Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-02-16

The next regular meeting of Sunshine |
society, branch one, will be held with
Mrs. Cora Leonard at 4 Chaplin street
Friday afternoon, Feb. 20, at $3.50. .-5
Bertrand Willis Pease and Miss Flora
Lillian Spear, both of Warren, Mass
were married Saturday morning In the
town clerks Office by Justice Carl S.
Hopkins
The last of the entertainments under
the auspices of the young women of the
Baptist and Congregational churches will
take place March 10, when Judge Ben
Lindsey of Denver, Col, will lecture In
the Baptist church.
In the evangelistic service in the Con-
gregatlonal church next Sunday at p.
M Mrs. w. II. Bond will sing Of
fertory solo, C. NJ Dugan will play a
violin solo and F. C. Adams will sing a
hymn after the sermon.
The board of civil authority will meet
in the selectmens room in the town hall
building at o'clock Saturday afternoon,
March 2, to make necessary changes in
the check list which will be used In the
annual town meeting, March 5.
The heavy teaming on the hill on
Main street between Frost and Elliot
streets wore away the snow so that the
paving was bare and teams hauling even
fairly light loads were moved with diff
Commissioner d. 7. Perry had several
sled loads of snow thrown on the street.
At an expense of about SIS the visit
ing committee of the Home for the Aged
and Disabled have completed improve
ments to the dining room of the home
under the direction of Mrs. N. l. Haw-
ley. The walls have been tinted light
cream from the ceiling to the wainscoat-
ing, and the part below that has been
OF cd xHith n arlra alb do 1o
floor has been scraped, and white cur
tains take the place of those formerly
hung there.
John j. Clune froze his hands Satur-
day night while driving to and from
Dummerston. He left Brattleboro about
8 o'clock to go to the home of Joseph
Levin and lost his way, driving almost
to the top of a mountain before he dis
covered he had taken the wrong turn in
the road. The horse was wallowing in
snow up to his body and in turning the
sleigh around it was overturned and one
shaft was broken. 1t took Mr.. Clune
several minutes to repair the shaft and
while working on it both hands were
frozen.
Mrs. Agnes T. Porter and Napoleon
Porter pleaded guilty to statutory Of
Tense in the municipal court Tuesday
afternoon and each was fined 500 and
each case They had been in the county
Jail at Newfane three weeks waiting for
trial at the spring term of the county
court, having been sent there following
hearing before Judge w. r. Daley three
weeks ago Mrs. Porter's fine was paid
by a relative Tuesday evening and Mr..
Porters was paid by relative Wednes-
day morning.
suit has been entered in the county
oil al t1t. IA1 7
Willard Cobb for the sum of $500. Allen,
in his declaration, claims that he was
given the contract to cut all the stand
ing timber on the Dunklee lot in West
Brattleboro, consisting of about zoo. 900
feet, at $1.25 a thousand feet. He says
he started out to cut Jan. 9 with five
men and that on Jan. 90 he was ordered
to stop by Mr.. Cobb. after cutting about
$1,000 feet. and has not been allowed to
work in the lot since The loss of work
to his men and the loss of profits have
been a damage to him, he claims, to the
amount of $500
The funeral of Horace Perkins Frost,
| who died Feb. I, was held in the home
| on Prospect street Saturday afternoon,
Rev. d. E. Trout officiating. The men,
bers of Oasis encampment and Wantas-
tiquet lodge of Odd Fellows attended in
a body and Mrs. w. II. Bond sang two
| selections. Because of the extreme cold
weather the committal service of the
| Odd Fellows was held in the home. The
| body was placed in the tomb in Pros
pect Hill cemetery. The bearers were
| C. L. Cobb, H. ]. JOY, c. L. Spear and A.
]. Currier. Those from out of town who at :
tended the funeral were Mrs Fred A.
Lebourveau of Walpole. N. H., and
Frank H. Brown of West Gardner,
Mass.
Capt. McRae's followers in the Ver-
| mont Wheel club billiard tournament
paid their forfeit handsomely to Capt.
| Crosby's victorious team Tuesday night
by providing a dinner which was served
| in Grange banquet hall. The room was
| brilliant in special decorations of color
ed electric lights. On one side sat the
victors, on the other side the losers,
each man being directly across the table
| from his opponent. The souvenirs were
in the form of tiny earthen stems The
spread served under the direction of
Chefs Harrie G. Pratt and Charles H.
Thompson, was a triumph of culinary
skill, and won praises from all present.
After the banquet was over chorus sing
ing and other diversions were enjoyed
until 10 o'clock.
Herbert c. Sparks. jr., who is employ
ed in the Brattebor0 Steam laundry
on Flat street, discovered a fire in the
pack part or the building Tuesday morn
ing about $50 o'clock. He notified the
fire headquarters by telephone and a
bell alarm was rung. The chemical
wagon responded and within a few min
utes extinguished the fire, which was
making good Roadway. The fire started
on the outside of the building and evil
IDENTITY had been burning but few min
utes. A few feet away there is a pile
Of ashes. but it is thought they did not
cause the fire. The exhaust from the
boiler goes through the side of the
building few feet above the point
where the flames were discovered and
the place is more or less damp. The orr
gin of the fire Is a, mystery
Fritz Hanson. the professional Wrestler
who makes his headquarters in Bfattle-
boro sustained a loss Of $3.50 In the fire
Which destroyed Oscar Smiths building
containing the City restaurant In Clare
mont Sunday morning HaAson had
been IN South Manchester, Conn, and as
he arrived on the late train at night ne
went to hotel instead of his room at
his managers home. Had he followed
his usual custom he would have been In
the room when the fire broke out He
loW three suits OF clothes, underwear
ana other wearing apparel, punching
bags boxing gloves and other articles
used by him In training. All that he
saved was travelling bag, which he
found ON the sidewalk, someone having
taken II from the burning building. Ham
son had Dsen keeping his property in