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

The mercury dropped to II degrees
below zero Sunday-the coolest morn.
ing of the winter with one exception.
BrattleDoro lodge, f. & A. NJ. will
work the first degree on three candi-
dates at special meeting this even
ing.
"A Noble Outcast" will be presented
by the seniors Of Brattleboro Academy
at Melrose hall in West Brattleboro
next Tuesday evening.
Col Kittredge Haskins has been APP
pointed an aide de camp on the staff
of the commander in chief of the
grand encampment G. A. r.
Mrs. A. w. Brodies Sunuay school
class will meet with Mrs. w. A. Rams
dell on South Main street next Wed
nesday evening. All members of the
class and their husbands are invited
to spend the evening socially.
Two hundred gallery tickets for the
Masonic ball, to be given at Festival
hall Feb. 18th. will go on sale tomor-
row, Saturday, morning, at o'clock
at Thomas's pharmacy The first
corners will be given choice of seats
c. f. r. Jenne's agency has paid
this week to an assignee living in
town $4,000, the amount of a death
claim in the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York. The man
holding the policy died in California.
DR.. j. ". Tobin. a graduate of the
veterinary department of Harvard,
has taken an Office at c. S, Stock
wells livery stable. DR.. Tobin has
had extensive experience in practice
in the university hospital in Cam
bridge, and with leading veterinaries
of Boston and vicinity.
The Windham County Union of
young peoples societies of Christian
Endeavor will hold the semi-annual
convention at Westminster Feb. 81,
afternoon and evening sessions. Rev.
j. L. Hill, d. D., of Salem, Mass, will
give an address. A cordial invitation
is extended to all to be present.
The Womans Auxiliary held reg
ular meeting in the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Wilson read
an interesting paper on The Y. NJ. c.
A. in other lands" Mrs. G. H. Clapp
and Mrs. c. F. r. Jenne were elected
delegates to attend the interstate Y.
NJ. c. A. convention to be held in Con-
The loss on the George Stebbins
house in Vernon Tuesday night by fire
was about 800 The property was in
sured in the Vermont Mutual COM
pany through c. F. r. Jenne's agency.
The chimney burned out, setting fire
to the wood work, and serious loss
was ayerted by chopping out the wood
work around the chimney through to
the roof.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olutiOn held their regular meeting
Tuesday evening at the Brooks House,
when the chapter listened to a very
interesting paper upon some of the
famous women of the Revolution, by
Mrs. Fred Holden; and were enter
tanned with excellent music rendered
by Prof. Cramer and Miss Holden. It
was voted that. in future, all members
be notified by postal cards of the reg
ular meetings.
The suit of Dr.. E. r. Lynch against
John Kaine, sr., to recover a bill of
$50, claimed to be due for medical SER
vices rendered the wife of fthe de-
PENDANT, came before Justice T. j. B.
CudwOrth Monday. Lawyer r. c.
Bacon appeared for the plaintiff and
II. G. Barber for the defendant Mr.
Barber plead the general issue, that
the defendant did not owe the bill
and claimed $40 in offset The case
was then continued to Feb. 10.
Mrs. jeremiah Rogers, who lives
with her son Frank at % Prospect
street and is Familiarity known as Aunt
Lucy, met with a severe injury recent
ly. In quickly closing a door as she
passed through. an united shoe lacing
was caught. and she was thrown
heavily to the floor. Her right Shout
der and arm were badly bruised. and
her left hand injured also but no
bones were broken. She is confined
to her bed, and her age, SSyears Feb.
% next, is against her speedy recOv-
cry, but her CHEEKY hopefulness is
largely in her favor.
A service in memory of Queen Vic
toria was held in the Baptist vestry
at the opening of Sunday school last
Sunday. Back of the superintend-
ent's desk was seen a large crayon
portrait of the Queen. draped with
Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack
Capt. Haigh, of the Congregational
Sunday school, spoke of the esteem in
which the Queen was held by the
army and navy of Great Britain.
Prof. F. c. F. Cramer, who had seen
the Queen several times, paid her an
appreciative tribute, and DR.. Marble
drew some lessons from her noble
life. The service closed with the
singing of Lead, Kindly Light"
Four new members were added to
the BrattlebOro Bird club at its meet
ing last Monday evening Mrs. E. b.
Davenport reported the annual meet
ing of the American Ornithologists'
Union held at Cambridge last Novem-
Der, A discussion on Shrikes fol
lowed, as to whether We have three
species or only two, the question turn
ing on the White Rumped Loggerhead.
Clifton d. Howe of Newfane, now as
sistant professor in the University of
Vermont reported to the secretary of
the Bird club that he saw near the
mouth of our West river last Christ
mas the Great American Bittern and
the American Merganser Duck, these
bringing the number of local species
to 1877.
Representatives of F. o. Plummer
of Boston are putting in the Swedish
intercommunicating system of tele-
phones at the Estey Organ works.
Through it communication between
different parts of the establishment
may be carried on without the agency
of a central office, a person in one
shop establishing communication in
another shop by simply pressing a
button. The system will have 81