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

The net receipts of the supper and
fair given last week by Dennis Re-
bekah lodge were S163.73
The Grange Dramatic club are re-
hearsing the play Border Lands" Ii
will be brought out in few weeks.
Beauseant Commandery, Knights
Templar, conferred the Red Cross de-
gree in their asylum Wednesday even
ing
The officers and committees of the
Y. M. G. A. will have tea in the as
ISOLATION rooms at $3.50 o'clock Mon
day evening, which will be followed by
business meeting.
James King of the Greenfield foot
ball team, who sustained broken nose
and other injuries in the foot ball
game Saturday, formerly worked in
the Richardson market.
A divorce granted at the last term
of the county court, but which was
overlooked in the report of the court
proceedings, was that of Fannie F.
Prouty of Brattleboro from Henry A.
Prouty.
e. A. Starkey G. Co.'S store was
opened Monday afternoon by II. G..
Barber receiver. The goods are be-
ing sold by John l.. Knowlton and
Henry Wilson, formerly clerk for Mr..
Starkey.
The Rutland Herald says that the
coal dealers of that city got their first
lot of anthracite since the strike on
Wednesday, 1t was quickly sold from
the cars in half-ton lots. The price
Nwas $500 a ton.
Fourteen coons were brought down
on the narrow gauge train Tuesday
morning by w. A. Lamberton, e. b.
Jones. II. S. Phelps and C. D. Farms
worth and son of Springfield Mass.
who had spent a week hunting with F.
b. Kidder and w. w. Kidder in Wards
boro.
The Brattleboro Woman's club
will meet with Miss Maud Emerson
on Oak street Wednesday afternoon,
November ., at o'clock. A paper
on Ancient Civilizations of America"
will be given by Mrs. Elmer and Mrs.
Bowen will read paper on the North
American Indians Mrs. Adams
will give a reading.
The library of the Congregational
| Sunday school, in which there are
some 1900 volumes, is being arranged
on a card index system by Librarians
| F. c. Adams and Earl Arnold and will
be recatalogued. A list of new books
is being prepared by the book com
mittee. No books will be given out
while this work is in progress.
Secretary George c. Wilson was
| l., I@A rn,,ff f-t mt
manager. and Patrick Ferriter cap
tain of the Y. NJ. C. A. basket ball
team at a meeting held Friday even
ing. Among the candidates for the
team are Ferriter, l.. Cundiff. T.. Cum
diff, March, Woodward. Stevens, j.
Howe, r. Howe Sanders and c. Ellis.
A sociabe was held in the Y. NJ. C.
C. rooms Saturday evening by those
interested in gymnasium work. The
rooms were well filled. A musical
program was rendered. consisting OF
vocal solos by A. l.. Maynard. flute
solos by H. r. Horton and trombone
and baritone solos by H. G. March
Cake and coffee were served and the
game rooms were well patronized.
The Brattleboro Retreats fine herd
of Holstein cattle got stranded on the
island at the north end of the Retreat
meadow Tuesday and were obliged tC
remain there over night. They
forded the brook between the meadow
and the island during the forenoon
but before time to get them up the
heavy rain had caused the brook &c
rise several feet, shutting off all es
cape. There was nothing to do but tC
milk them where they were and wait
for the waters to subside.
E. C. Dunklee of district No. Is has
finished harvesting his apples. He
has $50 barrels of hand picked fruit
mostly Baldwins of fine quality, which
he has sold to a Boston firm. Robert
Dunklee has been at home on -four
weeks vacation to assist his father in
handling the apples, but has now re
turned to Worcester. 1t is esti
mated that there are 1000 to 1900 bar
rels of apples of fine quality and fla
vor in district No. Is this year.
An agreement has been reached be
tween the creditors and the mortgage6
in the matter of the f. A. Starkey
Co. store. all agreeing that 60 pei
cent. of the value of the stock o.
goods shall apply on the mortgage
without question. There is a contest
over the other 40 per cent, the cred
itors claiming that the MORTGAGE can
not hold it as that proportion of the
goods was bought after the mortgag,
was executed. The goods will be solo
and the creditors will ask the cour
to decree to them 40 per cent. of the
proceeds.
Fifteen Polish freight handlers wh(
have been Systematically plunderinl
cases on the steamboat wharf at New
London were arrested Friday night
) and stolen goods were recovered
which were valued at $500 to $4,000
The Polanders had been stealins
goods a long time. 1t is though
they had a regular organization anC
that part of the plumber was shipped
out of town. They would open ;
ease, take out some of the articles
conceal the goods on their persons
and then go to their boarding places
The hearings were continued two
weeks in order that the ownership o
goods could be traced. Some of the
goods were owned by BrattleborC
merchants, who have been missing ar
ticles in their consignments for some
time.
Mary Reddin, of South Vernon. ad
ministratriX of the estate of her hus
band, William Reddin, has brough
suit for civil damages in the sum O
II $40 000 against Erancic " Wood ~