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


evening in the Swedish Congregational
church, to which all are invited.
Dennis Rebekah lodge will have a
social meeting Tuesday evening, Jan.
Is. District Deputy Minnie Waite
will be present to install the newly
elected officers.
The Twentieth Century club was en-
teTtained pleasantly by Mrs. Arthur
Adams last evening. The club will
meet with Mrs. T. A. Austin next We'd
nesddy evening.
Two or three horses owned in town
will be taken to New York next month
to be disposed of at the Fasig-Tipton
sale. DR.. Kane, president of the New
York Road Drivers association, will
offer Darrell, 2.071a, and his other fast
steppers.
The Grange Dramatic club held a
regular meeting Tuesday evening in
Grange hall. The business session
was followed by a cobweb party in
charge of Mrs. c.. s. Hopkins and
IS Bessie Hopkins Austin E. Mil
r won the first prize and Ralph
Jakes the BOBBY prize.
Look out" sang out a workman on
11,e roof 0l 'hIF building in the rear of
Hooker block Wednesday, an instant
after he had dropped board. James
Austin of South Main street, who was
at work on the platform beside the
railroad track, got the "look out" and
the board in the head at the same
time. Fortunately the board struck
him siding blow, so that his skull
was not cracked, and he escaped with
q wound which plnCpd with faW
stitches.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boTo Hosiery company was held Mon
day evening" when the old board of di-
rectors were elected, as follows:
c. H. Thompson, e. w. Gibson, w, N.
Thompson, w. d. Stockwell, L. A.
Gregg. A dividend of three per cent
was declared. The company's bust
ness for the year amounts to $4,000.
Since October list the company has
had a business on the basis of $780,
600 for year. Nearly 70 hands now
ave regular employment in the es-
tablishment.
Alexander S. Tooke, who has spent
much time in Brattleboro, is a claim
ant to the reward offered for the ap-
prehension of C. l.. Alvord, the note
teller who stole 100000 from the
First National bank of New York
Tooke recognized Alvord when he saw
him in the Touraine at Boston.
Deputy Sheriff Ahearn of New York
city has received an ATTACHMENT of
$685. against Tooke, in favor of one
Livezey. The claim is for money lent
between Dec. IS, 1899 and May 20,
1900, 1t has been reported that any
claim Tooke may have in the reward
offered for the arrest of AlvOrd will
be attached.
The w. c. T, u. had a very interest
ing meeting Thursday afternoon and
the attendance was large considering
the severe stormy afternoon. The
president, Mrs. w. f. Mixer, gave
the third of series of Bible readings
which was very interesting and was
listened to attentively by the ladies
after which there was a discussion
which brought out many happy
thoughts. 1t was voted to prepare an
appropriate banner to be presented
to the member, the first meeting in
Nay, who secures the largest number
Of new members. 1t was voted also
to hold the annual roll call the last
day of January.
The United States transport In
gals, on which Charles F. Tones,
brother of John Tones of Brattleboro,
is chief clerk, arrived in New York
from Porto Rico and Havana Monday
after going through 40 hours of the
worst weather the ships master and
rev ever experienced, For "a
lrs the ship was completely out of
reckoning, not one on board knowing
where she was. Wave after wave
broke over the ship. All the glass
in the windows of the staterooms was
bNpken, and water poured into the
saloon. A wave broke the steam
steering gear and the ship lay help
less, With the hand steering gear
the ship was held in position for sew
eral hours. Then another sea rose
over the stern and smashed the
steering wheel and the wooden plat
form around it. Only the hub of the
wheel was left, and while the ship
was whirled around like top the men
rugged up a rope tackle and got the
rudder again under control. During
the gale the bilge pumps became
blocked and it was necessary to form
a bucket brigade to bail the water
out by hand for a long time, Mr..
Tones is expected to come to Brat
tleboro tomorrow for visit with his
relatives.