Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-12-06

Fort Dumer Royal Arch chapter will
work the mark and past masters de-
grees this evening.
c. p. Nash begins a series of adver-
tisements in this paper which are of
interest to consumers of fuel.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Relief Corps for election Of officers
will be held Thursday evening" Dec.
10.
The standard Thermometer registered
eight degrees below zero this morning
and six degrees above zero yesterday
morning.
Washington dispatches announce
that a patent for hook and eye has
! been granted to Jeanette H. McClay
of Brattleboro.
The trial of Deputy Commissioner
! Devery of the New York police force
on the charge of oppression is being
held before Judge William c. Hol-
brook.
Gum & Co have sold for Miss leila
Johnson the old Tyler Johnson home
stead in Guilford, known as THE
Slate Rock" to j. NJ. Seymour of
Randolph, VT.
Ira c. Lazelle of Mortified has been
granted an increase of pension from
SIG to $50 a month, and Willis X.
Chase of Dummerston a restoration of
pension through Col. John Hunts
agency.
A number Of friends and relatives of
c. ]. Goodale gave him a surprise visit
Friday evening and presented him sew
eral tokens of remembrance. A pleas
ant evening was spent and refresh
ments were served.
Gum & Co, real estate agents, have
moved their office to the rooms re-
Gently vacated by Mr.. Cobb in the
Leonard block over the Y NJ. G. A.
rooms. The removal is made to gain
more room for the firms increasing
business
The knights of the oxford Castle
of the Universalist church opened
their second years campaign Tues
day evening with a banquet in the
vestry. followed by musical selections
and games, the entertainment closing
with blind auction.
n. f. Cabot. treasurer of the Yer
mont Savings bank. has intimated to
the trustees his purpose to resign the
treasurership to take effect Dec. 3lst.
although no formal announcement has
been made. Mr.. Cabot's services for
the bank have covered period of
more than 20 years.
The New York Dramatic Mirrors
St. Louis correspondent. in recording
the great success of the Southwell
opera company in presenting grand
opera in English in that city says
Anna LIGHTER, the soprano, is gaining
new friends. and her big husband
, viii Schuster, is showing himself a
( valuable member.
d The meeting of the Audubon society
J at the Brooks House Monday evening
was a particularly interesting one
Mrs Walter d. Stockwell talked in sc
q pleasing a manner on the subject OF
owls" as to give those present q
greater respect for and interest il
that bird of i'll omen" Description;
of boot owls barn owls, the American
hawk owl. the saw whet, the screecf
owl and the short-eared owl, al
article on owls and their uses" anC
r poem. THE Great Horned Owl
, made a program entertaining and in
= structive.
viii Pentland attended the Man
/. chester Poultry associations eXhibi
l ton this week in the Coliseum il
Hartford, Conn, and captured thu
! leading honOrs for Silver SpangleC
4 Hamburgs, winning first on exhibition
/ pen, first on cockrel, first and SECOND
: on pullet, the associations CRANE
e special for the best display of Ham
burgs, and the grand special for hes
e cockre and two pullets. The SHOW
j was held in the Hartford Coliseum
4 and was a model Of good arrangement
and management, and in general eX
+ cellence ranked next to the poultr.
shows in Boston and New York.
A The Salem. n. Y, Axiom has brough
o TO light another BrattlebOro celebrity
i 1t SAYS in it's issue of Nov. %: Charlie
q Douglas, tramp, who claims Brattle
boro. Vt, as his home, retired Wednes
day night on James Gibson's celia
S door. He was aroused from hi
e slumbers by Officer McNaughton VIII
i took him before Justice Hill. Justic
t Hill committed him to the county jai
y until Monday morning when he ser
s. fenced him to 60 days in the Alban
y penitentiary. This is the second tim
y within six months that Justice Hi
. has sentenced Douglas to Albany
When he gets out this time he vii
= undoubtedly give Salem a wide berth
:. The first meeting of the creditor
= in the bankrupt estates of J. Dust
It Reed of Dummerston and Eugene /
II Holt of Putney was held in the o.
d fee of a. F. Schwenk, referee, Monday
; In both cases the creditors failed t
s. elect a trustee. The referee appoin
e ed Frank Stowe trustee of the Rec
2, estate and A. w. j. Wilkins of Putne
/ trustee of the Holt estate. Discharge
e from bankruptcy have been granted t
!" Elijah Wales and Belle H. Emerson c
e Brattleboro, Frank Kimball, Charlie
;. L. Emerson and Henry II. Vancor
e Bellows Falls and Dwight Sheldon
Wardsboro. Bert L. Perry of Ward
boro has been adjudged bankrup
His liabilities are $500 and his asset
$2S2.
b, The Green street book club held its al
- nual sale and supper Wednesday eNenin
II at the home of the president, Mrs e.
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