Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-11

A group picture of the High school
football team was taken yesterday by
Wyatt.
The officers of Protective Grange
were installed Wednesday evening by
II. w. Sargent.
The bowling alley on Flat street
has been leased by w. f. Sprague to
II. Woodland of Chesterfield
Fort Dummer Colony of Pilgrim
Fathers will hold the next sociable in
its series next Tuesday evening in Red
Mems hall.
The annual meeting of the commit
tee of the associated charities of the
churches will be held at Mrs. j. NJ Ty-
ler's Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 10th,
at 2.30 o'clock.
The general term of the Vermont
supreme court will begin Jan. 22 at
Montpelier. The docket contains six
Windham county cases, but none of
the parties live in Brattleboro.
The officers elected by the Catholic
Order of Foresters a week ago Mon
day night were installed Tuesday
evening in Red Mems hall by David s.
Carey, deputy high chief ranger.
The Alliance Bible class will meet
next Monday at the Brooks House re-
ception room at 100 o'clock. Sub
iect, Hosea, the preacher of tender
ness. Members and friends are cor
daily invited.
A. V. Mays agency has sold for Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Betterley their farm
in West Dummerston, known as the
Sidney Barrett place, to Henry L..
Sheldon of Sheldon Springs, this state.
Possession will be given March 1.
The S. A. Smith company has sent
a complete line of articles of their
manufacture to New York to be eXhib-
tied at the furniture exposition. f. L..
Hunt will go to New York tomorrow
to remain in charge of the exhibit
three weeks.
The postponed meeting of the even
ing session of the Womans club will
be held with Miss Della Sherman
next Wednesday. The subject will be
Japan and there will be papers by
Mrs. G. f. Barber Miss Susan Clark
and Mrs. l.. w. Hawley.
Fred L. Burnham of Winsted,
Conn, who died from a pulmonary af-
lection in Lake Como, Fla, Jan 4, lived
in Brattleboro about 20 years ago. He
was nephew of Mrs. MelIina Burn
ham and Mrs. f. j. Knowlton. He
leaves a wife and child.
The First Baptist church has en-
gagged for it's choir: Arthur L. May
nard, tenor; Mrs. f. G. F. Cramer, So
s. Knight, bass: F. c. F. Cramer, or
ganist. The choir and volunteer
chorus will sing at the evening ser
vices.
One of the teams drawing coal from
the railroad yard to the Estey organ
works met with a slight mishap on
Reed hill yesterday morning. In some
unexplained way the team tipped up,
and the coal found a resting place in
the road instead of the coal bin at the
shops.
A concert will be given soon at the
Unitarian church, under the auspices
of the Freme Circle, by Mrs. Harriet
Brasor Pratt, Mrs. Belle Knowlton
and Edwin II. Miller. All who attend
ed the delightful concert given by
these artists in the same church two
years ago will be glad to hear of the
pleasure in store for them.
The dance given by B. b. Knapton
of Adams, Mass, in Red Mems hall,
last Saturday evening was not sue
cess from a financial standpoint.
Wednesday evening Mr.. Knapton
opened his dancing school but was
again disappointed, only few couples
being present. He will probably seek
a more favorable field.
Seventeen members were voted into
the Y. M. c. A. at the meeting of the
mittee, consisting of G.. H. Clapp, E. l..
Hildreth and Secretary Wilson. were
appointed to see that the association
is represented at the jubilee conven-
ton to be held in Boston in June. j.
J. Estey and w. d. Stockwell were APP
pointed a committee to arrange for an
anniversary day observance the first
Sunday in May.
The board of visitors, Home for the
Aged and Disabled, held their annual
meeting in the Brooks House Wednes-
day afternoon and elected officers for
the coming year as follows: president,
Mrs. G. II. Ryder; vice-president,
Miss S. E. Clark; secretary and treas
urer, Mrs. c. II. Davenport. 1t was
voted to assess each member ten
cents; all members not present at the
meeting will please hand the same to
the treasurer at their earliest conve-
nience.
Mrs. w. A, Franklin of Vernon, who
was a prize winner with dairy cheese
at the Vermont Dairymen's meeting
in Brattleboro last year and also at
Valley Fairs, took first prize, $40, on
dairy sage and second prize, &c. on
dairy plain, at the Dairymen's meet
ing in Burlington this week. On
dairy sage she scored "a, four points
higher than the next competitor, and
on dairy plain her mark was 80, one
half a point behind Alpha Messer of
Rochester.
The commodiOus room which will
be used in connection with the chem
ical laboratory has been completed in
the High school building, third floor.
1t will be fitted with a complete
equipment of electrical apparatus, so
that students may receive practical
training in this branch. The feasihil-
ity of fitting up rooms for school pur-
poses on the third floor has been fully
established, and it is probable that at
a later date a drawing room will be
built there.
The $50 passenger train was four
hours late Monday night the delay be-
ing caused by freight wreck at Mon
son, in which eight freight cars were
derailed. Wednesday morning the
narrow gauge passenger train was
three hours late, side rod on the en-