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

hold Christmas service at 4 O'Clock
Sunday. Arthur l.. Maynard viii sing.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety will meet at the Methodist parson-
age, So High street, Thursday afternoon,
Dec 2S, at o'clock.
Manley Brothers have moved their store
from the Retting building on High street
to the west side of their garage in the
rear of the Brooks House.
One hundred people attended the East
ern Stars supper in Masonic hall Wednes-
day evening. The proceeds of about $25
will be applied to the piano fund.
A Christmas party for the primary de-
partment of the Congregational Sunday
school will be held Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock There will be a Christmas tree
and entertainment for all departments
from to o'clock
A still alarm was sent to the steamer
house Friday evening on account of a
small fire at DR.. +. r. Lynch's house on
Canal street. The chemical wagon re-
sponded and put out the fire without diff
Guilty, The loss was small.
Trains on the New London division of
the Central Vermont railroad were de-
layed Tuesday by the derailing at Am
herst of a car loaded with sugar. In order
to clear the track in the quickest time
possible the sugar was unloaded and the
car burned.
Lucius w. Adams, who bought the
Huntley laundry on Flat street last week.
sold 1t Wednesday to II. c. Sparks and w.
X. Sparks. II. c. Sparks has been en-
ployed at the laundry several years and
his brother has been clerk in Clarks
grocery store.
The stock OF goods in w. H. Shows
sporting goods store in the Ray building
was sold by auction by Sheriff Frank w.
Mcclure Wednesday afternoon by virtue
of a breach of conditions named in
| chattel mortgage. The proceeds of the
sale will be about that amount.
Jennings & Buffum have sold through
A. V. Mays agency a large tract OF tim
Der in Marlboro, known as the Burnett
| lot. to Frank II. Brasor for the Estey
Organ company. The company has con-
tracted to have a steam mill put on the
lot soon to begin cutting off the timber.
The funeral of Mrs Henry p. Guellow
was held at o'clock Friday at South
| Main street Rev. Il. T. Mathison, rector
of st. Michaers Episcopal church. OFF,
ciated. The burial was in Prospect Hill
cemetery, the bearers being Bobert H.
Baker, Capt. William T. Haigh, Herbert
NJ. Wood and Samuel Wells.
Work on the Central Vermont railroad
bridge across the Connecticut river north
| and the workmen expect that by Satur-
! day evening all the new iron work will be
| in place. The work of riveting only re-
mains for the completion of the structure
The false work will then be cleared from
the river as soon as possible
Leo council, Knights OF Columbus. held
| it's annual meeting in Red Mems hall
Wednesday evening. There was large
| attendance. These officers were elected:
| ~ - 4.
| uty grand knight, John l.. Stewart; chan
cellor James H. Burke; recorder. James
A. Austin; financial secretary, Charles F.
| Mann; treasurer, Thomas ]. Heaphy;
lecturer, David S. Carey; advocate. John
]. Eckels; warden, Edward ]. Lavele
inside guard. John Holloran; outside
| guard, John Fenton; trustee for three
| years. Harry b. Haus.
Three particularly handsome prizes. to
be awarded in the Vermont Wheel club
| billiard and pool tournament, are on eX-
hibition in Randall & Clapp's jewelry
store. Two are tankards and one Is a
loving cup, known as the Gorham Black
Jacks. suggesting in form and material
the quaint old black jacks used by our
| forefathers. The Innings OF the bodies are
| made of red copper and are covered on the
outside with handmade harness leather,
with sterling silver mountngs and trim
| mings, including shields for engraving in
scriptons They are unbeatable inn
porus, light and durable.
A Washington despatch says: Colonel
| Haskins is likely to be kept busy with
the work of the committees to which he is
| assigned this session. He now holds
fourth place on the important and hard
| working committees of agriculture and
war claims and In addition has been given
a new assignment on the committee on
| labor. Colonel Haskins voluntarily gave
up his place upon the committee on cleo
tions on which he has served two terms
and under an agreement with Speaker
| Cannon was to continue on agriculture
and war claims, the speaker, however.
saw fit to add to these the committee on
labor"
Dummerston always may be depended
upon to furnish incidents OF interest to
! the outside world. Late in November a
| special town. meeting was held to see II
the town would move the schoolhouse in
| Dummerston Centre to a more suitable
| location or build new schoolhouse.
1t was voted not to build a new building.
but to move the old one. The school direc-
tors afterwards tore down the old build
ing and started to put up another build
ing, using the old lumber. Town Treas
urer L. II. Lynde concluded that this was
| not moving the old house in the sense
that the town intended and he gave the
'NihioHh ANatioldi bdlhN VI bIdltltOOIO
notice to pay no school orders without his
direction. In view of this action the
town has called another special meeting
| for Jan. 2, at 10 a. m, to see If the town
will vote to appropriate a sum not ex-
ceeding $500 to pay for labor and material
used in the schoolhouse.
Next Thursday. Dec. 2S, at 100 o'clock.
at the Universalist church, will be shown
a series Of 80 lantern slides illustrating
the International Sunday school lessons
for the quarter now ending. These slides
include number of the great paintings
portraying Daniel and incidents In his
career; photographs of Jerusalem, and,
best of all, pictures of a variety of OBJ
| Jects, cylinders, seals. stelai, tablets, etc.
which have been recovered from the ruins
| in Babylonia, and from which so much
has been learned of the history of that
ancient civilization, all of which will
throw light upon the lessons of the Exile
which have been studied recently. These
| slides are the property of the Records
of the Past Exploration Society,"" Wash
! ington, and have been brought together
especially for this purpose. They are of
great value and interest. They are
| brought here under the joint auspices of
the Sunday schools of the town. All per-
sons interested, and particularly the
teachers and scholars in the schools, are
| cordially invited to attend this meeting
Admission will be free. collection viii
be taken to defray expenses.