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

Rev. f. w. Lewis will lead the Y.
M. G. A. meeting at 4 o'clock Sunday.
All men are invited.
Prof. j. F. Wood of Smith college
will preach in the Congregational
church next Sunday. 4
Mrs. Arthur p. Simonds entertained
the boys of her Sunday school class
at her home Wednesday evening.
Monday, Dec 8, will be the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception. Mass
will be celebrated in st. MichaePs
Roman Catholic church at 9 o'clock.
Leitsinger's orchestra will play at
a masquerade ball in Guilford Centre
next Friday evening, to be given under
auspices of Broad Brook Grange. A.
II. Hines will prompt. A chicken
pie supper will be served.
The ladies' of the Methodist church
will hold their annual supper and
sale at Grange banquet hall next
Thursday evening, Dec. II, from $50
to 8. Dreamed fish and escalloped
oysters will be features Of the supper.
Whist was played at ten tables at
the Wheel clubs first night for card
tournament on Tuesday. John l..
Stewart. plus %, and Fred G. Gale,
plus II. were the winners, the for
mer taking mirror and the latter
silver ash tray.
Work on the West River dam is
progressing, and it is expected that
by Dec. Is the work will have gone
far enough so that water may be
turned on to the power plant al
though the dam will not be completed
by that time. The wiring between
the electric light station and the dam
is practically complete.
A. l.. Perham had a narrow escape
from serious injury while at work
with a swinging saw at the Estey
Organ factory Wednesday. The saw
became caught, and when 1t gave way
ii fell upon Perham, cutting his cloth
ing to the skin from the hip to the
shoulder.
The Vermont Wheel club voted in
two members at the regular meeting
Tuesday night. The club member
ship of $50 is full and two names
are on the waiting list. The club
also voted to have three ladies' nights.
l.. Guy Tasker was appointed to re-
which will organize a local basket ball
league.
C. +. X. Jennes insurance agency
has settled the J. Henry Pratt loss
in Guilford last week. The loss was
total with the exception Of few head
of cattle. which were saved. The
loss to George s. Miller, who carried
on the farm, was adjusted at $3.50.
! Jenne's agency also has settled losses
to Mrs. Milton Miller of Brattleboro
and Z. II. Akley of Vernon, caused by
chimney fires.
4 An unusual instance of trustworthi-
( ness in horse was seen a few days
ago. NJ. J. Moran & Cos delivery
/ horse was backed up to the furniture
store when an electric car went down
the hill in front of him. The horse
turned his head as far as possible to
/ avoid being hit, but even then was
so close that one of the thills was
! struck and piece two or three feet
long was broken off. The horse did
not move out of his tracks.
| The electric car from West Brattle-
! boro was coming down the avenue
Saturday afternoon when a youth
standing in the doorway OF the barn
/ at Lindenhurst fired a shot gun. and
{ the shot ratified upon the car and two
shot struck Conductor Goodenough In
I the head while he was standing up
on the platform. The shot were
| small and the distance was sufficient
/ so that no serious injury was sus-
! tanned, but that is no excuse for
( such culpable carelessness. The
identity of the shooter could not be
ascertained when an attempt was
made to investigate the shooting later
/ in the day.
John KANE. so, died at his home on
Elliot street Friday after a long ill
| ness with cancer of the stomach. He
/ was born in Ireland, but came to
| America when a young man. He had
| lived in Brattleboro over so years.
| He helped build the Vermont & Mas
sachusetts railroad. the first railroad
! that came TO Brattleboro. His wife,
Ellen, also native of Ireland. died
| at her home in Elliot street Aug. 27.
Mr.. Kaine leaves one son, John T.
Kaine, who, until recently, has been
engaged in the grocery business in
Brattleboro The funeral was held
at the Roman Catholic church Sunday
at 1890 o'clock, Rev. Father Cunning
| ham officiating. The burial was in
the Roman Catholic cemetery. The
bearers were Cornelius Sullivan, Mat
! thias Sullivan, Patrick Moran. Charles
McMenimen, Michael Devine and
Frank Hagan.
Raymond Smith Dugan of Montague.
Mass, who has jumped into fame by
discovering a planet while pursuing
his duties at the government observa-
tory at Heidelberg, Germany, is a
nephew of j. M. Dugan of Brattleboro.
Young Dugan is "a years old and a
graduate of the Greenfield High school
in "a and of Amherst college in '99.
Sept 1, 1899, he went to Beirut, Syria,
as instructor in mathematics and as
/ tronomy in the Syrian Protestant col
lege and had charge OF the college
observatory there for three years.
In August, 1902, by advice OF Prof.
d. p. Todd of Amherst college, he
went to Heidelberg to study mathema-
tics. Oct. l, of this year he obtained
the position of first assistant in the
government observatory of that place,
which is under the direction Of Max
Wolf a noted astronomer. He was
recently granted the M. A. degree by
Amherst college for his work the past
three years.
The monthly session of the probate
court for November was held Satur-
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