Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-04-01

Of the ClawsOn- Hamilton college.
Ray Tudor pinched one finger in
planer at the Estey organ plant yester-
day afternoon, laying bare the bone.
The annual meeting Of the Brattleboro
Boat club will be held Wednesday even
ing at 7.3O o'clock in room ~, American
building.
The Grange dramatic club held a we'll
attended business meeting in Grange hall
last night. After the meeting there was
a social hour in which games were
played.
Arthur + Roberts is exhibiting in the
windows of his store a handsome collec-
ton of photographs taken by his brother,
DR.. Fred A. Roberts. during his recent
trip around the world.
The Brooks House auto-cab service
will be resumed next Tuesday morning.
The auto-cabs may be called at all hours,
day or night by telephone, and they will
run to all trains between SIS am. and
1925 pm.
The drawing of the $40 woman's
tailored suit which may be procured at
any dry goods store in town will take
place at the matinee performance of
the Klark- Urban company tomorrow,
Saturday, afternoon.
The woman's auxiliary of the Y. NJ.
c. a. will hold its annual meeting and
election of officers Tuesday al $50 o'clock
in the rest room. The officers and com
mittees will make reports. The eXcCu-
tive board viii meet at o'clock.
The Easter offerings in St Michaers
| Episcopal church amounted to $40; S27S
was a special Easter Offering, $2G was
contributed by the children of the Sun
day school from their little mite boxes,
and the remainder was given for the or
binary expenses of the parish.
II. f. Weatherhead, agent for the f. A.
Strout company, has sold this week the
Hartwell or King farm, SO called, in
Guiford, consisting of 200 acres, to VIII
liam II. Heath of Glenmont, n. Y. Mr..
Hartwell will remain there for the pres
ent, but in the fall Mr.. Heath will carry
it on as a milk farm.
The Wndham Congregational minis
ters' meeting will be held in the parlors
of Centre church. Brattleboro, Monday.
April 4, at 10 a. IN. The following Is
the assigned program: Devotion, c. c.
Macdonald, Londonderry; Biblical study.
Rev. $. L. Vincent, Windham; sermon,
John S LeFevre. Jamaica; review of
Chafer's Satan Rev. a. E. Martin, West
| TOwnshend; essay, Rev. w. j. Ballou,
| Ludlow The attendance of all ministers
supplying Congrega tional pulpts is re-
| quested.
The Boston Globe of Monday contained
picture OIL the Sprlngneld DaSketDall
! team including Carl Ellis and Wendell
Johnson of Brattleboro The stroy ac-
| campaigning the illustration said: Carl
| Ellis, left forward. has played on the
| Brattleboro Athletic club and on other
| teams and is one Of the fastest men in
| his position in this vicinity. He is quick
and is clever in lodging an opponent
| He is also a good shot. Wendell Johnson
| left guard, has played on the Brattleboro
| team, and is an excellent shot. He holds
! his own. too. with the best in team work 4"
| Both the Springfield and Bellows Falls
teams claim the Vermont championship,
and they have expressed a willingness to
defend the claim.
The April term of the county court
will open Tuesday, April u, with Judge
Willard w. Miles Of Barton presiding. 1t
will be a long session judging from
! the docket The jury list contains SO
cases. and there are about SO court cases.
IS state cases, 40 chancery cases and
about 80 divorce cases. The first case
set for hearing is the suit brought against
Warren G. Doolittle by Mrs. Angelina
Larrow, alleging alienation of affections.
| This Will be the first struck jury case in
| many years in the Windham county
| court. Other cases of special local in
! terest which are set for hearing are those
of IAsle Carpenter against the Central
Vermont Railway company, A. f. Mellen
against the United States Accident and
Health Insurance company and Doyle
against Melendy.
Scott Perley Eames, janitor of the high
! school building, and Miss Nellie Esther
Dickinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
| George w. Dickinson of Williamsville
were married Wednesday afternoon. The
! ceremony was performed at LIS o'clock
by Rev. d. f. Trout, pastor of the Uni
versalist church, in the parsonage on
| Williston street. They were attended by
| Miss Clara Games, sister Of the bride
| groom, and Miss Florence Dickinson
sister of the bride. Mr. and Mrs Eames
| went in an automobile to South Vernon.
and from there by train to Springfield.
Their honeymoon will be spent in Spring
| field, Worcester and Boston. They will
i live at Linden street. The bride grad
uated from Goddard seminary in 1904
and for two years she has been a
popular clerk in f. w. Kuech's store.
Wilfred f. Root. druggist, mas notified
the other Brattleboro druggists and the
physicians this week that, beginning
next Sunday, his store will be open
Sundays from to 1890, from I145 to
100 and from to O'clock In a letter
| to the physicians he says he Is thorough
~ convinced that the present Sunday
hours OF the Brattleboro drug stores are
too short to meet the needs Of the
physicians and their patients The
other druggists are not certain as to
| Just how they will meet the situation
| They say they would have been salts
| fled to continue as heretofore. F. H.
Holden and c. F. Thomas say it may
be advisable to open their stores on the
schedule adopted by Mr.. Root. c. E..
GRAHAM says he will not open his store
next Sunday except as heretofore. but
that later he may open on a somewhat
different schedule than the one named
BY verdict of the jury in the SUI
perior court in Greenfield Wednesday
| A. c. Taintor, administrator OF the es-
! tate of Ira l. Chase of Wilmington, lost
the suit for $4,000 damages which he
brought against the Hoosac Tunnel &
| Wilmington Railroad company for the
| death OF Ira l.. Chase, fireman for the
company, who was killed near the Hoo
| sac Tunnel station June 4, 1908 The
case was on trial a week and was given
| to the jury Tuesday. The jury was out
over night, returning a sealed verdict
| wednesday morning for the railroad
company. Chase & Daley of Brattleboro
and Frank j. Lawler of Greenfield,
counsel for the plaintiff, will appeal to
the Massachusetts, supreme court. The
deceased slipped from a metal step in
| front of the pilot and was crushed
| under the locomotive. The plaintiff
claimed negligence on the part of the
company in several particulars. the
court ruled that the only question to be
submitted to the jury was whether the
step on the engine was defective; or, in
| other words, 1t must be SHOWN that the
condition of the step was the sole cause
of the injury
Assistant Judges F. B. Pier and
| Frank Worden of the Windham county