Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-12-07

| post q. A. X, VIII hold It's annual meet
ing for the election Of officers Thursday
evening, Dec. 49, The sewing circle will
meet in the afternoon.
The next meeting of the New England
| Order of Protection will be held next
Wednesday night. A large class will be
! initiated, and 1t is expected that supreme
'and grand officers will be present.
The ladies' of st. Michaels Episcopal
! church will give n stereopticon enter
| tainment at the home of Mrs George
| Tyler on Tyler street Dec IL at o'clock.
Fancy and useful articles will be on sale.
The next Masonic social under the au-
spices Of the Eastern STAR will be given
at Masonic hail next Wednesday even
| ing, Dec. 70. Leitsinger's orchestra will
furnish music for the dancing, which will
begin at 8 o'clock.
Crosby & Parker will complete the
work of laying a water main on Union hill
by the middle of next week. Their work
subsequent to that will depend somewhat
upon the nature of the charter amend
ments enacted by the legislature.
@The ladies' society of the First Baptist
| church will hold their annual chicken pie
supper in Grange hall Thursday evening
| Dec. 10. Supper will be served at $50
and there will be sale Of useful and
| fancy articles and home made candy.
Bradstreets report, in its Vermont
| statement for this week. contains the fol-
| lowing: "Brattleboro reports prosperous
conditions among all lines of manufac-
| turers and general mercantile trade is
| good. Farmers are receiving good prices
for produce"
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
| state Grange will be held in Burlington
next Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday.
A delegation from Brattleboro and Wind
ham county will attend, leaving home
| Monday. Present indications are That
George w. Pierce of Brattleboro will be
| elected master to succeed Charles ]. Bell,
who has held the chair IL years.
Edgar s. Robinson, fireman In the Har-
mony building, met with severe injuries
| Saturday evening at his home on Highland
avenue While going down stairs he
made a mlsstep and fell some distance
| injuring his back and dislocating his
shoulder. He is recovering and expects
| to return to his work In two or three
weeks. George Lowell is taking his place.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
East society will be held in the Congre-
! gational vestry next Wednesday evening
! at 1870 O'clock Officers will be elected
and provision win be made for the ex-
| penses OF the coming year. On the same
evening at o'clock the annual rental of
pews will be held in the church. 1t is
|
ance on each occasion.
Sheriff C. I. Knapp was called to Gull
! ford Tuesday evening to arrest Frank
Germs, a farm hand who was making a
| disturbance. He was brought here and
| placed in the lookup. In the morning.
when arraigned before Justice A. c.
| Spencer, he pleaded guilty to a charge of
intoxication and was fined IS and costs,
amounting to $12.39. which he was UNI
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sent to Newfane for a month.
There was large attendance at the
meeting of the woman's auxiliary of the
Y. NJ. C. A Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
| H. A. Goodhue led the devotional service
| and gave a very helpful talk. After the
business meeting there was an excellent
musical program, in charge of Mrs. W. II
Bond. consisting of violin solos by Miss
Maizie Calvin and Rodney HaIgh, piano
solos by Miss Marion Wilcox and Miss
Ellen Sherman, and songs by Mrs. Ar
thur Brasor.
David Carlisle, a lumberman from
Chesterfield. came here Saturday after
noon with two mates. and four quarts OF
liquor which he says came from Boston
The supply OF drink proved inadequate
and was replenished by trip to Guilford
Late In the evening officer Thayer found
Carlisle asleep In the alley between the
Grange block and the Chinese laundry
and placed him in the lookup. Monday
morning he pied guilty to a charge OF in.
uo0lication before Judge William S. New.
ton and was fined IS and costs which hi.
comrades paid.
horse owned by Groceryman f. C
Clark scattered a load of empty boxe,
promiscuously on the ground at the soutl
end of the Brooks House archway Wed
nesday afternoon. The wagon to which
the horse was attached in the rear o
the grocery store was nearly filled whei
passing team knocked one of the boxe
of the load. 1t fell against Mr.. Clark
horse, and the animal got under way II
short order. wheel struck against
corner OF the arch, emptying the wagon
Harry Adams, who was following clos
behind, caught the horse on Main street
George Geer of New London the fireman
who was killed on the Vermont Contra
, freight train which was wrecked nea
Montville, Conn, Friday morning, was
! son Of William Geer, extra conductor OF
the southern division of the Central Yer
mont road. The young man was we'll
known by the local railroad employees. TIL
: train on which he was fireman was mad
up here and had been placed on a sidjnl
at Montville to allow the northbounl
passenger to pass. The switch was lief
open and the passenger train collided witt
: the freight as 1t stood on the siding. Sew
Oi al pdSSSHBSiS WtEc StNtTtly shaken Du
] none were fatally injured. Frank Akin
son, the brakeman who was supposed L
/ have attended the switch until the north
bound train had passed, was caught be
tween two freight cars and Injured s.
: that one of his legs had to be amputated
5 A decision has been given by Judg
Loyeland Munson. of the Vermont su
! preme court, in the case of the appeal o
4 VIII Carleton of Brooklyn, the author
: from the allowance by the commissioner
; of the claim of Dr. Edwards S. Niles O
. Boston against the estate of the lat
Adora Niles Carleton. The appeal was al
lowed by the probate court in May. TIL
defendant, Miles, asked the supreme cour
! to dismiss the action on the ground tina
3 the appeal was insufficient. The cour
; overrules the petition to dismiss and al
+ lows the plaintiff to file amended appea
: papers. Adora Niles Carleton was tn
Y wife of VIII Carleton and sister of Di
r Niles. They owned a small house an
e some land I'm Halifax now valued at abou
;, $500. Mrs. Carleton owned one third an
= DR.. Niles owned Two thirds. After Mrs
n | Cartoons death DIR. Niles presented
; claim against her estate for $14S2. 40 70
g money expended, care of the place, i'm
e provements, ETC., from May ~, 1869, (
e Dec 81, 1905. The commissioners Above
n the claim. The case will now be tried b
C the county court. F. e Barber of Brat
tleboro and Pingree & Pingree of Whit
e River Junction are counsel for Mr.. earle