Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20

past six or seven years.
Branch one, Of the Brattleboro Sun
shine society, will meet next Friday
afternoon, at $3.50 o'clock, with Mrs.
w. G. Mitchell on High street. A
large attendance Is hoped for.
The Oakdale Book club held its annual
meeting oct. 10 at the home of Miss
Edith Gilkey and elected these officers:
President Miss Gilkey; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. II. +. Jordan chairman
of the book committee, Mrs. e. b. Bar
rows.
The meeting of Brattleboro chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
postponed from yesterday, viii be held a
the home of Miss Susan E. Clark in
West Brattleboro next Tuesday at 3
o'clock. Mrs. Levi X Fuller will read
paper on "Salem Witchcraft."
Maverette Julia Gould, Is. daughter of
Mrs l.. f. Gould, formerly of Brattle-
boro, died from typhoid fever In Hart
ford, Conn, Sunday. The funeral
and burial were held there yesterday.
Mrs. Goulds younger son, Bernald, is Sc
riousy I'll with the same disease.
Rev. w. Il. Witter MD, DID. of Bos-
ton will preach in the First Baptist
church next Sunday morning DR. wit
ter is secretary of the New England dis
trict for the American Baptist Mission
airy Union and is one of the most eloquent
speakers in the Baptist denomination.
The new line of telephone poles which is
being erected between East Putney and
Greenfield by the New England Telephone
! & Telegraph company, has been com
pleted nearly as far as Vernon. going
| south About 20 men are employed. The
new poles are much larger than the old
ones
About 25 members of the Grange
! Dramatic club will go to Putney tonight
| TO entertain the Putney Grange with
| minstrel show Other members of the
| Grange will accompany them. Members
! of the Putney Grange recently came to
Bratteboro and furnished entertainment
! for Protective Grange.
Charles A. Smith has bought of c. f.
Allen the corner lot, Canal street and
| Oak Grove avenue. where Mr. Allen has
laid the foundation for a house Mr.
| Smith has contracted with Croll &
! Fletcher to begin work at once for the
erection on the site of two-story house.
26 by 80 feet, with one-story l. 26 by
10 feet.
Manager Allen, OF the Brattleboro
| Independent basket ball team, has ar
ranged to have the first game OF the sea-
son on Thanksgiving night, although
nothing definite in regard to the team has
| been decided upon. As an inducement
for the local organizations to form a
basket ball league he has decided to offer
five individual cups for the members of
the winning team in such league.
The rear axle OF wagon loaded with
| lumber broke near one OF the wheels
| Tuesday forenoon In front OF Crosby
block, letting one corner OF the load
down to the ground. The accident hap
pened so near the street railroad that the
cars could not pass and II was necessary
to transfer passengers an hour or two.
The lumber was being drawn to Holden
& Martins by Perley A. Richardson OF
Chesterfield.
Constable Z. r. Thayer of Brattleboro
went to West Dummerston this morning
and arrested Louis Zancan on warrant
charging him with selling liquor without
a license States Attorney Ryder, who
was notified of the arrest, came to Brat
tleboro on the 9.07 train and went "a
West Dummerston to prosecute the re-
spondent. He was accompanied by II. C.
Bacon. as justice, and A. F. Schwenk
counsel for Zancan.
Beauseant Commandery. No Z, X. T.
conferred the Temple and Malta degrees
at a stated conclave Wednesday evening
Last evening Brattleboro lodge, No. 1902
conferred the Fellow Craft degree at q
special communication. The same de.
gree will be conferred this evening by
Columbian lodge at a special commune
cation. A large delegation from Brattle.
boro. including several candidates, will
attend the full ceremonial session ID
Mount Sinai Temple, Mobiles OF the Mys.
tic Shrine, in Montpelier next Tuesday
evening.
The second weekly tournament at the
golf links last Saturday was won by II
Il. Harris, the greenskeeper, whose card
showed a fine 2S and 26. which with hi:
handicap of two gave him n net 50, sew.
eral points lower than any OF the Other
players. Charles Stolte, who had never
played but twice before, had n II gross
and a handicap OF 20. so that his net
score was 81. The playing is now ir
progress for a third cup, and another
match will be played next week. The
handicaps OF several OF the players hav,
been changed since the first tournament
The village bailiffs, at their regular
meeting Friday night, voted not to pay
the full amount of the Brattleboro Gas
Light company's bill for the month Of
September, but TO discount. pro rata, for
10 arc lights and II incandescent lights
one night EACH The contract for street
lighting provides that only actual SER
vice shall be paid for. The discount was
made on lamps which did not burn or
certain nights, as reported to the bailifs
by residents In different parts of the
village. The bailiffs made a tour OF the
village Monday night In an automobile
They decided to take out the arc lamI
near the Ray barn on Flat street and the
arc lamp near Daniel Brosnahan's house
on Elliot street and substitute therefor
incandescent lamps.
Good progress has been made this week
In the work OF laying tile conduits for the
underground telephone wires. Only q
small force OF men is employed as II has
been impossible for the telephone COM
pany to secure laborers. Two or three
weeks more will be consumed in laying
the tile, putting in the wires and making
the necessary connections. Over 20OC
feet OF tile will be laid, extending from
the corner Of Main and High streets to
the railroad crossing, from MILESTONE
bridge to the corner OF South Main and
Canal streets, from Main street to the
second pole on Flat street, from Main
street to the foot OF Church street and
from Main street to the foot OF the High
street hill There are four conduits in
the large tile. one OF which will be re-
served for the use OF the village for fire
alarm and police signal wires, though II
Is not likely that 1t win be used this
year. Manholes are located at intervals
and from these points branch cables will
be run across the streets, underground
All the telephone wires on the railroad
bank, on the southern part OF Main
street and in the rear OF Crosby block
Will be removed from overhead.