Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-06
VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY MARCH

a harbinger of spring a robin, was
seen by Mrs. n. l. Hawley on the Put
ney road this morning.
The Brattleboro overall company
has installed an electric cutter in the
factory in Centreville this week.
The Catholic Union basket ball
team was defeated 40-12 by the Faith
er Matthew team in Turner's Falls
last night.
Rehearsals for the Catholic Union
minstres will begin next Thursday
evening. p. j. Mulvaney of Ware,
Mass, the director, will be present
The Grange Dramatic club will pre-
sent the three-act drama, Border
Land at Grange hall next Thursday
evening, followed by fair and dance.
Mrs. Charles Warder entertained
about 80 members of the Unitarian
parish at a card party in the Brooks
| House last evening. The evening
was spent very pleasantly.
The selectmen have discussed sew
eral names in connection with the
/ license commissionerships. but it is
probable that no appointments will be
made until after Chairman Ninton re-
turns from Colorado. in about two
weeks
Six arc lights. of the enclosed type,
! have been substituted for the old
| lights on and near Main street this
week Less power is required to run
| them so that after - o'clock the
power station is able to do away with
the special generator which has been
necessary heretofore They can be
used four or five days without being
trimmed.
\ brief hearing in the Ware bank
ruptcy case was held in the Brooks
House at II o'clock today, Judge
Wheeler presiding. W. NJ. Robbins
was ordered to settle with the estate
for the Keeping of eight cows which
We're fed by Mr.. Ware on hay and
grain belonging to the estate after
Mr.. Ware was adjudged bankrupt.
The matter then was left open until
March IS.
The ladies aid society Of the West
.Brattleboro Baptist church held a sale
of fancy articles. etc. in d. r. Perry's
hall last evening. which was attended
Il y
gram was given. including "A rehearsal
by the Pumpkinyllle band, led by E.
NJ. Goodenough. after which the
Grange dramatic club gave two farces.
The New Woman and Pat Nc
Free
y meeting of the board Of directors
of the Brattleboro Home for the Aged
and Disabled was held yesterday,
when plans and specifications were
submitted by Pellet Brothers of Wor-
cester for the proposed addition to
the Home. The plans were accepted
and a building committee was elected.
who will call for bids. The commit
tee consists of Dr.. H. d. Holton. f.
l.. Waterman and G. c. Averill
W. f. Mixer was seriously injured
at the Eaton farm one day this week.
The runners of a sleigh were frozen
into the ice Mr.. Mixer snapped
quickly on the shafts to start the
sleigh. The sleigh started easily and
MI. Mixers eXertions threw him for
ward upon his face on the ice. One
lip was cut open, his head badly cut,
a shoulder put out of joint and the
ligaments of the shoulder torn.
An agreement has been signed by
Daniel DuttOn for the sale OF the
plant, stock and fixtures Of his granite
business on Depot street to the c. II.
Grant Granite co. 1t is expected that
possession will be given about March
20. The Grant company will com.
tinue to keep this plant open. but will
also use the sheds which they now oc-
cupy on the island for a large part
nf no httei n,
pot street was established by Mr.. Dut-
tons brother. the late W A. Dutton.
and the late Jacob Estey. and has
been carried on continuously on that
site more than 80 years.
Four members of the committee on
corporations of the New Hampshire
legislature-Mr Preston of Henniker.
chairman, Mr.. Nyberg OF Manchester,
Mr. Farrell of Manchester, and Mr.
Holland of Hinsdale-came to Brattle-
boro this morning, driving over from
Hinsdale. This committee has before
it the bill for the granting of a charter
for the erection of a dam across the
Connecticut river at Brattleboro. The
purpose of the visit of these members
was TO see on the ground the local com
ditions and the local feeling with re.
gard to this enterprise. They were
met at the Brooks House by large
number of the active business men
of Brattleboro, who assured them of
their wish to have the dam built La
ter in the morning the visitors were
driven about town. After dining at
the Brooks House they will return to
Hinsdale. reaching Concord this even
ing. All seemed to be favorably i'm
pressed with the enterprise, and stat
ed, in substance. that so far as their
own feeling and judgment was con-
cerned they knew of no reason why a
favorable report upon the bill should |
not be made by the committee.