Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-03-04

Wantastiuuet lodge. l. q. q. r.. will
work the intiatory degree Monday even
ing.
The odd Fellows will hold the 18th
dance in the series next Friday night.
Both halls will be open. There will be
the usual music.
No stereopticon lecture was given in
the Universalist church Sunday evening
on account of the no-license rally in the
| Auditorium. Next Sunday evening the
| lecture will be on Sweden. and about 100
| finely-colored slides will be shown.
The matinee for Hadley's moving pic
| lures in the Auditorium next Wednes-
| day will not begin until o'clock, and will
| last two full hours This arrangement Is
| to make 1t possible for al the school
children to attend. The admission for
| the children will be the unique price of s
| cents and an apple.
| The next meeting OF the Brattleboro
| Womans club will be held in the Uni
| versalst church Wednesday at o'clock
| Austin Foster Halves, state forester will
deliver a lecture on forestry in Vermont
| The lecture will be illustrated by stere-
| optcon views. The public will be ad-
mitted on payment Of the usual guest
| fee.
Sydney H. Nixon, who bought Henry
| r. Browns harness store in the Raw
| building some time ago, has recently
| come here from Port Chester n. Y. and
| has taken personal charge of the store
| He brought with him a large stock of
| goods which lie owned in Port Chester
| lie makes his appearance among the ad-
| vertisers in The Phoenix this week and
! announces a special sale of robes, blan-
| kets, etc
| The greatest play produced in years,
| George Broadhursts wonderful success
| the Auditorium Saturday evening March
! -, under the special direction of VIM
| A. Brady and JOS r. Grismer. George
| Broadhurst has put into the four acts
of this play a strength or power. a
realism that makes it a lesson and a
sermon against the condition of affairs
| that are found almost in every city
The Western Union Telegraph company
will begin handling soon, probably March
| IA, long night messages at greatly reduced
| rates, 50wOrd message going at the rate
| for which 10-wOrd message is handled
now. The messages will be written on
| blanks prepared for the purpose. and they
must be written in plain English, no code
| word or foreign word messages being ac-
cepted at the reduced rate Messages will
| be sent during the night, to be delivered
next morning. The Western Union COM
! pany has a large mileage of wire idle
| during the night and the purpose is to
give the public the benefit of it. Tele-
phone subscribers will nave the privilege
| of giving their messages over the tele-
phone If desired, to be settled for monthly
The management Of the Snowflake corn
canning factory has been making arrange
-ments for the crop the coming season.
| Already about 400 acres of corn have been
| contracted for, and this will be about as
much as the Brattleboro cannery can
handle well. The farmers were well sat e.
isiied with their returns last year, and it
| was easy TO secure the desired acreage
for the coming season. Last year the
| cannery paid SIG ton for the corn de-
| livered at the cannery, an advance Of 50
a ton over former years. This price was
kept In force this year. Last year the
corn crop turned out far better than was
| expected and the farmers received more
an acre for their corn than they ever
had received before. They are looking
forward to another prosperous season
A suit for damages in the sum of
800 900 has been brought by H. E. Eddy
and c. c. Fits in behalf of David NJ
| Morris of Rockingham against the Union
| SoapStone company of Chester and the
| Travellers Insurance company Mr. Nor
ris was injured by a blast at the Soap
| stone company's works March II, 1902
| as result of which he is totally blind
| He was then 10 years old. He alleges
| that he was directed by the foreman
| Ernest Marble, to pick out, break and
| remove stone and rock and clear up after
| a blast and that by reason thereof a
| quantity of dynamite which was left in
| the rock and stone exploded wholly with
| out his fault and that a large amount OF
| rock. gravel and sand, was blown against
and into his head, face ana eyes, throw
| ing him with great violence against the
! Lodges of the quarry rendering him blind
ana iniictinE Internal injuries He says
| that Marble ought to have known that
! the dynamite was in the stone. but that
! Marble was inexperienced, careless un-
! suitable and incompetent. 1t is further
| alleged that the Travellers Insurance COM
pany had in force a policy insuring the
Soapstone company against liability for
! injuries TO its employers. whereby il be-
came liable for the damages to the
plaintif.
\ meeting of the board of civil author
| ity was held Saturday to revise the check
list, and an interesting discussion came
! up on the eligibility of young men who
| mad become 81 years old since the last
| town meeting. The name of +. w. Sharp
was placed on the list he having paid
| property tax in BrattlebOro the past year
although not a resident April /. Then
| the question of allowing the young men
| to vote came up. Section 24l6 of the
| Public Statutes says: "A male citizen. Of
| years of age, whose list is taken in
! town at the annual assessment preceding
| a town meeting, and whose tax or taxes
| due such town are paid, or who is ex-
| empt from taxation from any cause, shall
| while residing in such town be a voter
| in town meetings" The young men in
| question, of whom there were several
had not been listed, and the question
| hinged on the meaning of the word
exempt" Those in favor of allowing
them to vote argued that they were
exempt at the last assessment because
they were not 81. but the majority held
that TO be exempt meant to be relieved
of some obligation through an act of the
legislature and that the young men never
had been under obligation to pay taxes.
The same question came up again Mon
day ana it was decided in the same way
by vote of 10 to .. and applications were
denied No question would have been
raised mad the coming meeting been a
freemens meeting.
Washington Trip Plans Completed.
Arrangements have been completed for
the high school senior class trip to Wash