Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-08
BRATTLEBORO.

Rev. Edward r. Mathison will speak at
the Y. NJ. C. \. meeting Sunday after
noon at Ais o'clock.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Grange Store will be held in Grange
hall at 100 o'clock on Thursday of next
week. to be followed by the annual meet
ing of the Grange Block association,
The FIR Matthew temperance society bas
ket ball team of Turner's Falls will line
up against Brattleboro Y. NJ. c. A. in
Festival hall tomorrow, Saturday, even
ing.
"Denver," +. c. Clark's grey grocery
horse, was killed this week on account
of old age. He was the Oldest grocery
horse in town and had been in the bust
ness over 20 years.
Only one new case of diphtheria has
developed this week, the patient being
Marshall Moves, who was taken i'll Tues
day at the home of his father. c. ID.
Moves. on Brook street. All those pre-
viously reported i'll have recovered.
p. Rattle has moved his barber shop
this week from the quarters formerly
occupied by Seleck & Davis to the va
cant room in the Ninton building. next
door south of Wells's shoe shop. The
stand vacated by him will be opened as
hardware store Feb. l, by A. T. Wood.
The annual meeting of Company I was
held last evening. Sergeant George r.
Mosher was elected clerk and treasurer
to succeed w. n. Batchelder, who eX-
poets to move from town Sergeant
Mosher, Corporal George Thompson and
Private j. j. Cummings were elected a
standing committee. 1t was voted to pay
the armorer 81 a week and to employ a
janitor Money was appropriated Tor Il
pool tournament to begin when regular
drill begins 1t was decided to hold
buSinesS meeting each week.
John r. Tones. electrician and dealer
in electrical supplies. was adiudged bank
rupt this morning. His assets are $3S3,
including stock in trade valued at 500,
debts due amounting to $75 and prop
erty claimed as exempt amounting TO
800 His liabilities are $1O56. of which
S24O is secured. His liabilities include
notes for 1910 at the Vermont National
bank. on which A. w. Chlds of Man
chester. ~ H.. is surety. The liabilities
are about equally divided between Brat
tlehoro creditors and out town cred
itors
Marion Francis, who is one of the most
popular stars on the circuit. Will appear
at the Auditorium all next week In a
repertoire of plays seldom equalled. They
embrace such plays as THE Burglar and
the Wait" "Tennessee's Partner. Tine
Power of Wealth" Little Miss Military
"The Texas Girl" The scenery for all
of these plays is carried by the company
and not bit of the house scenery is
used during the entire week. great
feature will be the many vaudeville acts,
chief of which is Marshall the Mystic act.
which alone is one of the greatest and
most expensive acts ever seen in this
country.
The New Years reception by the wom-
ans auxiliary in the Y. NJ. c. a. rooms
was pleasant affair. There were many
,f,lN alb n
the interest which is taken in the work
by the townspeople. During the even
ing a musical program was given, con-
sisting of piano solos by Miss JENNIE and
Miss Hawley, violin solos by Miss Wealth
erhead and Luther Hawley, jr, vocal
solos by Miss Matthews and Mr.. MAYNARD
and "A reading from the Song of HiaWa-
tina" by Miss Clark of West Brattleboro.
The program was in charge of Miss Ken
eston. Refreshments were served.
Crosby g. Co. are rebuilding and enlarg-
ing the chimney in. Harmony building
which furnishes the draft for the steam
heating boilers. In tearing away the
brick work at the bottom a bottle was
found embedded in the masonry which
contained Boston Herald of April, 30,
1879 with the names of G.. w. Brown,
ID. T. Tasler and Tom Pellet written in
the margin. Brown was at that time the
engineer in charge of the boilers, Taskel
was preSSman in the Household press
room. and Pellet was undoubtedly the
mason who built the chimney. The bot
tie will he returned to the stack with its
contents and paper of a current issue
containing this item
The Boston Globe of yesterday contain
ed the following notice: Louis Caul OF
Roslindale clerk employed in the gro
Gerry store of F. d. Rand, died at Bridge
port, Conn, yesterday. He leaves a wife
and sister. Just before Christmas eau
went to Bridgeport to be near his brother
who was i'll with pneumonia and who was
not expected to live. The brother died
Christmas day, and it was only few
days after that the mother took sick witt
the same disease and also died. eau
caught severe cold while in Bridgeport
pneumonia developed. and he died yester
day. He was about 30 years old and was
well known in Roslindale, where he hat
made his home for the past year and q
half He was a member of the retail
clerks association, local $50, of Roslin
dale. The body will be taken to Laconia
NJ H., for burial" Mr.. Cauls wife wa:
Miss Ray Osgood, who worked as a MILL
ner several years for Mrs. w. ii. Phillips