Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-05
BRATTLEBORO.


the government.
Caspar N. Morans house on Chestnut
street was sold Friday to AXel w. Larson.
Possession was given April l.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
board of trade will be held in Grange
hail next tuesday evening at $50.
Tickets are now on sale for the exhibit
tions of hypnotism, which Prescelle Will
give in the Auditorium each evening next
week.
e. S. Hall has already broken ground
for the house which he will build on the
lot on Western avenue bought Of ID. ).
Pratt last week.
Rev. L. NJ. Keneston has resigned the
superintendency of the town school dis
trict after four years of service. Inc
school directors have not met to act
upon the resignation and the question of
Mr.. Kenestons successor.
e. Wales's annual reception and eXhi-
bItion by his dancing classes will attract
a large audience to Festival hall this
evening The hall will be handsomely
decorated and the classes will appear in
costume in several pretty dances.
Arthur p. Simonds has bought the So
called Stoddard house on Western avenue
of p Fleming and Mrs Bridget Wood.
Mr. Smonds plans to occupy the entire
house as a residence as soon as it is va
Gated by the present tenants.
The Ladies' Catholic Benevolent asso-
citation held the last in its series of whist
parties for the season in Grand Army
hall Tuesday evening. The first prizes
were won by Miss Aurilla Bean and by
George Rate and the consolation prizes
by May Fitzgerald and Frank Connors.
There was a good attendance.
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county road commissioners will open in
Festival hall Friday. April II, at 1870.
There will also be an afternoon session.
While the meetings are primarily for the
road commissioners and selectmen all per-
sons interested in good roads are urged
to attend. c. W. Gates, state commits
sioner, WI. make helpful suggestions.
The Womans club spent a pleasant
afternoon Wednesday with Miss Susan
Clark in her West Bratteboro home
After the usual business meeting, Mrs
Kate Marsh Cone of Hartford (Vt), gave
an interesting paper on What the edu-
Gated woman can do for the country
home" She told of what had been &C
cOmplished in other places and spoke on
the life and works of Miss Harriet Mar
tineau in England She spoke of the de-
cadent town problem in Vermont and of
the great good which educated women
her practical suggestions was that women
take an active part in the library man
agement. sum not to exceed $50 was
voted by the club to be used by the civ
les committee in identifying Brattleboro
Refreshments were served in the social
hour after the meeting.
The special committee elected by the
Brattleboro society of seamstresses,
needlewomen and shop girls to secure
70 OF IL, he rio
of the sewing girls under the pro-
visions of the will of Thomas Thompson
met Friday evening and again Tuesday
evening in Donnell & Daviss store
The question of the rights of the
sewing girls in the administration
of the sewing girls in the administration
of the Thompson fund will be taken up
as an investigation, which may lead to
legal action being taken. Conferences
between the committee and counsel will
be arranged from time to time. The
question hinges largely on whether the
women who operate power machines in
the Hooker, Corser & Mitchell overall
factory come under the provisions of the
Thompson will as well as the hand work
ers about town Members of the com
mittee said last night that no counsel
had been retained.
A fire which broke out in the kitchen of
the Baptist church shortly before noon
yesterday damaged the walls of the room
slightly. The women of the church had
been there during the forenoon cleaning
up after the annual supper held in the
church the evening before, but had left
everything in good order. A little before
noon one of the daughters of c. H. Ban
croft, who lives in the parsonage, noticed
smoke coming out of the kitchen windows
and Mrs. Bancroft telephoned to the fire
station and the chemical engine was sent
to the scene. The fire was promptly ex-
tinguished and the loss was not large.
The only explanation of the fire was
that the coal hod was full of waste pa
pers and smoldering match might have
been thrown in among them. The fire
caught in the rear of the stove. The
value of the chemical engine was demon
strated at this blaze Had it been neces-
sary to turn water upon the fire the dam
age would have been large.
F. V, Norton, who came from Spring
field, Mass, to be manager of the Nor
ton Shutter Worker company, has left
town. His stenOgrapher, Miss Harriet
Lyman, who came here from Medford
has also departed Mrs. Norton went to
her home in Springfield shortly after her
husbands departure. The reason for all
three leaving came in a jar which oc-
CURED Tuesday evening about o'clock
There We're several spectators to the
scene winch was enacted on Flat street
Mrs. Norton went to the office of the
Norton Shutter Worker company in the
old pickle factory building a little before
o'clock. She found the door locked and
raped for admittance. Her repeated rap
pings brought her husband to the door.
He kicked her off the steps and struck
her. Mr.. Norton and the stenographer
were not to be found the next day and
Mrs. Norton went to her home in Spring
field Wednesday. She refused to make |
any complaint and said that she would |
not appear in court to testify against |
him.
In the annual meeting of the Baptist |
church last Wednesday night officers for
the ensuing year were elected as follows:
Clerk, Fred S. Knight; collector, e. ].
Eddy; treasurer, A. l.. Harris; auditor, |
H. F. c. Toedt; deacons for three years,
8. Wilcox, G. S. Phillips; trustees for |
three years, Col. j. Gray Estey, A. L. |
Maynard; trustee for two years, II. b. |
Chamberlain; trustee for one year, A. f. |
Boynton; members of the prudential COM |
mittee, Mrs. l.. A Cox, Mrs. S. Wilcox. |
The trustees were elected in accordance |
with an amendment to the bylaws pro- |
viding for seven members on the board of |
trustees, two of them TO be elected each |
year and the treasurer to serve ex- |
Ofacio. Formerly there were only three |
trustees. The officers of the church made |
their reports, but the hour was so late |
when they finished that the reports from |
the various committees were postponed |
until the prayer meeting tonight The |
business meeting was held after an ex- |
cellent supper had been served by the |