Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-10-18

G. b. Beasley, employed at the Brat
! tleboro Cabinet company works, ran a
| chlsel through his wrist Saturday, inflict-
ing a wound that has kept him from
working since.
stephen McFee of this town pleaded
guilty to a charge of intoNicatiol in
! municipal court Monday morning and
was fined the usual So and costs. which
| he paid.
on account of the large attendance L.
| Wales's childrens class in dancing will
| be held hereafter in Grange han begin
ming tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon. Mr..
| Wales's evening class will continue to
meet in odd Fellows hall.
The employees Of the Hooker, Corser &
| Mitchell company factory presented
gold watch chain and Masonic charm
| and a gold stick pin to Clayton S. Dan
iels. who recently finished work at the
factory, as testimonials of their regard
julius Dorman was before Judge Glib
son of the municipal court Wednesday
night on a charge Of breach Of the peace,
| the specific charge being that he swore
at a woman in the watercure building.
| Complaint was made to Chief Of Police
James II. Evans, who secured a writ and
arrested him. He was fined So and costs,
amounting to 5000, which he paid.
In a meeting of the Brattleboro teach
ers in the high school building Friday
L
| ening a new interest i'm nature study
| among the children. A plan was outlined
whereby the teachers in the various
schools should be furnished with ma
terial from the woods for study by the
children and for Is minute talks to be
held at intervals as convenient
Rev. Father Thomas ODonoghue,
curate of St. Michaels Roman Catholic
church, will go next week to Poultney.
where he will have charge of a parish.
| Father . Donoghue has been curate here
about two years and has made a circle
of friends much wider than the parish
bounds who will regret his going while
they rejoice at his entering a field of
such promise as his new parish
Before the windham county court took
its recess last Saturday Orlln II. Ellis
of Brattleboro was placed under bonds
of $1,000 to appear when wanted to be
tried on an indictment charging him with
selling liquor in Vermont Ellis was
partner of f. c. Gale in the so-caled
brewery business on the island several
years ago and last year and the year
before was proprietor OF the Broad Brook
House in Guilford.
The new edifce Of All Souls church.
Watertown, n. Y, of which the Rev. DR..
NJ. II. Harris. formerly Of Brattleboro, is
the minister. was dedicated on Friday,
Oct 4. The building Is Of brownstone
| ana IN architectural ueSlBnt ana IN IN
| terror arrangement, finish, decoration and
furnishing II is accounted one OF the
most beautiful and artistic, as II is one
of the most substantial church ediflces
of the country.
The BARRIERS did not organize the local
branch of the jouueym6n BARRIERS assoc
citation Sunday as expected as not enough
of the journeyman BARRIERS would promise
to Join. The association requires a GER
| tain number a. u1pTOhars hpfo will
sanction the formation OF local union
and the promoters OF the plan in Brat
tleboro have not succeeded in getting the
required number. II more agree to join
later a meeting viii be called ana a
definite organization effected
The village bailns. in a meeting Fri
: day night. appointed Joseph Brockington
as superintendent of the fire alarm tele-
graph 20 succeed Carl W. HenkeL Mr.
: | Brockington is employed by the Twin
q. State Gas and Electric company and is
. in "A position TO give good service and
5 put the fire alarm system in proper
= shape. There has been much dissatis-
s faction with the way in which the fire
( Alarms have worked or failed to work
!, in the past year and 1t is the intention OF
| | the bailifts to put the system above the
L reach of all just criticism.
The 1000 feet OF new fire hose ordered
! by the board of bailiffs several months
ago to replace hose found to be defective
arrived this week and was placed In the
Elliot street engine house. This hose Is
/ | of the best quality made, the bailifs
n | found by experience that II was more
9 | economical in the end to pay the higher
: price. Hose OF this same make has beer
: | in use In the Brattleboro fire department
many years and is still In good order
4 | while some of a cheaper make bought
, more recently became so leaky that II
had to be discarded. The new hose cost
i | $3.50 but II will outlast several times
e over the cheaper quality that could have
2 been bought at about 500. besides being
! able to stand unusual strains and hard
{ | usage in an emergency,
n James Joseph Moylan. %. son Of Mr.
; and Mrs. Michael Moylan OF u Vernon
e street died suddenly Wednesday after
$ noon. He had been in poor health sew.
i eral years but had been about as usual
= He was left alone Wednesday Afternoon
r and when his sisters returned about 5 &c
. o'clock they found him in a dying con.
, dition. He lived about half an hour after
= their return He was born in Brattle-
boro and had always lived here. Besides
his parents he leaves two sisters, May
, X. and Margaret A. Moylan, both of this
town. The funeral was held this morning
9 at o'clock in ST, Anchaers Roman Cath
. ole church and the burial was in the
Catholic cemetery.
|
r Johnson, members of the consolidated
y stock exchange in New York, early in the
t week had a direct effect on the branch
= of |. NJ. Taylor * Co, in this town as
r they We're correspondents Of the failing
:. firm. The interests of all Brattleboro pa
!. irons were protected by l. NJ. Taylor &
d Co., and no one here will lose as a result
r of the failure whatever settlement /.
!. made. The business of the BrattleborC
i branch is seriously handicapped by the
= failure, however, as all operations have
to be carried on through outside houses
. The operator, George Bancroft, was re-
; leased yesterday and returned to Spring
y field. 1t is hoped that the affair will be-
3 adjusted shortly so that business may
I be resumed on a normal basis within g
I few days.
7, David S. Carey, baggage master at the
: Central Vermont station, watched the
y tearing up of a section of the depor
I planking yesterday afternoon with ar
n eagle eye and when a certain section
n had been reached he came over, poket
= about a bit in the dirt and unearthed o
n silver half dollar. The men were some
= what mystifed until he explained that
n about six months ago he saw a drummer
i drop the coin on the platform, when II
e perversely rolled straight to a large
o crack and fell through. He noted the
| Mo nd oil he 10 a.,Ak