Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-08


tinguisher.
Col Harvey s. Chatheld of New
York, whose wife and daughters are
well known in Brattleboro, died Sat
urday at his home in New York. He
was Ga years old.
The ladies association of the Con-
gregational church are packing two
missionary barrels, one for a Yer
mont minister and his family and one
for the Mountain Whites of the South.
The funeral of Howard Asa Pratt
was held at his late home on Oak
street at o'clock Saturday, Rev. e.
Q. s. Osgood, pastor of the Unitarian
church. officiating. The burial was in
Prospect Hill cemetery.
Seven Chinese hearings are in pro-
gress before Judge Wheeler today in
the Office of Waterman & Martin.
They are on appeals from deportation
orders by Commissioners Johnson and
Young.
The funeral of Col. e. H. Chase was
held at the house on North Main
street Saturday at II o'clock, Rev. H.
r. Miles, pastor of the Congregational
church, officiating. The singing was
by the former Congregational male
quartet. The burial was in Prospect
Hill cemetery.
A meeting of Mt Sinai Temple,
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, was held
in Festival hall Friday evening, when
class of % candidates was ad-
mitted. Following the comforting of
the degree a banquet was held in the
j
and election of officers of the Temple
will be held at its oasis in Rutland
Dec. 10.
A hearing was begun in Justice
| Merrifield's office Saturday in the
case of Don Wilder against the Re-
! former Publishing company, but was
! continued at the request of the plain
| tiff's counsel. The suit was brought
principally to enforce an accounting
each party having accounts against
the other. r. c. Bacon was counsel
for the plaintiff and Frank Stowe for
d the company.
Congressman and Mrs. Kittredge
Haskins, who were in Washington
/ d. c., last week, rented a furnished
house at 1405 21st street, N. w.
which will be their home during the
! session of Congress. They expect to
go to Washington to live about
/ Thanksgiving. During the absence
their home on Terrace street will be
occupied by Joseph Norman, who
was coachman for the late Col. E. H.
Chase.
News has been received of the death
in South Dartmouth, Mass, Oct %,
/ of Mrs. Fannie Guilds, wife of j.
| r. Gidley. Mrs. Gidley was a sister
of the late Mrs. o. F. Newell of Pearl
/ street and was a resident of Brattle-
boro some 20 years ago. She former
ly was employed in the family of p.
b Barrows and afterward in the action
/ department in the Estey organ fac
| tories, and was well known in Brat
! tleboro at that time.
Mrs. Mary L. Smith, 70, of Yer
/ gennes, who was known in Brattle
| boro through visits with Mrs. f. A.
Wells, died at the home of d. y Sted-
man in Springfield Monday of pneu-
monia. Mrs. Wells was with her at
/ the time of her death, both having
gone to Springfield for a visit The
body was taken to Vergennes Tues
| day, accompanied by Mrs. Wells and
Fred G. Stedman. Mrs. Smiths
maiden name was Ashcraft and she
| formerly lived in Guilford.
Young people interested in arrang-
ing a series of dances to be known as
| the Brattleboro assemblies met at the
Brooks House Monday evening and
| selected James F. Hooker, Capt. E. J.
! Waterman and Howard c. Rice com
mittee to have the dances in charge
! Dates for the assemblies were fixed
/ as follows: Monday, Nov. % (Thanks-
| giving); Tuesday, Dec. 81 New
Year,; Tuesday, Feb. 4; Tuesday,
March IL; Friday, April A. Mrs. G.
| w. Hooker, Mrs. ]. j. Estey Mrs. Ada
E. Dowley, Mrs. c. A. Miles, Mrs. W.
| H. Minor and Mrs. c. F. r. JENNIE
will act as patronesses of the assem-
blies. Leitsinger's orchestra has
been engaged to furnish music for the
| dances, which will be held at the
| Brooks House. Refreshments will be
| served continuously at a buffet table
/ and card tables will be placed in the
parlors.
/ Wyman, the 10-year-old son of Mrs
Eva Curtis of Elm street, fell from the
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arch Saturday forenoon, but miracu-
lousy escaped fatal injuries. He
went from Dunton's repair shop to
the flume of the Brattleboro Gaslight
company and climbed down on the
rocks in order to get some material
which had been thrown there. The
rocks being wet the boy lost his foot
ing and slipped down the ragged edge
to the water, some % feet below
His head and face were cut by sharp
projections of rock, but his injuries
were not of a serious nature, and the
force of his fall was broken by the
water in which he struck. The
water at that point was shallow, so
that he was able to stand and prevent
being drowned. His cries were heard
on the street and soon a large crowd
had gathered. Supt. Brown of the
electric light station and Policeman
AmidOn took the boy from the water
and carried him home. The boy did
not fall over the dam as has been
generally understood. If he had fall
len over the dam it is scarcely posi-
BILE that he would have lived to re-
member the experience.
The Professional club held its first
meeting this season Monday night in
the Brooks House. and there was
large attendance. The meeting open
cd with tho aIaction Of tbaSa Of oors.