Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-02-12

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The silhouette party of the Murray
club, announced for this (Friday) even
ing has been postponed to next Tuesday
evening, at the Universalist vestry.
The members of the Brattleboro branch
of the Woman's Alliance are planning to
have a supper and sale the Tuesday be
fore Easter March 20, at Wells hall.
George w. Pierce of Brattleboro made
al address on Progress made in Yer
mont under state aid" at the annual
! meeting of the American Road Makers
| association in Hartford Conn. Wednes-
day
The last of the series of ladies' nights
at the Wheel club will be held Thursday
evening, Feb is, and will take the form
of a leap year party. Any lady may at
| tend who will invite a Wheel club mem
Der. Tickets can be secured of Mrs. G.
l.. Foster
Mr. and ms. Stillman Clark received a
surprise visit from a number of their
friends Tuesday evening, the occasion be-
| ing Mr. Clark s 33d birthday anniversary.
Games were played, all had a delightful
| time, and number of substantial pres
ents We're left with Mr. and Mrs Clark.
William Searles has bought and taken
| possession of the blacksmith shop which
| the late Arthur O'Lcary conducted on
|
| smith, who has had II years of experience
in the work, and who has been with Mr..
| O'LcaIy the past four years. lie will
| make "A specially of horse shooting.
Prof. J. J. Hatton, the blind musician,
| will give a concert in the Unversalist
| Nestry next Wednesday evening. The
| program will consist of songs, mimicry
| violin solos and a short talk on the sub
| ject, How the Blind are Taught Music"
| Mr. Hatton was educated at the Perkins
| Institute, and has given entertainments
| throughout New England for many years
| y slight admission fee will be charged
The Printers basket ball team has
| withdrawn from the Brattleboro Athletic
| association this week and the Y NJ. G. A.
| gymnasium team has been admitted
| There will be no game this week. the Ben
| nigton team having cancelled their en-
! gagement to play here tonight. The shell
| burne Falls team which has defeated
the Erattleboro Y. NJ. G. \. once this
season will play here next Thursday
night.
| y lamp was overturned in the Ameri-
| can House about o'clock Tuesday morn
ing and was broken and the oil caught
| IRE IN alarm was given from box go
| at the steamer house, but before the de
partmcnt had time to respond Walter H.
! Jacobs appeared at the steamer house
! and notified the department that their
! services were NOT needed. Mr.. Jacobs
| rushed To- the scene of the fire immedi-
ately on hearing the alarm aud assisted
| IN Putting out the flames with rugs.
The street railroad service was almost
entirely tied up Sunday afternoon by
| rain and ice. At no time after the storm
| began was it possible To run on sched-
ule time, and during the afternoon three
| cars gave out one after another. water
getting into the motors and causing
! trouble Of various kinds. Early i'm the
! evening the road was left with only one
! available car which made trims as rap
| idly as possible. The disabled ears were
| repaired during the night and were ready
| for use Monday morning.
H. T. Taylor & Son have been notified
| that all of the fire insurance companies
which they represent are adjusting and
| settling their losses in Baltimore and that
| in every instance the financial standing
| of the companies is unimpaired. All the
English companies will have the amount
| of losses made good from the home Of
| fees thus leaving the surplus as before
| the fire. Several of the companies are
not only paving losses in full, but have
| made contributions. some as high as So
| 600 each, as a relief fund. This shows the
| standing of the companies and emphasizes
the desirabity of insuring in the strong
and reliable organizations.
No caucuses will be held to nominate
| candidates for town Offices to bo voted
| FOR at the annual March meeting The
| Democratic town committee did not see
| fit to cooperate with the Republican
| town committee, and as the Republican
! committee had no wish to introduce par
! tisan politics into local affairs and could
ind no precedent for nominations for
town officers in caucuses it was decided
not to call meeting 1t is expected
| list Of candidates will be named on ne
| ution. There seems To be no oppositinr
| to the present town officers. and It is
| probable that all those who wish To
serve longer will ne elected without on
position.
Mrs. Louisa Phelps. a. died i'm Brattle-
! boro Tuesday Of exhaustion, after being
confined To her bed about week she
| had been in III health several wears NIre
! Phelps was born in Jamaica. Feb 9q
1929, and lived there until the death or
| her husband, Lewis Phelps. about eight
| years ago, when she came to Brattleboro
| She leaves one daughter. Mrs F. +
! Young of Washington street. a step-s5n.
! Eugene Phelps of Chester. two brothers
| w. l. Barnes of Jamaica and Silas Barnes
| OF south Londonderry. and one sister
| Mrs John Allen of South Londonderry
| formerly of Brattleboro. The body was
| placed in the tomb in Prospect hin
| cemetery. Funeral services will be held
i'm the spring.
Thomas Miller of West Brattleboro
| widely known as a horseman. was SO
| p1dly pltten "Wednesday by a stallion that
| he may lose his left hand. Mr. Miller
| had been caring for the animal which is
| owned in folyoko and as he entered the
| stan the stallion seized his hand in it's
| mouth. Mr. Miller struggled to free him
| self, but the big teeth ground into his
| flesh and he could not get away until he
| climbed into the manger and with his
| right hand cholted the beast until il was
! forced to release its grasp. Then Mr.
| Miller fell backward from the lnanger
| through a window. and he was found
| helpless in dazed condition i'm the snow
| bank ana assisted to his house Or
! Roberts found that Mr. Miller's wrist was
dlsJointed and one of the bones had been
| forced through the flesh. The hand and
| wrist were crushed and covered with
| teeth marks 1t was thought at first that
amputation would be necessary on ac-
| count of the badly manged condition of
| inc wrist, but the doctor concluded To
wait few days, hoping to save the
| hand, Mr.. Miller is 60 years old and has
| handled horses for years The stallion
| nad not been Known as a particularly vic
| ious animal.
| Rev. John Anderson, II. who died at his
| home in Cambridge, ~ Y. Feb. /. was
| well known in Brattleboro through his
| visits here to Mrs. Anderson's relatives