Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-09-21

| Inc daughters OF BOcanOntaS VIII mold
a dance Saturday night
The schools in district, No. 2 will hold
one session Tuesday and will be closed
the rest of the week.
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Of this
week are Ember days observed by the
Roman Catholic church.
Beauseant commandery. X. T., voted
| Wednesday night to have a picnic for
! Sir Knights the first week in October,
and James =. Randoll, Willis ID. ellison
and Arthur p Simonds were chosen a
committee of arrangements.
! At the last term Of the county court
| judgment was entered in favor of the
plaintiff in the case of the Atlantic Mills
| against the Brattleboro Manufacturing
! company A hearing will be held before
| Justice ]. II. Merrifeld tomorrow to fix
| the amount Of damages the plaintiff is
entitled to recover. The plaintiff claims
about $500.
Judge Tyler was called to Rutland Mon
| day to try the case of Tierney, adminis-
traitor vs. Rutland Railroad company.
| The suit is to recover damages for the
| loss OF life of Dennis Mahoney an en-
| gineer upon the "fier," in the collision
at Shelburne in January, 1903. The trial
will occupy the week. Judge Tyler will
hold the Essex county term of court,
which will begin Oct. 2.
George Niles, who was arrested Aug.
&c. charged with shooting Frank and
| Andrew Blanchard brothers, and whose
case was continued pending the outcome
of their injuries, was brought before
| Trial Justice N L. Lawrence at Spring
| field, this state, Monday and was bound
over to the county court upon two charges
of assault with intent to kill. Bonds
were set at 500 upon each count which
were furnished.
About 20 members OF the local camp OF
Modern Woodmen OF America. including
the officers and n degree team, attended
| the district meeting in Grand Army hall
| at Bellows Falls Tuesday. Nearly every
camp In southern Vermont was repre-
| scented and the hall was filled to over
| flowing. OF the state officers who were
| expected to be present only Deputy p.
M. Libby Of Burlington was present. The
team from Brattleboro conferred the de-
grees.
There is handsome collection OF IL
silver loving cups in Randall & Clapps
window this week They will be awarded
by the Holstein- Friesian association of
America to the winners in the different
| departments of the Holstein- Friesian ex-
hibit at the Brockton fair with the ex-
| ception of one Of large and beautiful de-
sign. which will be given to the registered
! Holstein- Friesian COW making the highest
test score in the dairy contest at the Val
ley Fair
The Gage stock company presented the
| sterling play, THE Parish Priest" Mon
day night to an audience that filed every
| seat in the Auditorium. and has produced
! plays of uniform excellence each evening
since. The company is strong and well
balanced The specialities between the
acts have been received enthusiastically
especially the agile acrobatic contortionist,
La Rex, and the illustrated songs To-
| night the well known three-act comedy,
| David Garrick." will be reproduced
! Her Marriage Vows will be played at
the matinee, and THE Avenger" in the
evening tomorrow.
Mrs Mary Lawrence Livingston. s6.
wife Of Frederick G. Livingston, who died
| Tuesday morning at her home in Peter
boro. N. H.. after a long illness with
consumption, was daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Edwin Lawrence and sister Of
Mrs. Harry c. Freeman of Brattleboro.
| Her last visit here was two years ago,
and since then she had been confined
| closely to her home, aside from the time
when She was I'm the sanatorium in Penn
broke. Mrs. Lawrence had been with her
| much of the time the past few months
and was there at the time OF her death.
| Mr.. Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. Freeman
| went to Peterboro to attend the funeral
which was held yesterday.
Rain fell throughout large part of
last night. beginning before II and con-
| unuing until after this morning. There
| had been no rain since the showers OF
Labor day and the precipitation has been
| slight the past two months. The local
streams have seldom been lower than
at the present time, although the Con-
necticut has kept at a good height all
the season. Many of the brooks are so
low that ii is expected that the trout
fishing next year will be seriously affect
ed. The drought came so late that crops
were not badly damaged. Corn has rip
ened very rapidly in the past few weeks
Many pastures have been burned brown
and the farmers will be forced to draw
upon their supplies of hay earlier than
| usual.
The ladies' association OF the Congre-
gational church held its annual meeting
yesterday afternoon, which was well at
tended. These officers were elected.
President, Mrs II. f. Bnod; vice presi-
dent, Mrs II. r. Miles: secretary. Mrs.
G. G. Averill treasurer, Mrs. E. l.. Park
er. Committees were elected the chair
men being as follows: Hospitality, Mrs.
l.. f. Holden and Mrs. w. f. Root; home
Missionary. Mrs. c. C. Fits; foreign mis-
sionary. Miss Mary Cabot; parish Mrs.
F. A. Wells; parsonage, Mrs. n. l. Haw-
ley; flower Miss Emma Gregg. The as
ISOLATION expressed itself as much pleased
with the work of the retiring president
Mrs. e. l.. Waterman, who held the
presidency three years. It was voted to
hold a Thanksgiving food sale.