Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-01

There will be a dance in Red Mems hall
tomorrow night.
Friendship circle will meet in odd Fell
lows hall Friday, Nov. s. Supper will be
served at 615. There will be work to
do.
Election returns will be received by
members of Leo council and their friends
in the Knights of Columbus rooms Tues
day evening.
The dress rehearsal of 1.-The Pied Piper
of Hamelin" will be held in the Audito-
rum Monday evening at o'clock with
the orchestra. A rehearsal with music
but without costumes will be held We'd
nesday evening at o'clock.
Next Sunday evening at o'clock in
the Congregational church Rev. Roy NJ
Houghton will give the first in a series
of illustrated lectures on his recent trip
to the Holy Land This one will be on
the voyage from New York, calling at
the Azores, Gibraltar, Algiers and Naples
The Brattleboro Womans club will
meet in the Congregational chapel We'd
nesday afternoon, Nov. 6, at $50 o'clock
Mrs. w. l.. WATSON, president of the state
federation. will speak upon THE place of
the federation in the new Vermont" and
there will be music. The social COM
mittee will serve tea.
MISS Clara Davis of Tflton, n. H. who
formerly worked for Mrs. f. l.. Parker in
this town and was a cousin of Mrs So
phia Sutherland of West Brattleboro, died
Oct. IA while visiting in the family of
George E. Paul in Wendell, n. II. Death
resulted from a shock. For the past five
years Miss Davis had been conducting a
bakery in Tilton. She was born in Clare
mont about 80 years ago. While here
she attended the Congregational church.
Mrs. Eliza Hunt Bush, So, widow of
Major Frederick Bush, died early Friday
morning in the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Charles p. Chase, in Springfield,
Mass. Major and Mrs. Bush lived with
their daughter in Brattleboro several
years prior to 1897. Major Bush, who
died in June, 1909, was for many years
sheriff in Springfe "a, being elected to
that office in 1860. Major and Mrs.
Bush celebrated their Goth wedding ami
versary in 1907
Brattleboro man who owns a row.
boat with motor power made a good
start away from town one morning be-
fore daybreak during the freshet At
point just north of the new railroad
bridge trestle the bow of his craft hit
the pile of driftwood that had jammed
there. The boatman tried to work his
way out, but other pieces of driftwood
closed in from the rear and soon he
was surrounded. He had to wait until
after s o'clock before he and his boat
were pulled to a place of safety by en-
ployes of the Holbrook, Cabot & Roll
Inns corporation.
Hugh Agnew, who is employed in the
Holstein-F riesian office in the American
building, narrowly escaped fatal injuries
about AS o'clock Monday afternoon
Some filing cases were being transferred
from the fourth floor to the second floor
and the passenger elevator was being
used, although 1T was not supposed to
be used for carrying freight. AS Mr. Ag-
new stepped into the elevator it started
downward for some reason not definitely
known and caught him across the stom-
ach, but one of the filing cases which
projected between the floor of the build
ing and the top of the car stopped the
car and prevented Mr. Agnew from be-
ing killed. The elevator boy reversed the
elevator and Mr.. Agnew was taken into
Judge j. l.. Martins office, where he was
attended by DR.. E. r. Lynch, whose Of
flee is in the American building. He was
then taken to his home on Prospect hill
and he was able to be out next day.
A mysterious disappearance occupied
the attention of a large number of per-
sons in the vicinity of the Brattleboro
House Monday morning About $50
O'Clock 1t became noised about that a
widow from Holyoke, who recently had
come to Brattleboro for a change in sur
roundings. following the death OF her
husband, had disappeared from the hotel.
Searching parties were organized, after
all the rooms in the hotel had been Wis
tied, and squads of hunters went to the
river bank to look for possible clews.
About 25 men Joined Miss Jennie Bushee.
landlady, In hunting for the missing
woman, and II was learned later that a
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roomer at the hotel. The parties look
ed in different parts of the town but con-
tinued to go back to the bank of the Con-
necticut. One man went down Vernon
street and when a short distance from the
hotel happened to glance over the railroad
bank, where he saw the much wanted
woman. He told her OF the excitement
she had caused and she returned to the
hotel and the searching parties were
called IN. 1t was then about 1890 o'clock.
She told Miss Bushee that as soon as she
finished her work in the morning she
went for walk and then stopped at the
place where she was found in order to see
the trains go past.
Warrants have been posted calling for
the freemen's meeting to be held in Fes-
tival hall next Tuesday to vote for cleo
tors of President and Vice President of
the United States. The Australian ballot
system will be used and the polls will be
open from a. m. to p. m. Some voters
do not realize that they will not vote
directly for their candidates at the head
of the national ticket, but for electors
who will meet later to elect a President
and Vice President The ballots will con-
tain the names of four electors of each
party. They are as follows: Republican
nominatons-Leighton p. Slack of St
Johnsbury, Edmund r. Morse of Rut-
land, Roger W. Hulburd of Hyde Park
and Walter III. Crockett of Montpelier;
Democratic nominations-Phil S. Howes
of Montpelier, Andrew ]. Sibey OF Mont
pelier Jacob G. Ullery of Brattleboro and
stephen j. Cray of Rockingham: Prohi-
bition ominations-Fennimore II. Shop
pard of Fair Haven, Eugene NJ. Camp
bell of Lyndonville, Warren s. Newton of
st. Adams and George S. Wood of Paw
let; National Progressive nominations
Alexander ]. Cooper OF Bennington, Mer-
rift l.. Aseltine of Fairfield John H.
Blodgett of Rockingham and Richard A.
Hoar OF Barre Socialist nominations
James Garfield of Bennington, Leonart X
Erickson OF Proctor. Robert Gordon OF
Barre and Marcus p. Armstrong OF Ben