Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-11-25
BRATTLEBORO.

A waltzing party will be held in Grange
hall tomorrow evening.
Don't forget the date of our New Min
lister at the Auditorium on Tuesday, Dec.
The 4 o'clock meeting at the Y. NJ. c. a.
A. Sunday will be led by l.. w. Hawley.
The subject announced is standing
Alone With God"
Four troops of the 18th Cavalry went
through Brattleboro Sunday on their way
from Fort Meyer, Va, to Fort Ethan
Allen. They occupied Is cars, divided
into two trains.
The Prospect Hill book club held its
annual meeting at the home of ID. Il.
Tasker Saturday night and elected these
officers: President, Mrs. j. A. Amidon;
secretary, d. e. Tasker.
The ladies' circle of the Universalist
church will meet in the church parlors
Thursday, Dec. !. There will be work Tor
the coming fair supper will be served as
usual at quarter past SIN
The prisoners who stand convicted of
burglarizing the Windham county saw
ings bank in Newfane, by their own
admissions, pay compliment to the
Brattleboro banks. They say that before
going to Newfane their advance agent
looked over the local banks carefully ana
decided that they would be hard nuts to
crack, ana so concluueu hot " ii'SNN
with them
on account of the organ recital and
the union services Wednesday evening the
Choral Union rehearsal was given up
There will be a rehearsal in the Baptist
Vestry next Wednesday at 7.30. sharp,
when it is hoped all singers may be pres
ent to begin the seasons work in earnest.
The public will be admitted to the re-
hearsas as last year on payment OF
nominal admission fee.
The public schools closed Wednesday
for the Thanksgiving vacation. They viii
reopen Monday. The matter of begin
ming the high school session at $50 in
the morning instead of o'clock has
been discussed more or less, and 1t has
been decided that beginning Monday that
plan will be adopted for the winter term.
This will shorten the session half an
hour, the school closing at ! o'clock as
usual.
Work on Brink & Washers new brick
machine shop on Elm street. on the site
of the Ross White paper mill, is progress
ing rapidly. The building is now up two
stories, and it is expected that the roof
will be on before many days. About 10
men are employed on the job. Brink &
Washer will begin hanging shafting in a
few days. They hope to be able to move
from Harmony building to the new shop
before the close of December
Brattleboro lodge, No. 1872, F. e A. NJ,
will entertain members of Star lodge of
Athol Republican lodge of Greenfield and
Columbian lodge of this town next Thurs
day evening. The exercises will include
n banquet and the comforting of the third
degree by Brattleboro lodge. Brattleboro
lodge will confer the second degree this
evening and the third degree next We'd
nesday evening. and on Tuesday evening
Columbian lodge will confer the first de-
gree.
Ned C. Marsh, a former Brattleboro
boy. met with a serious accident a few
days ago He was driving a heavily
loaded four horse team down a steep hill,
when the brake gave way and the horses
ran. throwing Mr. Marsh against a tele-
phone pole. He was picked up in an I'M
conscious condition and taken to the hos
pital, where it was found that he was suf-
fering from a broken shoulder broken
bad bruises. Marsh is living now in
Hopevlle, Wash. After serving four
years in the Philippines he enlisted in
the coast artillery and was stationed at
a Washington fort. He left the army
last March.
Miss Jessie S. Goodwin of Worcester,
Mass. has been appointed assistant in
mathematics in the high school to take
the place soon to be vacated by Miss
Henshaw. Miss Goodwin is a graduate
of Wellesley college, where she specialized
in mathematics during her entire four
years course. Since her graduation in
19O3. she has been instructor in the
Franklin Falls, N. H., high school, leav-
ing her present position to take the one
now offered her. Miss Goodwn's father
is the principal of the Worcester CLASH
cal high school, so that she has a nat
ural interest in the teachers profession,
and it is hoped and expected that she will
prove a valuable addition to the present
corps of teachers
The supreme court at Montpelier Sat
urday gave decisions in large number of
cases. including two from Windham cOun-
ty. In the case of William Alletson VS..
Elmer d. Powers judgment was reversed
and the judgment remanded. In the case
of Armour & Co., VS. ]. j. Ward ct ais,
assumpsit, judgment of the county court
affirmed The opinion of Judgd
Tyler in the case of state VS.. ST. John
from Rutland county was affirmed. st.
John was sentenced to pay a fine of 500
and costs, with the alternative sentence
to stand committed until the sentence was
complied with. st. John shot a male deer,
but the animal was so young that the
horns did not protrude through the skin.
In the Windsor county case of c. +. Bailey
VS.. p. w Manley, general assumpsit
judgment was reversed and the defend
ant allowed to recover his costs. Mr.
Bailey was formerly a resident of Put
ney, and Mr.. Manley, who lives in Dunn
merston, bought from him at auction a
horse, represented as sound and all right
Manley's contention was that on the day
following the purchase. he found the
horse to be lame. Bailey refused to take
back the animal, and brought suit against
manley to recover the purchase price.