Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-06

the regular meeting of Bingham chap
ter, order of Eastern Star, Tuesday
evening.
The Congregational Sunday school,
whose sessions have been held in the
church the past two months, will re-
turn to the Sunday school room next
Sunday.
People who bought tickets to the
lecture by John Temple Graves in
the Y. NJ. c. a star course of enter
tainments. will be admitted on those
tickets to the lecture by Ebert Hub
bard in the Auditorium next Tues
day evening.
Dr. Gardner Cox of Holyoke has
completed the genealogy of the Cox
family. covering ten generations of
history from the time of the early
records in Bristol England, where the
Cox family originated. Mr.. Cox is n
brother of a. V. Cox Of Brattleboro.
Mrs. c. s Drown. 70. died suddenly
Saturday morning in Springfield,
Mass. at the home of her son. Frank
L. Drown. She had been identified
with the Church of the Disciples in
Springfield. Besides her son, she
leaves sister. Mrs Addie NJ. Stew
ems. of Claremont. The son was for
merry proprietor of the Brooks House
shoe store.
DR.. George f. Gales meteorological
record for February is as follows
Barometer. highest $3.50. 26th; low
est. $3.50. 4th; thermometer. highest,
81. 2Sth: lowest. 16 below zero. 26th
mean maximum temperature. 81
1S-2Sths; mean minimum tempera-
ture. Is l2-2Sths; rainfall, 52-100ths
inches: snow fall. > inches: clear
days :, fair . cloudy s, rain (, snow 4.
The Nowfane House at Newfane, of
which H. NJ Burke. formerly of Brat
tleboro. is proprietor. has been sold
by e. NJ. Angler of this town to New
ton A. Dickinson of ChicOpee. Mass,
through f. J. Bailey & Co.'S agency.
The hotel will be femodeled and re-
furnished at once and a special eff
fort will be made to have it attrac-
tive for guests during the coming sea
son.
Z. l.. Parker and Oscar Smith have
vacated H. l.. Emerson building be-
tween Elliot and Flat streets. moving
ont the last of their property Tuesday.
Mr. Parker has sold a large part of
his machinery and has taken the rest
to his shop on Cedar street. Mr..
Smith has leased Henry F. Browns
building on Flat street. formerly Oc-
cupied as a plumbing shop by \. O.
Johnson.
Phoenix No 6. the famous old hand
engine. was sold last week by the bail
ifs to junk dealer for $50. Re
peated efforts to dispose of it to some
small town without fire apparatus had
been unsuccessful. The engine was
bought by the town about 80 years
ago. and for many years was not only
used at the fires in town. but parti-
cipated in the firemen's musters here
and elsewhere.
An echo of collapsed boom of II
years ago comes to some investors in
Brattleboro in the announcement of
the sale of the DeKalb company's prop
erty at Fort Payne. Ala. including
fine hotel and grounds. office building.
1000 town lots. 100 acres near the
town and 10000 acres of mineral
lands. The purchaser is Major Frank
y. Anderson, who will open mines and
erect furnaces.
John Spaulding Batchelder. "a
brother of Lieut.. Wallace \. Batchel-
der of Brattleboro, died Monday from
an affection of the heart in Spring
field. this state. Lieut. and Mrs
Batchelder, who were in Washington
arrived in Bratleboro Tuesday after
noon and went Wednesday TO Spling
field, to attend the funeral held there
yesterday John s. Batchelder was
a graduate Of the Chester High school
and afterwards attended Norwich
University two years. While there
he received in athletics an injury
from which he never fully recovered.
The town agency went out of bust
ness Tuesday night. Only a small
stock of liquors had been kept on
hand for a month, the orders usually
being sent for dozen lots. so that no
hard" liquors and no bottled goods
remained. Two barrels of sherry
were left. both partially filed one be-
ing Spanish sherry and the other a
domestic brand. On Tuesday morn
ing piece of Grape was found dang
ling from the door knob at the agency
entrance. p. F. Connors, who has
been agent the past few months. has
not decided upon his plans for future
work
1t is conceded by all who are well
informed in what is taking place in
the dramatic field that the coming of
Isabel Irving and her very select COM
pany will mark the very top notch of
dramatic work in BrattIeboro. Miss |
Irving occupies an enviable position |
in the stellar armament, and her COM |
pany has been selected with the great !
est care and with an eye to the indi-
vidual fitness for the parts portrayed |
The play. The Crisis" is one of the |
successes of the season. |
and it will be a yeritable dramatic |
feast for Brattleboro people when this |
fine organization comes here.
gymnastic entertainment will be |
held in the Auditorium next Wednes- .
day evening by the Y NJ. c. A. phys |
zeal culture classes, under the direc- !
ton of Harry r. Horton, physical in
5tructor. The program will include |
class drills with dumb bells, Indian .
clubs, wands, parallel bars. vaulting |
horse and mats; high and distance !
diving, high kicking, etc. Several |
features are arranged with orchestra
In addition to the |
class drills several interesting spec
al features will be given, which will |
include tumbling. acrobatic work. ba-
Ton swinging, maze running and pyra-
mids. Leitsinger's orchestra will fur
nish music. Tickets will go on sale
at the association rooms tomorrow