Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

The Neighborhood Whist club were
entertained last evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferris Vaughan.
The Jacksonville stage, due in Brat.
tleboro at IL o'clock, was delayed
Wednesday until o'clock by the snow
drifts. Many of them had to be
channeled through.
About 20 of the local grocerymen
enjoyed sleighride to Bernardston
Tuesday evening. Supper was served
at the New England house and all re-
port an excellent time.
About 80 members of the Junior
Epworth League of the Methodist
church had sleighride about the vii
lage Wednesday afternoon. After the
ride a supper was given to the chill
dren at the church.
The engine on the narrow gauge
passenger train ran off the track just
after it had passed the crossing at the
railroad station, Monday morning and
several hours work was required to
place it on the track again.
NJ. A. Coolidge, the contractor, who
built the Brattleboro street railroad
and who has been associated with
f. c. Crosby in enterprises elsewhere,
has been awarded the contract for
building line ten miles long at Con
cord, n. II, the coming spring.
The service last Sunday afternoon
at the home for the aged and dis
abled was conducted by Rev. E. @. S.
Osgood. These services will be in
Mr.. Osgood's charge during the month
of February, Mrs. Knowlton and Mr..
Miller having kindly agreed to assist
with music and singing.
Durham Brothers moved their
wholesale business Office Monday to
the rear of the new addition to the
building, and they now have one of
the most slightly Offices in town. The
employees are working every evening
this week filling the racks which have
been built in the new addition.
A sleighride party of 80 members
of the Epworth League attended the
methodist fair in Putney Tuesday
evening. The party was carried by a
four-horse team, two two-horse teams
and several single teams The ladies
of the church furnished an excellent
chicken-pie supper, and most of the
party remained to hear the concert, in
which some of our local talent par
ticipated.
The Y. p. c. u. of the Universalist
church held an indoor picnic at the
church parlors last Friday evening,
which was well attended. Games
were played and refreshments were
| served The entertainment closed
with a wild animal play of Seton
ThOmpsOn's, which was given by the
children. The little ones were dressed
to represent the wild animals of the
forest and portrayed the characters
of the different animals very well.
Durham Brothers will hold their an
nual school for statesmen Thursday
Friday and Saturday of next week.
On Thursday evening the annual ban
quet will be held in the Brooks House
Among those who will be present are
NJ. V. Beiger, president of the Misha-
waka Ind, Wooden Manufacturing
company, E. A. Saunders, superintend-
ent of the company's rubber works,
and II. E. Hamilton, principal of the
grammar school in Everett, Mass,
who will take charge of Durham
Brothers store in Bellows Falls.
The Amateur Saturday Ledger is
illC lldIlt vi d lONdl new SDdDeI WHICH
made its appearance this week. 1t is
published by Greene & Henley, of the
Brooks House, who make their bow
to the public thus: we have entered
on the sea Of local journalism, and
shall try to publish neat and attract
tive amateur paper weekly, appearing
Saturdays. Brattleboro is a thrifty
town, and can we'll support one more
email Tho no
small pages attractively made up and
filled with local advertising and a di-
versity of reading matter. The young
editors are deserving of success.
Judge Wheeler, United States Dis
trict Attorney J. L. Martin and Mrs.
Annie NJ. Brown, stenOgrapher, have
been in Rutland this week attending
to their official duties at the session
of the United States circuit court
Col. II. +. Taylor of BrattleborO, J..
Arms Miller of Dnmmerston NJ. W.
Whitman and Walter Crawford Of
Putney have been serving as jurymen
in the case against Marvin a. Nc
Clure, charged with aiding and abet-
ting Cashier Charles w. Mussey in
embezzling and abstracting the funds
of the Merchants National bank.
DR.. Samuel McChord Crothers of
Cambridge kept his audience at Stein
ert hall last night constantly laughing
with his new lecture, "QuiXotism and
SanchO-PanZaism." QuiXotism is
malady, he said, which only the very
noble minds among men can contract.
Then he drew the most amusing paral-
lelS between scenes in the old story
and modern customs and notions
which kept ripple of laughter going
over the audience, though someone
present must have been hit at every
shot. The lecture is one of DR.. Gro
theirs best, and it's publication will be
looked forward to- Boston Journal
of Wednesday.
Capt c. p. Hall, formerly of Brattle-
boro, now superintendent of schools at
Shelburne Falls, Mass, is organizing
a second personally conducted tour to
Washington, d. c. This tour will be
substantially the same as that COLI
Quoted by Capt. Hall year ago when
four Brattleboro people were of the
party. The company will leave Shell
burne Falls on Thursday, March It'll,
arriving in Washington on Friday, re.
naming there until the following We'd
nesday, giving five days of sight-see-
ing at the capital. On the way home,
a day will be spent in New York and
the company will reach Northampton
and Shelburne Falls on Friday, the
18th. Capt. Hall will be glad to have
inquiries from any Brattleboro people
who may wish to visit the national
capital in this way.