Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-01

The Diamond Whist club will meet
! this evening with Miss Katherine
! Dunleavy.
The Twentieth Century club VIII
meet with Miss Matilda Donahue next
! Wednesday evening.
G. L. Gilman will receive at his sta
! bles on Eliot street today CARLOAD
| of Western draft horses.
An important meeting of the board
of directors of the Y NJ. c. A. will be
! held at 7.30 o'clock Monday evening.
The directors of the Grange Store
organized last evening by electing
! T. j. b. Cudworth president, c. ).
! Hopkins clerk, and Alison L. Harris
manager and treasurer.
The meeting of the Alliance study
class will be held at the Brooks
House reception room Monday, Feb.
4th. at 73O o'clock. Subject, "Jeru-
salem Saved" Members and friends
cordially invited.
The Congregational Christian En-
| deavor society held a membership So
! ciable last evening, which was at
! tended by members of the society and
| their friends. The evening was
! spent in games and refreshments.
Bankruptcy schedules of two bust
ness houses were received this morn
ing by Deputy Clerk Gibson. They
are those of f. c. Vincent of Burling-
| ton, whose liabilities are Sl5,4SO, and
! Edward Clark of Poultney, whose LA
! bilities are S10,294.
The next regular meeting of the
! Baptist Social union will be held on
| Feb. 18th in the social rooms of the
| church, and the address will be de-
| livered by Major Charles r. Knowles
of Albany who will speak upon Abra-
| ham Lincoln.
Wallace Harris had the two mid
RE fingers of the right hand lacerated
| badly while at work at Davis's JOB
| shop in West Brattl6boro Saturday.
! His mitten caught on the wood saw,
drawing his hand into contact with
| the teeth.
Esmond's when We Were Twenty
Oae' was presented at the Auditorium
| Saturday night to a large audience.
| Many were pleased with it, but it did
not meet the expectation of others
who had read the fiattering praise be.
slowed upon it in the cities. AL
| though the lesson of the romance Is
good the means employed to empha-
size it might be improved.
IN. u. /. Webster was the recipient
this week of a gold headed cane bear
in this inscription: Presented to Dr..
d. p. Webster by his patients" The
doctor feels just as grateful for the
gift as though he knew where it came
from 1t was left at his house Tues
day.
Fifty or more members of the Bap-
fist church went TO Hinesburg on a
sleigh ride yesterday afternoon. They
left Brattleboro about 40 o'clock in
two four-horse teams, two two-horse
teams and several single teams and
arrived in Hinesburg about o'clock.
An excellent chicken-pie supper was
served at the Baptist church of that
place. The party returned TO Brat
tleboro about 10 o'clock.
A pleasant reception was given by
Protective Grange last evening to
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Robbins and Nh
and Mrs. Edward r. Thurber, mem
bers of the organization who have
been married within a short time. A
large company was present and was
introduced to the young couples by
the reception committee. Refresh
ments of cake and coffee were served
II tho banquet hall and the time was
spent socially until about 10 o'clock.
News has been received by the
friends in Brattleboro of the death Of
Mrs. Sarah Fessenden Wesselhoeft
which took place early yesterday
morning at her home in Boston at
l76 Commonwealth avenue. Mrs.
Wesselhoeft was the daughter of
Elisha Allen, formerly minister to the
Sandwich islands. and at the time Of
n i'm. I..
the diplomatic corps. She was the
grand-nicce of eN-Goy. Holbrook. and
her home during her childhood was
in the Governors family much of the
time, and she had always sustained
almost tlial relations to him. She is
survived by her husband William p.
Wesselhoeft, who is a nephew of DR..
Robert Wesselhoeft who established
the BrattlebOrO water cure in this
village. and through whose work and
name the establishment came to its
wide fame. She leaves a son and
daughter. The son, William f. Wes-
selhoeft, is the husband of Emily
Bradley, second daughter of Col. and
Mrs. Richards Bradley. The funeral |
will be held at the home in Boston to- |
morrow afternoon.
The adjourned annual meeting Of |
the stockholders of the +. p. Carpen- |
ter company was held Wednesday. |
The old board of directors was re. |
elected: George Z. Crowell, c. H. Dav. |
export, Martin Austin jr, and b. II. |
Mitchell. The officers elected We're: !
President, George e. Crowell; treas |
urer, c. H. Davenport; secretary and !
general manager, Martin Austin, IT.. |
superintendent, John II. Morse. Tho |
shipments in 1900 exceeded those of |
any year since 1891. the banner wear
Tor the company. The increase was |
almost wholly in this country. equally |
divided between East and West The |
foreign business was the largest the
has ever had. with the ex-
ception of a single year, and this
showing is very satisfactory, in view
OF the fact that the government re-
ports show marked decline in the
export of American organs in 1900.
The company shipped organs to 20 for
elgn coutries. This year starts off
very encouragingly for the company.
the January business exceeding that
for the corresponding month of any
year since 1899
Promotion of Prof Wlliston Walker.
Prof. Williston Walker, son of the
late Rev. DR.. George Leon Walker.
and summer resident of Brattleboro.
was elected Wednesday to the Titus
Street professOrship of ecclesiastical
history in the Yale divinity school at