Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-02-19


Feb. 81
A. V. Mays agency has sold for Flora
c. Ashcralt her pasture land i'm Guilford
to Guy II. Shedd of G"iiford.
Miss Marjorie Crosby VINO was OPP
Grated upon for appendicitis last week,
has shown marked improvement this
week.
Congressman Haskins has introduced
special bill i'm Congress providing for
pension of $50 Il month for Lorenzo ID
Streeter of Dummerston.
The meeting of the Alliance Study
Glass will be held at the Unitarian par
sonage on Monday evening ut 7.30 o'clock
Subject, Sir Isaac Newton"
Washington despatch SAYS that it
| IS expected that the bill to increase the
| pay of the rural free delivery letter car
iiers $40 per month will he passed, maxi
ing their pay $500 per year
Thomas Miller of West Brattlcboro.
who had one arm badly bitten by stall
! lion last week. will undergo an opera
! ton, but 1t is expected that the arm will
| he saved
Mrs. w. Il. Eddy entertained j. L.
| Halls Sunday school class at her home
! Tuesday evening. giving a valentine
party which was enjoyed thoroughly.
| Supper was served.
Edmund Wiggn of Washington. u. G..
! has been at the Brooks House this week
in an effort to arrange terms with Gross
| by a. Adams for the lease of the hotel.
| No agreement has been reached.
\ part of the lumber saved from the
old bridge across the Connecticut river
was stored on the island. The selectmen
sold it to Charles Miner. Mr. Miner went
after it Tuesday, but was forbidden to
move it by f. c. Gale Il Co, who al
legged trcspass on their land. 1t is eX-
pected that the matter will be settled
! i'm the court
\ lecture on the West Indies was Civ
on i'm the Congregational church by Il. p.
ArVne Monday evening, illustrated by
stereoptiCon views, and although the
weather was decidedly unfavorablc a good
sized audience was present. The lecture
was given under the auspices of the
ladies' association and was free. After
wards a sociabe was held i'm the vestrY.
| Mr.. ArVine is one of the guests ut Lin
den Lodge lie has travelled through the
West Indies and so is familiar with the
subject and is able to speak in an in
teresting. entertaining and instructive
| wa.
J. NJ Strock the well known actor who
spent the summer in BrattleborO after
the close of the Bennett Moulton com
pany's season. has been winning many
compliments 10y his work this season.
with the Fenburg- Strock company. The
| Lynn Post said ID NJ. STOCK who played
Hank Jordan in 'Triss, or beyond the
Rockies. was the best IN his part seen
here either this or last season" The
Gloucester Times said: Mr.. Merton
Strock, who played two parts in Man of
/ Mystery needs no one to tell him that
! great many hands We're due to his strong
speeches aud fine gestures"
Miss Matte II. Gates, 49, who died in
East Fairfield recently was a steuog-
Iapher for the Carpenter Organ company
about two years. She had previously
worked for the Cooley Ladies' Book com
pany in Philadelphia. ana after leaving
here in 1889, she filed positions some
years as s;enographer i'm Waterbury,
| Conn, and Burlington. Her health be
| gan to fail and in 1901 she then went to
| her former home, where she and her
mother had been living. She was a mem
Der of the Congregational church. was
! deeply devoted to her widowed mother.
and was "A woman who was respected by
all who knew her for her genuine quail
| tiles.
The Lyman Howe moving picture ex-
! hibtion was given in the Auditorium
Saturday for the sixth time Every seat
in the house was sold. and many people
| bought standing room, which proved that
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Wndham County Pomona Grange held
an interesting meeting with Broad Brook
| Grange Feb. H. Worthy Master Allen
presiding. The forenoon session was de-
voted TO general business ana the dis
cuSslon OF the question. Resolved that
! country life in more conducive to pat
| riotISm than city life After an eN-
/ cellont dinner, prepared by the women of
sion was open To the public sister
consisting of music readings racitotiors
and the oiIestion rs me cotton Industry
more innortont than TN. vvoolnn If 81
! whvo" The discussion brougbt ONT
many facts and items Of history Cistar
| RulIock's nanar was Of r,oro tL,,, ordi-
nary interest Tba attendance u,,s GOOD
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Granpa Ntcb IN
me orange, Mass, Enterprise X Jour
nal stated last week that contract had
Deen signed by IRA u. french OF orange