Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-02-10
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

The board of auditors will complete
their work on the annual town report to-
day
Glass No. Of the Baptist Bible school
served an excellent griddle- supper
last evening, which was well patronized.
The board of civil authority will meet
i'm the selectmen's room Feb. 20 to revise
the check list to be used at the annual
town meeting March T.
f. b. Batchelder Of Townshend has
been appointed by Fish and Game Com
missioner Thomas game warden for
Windham county.
The first diamond in the tournament at
the Wheel club was won last evening by
Frank Waite in the pool class. He de-
| feated Arthur Brasor 80 to Al.
The entertainment committee of the
Red Men met Monday night with Ernest
Pratt to formulate plans for the banquet
to be held the last of the month.
The police officers constables and
sheriffs will make their quarterly report
to the license commissioners at o'clock
tomorrow evening in the selectmen's
room.
The Hadley moving picture exhibition
was attended by a big house. 1t was
very entertaining, but there was a smaller
number of instructive views than for
merly.
The next meeting of the Woman's club
will be held at the Brooks House parlors
Wednesday, Feb. Is, at $50 p. m. The
program will be Shaksperian music Mrs.
II. V. Durham of Bellows Falls will
be the guest Of the club. and will sing
a group Of songs
The Murray club held a regular meet
ing last evening in the Universalist church
parlors. A magazine entertainment was
given, including readings by Miss Bishop,
Walter S. Stearns, Rollin Holbrook, Mrs.
II. r. Brown and Miss Squires Miss Ruth
Brown favored the club with two songs.
At the regular meeting of Fort Dummer
colony, No. los, United Order of Pilgrim
Fathers, Tuesday evening Is candidates
were initiated. all young people large
number of members were present After
the initiation the good of the order COM
mittee furnished refreshments which were
enjoyed by all. Special Deputy Supreme
Governor f. n. Jackman of Boston was
present and addressed the meeting on the
good OF the order. and Mrs. w. F. Mixer
gave a reading which was much appre-
ciated. Later in the evening singing and
card playing were taken up. The next
regular meeting will be held in Grand
Army hall Monday evening" Feb. 20. All
members are cordially invited to be pre-
sent.
graph company has decided to lay a con-
duit under ground from MILESTONE bridge
to Linden street, to contain the cables
and wires which now run on poles in the
rear of the buildings on the east side Of
Main street. The conduit win be laid the
coming summer. The main object in
putting the wires under ground Is to pre-
vent trouble from storms. Main street
is comparatively free from a network
OF wires, except in one or two places, the
wires. having been strung in the rear of
the buildings as much as possible. The
company will renew its offer soon to give
three months free service to those who
put in telephones on a yearly contract
This is in response to a large demand.
Columbian lodge, No. SO, A. F. & A. NJ,
conferred the Fellow Craft degree at a
special communication Monday evening
On Tuesday evening Bingham chapter,
Eastern Star had degree work at q. stated
convocation. The social given by the
Eastern Star Wednesday evening was a
evening Fort Dummer Royal Arch chapter
conferred the Mark degree at the stated
convocation. Beauseant commandery,
No 6, K. T., at a special conclave this
evening, will work the Red Cross degree.
On Monday and Tuesday evenings of
next week Columbian lodge will work the
Master Mason degree, on Wednesday
Beauseant commandery the Temple and
Malta degrees on Thursday Brattleboro
lodge, No 1O2. A. F. G. A. NJ, the Fellow
Craft degree, and on Friday evening Con-
necticut Valley council, No. 16, will hold
special convocation.
Post-ofice inspectors on Friday night
arrested Edward j. Crandall of Athol, a
railway postal clerk. running between
Boston and Troy, N. Y, upon the charge
Of larceny from the mails of a letter con-
tanning 81. Crandall, who is AZ years of
age, has been in the railway mail Service
for IL years. The arrest followed an in
vestigation of many complaints that let
ters had been lost in the malls during
the past few months. A decoy letter was
used to bring about the arrest. Crandall
is very well known in Athol and vicinity,
and his arrest was great surprise there.
He has a wife living on Prospect street
in Athol and brother, d. L. Crandall,
lives in Orange. He was said to be a
very capable postal clerk, and II was un-
derstood that he was soon to have been
promoted. His brother was formerly a
well known printer in Brattleboro and
after going from here was publisher of the
Orange Enterprise several years.