Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-08
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

Daniel Mccarthy Of Turner'S Falls has
sold his black trotting mare to Conrad
Miner.
A regular mceting of the w c. r. L.
will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3
O'Clock in room in Emerson building.
The Grange Dramatic club will meet
Feb IA. The literary program which will
be given will be in charge of state Master
Pierce.
Chief Engineer Sanders. on examining
the MIGRANTS about the village few days
ago, found that six were frozen. The
others were i'm good condition.
The Modern Woodmen of America will
have "A dance at the Centrevine rink Tues
day evening, Feb. 70. Waless orchestra
will furnish music. Everybody is invited.
A. V. May has taken the local agency
for the American Surety company of New
York. a concern with $4,000, 600 capital,
which makes speciality of furnishing
surety bonds.
The selectmen announce that they will
make no charge for the use of the hall
for the high school fair-a very proper
recognition of the efforts of the young folk
in their own behalf.
The reflection from the burning hotel
in Surry n. H.. was so bright in the
eastern sky Monday night that many
people supposed the fire was on the gulf
road in Chesterfield.
\ special train will return from Bellows
Falls next Thursday night at the close Of
the district Masonic meeting and arrange
ments may be made for a special to 90
| from here at l in the afternoon.
The first Of series of lectures and
demonstra tons on First Aid to the In
iured" will be given at s O'Clock Tuesday
| evening in the Baptist chapel under the
auspices of the young peoples union.
DR.. c. r. Anderson will be the speaker.
Durham Brothers statesmen. who visited
| the companys factory i'm Mishawaka,
Ind, reached home Saturday A two
days school Of instruction was held at
! the factory. An elaborate banquet was
| arranged by the Mishawaka companys
| officials. with the Durham Brothers
! statesmen as guests of honor, at the oliver
hotel in South Bend
Tickets for the town meeting are under
frequent discussion. The present select
! men will be candidates for reelection.
| There have been suggestions of new
| ticket headed by G. O. Robbins Mr.. Rob
| bins declined to discuss the situation to-
! day. Geo. +. Fox, who has been mention
| ed. as a prospective candidate, says that
| under no condition would he accept the
| Office OF scleCtman.
Or. f. II. O'Connor. district deputy Of
/ the knights Of Columbus. went TO Bur
] llIElbU W tbIltSutN llElli Will HIS i'El''
| team and exemplfed the third degree in
/ a meeting Of de Goesbriand council Of
! that town Forty candidates took the de-
| gree and there were about 400 members
! present. The members of the degree
/ team from Brattleboro who went We're
| John r. Kaine. ]. II. Burke, G. +. Mann,
Edward Condor. John Calvin, J. J.
! Eckels
Col. Ernest W. Gibson sent in a request
! to be relieved from duty as captain Of
! Company | to Adjutant General w. II.
! Gilmore yesterday. He feels that his work
| will not permit him to take such an
| active part in the militia and there is n
question as TO his holding two commits
! sions from the governor. He has com
| mission as colonel on the governors stan.
and also the commission as captain. He
! has been connected with the militia 10
years and has served as captain OF Cam
| pany | three years. Gen. Gilmore will
appoint time for an election by the com
pany and the man they select will be
given a commission by Gov. Proctor.
News has been received of the sudden
| death in Warren, Mass, yesterday morn
ing of Mrs. Mary Draper. wife OF DIR.
| O. w. Phelps. a practicing physician OF
that place Mrs. Phelps was the sister OF
| the late DR.. Joseph Draper, Superintcnd-
ent of the Brattleboro Retreat She was
for term Of years the matron OF the Re
treat and held that position at the time
| OF her marriage to DIT. Phelps then an
assistant physician at the institution.
DR.. and Mrs. Phelps were first in Bellows
| Falls after leaving Brattleboro and went
to Warren in 1891 Besides her husband,
| Mrs Phelps is survived by one son, Olney
| Draper Phelps who took his college
course at Dartmouth and is now in his
senior year in the medical school of that
college Mrs. Phelps's body will be
brought to Brattleboro for burial Monday
Herbert & Yeaw was struck over the
forehead yesterday by a piece Of frozen
gravel. following the discharge of
dynamite cartridge at the gravel pit near
the George Walker farm on the Putney
road He was knocked unconscious and
a Jagged wound over two inches long was
cut in his head. =. S. Games road COM
missioner, brought the wounded man 10
the village as soon as possible. Mr.. Heaw
bled profusely, was distressed and In a
dazed condition. He was taken 10 the
Memorial hospital where his wound was
dressed. 1t is thought that the injury is
not serious The dynamite cartridges
are used under the frozen crust to break
up the gravel Usually the gravel is
thrown into the air in loose mass, but on
this occasion solid lump about the
size of a hens egg struck Mr.. Yeaw, who
was six or eight rods from the pit,
farther away than Mr. Eames and other
employees of the road department Mr..
Yeaw formerly lived in Dover He has
been employed by Mr.. Eames in the work
on the road since last spring. His home
, is on Forest street