Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-22
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

There will be a sunlight hop Yin Festival
hal on Christmas day at 230 o'clock
1t is expected that the skating rink
in Centrevile will be opened the last of
next week.
No move has been made this week to-
ward calling another village meeting to
act on the water question.
state Auditor Horace F. Graham of
Craftsbury is in Brattleboro today to audit
the accounts of the county officers for the
past six months.
Quonektacat tribe of Red Men will hold
a regular meeting this evening. after
which there will be a rehearsal of the
warriors degree.
F. c. Clark has installed an electric
coffee mill in his grocery store this week.
1t is equipped to turn out both pulverized
and graduated coffee.
A boys class in Sloyd manual training
was opened in the Harmony building an
mex Wednesday night in charge of Louis
A. Whitney and Rev. H. r. Miles
John Nourse has bought house and
barn on Orchard street of Mr.. and Mrs.
+. A. Matthews of Hartford, Conn., The
sale was made through S. w. Edgett &
Co.'S agency.
The All-American basket ball team will
play the Independents in Festival hall
Tuesday evening at SIS. The All-Ameri-
cans defeated the Independents in the
opening game 36 to 80.
The Choral Union will rehearse in the
Congregational vestry next Wednesday
evening. The attendance for two weeks
has been small on account OF holiday at
fractions, and 1t is hoped the next re-
hearsal will bring out a large chorus.
A livery horse attached to one of Ami
don's grocery wagons ran away on Green
street this morning, smashing the wagon
and knocking down telephone pole and
hitching post. The horse cleared itself
from the wagon and ran to the stable.
Arthur w. Bartholomew of Grafton has
been adjudged bankrupt by Judge H. H.
Wheeler this week. His liabilities are
$75S7, due largely creditors in Bellows
Falls, Grafton and Saxtons River, and his
assets are $4,000, consisting of mill prop
erty
The prize of 81 offered for the best
skater at Waite's skating rink Tuesday
evening was won by Thomas Guiheen.
prize of the same amount will be
awarded next Tuesday evening to the best
skating couple. The rink will be open
morning, afternoon and evening on
Christmas day.
Burglars entered the room occupied by
Miss Winifred Bird of Portland, Ore and
of the apartments of the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston after
dark Tuesday afternoon and stole articles
valued at several hundred dollars. Miss
Crosby had come home and Miss Bird
was at supper. Miss Birds losses included
jewelry valued at over $500. In an account
of the robbery the Boston Advertiser said
Miss Helen Crosby, also a student al
the conservatory, is a roommate of Miss
Birds, and later 1t was learned that she
too, had been victimized to the extent OF
several hundreds Of dollars, although just
what her loss amounts to she cannot tell
not having been able as yet to make Out
an inventory The young women's room
is on the second floor, In the rear of the
building, overlooking the parkway, and
neighbors said that about $50 two mer
drove up near the rear in a team, from
which they carried away ladder. The
horse and wagon, they say was guarded
by young woman while the men were
absent"