Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-12-25

Inc RESERVED seat safe OF lle pays 10
be given by the Criterion club of Boston
will open Monday night, Dec. 2S, at the
Auditorium box office.
The will of George RI. Ryder has been
filed for probate by John II. Ryder
Alta M. Rurnham has been appointed
by the probate court administrators of
the Harriet h. Stowe estate.
Arthur V. d. Piper has hired an office
i'm jamaica, where he went Monday to
practice law. Mr.. Piper was admitted to
the Vermont bar i'm 1899. and has since
taught school and practiced law in Mari
boro.
The Christmas festival of the Univer-
saist Sunday school will be held i'm the
vestry this Thursday evening, instead
OF Friday as originally announced. The
annual Christmas concert will be given
in the church next Sunday at u. m.
The annual watch meeting will be held
on Thursday. Dec. "a, at the Methodist
church. beginning at $50 O'Clock and con-
tinuing until a little past midnight. Rev.
E. e. Wells of Wilmington will assist
Rev. f. w Lewis. the pastor i'm con-
Quoting the meeting.
Rev. II. w Lambert evangelist, of
Boston. who has been conducting a series
of meetings at the Baptist church in
West Bratteboro this week will continue
to conduct the meetings through next
week. \ cordial invitation is extended
to all to listen to him.
The Marion Francis company in roper
tore will hold the boards at the Audi
torium the week beginning Jan. II. The
press comment on the CompanYs per-
formances has been uniformally compl-
mentary. and the promise is for the best
low-priced theatrical organization ever
seen here.
The Brattleboro Academy basket bah
team was defeated 23-lS in Academy hail
hN
this village consisting of Fred Harris
centre. Harry Sanders and Hugh Ilar-
wood forwards. Bert Young and Harry
Bingham guards The Ramblers defeat
ed the 2nd Academy team 2S-11.
The members of the w. G. T. L. have
been making arrangements with the pas
tors of the various churches to speak at
| their meetings the last Thursday of each
month at the Y. NJ c. A. rooms. Rev.
Il. Il. Mathison will give "A talk on Dec.
Il. Everyone is invited men as well as
women. Arrangements for January and
| February will he announced later.
}cnnis Rcbekah lodge elected these Of
| hcers Tuesday evening: Noble grand. Mrs.
| i. \. Cook; vice grand. Mrs Walter
| Sturges; recording secretary Mrs. j. \.
| Amdon financial secretary Miss Minnie
| Brown, treasurer, Mrs. w -. ellison; first
| trustee. Mrs. $. ID. Brown; second trus-
| tee. Mrs. G. l.. Spear, third trustee. Miss
| Josephine Farmer The appointivc Of
hcers will be appointed at the next reg
| ular meeting.
The annual Christmas celebration 10y
| the Congregational Sunday school will be
| held tomorrow, Friday. beginning with a
supper at O'Clock for the children of the
| primary ana junior departments At 6
0'ClOck an entertainment. with Christmas
tree will be given followed by refresh
| ments for the older people. The school
| "a In l1p
| Antonio Arrighis Italian Evangelical
| sunday school in lower New York.
The annual meeting Of the Methodist
! Sunday school board was held in the
| Epworth League rooms Monday evening.
| when these officers were elected. Supcrin-
tendent, s. NJ. Yeaw. first assistant, f.
| A. Bagg; second assistant. w w.
Plmpton, ir.; secretary, DR. c. q.
| Wheeler; treasurer. Walter Newcomb
| librarian, John Howe; superintendent of
the primary department., Miss Eta Mi
ner; superintendent of the home depart
ment Mrs. Frank J. Hidreth.
Stockholders of the Brattleboro d
| Whitehall Railroad company have been
| asked to meet in the Office of Waterman II
Martin next Tuesday to hear a propo-
sition from the Central Vermont and New
| London railroad officials in regard to an
adjustment of the difficulties which cul-
minated some time ago in the filing OF
| an aHpHcatlon Dy the Bratteboro "
| Whitehall company asking that the lease
of the Brattleboro x Whitehall road be
| ahrogated and a receiver be appointed to
take charge of it's affairs
Second Lieutenant Wallace y. Batch
elder handed his resignation to Captain
Ernest w. Gibson Friday Lieut.. Batch
elder recently passed the examination for
admission to the Vermont bar hut was
not given n certificate as he lacked "a
short time Of having studied the necessary
three years. He expects to be admitted
On motion early the coming year and will
move from town f. II. Laughton who
also failed to get n certificate for the same
| reason, has leased the Office over A. f..
Roberts * Co store in anticipation of
being admitted on motion.
Last Saturday afternoon as Mrs S II
| Clark of Frost street stepped from the
sidewalk to the street opposite H. NJ.
Woods store, she was knocked down
and run over by a runaway team driven
| by Mrs. Horace Newton of Guilford She
was dragged by the sleigh as far as the
store of Emerson & Son. where she was
| picked up nearly unconscious. She was
| taken home in "A coupe, 1t was found
that no bones were broken. but she was
very badly bruised. Mrs. Clark's injury
was unfortunate, owing to the fact that
her husband is nearly helpless.
Christmas Sunday in Brattleboro was
| far from what had been anticipated the
weather being worse than for any pre-
vious Sunday in many months There
was light fall of snow during the night
! but by daylight rain was falling. The
| sidewalks became covered with "A sheet
of ice, which made walking very difficult
and the storm increased in intensity until
| 1t became steady downpour, which con-
/ tinued all day. Consequently the church
! services, as rule, Were lightly attended
/ in the morning, and the evening services
were given up. The various houses of
worship We're handsomely decorated
| there were excellent sermons in harmony
! with the Christmas spirit, and the music
was of high standard. With the ex-
| ceptiOn of the evening services the pro-
grams as announced last week were car
ried out
was brought from Merden, Conn, to
| BrattebOro Saturday and was taken to
the tniversalist church where the funeral
was held The members of Sedgwick
post, G.. a. r., attended in body Rev
| r. X. Marvin officiated and e. II. Miller
of Dummerston sang. The burial was in
| Prospect Hill cemetery, the bearers be-
| ing Col. II. Il. Taylor, Roscoe FISHER. j.
| David Baker of Guilford and Michael
| Fisher We're comrades with Lieut.. Bur
| lingame in company +, 4th Vermont Reg
| iment, and Mr. Baker and Mr. Sears
| Vermont Regiment. Lieut. Burlingame's
his brother, Fred Buringame of New
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