Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-15


public supper at Masonic hall Tuesday
evening, Dec. 10, from to o'clock.
Everybody is invited.
Clarence Johnson fell while skating at
Walte's skating rink Monday night and
fractured both bones in his right arm just
above the wrist He was taken to the
hospital in Montague yesterday.
Miss Edith Day won the prize Of 50 at
Walte's skating rink Tuesday evening
for being the best lady skater on the floor.
A prize of equal amount will be given
next Tuesday evening to the best man
skater
The ladies of the Congregational church
held a very interesting mothers meeting
in the church parlors Wednesday after
noon, when Miss Mary X. Cabot and Mrs.
H. II. Miles spoke on THE American girl
of today and long ago" There was an
exhibition of books suitable for Christ
mas gifts.
on account of the rush which will at
tend the delivery of Christmas packages.
the day before Christmas being Sunday,
patrons are requested to start their ship
ments as early as possible. Those who
send their packages to the express Office
early may have them labelled ITO be
opened on Christmas day
States Attorney H. d. Ryder of Bel
lows Falls stopped in Brattleboro y6ster-
day on his way home from trip to
jamaica and looked over the record of
liquor sales at drug stores for the month
of November. He said he thought the
records showed an improvement over the
previous month. He made a special in
vestigation with reference to the sale of
II quarts of whiskey to one young man
during November and found that sales
to that person had been restricted since
the November reports were filed.
1t is with great pleasure that the Choral
Union announces the engagement of Anita
Rio as the soioist for its public concert
i'm the Auditorium Tuesday evening. Feb.
20. Anita Rio is the greatest concert
soprano outside the Metropolitan Opera
company, and 1t is only by reason of Il
fortunate combination of circumstances
that the union has been able to secure
her. She is known the musical world over
and has sung with the very best sym
phony orchestras throughout the country.
At the close of this season she will go
abroad, where she has an engagement for
a term of years.
A special village meeting TO act on the
report of the water committee and to vote
on the question of village ownership OF
"a water system will be held in Festival
hail Monday evening at $50 o'clock. The
water committee has held one or two
meetings this week to consider what
course of action ought to be recommended.
Two particularly interesting articles on
the water question, one a report from
Engineer w. II. Brainerd covering the
Marlboro South pond supply and other
sources, and the other letter from
George +. Crowell to the water commit
tee, are published in this paper.
Alterations and repairs which are in
progress I'm the First Baptist church have
reached a point where the end is in sight.
but probably they will not be completed
much before Feb. l. The work is much
wider in scope than was planned at first.
1t Is expected that the new organ which
is being built by the Estey Organ company
will be finished about the time the
changes in the church are made The
organ, which will be donated to the church
by Col. j. Gray Estey and Capt. ]. Harry
Estey as a memorial to their father will
have three manuals besides the best me-
chanical attachments that have been de-
vised.
A roller skating rink is being fitted up
in the top floor Of the Centrevine factory.
which is owned by the Brattleboro Street
Railroad company but the names of those
financially interested in the enterprise are
withheld. Every post in the top story has
been removed, leaving a floor IS feet wide
and 80 feet long without an obstruction.
A new rock maple floor is being put in,
and this will be scraped and finished In
the best possible way There will be
platform for the use of spectators Two
dressing rooms and skate rooms will be
provided, on the floor below, and all the
rooms will be well lighted and heated. The
plan is to open the rink within the next
two weeks and to conduct it in an orderly
and satisfactory way
Mrs. Henry p. Guellow. So died We'd
nesday afternoon at about 2.30 o'clock, at
her home at 3 South Main street She
underwent an operation i'm the Farren
hospital in Montague, Mass, last summer
for the removal Of a cancer and after
wards was afflicted with cancer of the
stomach, which caused her death. Her
maiden name was Mary A. Quinn. She
was born in Boston and was one of six
children of William and Mary Quinn, all
of whom are now dead. She was married
in Boston to Henry p. Guelow a well
known barber. and they spent the greater
part of their married life in that city and
Brattleboro coming to Rrattleboro the last
time about six years ago. Mrs Guellow
was a woman of keen perception, and
was guiding spirit in matters concern
ing her home. She was faithful and de-
voted wife, accomplishing in her affiiction.
never giving up hope, appreciative of
kindness and always solctous for the
welfare of her friends. The funeral will
be held at the house at o'clock today
Rev. F.. 7. Mathison, rector of ST.
Michaels Episcopal church. officiating.
and the burial will be in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
Seven Brattleboro physicians, Drs w
II. Lane, H. L. Waterman, C. r. Anter-
son. C. S. Pratt. L. C. Haviland, e. s.
Bowen and c. r. Aldrich took the state
medical examination before the state
board of medical registration in Rutland
Tuesday morning. The condition which
made this necessary has been regarded
rather as a joke by those outside the pro-
fession, but the doctors themselves
thought it no joke to be required to be
examined when they already had licenses
to practice and to pay SIS for the privi-
lege besides giving a days time to the
trip and incidentally no little amount of
time to text book study. The country is
saved, however, as all the Brattleboro
doctors passed the examination, accord
ing to their best judgment, (the figures
not having been announced, and we shall
have just as many physicians as before
When new law was passed at the last
session of the legislature, requiring ply
sicians to register their certificates with
the secretary of state II was found that
many had not compiled with a former
law requiring them to register with the
county clerk. Attorney General C. c.
Fits gave 1t as his opinion that those
physicians would have to be re-examined,
and 1t was so ordered Altogether, about
100 physicians took the examination