Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-21

ing.
c. L. Spear lost the tips of three
fingers on his left hand by contact
with a saw at the Estey organ plant
Friday.
L. s. Higgins's sale of 25 sleighs,
carriages, robes, harness., etc, will
begin next Tuesday, Nov. %, at II. r.
Browns livery at barn on Flat street.
Bingham chapter. Order of Eastern
Star, held a regular convocation Tues
day evening. Three candidates were
elected to membership, who will be
initiated at the next regular meeting,
Dec. 2.
The prospects OF the Brattleboro
Hosiery company for the coming year
are unusually bright. The outlook
for children's hose in particular is
better than at any time since the bus
mess was started.
The ladies Of the Congregational
church served fine supper Of escal-
loped oysters. cold meat, cake, rolls,
etc. Tuesday evening. which was well
attended. There was a sale of home
made confectionery.
Arizona" the powerful American
play by Augustus Thomas, comes to
the Auditorium tonight and an artis-
tic treat is assured all lovers of the
strong, wholesome play OF Western
ranch and army life.
The Starkey store. which has been
closed during the contest for the
election of a trustee. will be opened
| tomorrow morning and remain open
until the stock of goods is sold. Trps-
| tee II. G.. Barber will have charge,
and his clerks will be Il. w. Blodgett.
| Chauncey ! Knapp and f. II. Ather-
| ton.
The Brattleboro foot ball team has
no game scheduled for tomorrow
| The closing contest of the season will
be played on the morning OF Thanks
| giving day. against Amherst col
legians. Ralph Patch, who went to
| New York last week as substitute full
back on the varsity team. will play
in that position for the visitors.
The suit against the town of vii
| Jamestown. resulting from an accident
to sleigh-ride party in February
| 1901, was settled in court in Pitts
field. Mass. this week. The town
will pay $4,000, which will be divided
among IA North Adams persons in
| jured. including Mr.. and Mrs. w. S
Underwood and daughter, Edith. for
merly of Brattleboro.
The union Thanksgiving service
this year will be held Wednes
day evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Con
| gregational church. The sermon will
be by Rev L. T. Mathison, of the Epis
copal church The small size of the
congregations in past years has indi
Gated that Thanksgiving morning is
| not a convenient time for people tC
attend church. The service is put on
Wednesday evening SO that everybody
may come.
One of the most interesting enter
| tainments of the season will be given
in the Auditorium Tuesday evening
Dec .. when Prot. William p. Bradley
of Wesleyan University will give an
| illustrated lecture on Liquid Air un
der the auspices of the Congregation
al club. Tickets will go on sale al
! FoX's store on Friday evening of next
! week. Members will be entitled tC
one ticket free. Prof. Bradley was
the first man in New England to give
a public exhibition of the possibilities
of liquid air and wherever he has APP
peared he has been greeted by crowd
| ed houses.
charming play is augustus Thou
ass ARIZONA" which will be seen al
| the Auditorium tonight. 1t is one OF
! the few American dramas that possess
the wearing qualities which make IL
welcome visitor year after year and
grows seemingly better with repeti
ton. The production and cast Is
kept up to the top notch of perfection
and the careful attention to detail
shown in its presentation adds much
| to the excellence of the performance
Arizona" is said TO be the most cor
rect military spectacle ever produced
upon the American stage, and II is
one of the strongest, cleauest and best
| plays that has come from the pen OF
an american author in many years.
Michael Kelley. whose name has
been a blot on the police court rec
ords of the town for several years, was
arrested again Wednesday night Will,
engaged in a fracas near the Con
necticut river bridge He was placed
in the lookup and on yesterday morn
ing Was arraigned before Justice New
ton. He pleaded guilty To the charge
of intoxication and was fined $50 FOL
third offense, the alternative sen
tence being 100 days in the house o
correction in Rutland. He chose the
alternative sentence and was taken Il
Rutland by Chief-of-Police Hall. Hi
story as TO where he obtained hi
liquor was too transparent to be con
sidered. Kelley and a railroad maj
named Smith were fighting near thu
bridge when Chief Halls attention
was called to them. Kelley appeared
to be the aggressor, and his arres
4 followed.
A hearing was held before Judg,
Tyler Wednesday In the case o
George p. Burpee OF Winhall agaius
S. w. Dart of Gilsum. N. H., OF
the petition for the removal of an In
junction Burpee has a water powe
mill ON the Winhall river and Oar
has mill on the same river a s5ior
distance above Burpee's mill. Bus
pee brought a petition in chancery il
the Bennington county court to hav
Dart enjofned from putting sawdNs
into the river, and the petition wa
granted Dart claimed that no saw
dust got into the river except dllrin
very high water and asked % hav
the injunction dissolved. A Pan' wa
conceived whereby the difficrft
= might be obviated. and the hearfn
therefore was continued lending
trial OF the plan. A. e. Cuhworth O