Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-11-04
BRATTLEBORO.

The FOreStefS VIII nOlu IL SinOhe Tain III
Red Mems hall next Tuesday evening and
will receive the election returns there.
The ladies' aid society of the Methodist
church will meet with Mrs. Eugene Clark
on Frost street Wednesday.
The body of Mrs David Wood, who died
in Fitchburg this week. will be brought to
Brattleboro this afternoon for burial in
Prospect Hill cemetery.
The employees at the Snowflake can
ming factory are working evenings in or
der to get the canned goods labelled and
packed before Thanksgiving time.
The polls will open in Festival hall next
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, when the
voting for presidential electors will begin.
The boxes will be turned at o'clock.
Tuesday, All Saints day, mass was cell
ebrated at 9 o'clock in st, Michael's Ro-
man Catholic church Wednesday, All
Souls day, mass was celebrated at
o'clock.
Carl Lietsinger, cornetest, has been en-
gagged as leader of the Hinsdale band.
The band will hold regular rehearsals
Wednesday evenings and will give a con-
cert in few weeks
The election returns will be received
Tuesday night at H. r. Leighton & Co.'S
brokerage Office in the Brooks House
block and Manager John Holloran will
FURNISH the nSu1eS III duplicate WltHout
charge on request.
The First Regiment band will give its
third annual minstrel performance in the
Auditorium directly after Easter. A. d.
Wyatt F. l. Swift and f. c. Leitsinger,
the committee, are already making ar
rangements.
The Y NJ. C. a. basket ball team has
begun preliminary practice. The players
will meet next Monday night and those
who wish to try for the team are request
ed to be at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms at 8
o'clock.
p. ]. Fleming, son of Patrick Fleming.
had one leg badly hurt and one finger
broken Tuesday in II. L. Emerson's new
building on Elliot street He was assist
ing in putting a boiler in the basement
when a section weighing over 500 pounds
rolled against him, crowding him against
a post.
Walter f. and Emily (Price) Forester,
who were married at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs W. C. Whitman Oct. 81, by Rev. F.
w. Lewis, returned Monday from their
wedding trip. They will board with Mr..
and Mrs. Whitman for the present. Mr..
Forester is employed by the Carpenter
company
A sewing school will be conducted dur
ing the winter under the direction of the
phlanthropic committee of the Woman S
who are interested to join the class are
invited to meet the ladies at the kinder
garten rooms on Elliot street at o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 5.
The Woman's auxiliary of the Y. NJ. C.
A. held their regular meeting at the
rooms Tuesday afternoon The devotion
al services were led by Mrs. l.. NJ. Kenes-
ton. and at the close Alfred Thompson
rendered a vocal selection. The chief
feature of the afternoons program was
contributed by Miss Helen h. Calder
general secretary of the Young Woman's
Christian association, Mt Holyoke col
lege, whose subject was The Work OF
the Young Womans Christian Associa-
ton in our Cities and Colleges" She
brought to the subject earnest enthusiasm
which impaired itself to her hearers, who
were at once brought into close sympathy
with the speaker and her topic At the
conclusion of the program the usual in
formal reception gave opportunity foi
the ladies' to meet Miss Calder. One OF
the auxiliary members, having in heI
possession letter written by Mary Lyon
founder of Mt Hoyoke college, written
to her grandmother, took pleasure in read
ing it at this time, to the interest of all
Tea was served by Mrs. c. H. Thompson
and Mrs C. r. Crosby, from the team
room.
Local anglers are greatly interested in
the bill introduced in the legislature by
Mr.. Walker of Dummerston making the
season for trout fishing in Windham
county from April l to August l. Every
man who has followed the trout brooks In
this part of the state knows that the
streams are becomming more and more
depleted each year. In some brooks where
a good string of fish could be caught al
any time in season IL to Is years ago now
almost no fish are to be found, and IL
others nothing can be taken except finger
lings which are under legal length an6
which have to be thrown back. The fe-
male trout are full of eggs in July anC
August and when caught their value fol
breeding purposes is ended, but If they
had remained in the brooks their eggs
might have Matched. The fish grow rap
idly in the summer and some of those
caught in August would not have been OF
legal length in the earlier part of the
season If these fish, just barely to the
limit in size, were allowed to remain II
the streams, they would be of some valu,
in propagation and would also be size.
able when caught the next year or later
Good fishermen believe that our stream:
do not need stocking as much as protec.
ton during the breeding season.
A Concern With a Record.