Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13

The first annual meeting of the Valley
Fair Kennel club will be held i'm r. c.
Bacon's Office tomorrow evening.
Company /. 1st Infantry, Vermont
National Guard, will hold its annual meet
ing for the election of officers next Thurs
day evening.
Jimmy" Lord the colored boy employed
by Beatty s. Balester, was loading "A
pistol Sunday night when it was dis
charged accidentally and a bullet went
through one hand.
The Brattleboro Woman's club will
meet at the Brooks House Wednesday,
Jan. IS, at $50 p m. Clarke c. Fits Will
address the assembly on 'Womans
Rights under the Law" Mrs. Herbert j.
Clark will have charge of current events.
b. Fralick of the Connecticut River
Stock farm in Hatfield, Mass, has recently
sold to a man in Boston for $500 a colt
which he exhibited at the last Valley
Fair. This -year-old, which was sired
by Electmont, will be raced in the grand
circuit next season.
d. Frank Shea took possession this
week of the Clark building on Elliot
street, which he recently bought of Mrs
Charles Newell After making some re-
pairs he will reopen the restaurant in the
building with private dining rooms up
stairs He has offered his fish market
for sale.
Ira b. Williams of Jamaica, a lum
herman, filed this week n schedule in
bankruptcy. His assets amount to 5000
which include real estate valued at $4,000
and property claimed as exempt val
ued at $41S His liabilities foot up $5454.
the unsecured claims amounting to
$2SS4 His creditors are largely Jamaica
men. Referee Stowe appointed the first
meeting of the creditors at jamaica, Jan.
q.
The annual meeting of the Prospect Hill
Cemetery association was held in the
office of w. S. Newton Monday night,
when these officers were elected: Presi-
dent Dr. George f. Gale vice president,
William s. Newton; treasurer, Robert E.
Gordon; trustees, George e. Greene,
George A. Hines, Robert L. Gordon,
Charles A. Boyden, William H. Vinton
and j. Gray Estey; collector Robert f..
Gordon.
The Bingham chapter sociable for Ma
sons and their families in Masonic hall
Friday evening was attended by a good
number, Notwithstanding the storm. A
short program was given, consisting of
an overture by Leitslnger's orchestra. n
reading by Mrs. ID. Cowles, Il violin solo
by c. NJ. Dugan, and songs by Mrs. Fran
els weeks, after which dancing and card
playing were enjoyed. The next soci-
able will be held Feb. s.
F. d. +. Stowe won first premium on
his pen Of silver duckwing game ban
tams at the Madison Square poultry show
in New York city, which closed Saturday.
The value Of the award was not so much
in the premium itself as in the added
reputation 1t gave to the exhibitor. Next
week Mr. Stowe will send 10 game ban
tams to the Boston show including gold
and silver duckwing red pyle, brown red
and black Suma ira breeds
The Congregational Sunday school held
it's annual meeting Sunday morning and
elected these officers: President, Edward
C. Crosby superintendent Walter A. Gill
bert; assistant superintendent. Louis a,
whitney: secretary and treasurer. George
NJ Clay; junior superintendent, Mrs. Fred
W. Kuech; primary superintendent. Mrs
Francis f. Perry; librarian, Fred c.
Adams; assistant librarian, Miss Flora
Cattanach; auditor Albert III. Hunt.
DIR. Guy l.. Hummer of Baltimore, who
will give an address on Modern Abdomi-
nal Surgery" before the Congregational
club in the Brooks House tonight has
practiced with DIR. Howard \. Kelley OF
Baltimore in the Johns Hopkins hospital
! five years. He also has wide independ-
ent practice in other hospitals. Both DIR
Kelley and DR.. Hummer are on the con
sulting staff of the Brattleboro Memorial
hospital and are in the front rank OF
specialists in surgery. The address will
be illustrated with surgical instruments
and will follow the banquet, which will
| begin promptly at $50.
Mrs. William j. Blickensderfer, wife Of
| the vice president of the Blickensderfei
manufacturing Co. at Stamford, Conn.
! has prepared an appeal to the women OF
| America urging them to use their in
| flucnce with the governor of Vermont ant
the governor Of Pennsylvania to save
/ from the gallows Mary Rogers of Yer
mont and Kate Edwards of Pennsylvania
| sentenced to be hanged for the murder
| of their husbands. The appeal is baseC
| on grounds of general opposition tC
capital punishment as a principle. Mrs
! Blickensderfer is a niece of Mrs ]. +
Haywood of Brattleboro
Frank Mexican. formerly teamster fol
II. C. Clark, is a fugitive from Landlord
| Barrett of the Broad Brook House il
! Guilford. On Saturday night Mr.. Bar
rett, on returning to the hotel after a brie
| absence. looked in through a window anC
saw Mexican dispensing choice liquors t,
men of Polish extraction. He remon
strated with Mexican and the latter, wht
had been boarding at the hotel a few
| days, took his oVercoat and left the place
| Barrett and some men followed a littl,
later and found the man at the old mil
below the village. Mchean led them
chase over the hill to Vernon and go
away. He was heard from in Mortified
| Mass, afterwards
The annual meeting and supper of tn
| Congregational church was held in tn
vestry Friday night, and Notwithstanding
the storm a good number attended. Tn
| business meeting followed the supper
! The reports of the officers of the severa
organizations connected with the churcl
! were accepted and these officers wer
elected: Clerk, S. w. Kimball treasurer
| H. II. Thompson; treasurer of benevo
| lences, c. F. Thompson; church commit
tee. E. G. Crosby, G. C. Averill, c. c
Fits, G. l.. Durham and II. F. Jordan
| Sunday school committee. r. c. Crosby
Mrs. c. C. Fits. Miss Edith Stolte, Mrs
o. T. Ware, II. F. Jordan and II. E. Bond
committee on benevolences, Mr.. and Mrs
c. c. Fits and Mr.. and Mrs. George M
Clay.
Three new corporators, Clarke c. Fits
Linn d. Taylor and Ernest w. Gibson
were elected at the annual meeting G
the corporators of the Vermont Saving
bank Wednesday. The business meetin
was held at o'clock, in the bankin
rooms, after which the annual corporatio
dinner was served in the Brooks House
At the business session these officer
We're elected: President, Frederick Hol
brook vice president, William S. New
ton; treasurer Charles II. Pratt; assist
ant treasurer Harry II. Webster; trus
tees, Frederick Holbrook d. d. Dickin
son, Francis Goodhue, ST., d. s. Pratt
George f. Greene, William S. Newton
Charles II. Pratt. Frank l.. Hunt and ,
Gray Estey; board of investment Fred
erick Holbrook. D. S. Pratt, Franc
Goodhue, ST., Charles H. Pratt and Fran
J., Hunt.