Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-12-06
LOCAL OVERFLOW.


past week.
The Garment Workers Union held
their regular monthly meeting in Union
hall Monday evening Three were in
tiated.
Rip Van Winkle" will be the feature
photopay at the Princess theatre next
Tuesday afternoon and evening. Robert
McWade, who for many years was with
Joseph Jefferson, portrays the title roll.
The story is staged excellently.
Rev. r. NJ. Houghton spent Is days
in and around Jerusalem last summer
and made a number of photographs
These will be shown with others in the
stereopticon lecture in the Centre
church Sunday evening at I O'Clock.
Arnold Pellet left yesterday on a
Southern trip of two or three months.
He will go at first to Jacksonville.
Florida, and later will travel down the
east side of the state to Key West, and
will probably cross the water to Ha-
vana.
The annual meeting of the Brother
hood of the Centre church Will be held
next Wednesday evening in connection
with the annual meeting OF the ecclesi-
astcal society. Rev. r. M Houghton
VIII speak on "A pilgrimage to the Holy
Land"
i.
Wesley Richardson went from here to
west Dummerston Saturday evening to
attend their wedding reception in .Grange
nall Dancing was enjoyed and supper
was served. Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson
nave returned to Bratteboro and are
living in the American building,
John Raymond Glover of North Main
street, teamster, and Miss Mamie Es-
tella Montgomery of Kensington. Conn.
rripI MOp6ny
town clerks office by Justice Carl S.
Hopkins. They will live in Brattleboro.
ABOUT % couples attended the first of
the series of sociables in the Masonic
Temple Wednesday evening Music was
furnished by Leitsinger's orchestra and
refreshments were served.
good-sized audience attended the
performance of "A Butterfly on the
Wheer last evening in the Auditorium.
The play deals with social conditions and
the dangers which beset a married wom-
an who commits the slightest indiscre-
ton. The climax occurred in the third
act, when one of the most powerful di-
vorce court scenes ever portrayed in
drama was presented. Every moment OF
this scene was intense. The company of
IA persons was well balanced.
Harry C. Belknap of Claremont, N. H.,
son of Mrs. Peter S. Chase Of this town,
collector of customs at Island Pond, in
the Newport district, which position he
assumed Monday of this week He stood
second in four successful ones out of "a
who took the examinations. Mr.. Bel
knap formerly lived here, afterward
going to ST. Adams and Burlington,
| thence to Claremont where he was en-
ployed as clerk in the Monadnock mills.
Sheriff c. E. Mann expected to go to
c6n1h lor
| Groper. who was arrested in Pittsfield
on charges brought by States Attorney
F. E. Barber and is wanted in the west
ern end of the county on the charge of
| passing fraudulent checks. He did not
| go, as Governor E. N Foss is in Vir-
| ginia and extradition papers could not
| be obtained. The telephone was used
| and arrangements were made whereby
Groper's hearing was continued until
the sheriff secures the extraditon pa
pers, which probably will be next week.
1lion Prenovitch, a laborer employed
| by the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins cor
| poration on the new railroad job, was
| taken to the Memorial hospital Tuesday
\ suffering with two fractured ribs and a
dislocated bone in his right wrist. Prem
| ovitch was pulling a steam drill pipe
| from a hole near the railroad embaTffx-
| ment on the Hinsdale side of the river,
| with his back to the 35- foot bank The
| pipe was shorter than he thought and
| the end came from the hole sooner than
he expected and he rolled down the en-
| bankment with the pipe. DR.. H. p.
| Greene was called.
Although the police throughout New
| England have been notified to be on the
| lookout for Sidney Fisher who disap-
peared from town the night that K. e.
| Mosher's safe was robbed of about 500,
| and for Allie Conwell who disappeared
| from town about the same time, neither
| have been arrested. The police of st.
Albans sent word to Chief Of Police
| George Wilson that they had two, sus-
| poets under arrest, but investigation
| showed that they were not wanted here.
| Railroad men reported after the robbery
| that they had seen Conwell in Vernon
| and South Vernon and some of the rail-
| road men say they saw him there last
| Friday.
Sheriff C, f. Mann went to Newfane
| Wednesday and brought back James
| Connors and William Parrot from the
county Jail. That evening Deputy Sher-
| IN {. ]. Knapp took them to the house
of correction in Rutland They were
| sentenced about week ago from the
| municipal court in Bellows Falls for
| petit larceny to three months i'm the
county Jail They proved to be bad
| actors" and one day when they went
| lHiO lHe WoOuS 10 WpIk a man nad to
| be sent out with a gun to watch them
| There was no inside work for them to
| do at the jail so Sheriff Mann decided
| to have them sent to some institution
where they would be made to work.
Governor Fletcher signed the removal
| orders.
| Further developments of Importance
| have taken place this week in the lti-
| CATION between the Bellows Falls Canal
company and the various paper mills
| relative to the taxes assessed by WAL
pole on the Canal company's plant On
| petition of the mill owners Judge f. L.
| Waterman has issued an Injunction re-
straining the Canal company from pro-
| ceeding with a case brought in New
Hampshire to have the taxes divided
among the mill owners. The Canal COM
pany has moved to have the injunction
dissolved. A hearing will be held next
| Tuesday. c. c. Fits OF this town and
| Warner Graham of Bellows Falls are
| counsel for the owners. The canal COM
pany is represented by Streeter, Demond
& Woodworth of Concord. and Stckney,
Sargent Skeels OF Ludlow.
| Albert o. Buzby, formerly sergeant
in Company I. First Vermont regiment,
was arrested Friday by Sheriff C. Il.
| Mann on an action of trover for the al
legged conversion Of a shirt, the prop
| erty of the state of Vermont to his own
use. He appeared before Judge w r.