Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-01-09

Whist was played at seven tables al
| the Wheel club rooms Tuesday night
The prizes were won by Fred c. Gale
and Il. +. Perry, with scores of 30 ant
20 plus, respectively.
The employees in Houghton & 81
monds's store will go to GuilforJ
Centre tonight to attend a play by the
dramatic club of that place. to be fol
lowed by a supper and dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawton. the elderly
parents of DR.. S. f. Lawton. were tip
ped from a sleigh one day last week
and Mr.. Lawton's nose was broken
and his wife had one rib fractured.
S w Edgett & Co, have sold the Jo-
seph o. Johnson farm in Marlboro to
J. J. Othic of Springfield Mass, also
building lot on Pine street. owned
| by Crosby and Hunt, to Mrs. Charles
Akley of West BrattlebOro.
The High street sewer became clog.
ged last week causing some damage
by setting back into one of George L.
Wrights house. The pipe was dug
moved.
The corporators Of the Vermont
Savings bank will hold their annual
meeting next Wednesday. The an
nual meeting of the corporations Of
the Brattleboro Savings bank will be
held Thursday The directors Of the
two national banks will hold their an
nual meetings next Tuesday.
The new meat market in MILESTONE
building will be opened for business
tomorrow or early next week. 1t will
hr called the city market ana will
be in charge of Dana 5. Angler who
has been in the Richardson market
the past - years. The cart will be
run by Horace Prefountain The
ownership of the market has not been
made public.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will mold their first meet.
ing OF the New Year on Tuesday even
ing, Jan. 20. at : o'clock in the Brooks
House parlors. The paper of the even
ing will be given by Or. James Con
land on "A Brattleboro Royalist."
Members may bring guests.
4 letter has been received from
Hon. Boies Penrose, chairman of the
United States Senate committee on
immigration. acknowledging the re-
ceipt of the petition sent last week by
the citizens OF BrattlebOro requesting
his influence to have passed a bill now
before the Senate limiting immigra-
ton by an educational test He says
he is heartily in favor of such a test
and therefore is giving to it his
earnest support
The Greenfield Gazette and Courier
published Saturday at the request of
friends Of William Dempsey a letter
from Dempsey to his father. who was
released this week after serving
term for felonious assault William
Dempsey is one of the three Greenfield
boys who shot Joseph NJ. Houghton
of Brattleboro and is now in the state
prison. He appears to be looking at
the sober side of life and gives his ia
ther some good advice
Henry w Tewksbury 50, of Ran
dolph, died Sunday at the Brattleboro
Retreat. He had been in very poor
health several years. He received in.
juries in the famous Hartford railroad
disaster of 1887 from which he never
fully recovered. He was at one time
city judge of Manchester, y. II. He
had lived in Randolph for many years
and practiced law for some time prior
to his injury. He was well known all
over the state as a public lecturer. He
leaves wife and daughter. Mary c.,
who teaches in the Lamoille Academy.
and several brothers and sisters.
An endowment of 10000 to be used
for building purposes. was recently |
given to the Brattleboro Home for |
Aged and Disabled by nonresident. |
who for years has been greatly inter |
ested in the affairs of the town The |
lonor has mOdestly requested the di- |
rectors not to make his name public. |
The important work of enlarging and |
improving the home will take place |
next season. The present building |
will be moved back and will be Joined |
10. new two-story front. about 30 by |
10 feet in size. The dining room will |
De enlarged, and the entire building
will be renovated and improved The |
proposed change will give II addition
al rooms and will provide excellent
quarters for about 25 people.
The Y, NJ. C. AS next Offering in
he star course, Tuesday evening. Jan
~ will be a double attraction, the
cecilia string quartet one of the finest
musical organizations in the country.
md Harry Raymond Pierce and Zu-
cite Spencer Pierce, the society en-
ertainers, who give a variety of i'm
presentations, and who have been re-
'eived enthusiastically all over New
england. William Knowles Cooper,
general secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. in
springfield, Mass, writes that the en-
ertainment given by the Pierces alone
vas better than anything we have
lad this year" The Boston Herald,
n noticing the work of the Cecilia
uartet, said: Every number was re-
narkably we'll played. The ensemble
vas excellent, the attacks prompt and
he iptOnation perfect"
'ermont Men in Fine Store in Seattle.
The Seattle Commonwealth of Dec
0 contained a full page illustration
# the Arcade building, "Seattle's
lost Princely Palace of Busy Com
lerce." f. n. Brooks * Co.'S cloth
ng store, which is in this building,
as frontage of 20 feet and is 100
eet deep. Under the head "A Gen.
lemans Store" the Commonwealth
avs, With spacious and well-ap-
ointed premises in Seattle's leading
lund the firm of E. N. Brooks &
o, and their entire stock is not only
ew but thoroughly up-to-date. Al (
lough Messrs. Brooks & Co. are oc-
upying new premises and handling {