one of the most
popular rustic plays ever produced.
Negotiations are now pending by
which Way Down East" will be
played in New York again this season
which will make its third appearance
there for extended runs.
The Philadelphia success of Way
Down East" following that of the
New York and Boston runs, indicates
that rustic drama, depicting natural
every day types of character and
deftly blending homely pathos and
humor, will rarely or ever failto touch
the popular heart. Many blase city
dweller has, with stone-bruised boyish
feet, chased the butterfly through the
meadows, and he loves to be taken
back to those days by simple, whole
some drama of country life. Plays
like the "Old Homestead" Shore
Acres" and Way Down East"
which comes to the Auditorium, Feb.
20, find enduring popularity, where
more pretentious dramas are often
put aside with Indifference.
Fire in S. NJ. Spencer & Sons
stencil establishment in the five story
building on Washington street, be-
tween COrnhill and Brattle street, Bos-
ton, caused $1,000 damage Saturday.