Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-26

tue ldCloIleS 20 the CnufCn lniS week.
The annual meeting Of Company l., Yer
mont National Guard for the election
OF clerk and treasurer will be held to-
night.
Cyrus Ramsdell recently received by
express a pen of thoroughbred Rhode Is
land Red fowls which were raised in
Woodstock, Conn
The next sociable in odd Fellows hall
will be held Wednesday evening, Jan. 81,
to which all Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and
their friends are cordially invited. There
viii be dancing In both halls.
The attendance at, the Centreville slSat-
ing rink has been good. The management
is making arrangements to have music
every evening. The afternoon session has
been extended from 1.SO to 5.
About 60 people attended the eight
sociable at the Methodist parsonage Mon
day night Home made candy was on
sale and many pleasant and entertaining
diversions made up the program.
The annual school for commissioned Of
iicers of the Vermont National Guard will
be held in Montpelier Feb L. . and 6. Col.
j. Gray Estey, Capt e. w. Gibson. Lieut..
Charles II. Davis and Lieut.. George Il.
Mosher will attend.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
vention of Cruelty to Animals will be
held at the Brooks library next Tuesday
evening, Jan. &c. at 7.30 o'clock. A full
attendance is desired.
The ice in the Connecticut river. West
river MILESTONE brook and other streams
has gone out his week. West River ice
went out Tuesday night and Wednes-
day morning except in the pond above the
Brattleboro Gas Light company's dam.
The ice In the pond is so thin that no
trouble from 1t is feared.
The street railroad has had an I'M
usual experience for January, having run
by water power thus far this week. The
fires at the power station were drawn so
that changes in the steam piping In the
boiler could be made and new brick work
could be done on the arches. These
changes heretofore have been made only
In the spring when high water made 1t
possible to keep the road running.
Fenton & Cos guessing contest on
jar of money closed Saturday night. and
the money was counted Monday by Ray
Greene, Of the Peoples National bank,
who found that the jar contained $33 II.
The several thousand coupons have been
counted during the week, and Mr.. Fem
ton announced this morning the winner.
Walter o. Cooley. whose guess was
1894. The contest began in October
and attracted much attention in this and
other towns.
Mr.. Lynch Of New York gave an adj
dress in st. Michaers Roman Catholic
church Sunday in behalf of the orphans
of the Catholic home Of New York, to
which he has devoted his life. There are
5000 little orphans in this home, from two
to four years old. which will be given to
good Catholic families who will take them
until they are 21. or II they prove I'M
satisfactory the home will take them back
Word can be left at the rectory II any
good family desires to take one of these
children.
Brattleboro enjoyed its full share OF the
January hot wave. Sunday was like
dav I'm June and everybody got out to
enjoy the warm sunshine. leaving their
wraps at home. Monday and Tuesday
were mild. but dense fog made 1t un-
pleasant to be out door. During the
three days all the snow in the streets
and on the lawns melted and the spring.
like conditions caused the caterpillars to
crawl out OF their hiding places and buds
to burst into flower. One person picked
a pansy from his flower garden and
another a mayflower in full bloom.
]. It. Hildreth and w. II. Heywood
have filed objections this week to the dis
solution of the Brattleboro Overall COM
pany as a Vermont corporation. The
company moved to Keene n short time
ago and was Incorporated under the laws
of New Hampshire, and In December It
asked the court of chancery to dissolve
the Vermont company. Creditors were
given to Feb. l to file objections Mr..
Hildreth claims that the company leased
his factory for 10 years and occupied it
but about three years and that 1t owes
him rent at the rate OF about S66 a
month for the period of the lease. Mr.
Haywood guaranteed Mr.. Hildreth that
the lease would be carried out, and he
objects to having the corporation dis
solved until he is released from his obli-
CATION to Mr. Hlldreth. The matter will
come before the county court at the April
term II. G. Barber is counsel for Mr.
Hildreth and A. F. Schwenk is counsel
for Mr. Haywood.
Anita Rio after five years of successful
concert and oratorio work. will devote
herself to grand opera for which she is
admirably fitted. She has just left New
York on her final tour which will include
Brattleboro on Feb. 20, with the Choral
union. Brattleboro needs to wake up to
the fact that this artist is to appear here
then and that she will be accompanied by
the Stewart Festival orchestra of Bos-
ton. OF the latter Philip Hale. the mu-
steal critic, unhesltatingly says: 1t is
the best aggregation of nine players of
which have any knowledge" OF Rio her
self, the conservative Boston Transcript
recently has said: Miss Rio made an in
slant success and left a deep and abiding
impression of her exquisitely perfect vo-
She seems to be simply per-
feet at all points and has her wonderful
voice so well in control that 1t seems at
times that 1t We're a silver trumpet thrust
ing forth her tones with exactly the
amount of force and color required"
Application has been made to the New
secretary OF state this week
for a charter for 1.-THE DR.. E. r. Lynch
Hospital Association to establish and
a hospital in Brattleboro. and
articles of association have been filed with
the secretary of state. The incorporators
are DR., e. r. Lynch, Fred C. Gale, Mrs.
Fred c. Gale. Frank II. Howard and
Myron p. Davis. 1t is necessary to have
hve incorporators in order to obtain a
charter. but those principally interested
financially are DIR. Lynch, Mr. Gale and
Mr., Howard. Mr.. Davis will be clerk
ana treasurer of the corporation. Nego-
iiations were in progress for the lease or
of the Melrose hotel in West
Brattleboro, the intention being to adapt
{ to hospital requirements. but the own
er, Mrs. Levi ], Strong, who is EMPLOYED
n The Lexington hotel in Summerland
). C., refused to lease the building, and
It meeting of those interested Wednes-
lay night the proposition of buying 1t was
considered and IL was decided finally TO
abandon the Merose project and 10 huild
modern hospital building the coming
'pring.