Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-11-13

The ladies' Enterprise society will meet
Thursday with Mrs Fred Hopkinson.
The Neighborhood whist club met with
Mr.. and Mrs. William b. Vinton We'd
nesday evening.
The Columbian book club will hold the
annual meeting at the home of the presi
dent next Thursday evening.
Columbian lodge, No &c. F. &c A. M.
conferred the first degree on two candi
dates at the regular communication
Tuesday evening.
Referee f. d. f. Stowe declared div
idend of 1852 per cent. in the bankrupt
estate of Henry Il. Bowtell of Bellows
Falls this week.
The mission circle of the Unversalist
church will meet in the church parlors
next Thursday. Nov. 10, at O'Clock. A
full attendance is desired as there is
work to be done.
Clarence NJ. Miller, scratch, won the
second cup in the Wantastiquet Golf
clubs tournament in the pay-off of the
tie with w. H. Childs. MIR. Miller had a
score of SO for the ~ holes, while MIR.
Chldss net score was 70.
party OF 25 couples, associated prin-
cipally with the Masonic fraternity, went
to Guilford Centre Friday evening and
had supper in Grange hall, served by the
ladies of the UniVersalist society. The
supper was followed by a dance.
A gathering OF tribes of Red Men from
Clareniont, Brattleboro Bellows Falls
and Springfield is in contemplation. The
tribes will meet in Springfield in a few
weeks and will work the Warrior and
Chief degrees on a class of five or more,
after which a banquet will be served. 1t
is planned to have Quonektacat tribe
confer a degree.
Vaughan & Burnett, who have sub
leased of Edward Clark the part of the
store occupied by their iewelry business,
have leased the entire store. They will
display goods on tables on the north side
of the store during the Christmas sea
son, after which they will fit up that side
OF the store with display cabinets SINH
lar to those on the south side.
The bailiffs began putting in a 6-inch
sewer Wednesday to accommodate the
residents of Swedevile and to connect
with the S-inch sewer on the Brook road.
The new sewer will be about 800 feet
long. 1t will be large enough to care for
the sewage from the western part OF
Western avenue in the event that the
residents Of that part of the town ever
desire to put in sewer connection.
Henry Pelerin, g. son of Henry and
Anna Herbert Pellern of Birge street
died about 3 o'clock Monday morning
after an illness of two days The prin-
cipal cause of death was laryngea
CIOups lie CHllu physician suspected
that diphtheria was contributing cause
and sent cultures to the state laboratory
at Burlington for examination. The re-
port from the laboratory confirmed the
physicians suspicion. and the child was
buried Tuesday. There are four other
children In the family.
John T. Fenton, manager of the big
spectacular production, Through the
Centre of the Earth will bring his entire
company of 40 people to Brattleboro
Nov. %, the night before Thanksgiving
Mr.. Fenton, or " Jack " as he is familarly
k lown here, has shrewdly laid out his
route so as to be at home among family
and friends FOR his annual turkey din
ner. His success this season has beer
phenomenal all through Pennsylvania
and the south, with reports of standing
room only and hundreds turned away
nightly.
A committee has been appointed from
the Y. NJ. G. A. to confer with the town
fathers to see what will be done in re-
gard to the use of the town hall for bas-
ket ball games, The association will be
represented by strong team If arrange
ments for quarters can be made. The
printers will be in the game again this
season, and Edredge Cundif has beer
chosen their captain and b. Brooks man
ager. The Estey Guard boys are prac-
ticing in the Retreat gymnasium. The
Wheel club and Catholic union have made
no definite plans for teams, but it is prob
able that the union will do So
The facts regarding the quarantine in
j. l.. Martins house have been misstated
and misunderstood according to the at
tending physician Helen Martin, who
is recovering from diphtheria, did not
see the other members of the family
after she was taken i'll, and on the morn
ing a doctor was called she was Isolated
placed in charge of nurse, and the
room where she had slept one night was
disinfected During all of her illness
she has been in the l. of the house, com
petely separated from the main house in
which the other members of the family
are living, and no one has seen her eX-
cept the physicians and nurse. Cultures
from the threats of all the members OF
the Martin family were sent to the state
laboratory at Burlington and all were re-
turned negative except in the case OF
Helen.