Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-27

Monday evening in Rctting hall for their
minstrel show.
Rev f. r. Mathison is scheduled to
conduct the meeting in the Adventist
church next Wednesday evening. The
subject is The Good Shepherd"
c. f. II. JENNIE has been appointed
agent of the Firemen's Fund Insurance
company Of California this week. The
company has assets of over S6.OOOOOO.
The ladies' missionary society of the
Baptist church will meet Thursday after
noon, Feb .. at $50 o'clock with MIS-
c. f. II. JENNIE, ~ oak street. The
subject will be The Religions of Japan.
. on stormy Saturday afternoons. if the
weather is such that if it were a school
day no session would be held, the meet
ing of the sewing class at the high school
building will be omitted. No alarm signal
will be given.
The tickets sold in advance by mem
bers of Wantastiquet lodge of odd Eel
lows for Hadley's moving pictures may
be exchanged for reserved seat tickets
Tuesday evening i'm the room opposite the
box Office in the town hail building The
regular sale will open at the news store
Wednesday morning.
Amidon x Miller held their opening"
last Saturday as the owners of the \. F.
Roberts q Co. store and received the
congratulations and the patronage of a
great many friends ana customers. The
young men have won a good reputation
in the Brattlcboro grocery trade through
years of practical experience, and they
will be sure to maintain it as propretors
of their own store.
Since the public meeting Monday night
the committee appointed to raise $4,000 as
II bonus to induce Il. Souto & Co. to es-
] "A In
Brattleboro have secured nearly as much
as was pledged that night The total
amount pledged is a little under $4,000
| Considering the extremely unfavorable
weather, the committee has done we'll
II is expected that the balance will be
raised soon.
portable boiler, which will be used
in Brink & Washers machine shop on
! Elm street. which is nearing completion.
arrived Wednesday. Brink & Washer
have changed their plan about having the
! boiler I'm the basement and have decided
| to build boiler house outsdeithe machine
shop. The shop has been piped, and as
| soon as the connections are made and
! the shop dried out the floors will be laid.
The hangers for the shafting have been
put up.
When Chief-of Police Hall read i'm The
! Phoenix last week the description Of the
"squatter" who robbed the Tasker cot
tage above the suspension bridge he was
| positive as to the Identification Of the
! intruder on the Sunday night before
! the Taskers visited the cottage young
| man asked Mr.. Hall for a nights lodg-
| ing in the lookup, which was given.
| He said he had just been released from
| two and a half years imprisonment and
Mr.. Hall recognized him as George Ar
! mour, who at one time stole mileage
| books at the Williamsvlle railroad sta
tion and who was sentenced to imprison-
ment for two and a half years In Sept
ember, 1902. for breaking into a freight
car in Brattleboro. He had one white
eye, the peculiar mark of the man at the
Tasker cottage.
Judge j. NJ Tyler went to Montpelier
Saturday to sit al the session of the SUI
preme court but before leaving Brattle-
boro he asked to have the files i'm the
divorce case of Mrs. Leon Z. Redhed of
| Grafton against her husband sent him.
On Monday of last week Judge Tyler gave
| Redfeld until Friday to comply with an
order of court directing him to pay his
wife $l5 a month while her petition for
divorce was pending. In order to comply
| with the order Redfield would have to
raise $50. The court stated that Red
! field stood in contempt and that unless
he should purge himself of contempt by
! complying with the order 1t would be
IL. y.
SchWenk. who acted as counsel for Red
field at the hearing last week, has heard
nothing from him since then. and further
action of the court is awaited.
a syndicate of about 10 northern and
southern men, including +. w. Gibson
and F. W. Chlds of Brattleboro and A
p. Chids of Bennington. will erect a
winter tourists hotel i'm Summerland, $
c., p miles from Aiken. during the next
few months They will invest about $2j,
| 600 The foundation is now being put in
Frank Fuller of Brattleboro assisting in
the work. Several Brattleboro carpenters
including G. b. HARDWOOD. probably will
go to South Carolina soon to assist IN
the carpentry work. The hotel will be
two and a half stories high and about
40 feet long by 20 feet wide, and will be
| so constructed that an addition can be
made easily. 1t will have so rooms. The
site selected is in the highest part of the
state, 1l5 feet higher than Aiken. The
| syndicate owns large tract of land which
will be used for golf, tennis, and other
| amusements.
Deputy Sheriff A. w. ]. wilkins o
| Putney arrested two tramps Wednesday
| on suspicion of being the ones who shot
and robbed William Gorlin, Pole, on hi.
way from Windsor to Claremont Tues
day night Deputy Sheriff Kiniry OF
Windsor sent descriptions of the men tC
all the surrounding towns and on Wed.
nesday he received word from East Put.
ney that two tramps answering the
description had passed that station to-
ward Putney. He notified Deputy Sherin
wilkins, who went to Putney station anC
walked up the track until he met the men
when he arrested them and took them tC
the depot. They showed to the salts.
faction of Mr.. wilkins that they were moi
the ones who committed the deed ant
they We're released GOrlin was taken Il
the Windsor House, where he stated thai
his assailants robbed him of s125. which
he carried in his belt and when he vigor.
ously resisted them they took his owl
revolver from his pocket, and one of then
shot him with it, The shot took effect
in the abdomen, making a dangerou.
wound
The schedule of wages agreed upon by
the Hooker. Corser & Mitchell Overai
company and the National Garment
Workers Union and which was signed
by the overall company as stated in The
Phoenix two weeks ago. was signed h,
the Union last Friday through member
of the executive board, Walter Chuck of
New York, who came to Brattleboro fo,
the purpose. 1t was signed also bv tbe
local branch of the Union so that the
differences are now adjusted and the Incl
dent Is closed. As stated i'm The Phpnix
two weeks ago the new schedule is
materially lower than the one submitted
by Miss Lillian Fredericks, a representa-
tive of the Union. As a matter of fact
the price of the employees under the new,
schedule is practically the same as tbe
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