Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-08

The annual business meeting of the
Brattleboro East society will be held in
the Congregational vestry next Wednes-
day evening at 7.15 o'clock.
Bishop A. c. A. Hall of Burlington win
make his annual visitation to ST. Mich
aers Episcopal church tonight and will
preach at 745 o'clock A class will be
confirmed.
Fort Drummer colony will hold its regu-
lar meeting at Red Mems hall Monday
evening, to be followed by a social. Dane
ing and card playing will be in order All
members are requested to bring friends
copy Of the opinion of the United
States Supreme court in the appeal Of
Mary Rogers was received Saturday by
Attorney General c. G. Fits. In the
opinion delivered by Judge Day, each of
the four points raised by Mrs. Rogers's
attorneys is considered separately, and
is dismissed as not affording any ground
for federal interference The opinion
would fill two columns of this paper.
Randolph Burke young son of Mr. and
Mrs. ]. II. Burke, was hit on the head
Monday by stone thrown by one of the
children at the Canal street school build
ing, and a cash was cut in the top Of his
head. On previous occasion stone
was thrown through a street car window
and at another time a driver of one of
There ought to be some way to prevent
such annoyances.
Lafayette Thayer, 81, native of MARI
boro, died in Somerville Mass. Nov. %.
He had been with Fairbanks & Brown.
the Boston house OF the Fairbanks Scale
company, 40 years. He leaves three sis
tiers, Mrs, Rosina Kingsbury of Nebraska
and Mrs. o. j. Hale and Mrs. Joseph
Bishop of Halifax, and one brother, Orson
Thayer of Brattleboro. who is employed
! by f. u. Dickinson. The funeral was
| held in Somerville Nov. q and the burial
! was in Sloansville. n. Y.
Manager Fox has secured a star attrac-
| ton which will appeal especially to the
| lovers of good music, for next Thursday
/ night, Dec. Il, when the Mozart Symphony
! club will be heard at the Auditorium
! This organization has appeared with sig
nal success in all the large cities OF the
country The Louisville Courier Journal
| said Of the concert given in that city:
| Musical ears have never heard such
| harmony blended from stringed instru-
ments. as this expert organization fur
nshed last night at the Masonic temple.
! The audience was enraptured"
DR. L. r. Lynch brought suit against
the town Of Brattleboro Saturday, through
Lawyer Arthur c. Spencer, to recover
damages in the sum of $500 for injury to
! his horse. DR.. Lynch alleges that on
Sept. 80, while driving across the iron
bridge at the junction of Elliot and Frost
streets. near the Fletcher mill, his horse
stepped through a hole In the planking
and was thrown and hurt so that he has
been wholly deprived of the use of the
| horse since then. The accident, he al
| leges, was the result of neglect on the
| part of the town. Unless the case is
settled it will be tried in county court.
Edward Kirkwood, driver for the Val
ley Grain company. was taken Ill with
scarlet fever Monday and was taken to
the isolation building at the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital. Five members
of Andrew Kirkwood's family are now
| i'll with the disease. Mrs. Krkwood and
four children. They are comfortably" i'll,
but not seriously so. Miss Ethel Kirk
wood was the first to be taken i'll. and
Mrs. Kirkwood and two children took
the disease from her. 1t is not known
where Edward Kirkwood contracted the
| fever, as he does not live with his
parents on BIrge street, but with his wife
at 63 Elliot street. Miss Janet Davenport
who was taken i'll last week, is improv-
ing.
Under n heading "By Attorney Cen
eral Clarke Fits" the Boston Post pub
llshed Monday what purported to be an
interview with Mr.. Fits in which he was
quoted as saying that there was no
|
her lawyers had taken advantage OF every
loophole, that the decree of the United
States Supreme court had sealed the
woman's fate, etc Mr.. Fits character
lied the interview as outrageous and
said the only basis for 1t was a telephone
call from the Post asking him II he
would attend the hanging, to which ne
replied: NO" asking II Governor Bel
would be present, to which he said: 81
don't know" and asking II any new move
was to be made in Mrs Rogers's behalf
to which he answered: Il don't know
Rev II. r. Miles recently spent a week
in Hartland holding services in the in
terest of the Vermont Forward movement
after a series of meetings covering nine
weeks. Rev. !. w. Swart of Hartlant
says in the last issue of the Vermont
Missionary concerning these closing SER
vices: THE messages were in perfect
harmony with all that had been done
before, and fitted into the past so smooth
ly that the development was constant
from the beginning of the nine weeks
till the close. The message was large
but the man behind the message was
larger. The Christian workers have
been encouraged. A general interest has
been aroused. The Hartland churct
desires to express it's thanks to the Brat.
tleboro Centre church and pastor fol
their contribution TO this blessing anC
feels they have loaned to us what We
could in no way have secured without
their assistance. Their release of theii
pastor became direct blessing to us"
Miss Florence Arabella Eames "a
youngest daughter of Mrs. Persis Eames
died Sunday morning at her home or
Union street. She had been i'll severa
months with tuberculosis Miss Fame!
was born in South Deerfield, Mass, Jan
, Z, 1881, and was a daughter of James NJ
and Persis (Howe) Eames. She Wen
with the family to Vernon when she wa.
child and lived there until 10 years ago
when Mrs. Eames and children came tC
Brattleboro. Mr., Eames died 81 year.
ago last June. Miss Eames attended thC
Brattleboro high school before beginnnG
work in the overall factory. She was
member of the Universalist church ant
Sunday school and of the Young People.
| Christian union. Besides her mother
she leaves two sisters, Miss Alta Eames
and Miss Alice Eames, both of Brattle-
boro. The funeral was held at her late
home at noon Wednesday, Rev. r. X
Marvin of Franklin, Mass, formerly pastor
of the local Universalist church, officiat-
ing. The bearers were G.. S. Howe, A. N
Howe and Il. E. Howe, uncles of Miss
Games, and S. L. Rice, a cousin. The
burial was in Vernon.
Herbert n. Gum. formerly a Brattle-
boro real estate agent, is legally dead
even though he may not be dead in fact
A ST.,