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


The Union basket bah team play in
Hinsdalc tomorrow night
There will be a whist tournament at
the Wheel club next Tuesday evening at
o'clock
f. o. Morse will build the brick work
the new Robertson paper mill to be built
at Ashuelot the coming season.
Brattleboro lodge, No. 1922 =. & a. NJ,
will work the fellow craft degree at a sle-
Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. Mass
was celebrated at o'clock al st. Michaels
Roman Catholic church and devotions at
$50 in the evening.
The Harvard quartet of Boston sang in
Bernardston, Tuesday at the knights
Tempar meeting here Wednesday, and in
Mortified last night. the concert there
being the 18th engagement in Brattle
boro and vicinity resulting for their visit
here two years ago.
The Brattleboro Technical club com
posed of printers and those engaged in
allied trades held a meeting Wednesday
evening at the home of y. f. Atwood, by
invitation of Mr.. and Mrs Atwood. An
excellent supper was served and part of
the evening was spent in social way,
after which there was n discussion of
various subjects in which the club is in
terested 1t was voted to hold another
meeting next Monday evening in the
office of f.. l.. IIildreth & Co.
A new style of collection and record
card envelope, which is considered b.,
those who have seen it superior to
any in the market, was introduced in the
Congregational Sunday school Sunday
1t was designed and made by Louis \.
Whitney. secretary. 1t has three COM
partmentS, one for the cards of those
present. one for those absent and one for
the collection. 1t folds like a wallet and
is securely fastened so that neither the
cards nor the collection can fall out.
In accordance with an order of the
postmaster general. rural letter carriers
are granted permission To observe Feb.
%. Washingtons birthday, as a holiday,
and no delivery Of mail to patrons will be
made by them on that day. The local
post Office will he open on Monday next
from to - a. m, .tnd rom TO p. m,
and the letter carriers make the first
morning delivery and collection. This
rule will apply to the Putrey post Office,
where patrons may obtain mail by call
ing at the office, but there will be no de-
livery.
The supreme court has reversed the de-
cision of the county court i'm the case of
the Wilmington Savings bank against
Charles II. Waste of Jacksonville and re-
manded the case for new trial. The bank
brought an action to recover on a note
to which the defendant claimed his name
was forged The county court decided in
favor of the defendant. The supreme
court holds that certain evidence was ad-
mitted which should have been excluded.
Judgment is affirmed in the case of Dan
iel F. Doyle against James Barton and
others, in which the defendants were con-
Victed of assault and fined $3.50.
The Brattleboro Woman's club held the
annual meeting Wednesday, Feb. L. The
afternoon was in charge OF the musical
committee who prepared an especially
pleasing program, and a large number at
tended. The paper. ulon Songs and
Legends of the Sea was by Miss Mer-
rill and there We're readings by ladies of
the club. At the close the members and
friends We're entertained with songs by
Mrs. S. f.. Lawton. Mrs. F. w. Putnam.
Mrs. A. H. BraSOr, Miss Coats, Mr. Thomp-
son, and a duet by Mr.. Gilbert and Mr..
Thompson. The soloists were accom-
panied by Mrs. j. ID. Barrows of New
ton, Mass
b. NJ SwitZer, machinst in the Rand
machine shop, was severely burned about
the eyes and face yesterday afternoon.
He was casting a box with molten bah
bitt, when the metal spattered i'm his face.
striking both eyes both sides of his face
aud filling his hair with fine particles
While enduring great pain Mr.. Switzer
was led to the office of DR. George Rob
erts who happened to be in and who
worked an hour removing the particles of
metal from the eyeballs. The right side
of the face was burned and the left eye
was badly burned over the pupil. Mr..
Switzer was sent home and put in a dark
room, where he will remain for some time
1t is probable that he will not lose the
sight of either eye.
As the time for the annual town meet
ing approaches more or less talk is hea rd
to the relative conditions, as regards
sobriety, under the prohibitory law and
under the license law In this connection
comparison of the number of arrests
for intoXicaton and for disturbing the
peace covering the time since licenses
were granted and the corresponding period
the previous year, will be of interest.
The licenses in Brattleboro went into eff
feet last May. For the nine months be-
ginning with May and ending Jan, 81 the
number of arrests was 80. For the cor
responding period the preceding year the
number of arrests was "a or less than
p per cent. of the first number. Up to
the time when the licenses We're revoked
in September the number of arrests was
So against y for the corresponding time
the year before. Since last September,
when new licenses We're issued there
have been II arrests. against four for the
same months the previous year. During
each of these periods the ratio was about
the same. The figures, taken from JUS
tice Newton's records are as follows:
May 1892. o; May, 1903. 49, June, 1902. 3
June, 1888. 10; July, 1902. ,: July. 1903. Is :;
August 1892, .; August, 1903. Is; Septem-
ber 1902, 49, September, 1898 %; Octo-
Der 1892, o; October, 1903, :: November
1892, l. November 1873. .; December 1902
!; December, 1873, >; January, 1903, ,;
January, 1904, g.