Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-11-10
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The next Masonic social will be held
Thursday evening. Nov. 16.
The Grange Dramatic club will present
its minstrel show in West Chesterfield
tonight to be followed by a dance.
Friendship, circle will meet in the parlors
OF Odd Fellows hall Friday afternoon,
Nov. IT. Supper will be served at Sis
as usual.
Sheriff Frank w. Mcclure appointed
Herbert f. Willis Of Jamaica deputy
sheriff yesterday to succeed the late j.
Q. Shumway.
The regular meeting Of the Pilgrim
Fathers will be held in Red mems hall
Monday Nov. 10. The meeting will be
followed by a social and refreshments will
be served. Members are requested to in
Vite friends.
Brattleboro will send a large contingent
to the Brown Dartmouth foot ball game
in Springfield, Mass, Saturday Eov. %.
Special excursion rates will be given to
Springfield that day. Dartmouth's defeat
OF Princeton and Browns strong showing
throughout the season indicates that
these old rivals will be closely matched.
and the game will be watched with an
interest which will not be exceeded by
any game in the country this year. Peo-
pie going from BrattlebOro and vicinity
nave ample llfne TO leave mere III lilt
morning at 900 or 1918, and see the game
and reach home at 1O15 in the evening.
Dora Thorne," a dramatized novel
of the present season, marks new de-
parture In melodrama. The story of the
play follows the book accurately enough
to permit the use of the title. but the
playwright has chosen the incidents and
happenings with excellent TASTE and
woven them into a play that Is interest
Tao H., he Thn nrtAi fOl
lows sympathetically with every turn the
fortunes of Dora Thorne." a girl whom
the English would call 'low born" who
won the affection of and married the
dukes son. The resultant plot may be
mapped out. but the treatment of her
natural girlish exhuberance In contrast to
the habitual reserve and repression of
the manner. aristocratic, must be seen to
be appreciated
The first meeting and rehearsal of the
Brattleboro Choral Union this season was
held in the vestry of the First Baptist
church Wednesday evening. This was the
annual meeting, and these officers were
elected: President Edwin H. Miller; vice
president, Edgar Burr Smith; secretary,
Mrs. Arthur L. Maynard; treasurer. Ar
thur i. Maynard; directors. c. b. Crow
ell, W. A. Gilbert and F. II. Brasor;
finance committee. A. L. Maynard F.. V.
Morse and Mrs. A. i. Maynard; librarian
l.. w. Hawley Mrs. F. II. Howard Mrs.
A. ID. Wyatt Miss Edith NJ Stowe and
Mrs. George B. White. Some excellent
chOruses were taken up under the direc-
ton of Nelson p Coffin Just what work
the society will give at its first concert
has not been decided upon.
case of petit larceny was heard be-
fore Justice William S. Newton Monday
night. The offender was a boy a little
less than 16 years old, who stole a drill
stock and cailper rule from the s. A. Smith
cOmpany's factory early In September
He had formerly worked there, entered
the building one Saturday afternoon while
only few hands were at work in one
room, and from a room not then occupied
took the tools. Suspicion rested upon
him at that time, but when he was visit
ed at his home by Officer Warren he
claimed that he knew nothing about the
theft. It was learned recently that the
youth had tools in his possession at
home. and Chauncey Young, owner of the
stolen articles. went to the house and
obtaiRed them through the culprit's
mother. and the arrest by Officer Warren
followed. The boy pleaded guilty before
Justice Newton and was sentenced to
serve three months in the house of cor
rection. He spent the night in the lock-
up. but Tuesday morning friends inter-
ceded In his behalf claiming that
this was the first offence and that
members of his family were dependent
upon his earnings The sentence was
then changed to fine of $40 and costs
the fine to be suspended during good
behavior
A silver watch was stolen from Charles
A. Smiths tool case at the s. A. Smith
company's factory Friday night 1t was
learned Saturday that Lee Montrose. IL,
who was selling newspapers Friday was
near the factory at the closing hour, and
as his general reputation was bad Mr.
Smith and Sheriff Mcclure visited the
home of the MontrOse family on Canal
street While the questioning process was
proceeding with young Montrose a lad
who accompanied him Friday appeared
and the new arrival broke down quickly
and confessed that Montrose stole the
watch. He obtained IT by waiting until
after the lights were out. and then climb
ed upon a bench unlocked a panel and
took the watch from the case He
smashed the crystal scratched the case
and then sold the watch to a teamster
for so cents. telling him that he found it
in the street. With the so cents he bought
a foot ball. Montrose's parents offered to
make restitution and pleaded so strongly
for him that nothing was done about an
arrest at the time, but 1t developed later
that since last March, when the family
came to town, the boy had been detected
in stealing cigars from Sheas, dies from
the Stellman machine shop and articles
from Clapp & Joness store. A warrant
was issued for his arrest Monday, but
the officers failed to find him. 1t is under
stood that the boy was taken in a team
by his parents to Hinsdale. and that he
boarded a train there with his mother for
Boston.