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

gregational church will be held next We'd
nesday evening at 7S0 o'clock.
A regular meeting of the Pilgrim
Fathers will be held In Grand Army hall
Tuesday evening, Dec 6. Refreshments
and cards will be i'm order. All members
and their friends are cordially invited.
The hearing for an accounting i'm the
case of Mrs. Mary Blakeslee Piggott
against Dr. IL. ID. Holton, which was set
for Tuesday was continued, c. G. Fits,
counsel for DR.. Holton, being engaged in
Legislative work.
At the regular meeting of the Womans
auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c. A. next Tues
day afternoon state Secretary Il. S. Nor
rson will speak on why ladies should
he interested in this work for men"
meeting of the directors will be held at
220 o'clock.
The first annual meeting of the corpora
tors of The Hemlocks Hospital will be
held at the hospital next Tuesday eve
ming. Officers were elected recently so
that the coming meeting is likely to be
merely a ratification. meeting. but under
the bylaws the annual meeting must be
held the first Tuesday i'm December.
f. W. Mcclure will ohiciate as auction
GER at the sale of the stock of mcrchan-
disc in jamaica, belonging to the estate
Of the late +. T.. Smith next Tuesday.
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. and on
Saturday he will sell the personal pro-
pcrtY belonging to the estate of the late
Earl p Willard of West Dummerston.
At the mothers meeting to be held next
Wednesday at $50 O'Clock in the Centre
congregational chapel Rev. II. Il. Brad
lev Of Lincoln Mass, will speak upon
education by Handiwork. as shown i'm
the Sloyd system" Mr. Bradley has had
wide experience in teaching Sloyd and
will bring tools with which to demon
strate his talk. The invitation to at
tend is general.
The annual meeting of the American
Ornithological union is being held at the
Harvard Museum in Cambridge. Mass,
this week and in connection with II there
is a conference of Audubon societies.
Mrs. Elizabeth b. Davenport of Bratte
boro. Miss Paddock of st. Johnsbury and
Miss Ormsbee of Brandon are in Cam
bridge as delegates to the national
convention of Audubon societies.
The members Of the local branch Of
the Garment Makers Union held spec
ial meeting Saturday. Miss Lillian Fred
ericks of indianapolis. a member of the
executive board of the national union,
being present to arrange a schedule Of
prices for the Brattleboro overall COM
pany and the Hooker. Corser & Mitchell
company somewhat higher than the pres
ent schedule Miss Fredercks will pre-
sent the schedule to the national union
A family reunion was held Thanks
giving day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
II. NJ. Smith, n persons being present
Among them were Mrs. Smiths sister and
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. \. n. Swain Of
Bellows Falls, and Mr.. and Mrs w. r.
Clark and daughter of Montreal. Mr. and
Mrs. Swain spent Thanksgiving in Brat
tleboro for the 5Oth consecutive time
beginning in 1855 at the home of Mrs
SWANS parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs
John Putnam.
Arden Humphrey and Mrs. Alice Full
lam were married Thursday at the bride s
home in Ludlow, Rev. Herbert T.. Thay
er of the Baptist church performing the
ceremony. Faith and Leighton Fullam
children of the bride. were the only at
tendants. Mr., and Mrs. Humphrey left
on the afternoon train for New York
They will live in Ludlow. Mr. Humphrey
was formerly an attendant at the Brat
tleboro Retreat. He disappeared one
night and his parents. who thought that
he had been murdered, sought to have
legislative inquiry. and the case attract
ed great attention. After several years
Humphrey returned. He had been in
British Columbia and had accumulated
some money He studied law and is now
in practice at Ludlow.
The body of Miss Marion Goodhue Hol-
brook was brought to Brattleboro Fri
day night In n private car from New York
city, accompanied by a number of rela-
tives and friends On Saturday 1t was
taken to the home of Miss Hobrook' $
grandfather, ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook,
where prayer was offered at 10 o'clock by
Rev. II. r. Miles, of the Congregational
church The burial was In the Holbrook
family lot in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Rev. Mr.. Miles officiating at the commital
| l,.rn -.
| floral remembrances. Accompanying the
body to Brattleboro were Mr.. and Mrs,
]. X. Clark, Chalmers Holbrook, DIT.
Thomas Chalmers, Wiley Brown. NJ. NJ.
Epson. Mrs. Marion Fisk Miner Miss
Amy Hull and Miss Honora Spaulding.
Of New York, Miss Anna Haskins of
Meadville, Penn, and Miss Cara Walker
of northampton. Mass.
A telegram received by S. o. Miner
| Sunday morning announced the death.
on Saturday. Of DR.. Frank ~ Thorn OF
Seattle. Wash, formerly of Brattleboro.
No details We're announced except that
death was caused by heart disease and
| that the body would be brought to Brat
| tleboro. later despatch stated hat the
body would leave Seattle Tuesday. II
probably will arrive in Brattleboro Sun
| day or Monday. DR.. Thorn was born in
Bratteboro and was the youngest son of
! the late l. n. Thorn for many years n
! Brattleboro druggist. He worked with
| his father in the drug store until the store
| was sold, and then he was clerk in the
| Chaplin pharmacy. From there he went
| to Boston, New York and Chicago He
| graduated from medical college in Chi
| cago and went to Seattle to practice his
| profession. About three years ago he
married Elinor lngersoll. a graduate of
| Oberlin college, who survives He also
| leaves a mother. with whom he lived.
and three half brothers, Clinton Thorn,
| l. b. Thorn and f, G. Thorn.
The local telephone exchange has in
stalled an important piece of mechanism
as an adjunct to the fire department at
the expense of the village 1t is called
a dummy" fire alarm box and its pur-
pose is to facilitate giving alarms for
| fires. The main piece Is set of wheels
and an escapement, resembling the in
| side of a clock. On a row of hooks are
hung small wheels numbered to CORE
spond with the numbers of the fire alarm
boxes. If a person should discover a fire
and should notify the exchange giving
| the number of the nearest box. the tele-
| phone operator would insert the proper
| wheel in the dummy" box. pull lever
and the alarm would ring the same as
| though is was pulled in from the regular
box. This often would save time which
is valuable in cases of fire. A simple
movement adjusts the mechanism SO
that the alarm is given from one to four
| times as desired.
Burton L. ingalls,, who left Bratteboro
i'm 1898 with a shady record in financial
traD fnag hns hob l,A1 In, !, l.