Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-12-05

The annual rental of pews in the
Congregational church was held We'd
nesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Pros
pect Hill book club will be held to-
morrow evening at the home of ID. E.
Tasker.
The December meeting of the Audo-
/ bon society will be held Monday even
ing, Dec. 8, at o'clock, with Mrs.
f. K Barrows. The special topic
will be Some Birds of the North"
The Garment Makers Unions an
nual meeting was held in Grand Army
hall Monday night, when the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Miss Belle Tower; vice president,
Miss Della Streeter; secretary, Miss
Addie Fay; treasurer, Sherman Nc
Quad.
The funeral of Mrs. G.. A. Hines
was held at her late home on Canal
street Friday at 2 o'clock, Rev. r. X.
Marvin, pastor of the Uniyersalist
church, officiating. The burial was in
I the family lot In Prospect Hill ceme-
terry The bearers were A. II. Hines,
w. II. Bracket, G. L. Greene and II.
F. Brooks.
The first meeting of the Alliance
study class will be held at the Unitar-
ian parsonage Monday evening, Dec.
8, at 7.30 o'clock. Mrs. Esterbrook
will read paper on Colonial Times"
followed by short essay on Robert
Burns by Rev. Il. O. S. Osgood. A
meeting of the committee will be held
after the readings to decide the
course of study for the winter.
Bert Brown, the cornetist with
Brooke and his orchestra, who will APP
pear in the Auditorium Wednesday
evening, produces clear velvety tone
and plays with a dramatic intensity
that is wonderfully telling in song
playing. During the six years that he
has been with Brooke it has fire.
quently been remarked that when
Bert Brown plays a song you can al
most hear his cornet speak the words. "
At meeting of the Knights e. Ladies
of Honor Monday evening, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
coming year: Past Protector, II. w.
! Sargent; Protector, G. p. Nash; Vice
, Protector, Mrs. A. Louise Putnam (;
secretary, Mrs. |. S. Lawrence; finan-
J cial secretary, f. II. Putnam; treas
, urer, Mrs. Lucy w. Sargent; chaplain,
Miss Nellie ]. Pettee; guide, ]. E.
= Lawrence; guardian, William Gun
: ningham; sentinel, Harry Rowe.
The second in the series OF moth.
ers' meetings in the Congregational
, church was held Wednesday after
, noon, when Miss Katherine Hill, the
; professional nurse. gave a talk on the
care of children in health and sick
) ness. Miss Hill stated that she had
been unusually busy and had not
had opportunity to prepare a paper
! and so would have to speak extempor
D aneously. Her remarks we're very
' interesting and helpful, and at the
close she answered large number OF
questions asked by members of her
: audience.
: An exhibition of the natural and
. manufactured mineral products OF the
, state of Maryland which was ar
! ranged and shown by the state geolo
, gical survey at the Buffalo and
! Charleston expositions, receiving the
! highest prize awards in both in
! stances, has now been placed on ex
! hibltion at Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore. to remain open to the pub
lie during the winter and spring
: months. This exhibit. which was in
e tended primarily TO show the CONNER
cial value of the states Goals, clays
4 building stones and ores, was gath
4 cred and arranged under the direction
D of Prof. William B. Clark, OF Johns
4 Hopkins University the state geolo
= gist.
Some time ago the trustees of the
I City club of New York appointed q
= committee to raise funds among the
members of the club for a memorial
g to Dorman b. Eaton, who was a mem
3 Der of the club from its foundation
s The committee decided on portrait
r of Mr.. Eaton, suitable to be hung in
the clubhouse. and commissioned Car
roll Beckwith TO paint it. The por
trait, which has now been completed
, is on a scale slightly larger than life
, and is a striking likeness, although
! painted after Mr. Eaton's death. Mr.
Beckwith had a lifelong acquaintance
I. with Mr.. Eaton. and some extremely
, good photographs had been made OF
him only a few months before his
! death. The painting was formally
received at a general meeting of the
club Wednesday evening, when sew
eral addresses were made.
i nC NEWS OI OdluIudN
contained the following reference to a
Y former Windham county resident, who
: has many relatives in Brattleboro and
4 Wilmington: Mr.. and Mrs. e. s. Adsit
e are entertaining w. II. Childs and
: family of San Francisco who will re
5 main in Burlington until spring
l Mr.. Childs was for many years store
keeper in the United States mint
when the late Mr.. Dodge, formerly OF
, Burlington, was the superintendent
!, Mr.. Childs and family had thrilling
experience at the time of the Indian
outbreak in Minnesota in the early
! days of the settlers there, culminat
: ing in the hanging of 3S Sioux Indians
!, at Mankato, which Mr.. Childs, at the
time, reported for the illustrated pa
= pers, personally sketching the scene
> for Harper's and Leslie's. Mr.. Childs
: though born in Boston, lived for sew
. eral years in Wilmington, VT, being
: a son of the late Mai. A. B. and Han
!. nah Sault Childs, and is an uncle OF
: Mrs. Adsit.
Since G. S. Stockwell bought the
, Brooks House livery stable and the
j old Stockwell stable, recently owned
by Mrs. ]. B. Randoll, he has Joined
: the two together and has made alter
! ations and improvements on an ex
, tensive scale. The two sections