Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-12-13

The annual election of officers of
Protective Grange will be held next
Wednesday evening.
Beginning next Wednesday the
iewelry stores will be open every
evening until Christmas.
The mercury dropped to Is degrees
below zero last Saturday morning, a
remarkably low mark for December.
Lucius Adams has bought of George
e. Crowell the house north of the one
which Mr.. Adams owns and occupies
on Spruce street.
Engineer e. H. Baldwin, who was
killed in Vernon last week, was in
sured in the New York Life, through
the Brattleboro agency, for $1,000.
The policy was issued last April and
only one premium had been paid.
Sessions of Beauseant Commandery,
X. T., were held throughout Wednes-
day afternoon, the Red Cross, Temple
and Malta degrees being worked. A
banquet was served at els. Several
Knights from Wilmington were pres
ent.
Mrs. Rudyard Kiplng has given the
Episcopal church, as a memorial to
the little daughter who died in New
York some three years ago, a hand
some Estey organ, which will be plac-
ed in the chancel of the church for the
use of the Sunday school.
The Woman's Relief corps held a
rubber supper Wednesday evening,
the price of admission being seven
pounds of rubber or its worth in cash.
There was a large attendance, which
yielded a profit which was very sat
isfactory to the members OF the or
ganization.
p. f. Crown has bought a half-in
terest in the plumbing business of
p. Fleming, taking possession this
week. He will take charge of the
clerical work in the store on Elliot
street. Mr.. Crown has moved his in
surance business from the office of
F. j. Bailey to his house.
G. I. Wilcox of the Woodstock
creamery has received from Wells,
Richardson & Co. of Burlington a
medal awarded for the butter scoring
highest at the Valley Fair in Brattle-
boro last fall. 1t is an artistic and
costly piece of workmanship in solid
gold, and handsomely inscribed. Mr..
Wilcox's butter scored SO points.
NJ. ]. Moran, administrator of the
Laura ]. Haskins estate. has sold the
homestead on the corner OF Canal and
Maple streets to d. f. d. Sullivan.
Mr.. Sullivan will improve and rent the
place, reserving rooms for his own
use. Mr.. Moran has sold during the
past six months all the local real estate,
including six houses and three building
lots at a substantial increase over the
inventory, the sales aggregating about
$4,000.
very enjoyable evening was spent
at the home of Mrs. w. c. Whitman
on Western avenue on Monday even
ing, when over 20 friends and neigh
bors gathered to celebrate her birth
day anniversary. The affair was a
complete surprise to Mrs. Whitman.
who was the recipient of several valu-
able gifts. Games were played and
refreshments served, and at a late
hour the guests departed, voting the
occasion a success.
At the regular meeting of the Brat
tleboro Commandery, No. 1852, United
Order of the Golden Cross. the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Noble
commander, Abbie Z. Moran: vice no.
bib NOAAiIluhhClS SAlpt l. dlOlu,
worthy prelate Helen NJ Wyatt:
worthy herald, F. A. Bagg; keeper of
records, A. |. Williams; financial keep
er of records, Hattie r. Mcclure;
worthy treasurer, John A. Stafford;
w. l. G., Ada f. Mines; w. o. c.,
Charles w. Berry; representative to
Charles w. Berry; representative to
alternate, A |. Williams.
Charles Clark Mum. the travelling
salesman, who wrote Uncle Terry"
has nearly completed another book
entitled Rock Haven" Mr.. Mum
was in Brattleboro yesterday and said
that he should not start out on an
other trip until the manuscript was
completed. The book will be radi-
cally different from the first one in
that it will deal principally with city
life, with a sprinkling of the rural,
while Uncle Terry" is principally
rural comedy with a sprinkling OF
city life. The first edition of the new
book will be $4,000 copies.
The special car containing the
Vogel minstrel troupe was side track
ed in the freight yard beside carload
of coal owned by a local dealer. A
short time later a burly Ethiopian
was seen to be shoveling coal from
, the freight car into the private car
and the owners attention was called
, to the fact by brother in the bust
ness. few long strides took the
owner to the scene. Warm words
, followed, the negro declaring that he
had mind to get off to lick the
white man. The latter retorted that
If the niger came down neither he nor
, any of his troupe would be able to
get out of town on schedule time.
The owner of the coal set a watch
over his property and the incident
} closed with more words.
Michael Sears, 76. died about 70
o'clock Saturday night at his home on
South Main street after an illness OF
several weeks. The funeral was held
at the Roman Catholic church at 8
o'clock Tuesday, Rev. Patrick Gun.
bingham officiating, and the burial was
, in the Roman Catholic cemetery. Mr..
2 Sears was born in Ireland, but came to
this country when a young man. He
had lived in Brattleboro about so
, years, his occupation being that of a
: laborer. His wife, who was Catherine
Fitzgerald, died about six years ago.
Mr.. Sears leaves five children, Mary,
, who lives at home, Thomas. a coach