Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-10-31

plainant. This puts IL IN tne MINUS VI
the citizens to put a material check upon
the unnleasant practice and the discus
sion having been started it is probable
some complaints will be entered IL the
violation of the law is kept up
stephen n. Searle, B. II. S. '02, has been
chosen president of his class in the TUFTS
dental college.
Mr.. and Mrs c. Fred Growers little
son died in Lowell, Mass, TUESDAY Inc
burial was here yesterday
No clues have been found to detect the
person who fired the fatal shot on Fall
Mountain a week ago Sunday.
S. T. Coy, a prominent citizen and
paper mill owner, is dangerously i'll at
his residence on Henry street
Mr. and Mrs Seymour NJ. Davis who
were here several weeks with their moth
err, Mrs. Marvin Davis have gone to Rut-
land.
Mrs. George H. Stone of Oak street
went Tuesday to South Norwalk, Conn,
whore she will pass the winter with
friends.
Rev l.. o. Sherburne will speak at
the Montpelier district preachers meet
ing to be held in So. Londonderry Nov
3 and L.
The w. C. T. U. will hold a social at
Mrs. Oscar Kemp's Tuesday evening. A
literary and musical program will be fol-
lowed by current events quiz.
Fail Mountain Grange will confer the
first and second degrees Tuesday even
ing. State Master Bell and District
Deputy Sargent are expected to be pres
emit
Miss Annie Dodge has gone to St
Johnsbury to visit her father, Rev. Z.
r. B.. Dodge, and from there she Will
go to Middetown, Nova Scotia, to make
her homo for the present
The Young Peoples Missionary society
and Epworth League of the Methodist
church will listen to an address at the
church vestry Monday evening by Mrs.
F. B. Clark of Portland Me.
The glass blowers will be at Union hall
all next week for the benefit of Bellows
Falls lodge Knights of Pythias, and on
this account Mr.. Decatur's Monday even
ing dancing class will be omitted.
The young peoples society of the Uni
versalist church will hold Halloween
party in Frank G.. Pierces barn this even
ing, and Miss Frances Babbitt and Mas
ter Donald will give a masquerade party.
1.-THE Climbers" drew a good house
Tuesday night and was much enjoyed.
'Florodora," the great musical success,
will come to the opera house Nov.
with more than 20 singers and perfor-
mers.
The annual supper of the F. B. F.
grocery company was postponed on ac-
count of the absence of f. w. Brown,
who was called to Nicholville, N. Y,
Tuesday by the illness and death of his
father.
Mrs. e. e. Ferguson has returned from
Sharon, where she spent the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Ferguson and child will
make their home for the present with
Mr. Ferguson's mother Mrs. f, w.
Brown.
Another addition to the telephone
switch board has just been necessitated
and the office is now equipped for nine
operators. The addition has been to the
trunk line section and gives places for
three operators.
Mrs. L. O. Sherburne Mrs George I'm
derwood and Miss Gertrude Rand at
tended the annual convention of the
Vermont conference of Woman's Home
Missionary society in White River juno
ton this week.
The first meeting of the department of
economics of the Woman's club will be
held with Mrs e. r. Campbell Tues
day afternoon at 4. The subject will be
Soils and Building Sites and the Archi-
lecture of the Modern Home"
H. w. Bottomly has resigned his posi-
ton as superintendent of the local cleo
trio light company which he has held
since 1899 and accepted a much better
position with the Fall River, Mass. light
ing company, there being but one COM
pany in that city furnishing electricity.
The nominations for representative in
the north part of Walpole include An
drew j. Mccarthy Republican, and
John j. Fitzgerald, Democrat To the
constitutional state convention soon to be
held the following are the nominations:
j. w. Cahalane, Republican, and VIM. H.
Kiniry, Democrat.
Tuesday morning the switchman at
the north end of the ROston Maine
bridge, John WEIGH, was seriously in
jured, and perhaps fatally In some
unexplained way he was struck by a
moving train and number of bones
broken as well as serious injuries about
the head received.
The stringency of the coal situation has
been somewhat broken locally, a car of