Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-07


play in White River Junction tonight.
Three new members were voted in
at the meeting of the !. NJ. c. a. We'd
nesday evening.
Gen. j. j. Estey will lead the
o'clock meeting in the Y NJ. c. A..
, rooms next Sunday.
Ten persons were baptized in the
Baptist church last Friday night.
There will be other baptisms tonight
and Sunday morning.
The town auditors have begun work
on the accounts preparatory to issuing
the annual town report. The check
list to be used at the annual town
meeting March has been posted in
4 the corridor of the town hall
The adjourned annual meeting of
| the Congregational church will be
/ held in the vestry tonight at $50
| o'clock. There will be reports and
| election of officers. 1t is hoped that
there will be a large attendance.
/ Lyman H. Howe and his moving pic
lures will be seen in Brattleboro again
next Wednesday. The pictures will
be shown i'm the Auditorium under the
auspices of the Murray club of the
! Universalist church. Mr.. Howe has
/ given several very pleasing entertain
ments in Brattleboro.
A very pleasant social was held at
the close of the Baptist Christian En-
deavor meeting Tuesday evening, An
invitation was ext nded to all present
at the Endeavor meeting to repair to
the social rooms of the church. and
almost every one responded promptly.
/ Sugar Oh snow in Hollis Burnett's best
form was served generously and the
hour or two spent delightfully."- in every
way.
The Vermont Daughters of 1912 ac-
cepted the kind invitation of Mrs.
George NJ. Love to a luncheon at her
home in South Newfane Saturday.
Feb. /. The Daughters formed a mer-
ry party for their sleighride and they
were delightfully."- entertained by the
hostess and her family During the
afternoon. reports of the national coun-
Gil held in New York in January We're
given by Mrs. Jenne. Mrs. Bond and
Mrs. Prouty
The House committee on public
! buildings has made inquiries of Mayor
Blodgett as a result of the bill intro
duced in Congress by Representative
Haskins of Brattleboro asking for a
government building in Brattleboro.
Among other questions, the committee
asked concerning population of Brat
tleborO, the probable cost of the most
available site 100 by150 feet. the pro
babe cost of the next available site
of the same dimensions, the distance
from Brattleboro to the nearest gov
erment building, etc.
The shoe store of T. A. Murphy in
the Ray building was bought Monday
morning by p. l.. Shea who has been
employed in the fish market of his
brother, d. F. Shea, on Elliot street.
Mr.. Shea took possession at once. Mr..
Murphy has no definite business plans.
Mr.. Shea will close out the broken lots
of shoes in stock and will restock the
store with a complete new line of
shoes. He also will renovate and
brighten up the store. Mr.. Shea for
merly was employed in the shoe store
of Durham Brothers. He spent sew
eral years in Derby, Conn. returning
to Brattleboro during the past year
Superintendent Jones, of the Brattle-
boro street railroad, and his helpers
did a good piece of work Sunday night
in keeping the track opened so that it
was ready for business Monday morn
| ing. When the rain ceased falling
toward night and a cold freezing wind
began to blow Mr.. Jones began to feel
that the chances were two to one
against his being able to keep the
track from being frozen in. He put
on force of men to keep the ice off
the rails and ran a car and snow pillow
all night, but it was only by desper-
ate work that they were able to keep
the road clear. The Bellows Falls &
SaxtOns River road was tied up several
days.
There was large attendance at the
meeting of the Audubon society held
in the Brooks House parlors Monday
evening when Mrs. Frances B Horton
gave talk, upward of an hour long,
on the bird family Fringillidae. the
the largest and most interesting of our
familiar native birds, to which belong
the sparrows, finches, grosbeaks, etc
Mrs. Horton began with the best be-
| loved of all the song birds, the song
sparrow, which opens and closes the
song season in this northern region.
She followed with the swamp field,
veSper, house or English sparrow, chip
ping, Savannah, grasshopper white
throated, white-crowned, fox, and tree
sparrows, then took in their suitable
order the junco, redpole, American
crossbill, white-winged crossbill. pine
and rosebreasted grosbeaks, pine sis
kin, the towhee, the indigo bunting,
the cardinal. the goldfnch, and the pur-
pie finch. In each case. the markings,
the feeding habits, and the general
characteristics were infinitely describ-
ed, and the talk was illustrated by
mounted specimens of the different
birds, and in most instances a nest
was shown. Mrs. Horton proved
again on this occasion her wide fam
iliarity with her subject. and her care
full habits of personal observation.
The talk was not only instructive from a
scientific point of view, but it was
made familiar and interesting by the
incidents related and it's logical course
of presentation.
Closing Entertainment of the Star
Course.
The Star course of entertainments
will close next Thursday evening with
a lecture by John B. Denote who has
the reputation of being the most popu-
lar lecturer on the American platform