Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-13

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| Tuesday evening.
The United States Daughters of
| 1872 Will meet with Mrs II. t. Bond
/ tomorrow from to & o'clock.
Joel Flagg, j. A. Clark and George
/ Wilder were appointed license com
missioners of Guilford yesterday
Friendship Circle will hold a meet
afternoon. Supper will be served at
| 615.
Tuesday, March II, will be ST. Pat
ricks day. Mass will be celebrated
at 9 o'clock in St. Michael's Roman
Catholic church.
The first rehearsal for the Catholic
Union minstrel show was postponed
from last night to some evening next
week on account of the illness of
Mr.. Mulvaney.
Protective Grange will hold its an
nual sugar supper next Wednesday
evening. Dugan and Hines will fur
nish music for dance which will fol-
low the supper.
The men Of Bratleboro lodge. New
England order OF Protection. will
serve an escalloped oyster supper in
Red Mems hail Wednesday evening.
March Is, at o'clock.
All Of the reserved seats for the
Band minstrels have been taken at
the subscribers sale The gallery
seats will be reserved and will go on
sale to the public at the box office
Monday evening at Z.
"Smudge" was played at seven
tables at the Wheel club rooms last
evening T.. +. CoXson won first
prize, d. J. Stolte second, and a col
lection of three treasures went to
the BOBBY winner President G. +.
Barber
The Local Option club will hold a
meeting this evening to consider
names which may be presented to the
selectmen as suitable candidates for
license commissioners. The question
Of recognizing the club will also be
discussed
Fleming K Crown have sold to Geo.
+. CroWell this week strip Of land
10 feet wide on the south side of FL
lot street, between the highway and
II. J.. Emerson's land. Mr.. Croweu
Will transfer to Mr.. Emerson such
portion OF the land as the latter needs
for his proposed building
The Boston Globe OF yesterday con
tanned portrait and a long sketch OF
Loring Williams. 81, of Montague. one
OF the few surviving rivermen, en-
ployed on boats i'll the Connecticut
more than half a century ago. Mr..
Williams married Sebiah l.oveland in
Brattleboro Dec. IA, 1910.
The selectmen have done nothing
about the appointment of license com
missioners. Chairman Ninton of the
board of seleCtmen sent word from
Colorado this week that he might not
return within the 10 days in which the
appointments must be made, and it is
probable that the work of selecting
the commissioners will fall upon
Messrs. Gleason and Putnam.
The body OF w f. Andrews. 40. one
of the best known newspaper men in
New Hampshire, was taken to Little
ton Tuesday from the Brattleboro Re
treat where he had been receiving
treatment since last October. He
had been connected with papers in it
Teton, Berlin and Gorham. and was
prominent in the affairs of the New
Hampshire Weekly Publishers asso.
citation, and in fraternal organizations.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church held a delightful sociable last
evening at the home of Or. and Mrs.
Henry -. HOltun. There was a large
attendance. A very enjoyable pro
gram was given, consisting of piano
selections by Miss Foster, readings
by Mrs. Abby f. Fuller, songs by
Miss Gertrude Matthews. violin and
piano duets by Misses Ellen and Kath-
crime Ware, piano solo by Miss Ellen
Ii. sherman, song by Mrs. w. b. Eddy,
and a reading by Miss Ida Fuller.
Herbert S. Norcross of West Dunn
merston, brother of Frank Norcross.
Mrs. II. Il. Horton and Miss Gertrude
Norcross OF Brattleboro. met with a
serious accident in his saw mill in
West Dummerston Wednesday morn
ing. He was running the big saw.
Wishing more speed he attempted to
shift feed belt with his foot. the
belt running near the floor, as he had .
done many times before His foot
was caught btween the belt and pull
ley and was drawn around the pulley.
twisting the bone in two and driving
one of the broken ends out through
the flesh. He was taken to his home
near by and physician was summon
ed. The physician will determine to-
day whether it will be necessary to
amputate the leg.
In response to request from Mrs.
Leroy Willis, who is in Chesterfield,
\. H., Chief-ofpolice Hall telephoned
Monday TO the Chief of police in Hud-
son, Mass asking him to send the
Willis boy who was left at a hotel in
Hudson by his father to Brattleboro.
The chief of police in Hudson replied
that he would send the boy to Brat
tleboro Tuesday, but later he tele-
phoned that the boy would not come
as he said there would be no place
for him after he got here. The of
icer said the boy was acting queerly
and that he tore into shreds his faith
er's coat and other articles left at the
MOTEL by his father and threw them
out of the hotel window. He said
he father had been heard from in
The boy came to town
his week. His father was seen in
Greenfield this morning,