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

The ladies circle of the Cniversalist
church gave a hash supper last evening
which was well attended.
The Hooker. Corser & Mitchell com
panys factory was opened Monday, but
1t was necessary to close Tuesday morn
ing until afternoon, owing to the extreme
cold.
Columbian lodge. No &c. f. & a. NJ.
worked the second degree at a special
communication Monday evening. The
third degree will be worked at the regular
communication next Tuesday evening
The mixed train on the narrow gauge
railroad due here at AS yesterday did not
arrive until . this morning. The delay
was caused by the breaking of bed plate
on the No 4 engine near the Salmon hole
hill.
The next meeting of Protective Grange
will be held Jan 10 at o'clock when the
past masters will present the program
prepared for the last meeting, and the
officers for the ensuing year will be in
| stalled.
Miss Janet Hgginson, daughter Of
George Igginson of Boston. and her
nephew. Roger Higsinson, aged 10. of
Chicago and maid and companion all
| persisted i'm the Iroduois theatre disaster
| in Chicago Miss TIigginson is rcmem
bered in Brattleboro as a cousin of the
late Miss Anna IIigginson.
The Choral Union now has a member
ship of 95, with prospect that it will
be 100 or over in short time The sea-
son is not yet half over and the best Is
yet to come. During the intermssion at
| the rehearsal Wednesday evening the
! chorus was favored with three short
duets by Miss Emma Gregg and Mrs.
| f. w. Putnam. which were rendered very
pleasingly At the next rehearsal a spe-
| cial number will be given by r. II. Miller.
At a meeting held for the purpose on
Wednesday evening at the Methodist
! church. DR. ID. Z. Webster was chosen to
the lay electoral conference. which will
be held in Montpelier. Friday April |,
! at the time of the annual conference.
Miss Lula NJ Lewis was elected alternate.
The body in question will choose delegates
| to the general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which meets in Los
Angeles. Cal. May 4th next for its quad
rennial session.
The announcement that Leahey, the
widely known base ball player had been
killed in an accident last week. was
thought at first to refer to Tommy
Leahey, the old Brattleboro catcher. who
has played with Washington and Pttsburg
/ teams in recent years. The victim proved.
/ however to be Dennis Leahey a pitcher.
| in the Virginia league. once with Gin
cinnati Tommy Leahey is in san Fran
cisco where ne has signed for another
season with the club representing that
| city in the Pacific coast league. lie is
very popular with the players and public
and on Christmas was presented with 500
in gold.
The intense cold weather the past week
has tested the heating apparatus i'm the
| High school building thoroughly. and the
results have been satisfactory. The con-
dition of the Canal street building has
been far from satisfactory. as one grade
/ has had to lose eight half days two
/ grades have lost three half days and two
grades have lost two half days The halls
/ in this building are always cold in win
| ter. and some school days have to- be for
/ feitcd each winter because of insufficient
| heat In the rooms The present system
of heating is direct hot air. and il is APP
parent that it will have to- he supple
mented by steam heating or some other
system.
The total amount of real estate. both
first and second class in Brattleboro. ac-
cording to the footings OF the listers
amounts to s. 446 added to which Is
the personal property OF Sl,6l730i. a total
| of S.5A.7J0 This is falling off of nearly
$4,000 on the two items from last years
list Last year there We're 1911 poll tax
payers enrolled while this year there are
| less 10y 10. or a total of 1851. The law eN-
| empts all who are soldiers from the pay
ment of poll tax now. which more than
accounts for the loss This year the list
ers could add to the grand list until Sep
TENDER /. which they have continued to
do, and possibly have added enough to
make up the shrinkage which is the re-
suit of the loss of two or three large es-
tates that were on the list last year.
y gond-szed audience found two hours
of unalloyed enjoyment in the presenta-
tion by the Criterion club at the Audit
orium last Friday evening The nonsense
of "A Woman's Won't pretty true to life.
all the samel was admirably set forth in
the opening number The beautiful sem
timent of The Littlest Girl was REM
dered with a dignity and reserve that left
nothing to be desired. In The Circus
Rider Miss TwombIy and her support
Won the renewed praise and admiration
which were so well deserved. An evening
with the Criterion club always brings
a welcome feeling of relief and contras st
from the inanities of the modern society
piay-and the best of all--it leaves no bad
taste in the mouth.
Amasa Warren Gage -, died at his
home in West Brattleboro Monday of
bright's disease. He had been in i'll health
a year or more, but had been confined to
his bed but a few days. He was born
in New Salem, Mass, June t. 1926, and
was son of Amasa and Abatha Gage.
He came to Brattleboro when young
man anu Ilhu IlNtu mere ever since, car
rying on the well-known Gage farm in the
west part of the town. He married Miss
| Lydia circuit Carpenter of Brattleboro,
who survives with son, Fred Gage. who
lives on the farm and one daughter.
Mrs. Sumner Stockwell of Hardwick
Mass. The funeral was held at the house
yesterday, Rev. |. NJ. Blanchard of Yer
non. pastor of the Adventist church. offici-
ating The burial was in Meeting House
Hill cemetery.
The Valley Fair Kennel club was or
ganized Saturday night in the office of
Bacon Hooker These officers were
presidents, F. l.. Houghton and G.. w.
Pierce; secretary and treasurer, IL. G.
Rice; executive committee, w. j. Pent-
land, jr., j. p. Ferriter and r. c. Bacon
The club will apply TO the American Ken
mel club for permission to exhibit at the
next Valley Fair, as il cannot exhibit
under the American Kennel club rules
without permission from that organic
alton. The exhibition at the last fair was
conducted under those rules but it was
not then under the control of the Ameri-
can Kennel club, The new arrangement
Will give prestige to the Valley Fair Ken
mel club exhibition which will result in
better show and larger number of
high class exhibits. 1t is not unlikely
that new building will be erected before
another exhibition.
AchrnC limits