Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-02

practically $40
Bingham chapter, order of Eastern
Star, win hold a regular meeting Tuesday
evening. There will be initiation
The final meeting OF the creditors Of
b. A. Coddlng of Bellows Falls was
scheduled to be held i'm the office of
Referee f. ID. E. Stowe Monday, but no
creditor appeared,
An additional telephone circuit has been
established between Brattleboro and Spot
ford, N. H., to meet the increased de-
mand at the summer resorts, but the con-
nections will not be made at present.
Arguments in the case of Holden e.
Martin against John Gilfeather were
made before the supreme court last Fri
day, Il. l.. Waterman appearing for the
Plaintiffs and Frank l.. Barber for the
defendant.
Physical culture classes for both men
and women wire started by ]. II. y.
Brown, the physical culture expert, in
Odd Fellows hall Monday evening. The
classes will meet Nc nday, Wednesday and
Friday evenings.
Edward Fletcher of Brattleboro and
Capt. Frank Foster of Spofford are
owners of ice sail boats on Spofford lake.
The ice on the lake has been free from
snow and has afforded an excellent op-
portunity for skating and sailing.
T. N. Lynde corralled a bunch of IL
lively grasshoppers on the F. Il. Dickinson
farm Monday and sent them to this Office
TO be brought up. The office boy will do
the best he can with them, but we suspect
they will find it a hard cold world before
the June bugs come to join them.
Donald James Fraser, 16 months son
Of Mr. and Mrs, Alton Fraser of Jersey
Shore, Pa, died Friday of spinal menlngi-
tbs and Inflammation of the bowels The
body was brought to Brattleboro by Mr..
Fraser Tuesday and was placed in the
mausoleum In Morningside cemetery. Rev.
A. H. Webb, pastor of the Methodist
church, officiated at the committal SER
vice.
DIR. H. d. Holton, secretary of the
state tuberculosis commission, has le-
ceived dozen or more applications from
persons who wish to occupy positions
in the Proctor .sanatorium, from the
superintendent down. A number of
plans for the building, which will be
erected in Pittsford the coming season.
have been submitted by architects and
some Of the building material has been
bought.
The funeral of Charles Sherman of
Keene was held at his late home in that
city at l o'clock Sunday. Six members
of Wa1tastiquet lodge of Odd Fellows of
bItltleDOIO, W. j. CdlIl, y. Ia. OCDD, "A. j.
Currier, G. e. Sturges S. NJ. Yeaw and
August Rohde, were present, also Mr.
and Mrs. Warner Spear, Mrs. ]. T.
Hildreth and Mrs. L. e. Holden Mr.
Sherman was a member of Wantastiquet
lodge 80 years.
Arthur Langille of Highland street, a
house cleaner, left home Saturday on ac-
count of some disagreement and was not
heard from until Sunday night, when lie
was located at the home of his uncle IN
-Hinsdale, N. H.. by Night Waterman Will
liam Warren. For the past year Langille
has not been in good health. AS he did
not return home Saturday night his father
spent the night searching for him in the
woods with a lantern. Officers hunted for
him all day Sunday.
Rev. DIR. Albert G. Lawson. who has
been preaching in the First Baptist church
in Springfield, Mass, five months preach
ed his last sermon there for the present
last Sunday He has come to Brat
tleboro to live with his son, Rev. George
b. Lawson. The Springfield Republican, n,
in its issue of Monday, said: Or. Law
sons preaching has been much ap-
preciated by the members of the church.
lie is man with wide experience, and
something was always to be gained by
listening to his sermons"
The selectmen held regular meeting
Saturday and discussed the question of
standing for reelection. They decided
collectively to become candidates for
another term. No names have been
mentioned in opposition to the present
board, and no fault-finding has been heard
concerning the work of the board the past
year. The board voted to ask the Brat
tieboro Gas Light company to put 10
incandescent lights en- Western avenue
In place of the three arc lights now
located there.
Manager Lawrence X. Barber of The
Dial, the Brattleboro high school paper,
says the paper has not enough sub
scribers to support 1t. The Dial makes
an appeal to friends of the enterprise to
help along a good cause by giving their
support now. If any more money Is re-
celVed than is necessary to pay bills the
management promises to start q fund
for building to be dedicated exclusively
to the high school for the use of the
athletic teams, a gymnasium for boys
and girls, hall for class gatherings.
scciables and dances, and similar uses.
Department Commander Seymour IL.
Wood has issued general orders No. 9 en-
bodying the program of the annual en-
oampment of the Grand Army of the Re
public, department of Vermont to be
held in Burlington. beginning Feb 20.
Section No. of the order calls attention
to the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
Birth on Feb. ~ and of George Washing
tens birth on Feb. %, saying that they
should be appropriately celebrated and
directing that Grand Army posts render
AL aid possible to the public schools
and patriotic societies in the proper OBJ
servance of these occasions"
The benevolent gifts of the Centre Con-
gregational church and its different
organizations in 1905 amounted to
S2O69.S2, divided as follows: Home mis-
sions, $5O9.25; American Missionary as
ISOLATION, $2S7.s5; Congregational Educa-
ton society, $S3.49; Church Building So
ciety, S7S.25; Sunday School and Publish
ing society, s4S.43; foreign missions.
SSl4.3S; ministerial aid, $50 30; Kurn Hat
tin Homes, $40; Vermont Bible society.
S2O72; Brattleboro Associated Charities,
S45l3; the. poor of the parish and town.
S4S47S, of which $265 came from the
Chaplin fund; Atlanta university, $47.64;
Hampton institute, $50; Mr.. Arrighi's
Italian Sunday school, New York. $25:
all other objects. $S4. The current ex-
penses of the ecclesiastical society were
sS646.O4, and 1852. 80 was spent on special
repairs, making a total expenditure of
$729S. sc.
The masquerade ball in Festival hall
Monday night by F. c. Leitsinger and s.
w. Knight was successful both socially
and financially. The gallery was crowded
with spectators and about rs couples
participated in the dance. The stage. on
which the members of Leitsingers orchss-
ira were seated, was decorated with
palms, and stresmers of white and yellow
extended frOm tha obapdalia, - a..