Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-12

Auditorium next Monday evening.
The funeral of Ransel j. Frost. 76, who
died in Readsboro, was held Wednesday
in the home of his daughter. Mrs Charles
d. Noyes, in Corain, Mass.
j. S. Hunt who has brought the sun
day newspapers from Millers Falls to
Brattleboro, has sold the route and his
Mllers Falls.
Charles w Pollard of Rockingham filed
a petition in bankruptcy in the United
States district court Tuesday morning
The schedule showed liabilities of SAYS
and assets of SIS, which were claimed 10
be exempt. He is a laborer.
An absolutely new type of rural COM
edy character is that of Hen Parrott,'
the amateur country detective, who causes
most of the whirlwind of laughs with
which every performance of the latest
New York success, The Choir Singer
is greeted The play will be the attrac-
ton in the Auditorium Monday evening,
April 10.
In the adjourned annual meeting of the
Baptist church Friday night e. j. Eddy
was elected deacon in place of George S.
Phillips, who was elected In the regular
meeting the Wednesday previous but de-
clined to serve. general satisfactory
condition in the church was shown by the
remainder of the reports from the officers
and committees which were read in the
adjourned meeting.
Rev. Delmas +. Trout of Tufts college
has written a letter definitely accepting
the call recently extended to him by the
Universalist church. 1t was read In the
morning service Sunday. He will COM
plete his course of eight years special
preparation for the ministry in the Tufts
college divinity school in June and will
take full charge of the parish July l. He
will preach next Sunday and from time
to time as opportunity offers until he is
able to come here and settle.
The Twin State Gas and Electric COM
pany moved from its Office in the Crosby
block Tuesday and opened up for bust
ness in the new quarters in the American
building Wednesday. The fixtures have
not all arrived for the Office and the main
desk with grillwork is not in place but
will be ready soon. The front of the new
quarters will be brilliantly lighted by
big arc light a big gas light and there
will be little difficulty in finding the Of
flee if anyone heads for the brightest
spot on Brattleboro's streets.
st. Michaers court, Catholic Order of
Foresters, held a pleasant box party
Tuesday evening a close to the series
of social evenings this season. The boxes
| were auCtiOned off by John Calvin and
| brought big prices, the sale arousing
much amusement. The latter part Of
! the evening was spent in dancing to
| music by Wales's orchestra. The prizes
! for the series of whist parties held this
| season were announced as follows: First
| II. b. Haus and Miss Harriet Lyons; sec
! ond, ID. S. Carey. There was tie for
the second woman's prize which will be
| decided later.
John Calvin, chairman of the board of
village bailiffs, has had occasion 10 look
| up the figures in regard to fire alarms
| and fire losses in Brattleboro in the past
| IL years. He finds that 141 calls were
| received at the engine house and that the
total losses aggregated 1874, 600 which is
an average loss of about 1870 for each
call. The combined losses at two fires
| was $50, 900, and in these instances there
| were good reasons why the department
was unable to control the flames Aside
from these two fires the average loss for
each call was about $500 In the 14l calls
| Is included a. still alarms for which the
aggregate loss was $42. or less than 81
loss for each alarm.
DR.. George r. Anderson gave the last
in his series of talks on first aid to the
injured in the Baptist chapel Monday
evening. He took up poisons and theiI
antidotes and the removal of foreign bod
les in the eye, ear, nose and throat As
in all the previous lectures the subjects
were demonstrated by practical examples
on some of those present He took VI
poisons, both those taken internally ant
those from external causes, giving II
each case simple antidotes which are t
be found in any household, The serie:
of lectures proved of great interes
and the attendance and interest KEEP
up until the end of the course. DIR
Anderson's way of presenting the subjec
has been particularly clear and his direc
tions have been of a simple characte
| n.Ii n1 foil
The repairs and alterations in Arthu
d. WAITS Photographic studio have beel
completed and it is now equipped will
unusually complete arrangements 70
l modern Photographic work. The partition
between the main reception room and tn
studio has been moved forward and tw'
finely appointed dressing rooms and
toilet room have been installed in III
space thus made. A skylight has beel
put in, making all three light and airy
| The studio and workroom are as befor
, with the addition of hardwood floors. Tn
interior of the rooms have been completed
redecorated and the furniture and foo
coverings are all new. The main recep
ton room is finished in attractive gree
burlap wainscotting with dull red abov
and white wood work. The hallway ha
been greatly improved by being mad
= larger and by the addition of a balus
2 | trade
Lawyers from all over Windhar
county congregated at the railroad sta
= ton Tuesday morning to take the specia
L train for the sitting of the county cour
in Newfane. Most of those from tn
northern part of the county came tn
1 night before and stayed over night /
town. Someone raised a false alarr
< about $50 o'clock Tuesday morning tina
: the train was likely to go out any tim
e and the attorneys grabbed their grips an
started. There was no danger of bein
Il left as, apart from them, there was n
one to run the train for and the specii
could not go out until the regular Yves
# River morning train came in. A fe'
a minutes before 10 o'clock they all pile
n into the one coach and left Bratteboro /
l. peace. A partial census of the crowd in
q Dictated that only one lawyer remained 1
Il Bratteboro.
e Prof, L. A. Butterfield gave a talk o
It Some Theories of Ether Vibration" /
e the meeting of the Professional club Nor
= spoke at length on the theories of ligl
): and sound waves and in conclusion spoh
d of the theories which had been advance
:, concerning telepathy and kindred sui
3. jects He advanced a theory concernin
?. the transmission of mental impression
l. correlating II in a general way with II
d better understood laws of sound and ligl
:. wave transmission. The progress
s. psychical research in the past few yea
u has been marvellous and he felt that
= time the subjects which were recognize
only dimly now would be understood az