Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-02

1--WE IIltII ltNl eOiIhIIf At W Wis IihIl 4I' s.
Thursday evening; supper at $3.50
Seventeen tickets for the conservation
services of Bishop Hall at Burlington to-
day are held by members of 81. Michael s
parish.
The Red Men have held rehearsals, un-
der G. A. Miles, each evening thi, week.
for the peace dance to be given at their
ball next week
At the Baptist church the choir has been
given up, and for the present congrega-
tional singing will be the order, with Mr..
Farmer, cornetist, as leader.
The Ruthians held pleasant meeting
on Wednesday evening at Lindenhurst. 1t
was voted to celebrate the tenth annver-
sary of the organization with a banquet.
Curtis II. Dickens of the class of '94 OF
Tufts divinity school. who preached SO
acceptably in Bmttleboro two Sundays, has
accepted the call to the Uniyersalist parish
at Portsmouth, y. II.
L. II. Van Doom has sold hi, house on
Green street to II. X. Chamberlain, The
sale being made through May a. Crown $
agency. Possession was given Feb. 1.
Later Mr. Chamberlain will occupy one of
the tenements in the house.
The selectmcn have filled the vacancy
on the board of auditors caused by the
death of O. \. Marshall, 10y the appoint
ment of John Calvin. The board now
consists of H. +. WeatheIhead, II. b.
Chamberlain and John Calvin
Emerson Pcake returned Saturday from
Boston, where he has been in a hospital
for medical treatment for the past two
months. Mr.. Peake is much improved in
health, although he has not fully recoy-
cred.
The trustees of the Brooks Library
building held their annual meeting Mon
day evening, and organized by the election
of b. ID. Harris. chairman: James NJ. "
Ter, clerk; Julius J. Estey, treasurer. and
II. II. Wheeler, auditor.
The valuable "Riverdale' farm in West
Minister near Bellows Falls, which was the
residence of the late NJ. w. Davis, will be
sold by auction next Tuesday. The prop
erty is one of the most desirable of its kind
which has ever been put upon the local
market.
Local sports will 90 to Holyoke Mass.
Monday night to see John l.. Sullivan.
There is a probability that the ex-cham-
pion bruiser will appear here at an early
date in "The man from Boston" Sulli-
van is booked to appear in this play at Bel
lows Falls March ,.
Charles |. Moore of Newport, this state
made desk containing nearly all of the
native woods grown in Vermont. This
desk was on exhibition at the World
Fair, where it attracted great attention
1t was bought by c. d. Whitman of this
place, who received il recently.
The Bennington Banner says: "The
Rev Mr. Macgeorge has been conducting
a series of meetings at the First Baptist
church, while that people are without
pastor, and his ministratous have been so
successful that quite number will be bap-
TIED next Sunday morning and evening
Rehearsals for the lady MINISTRIES" will
be held every Tuesday and Saturday even
ing at Mrs. O. ID. Esterbrook' s, and Thurs
day afternoons at Miss Cressy's All are
requested to attend as often as possible.
The date now fixed for the entertainment
is Feb p, and it is expected that 30 Young
ladies Will take part.
The boys of the Brattleboro. Kcene and
Hinsdale High schools participated in a
speaking contest a. Keene two years ago.
and the girls of these schools in a similar
contest at Brattleboro last year. Arrange
ments are now being made at HinSdale for
another test of oratorcal powers between
the schools, to take pla'e May ! next.
Both boys and girls will take part.
Albert j. Pullen gave his illustrated
lecture on Alaska before a small company
of Free Masons in the banquet room at
Masonic hall Wednesday evening. Mr..
Pullen's lecture covers his trip from Taco
ma to Sitka, thence to Unalaska, and back
to the starting point. The lecture is one of
great interest, and the Us views, showing
the glaciers, the seal rookeres. the natives
and their homes, the reindeer. ETC., are I'M
usually fine.
The death of Mrs Phebe Keyes Mason.
which occurred in Putney January 80.
brings sorrow to Brattleboro home Mrs.
Mason was born in Putney in 1910, and at
the time of her death was 50 years old.
She married Emery Mason in 1929, and
they spent "a years of their married life in
Putney, To them four children were
born-Mrs. H. +. Anterior, Mrs. F. 4.
Whitney, Mrs c. W. Coolidge and Miss
Ada Mason all of Brattleboro. The fu-
neral was held from her late home Thurs
day afternoon, the burial being in Putney.
Rev. Robert A. Hume will speak at the
Centre church next Sunday morning. In
the evening he will address the anniversa-
ny meeting of the young peoples society.
which will be held in the church at
o clock. He will also speak at the Y. NJ.
{. A. rooms at 4 p. NJ. Mr.. Hume is, per
sonally, and as a speaker, very interest
ing man. Not only has he been one of the
most able workers of the American board.
but it was his brave stand for a broad and
sympathetic theology which precipitated
the controversy out of which the board
has recently and safely passed. a colec-
ton for the emergency fund of the society
he represents will be received. In the
evening he will speak upon Enthusiasm
for foreign missions by young people"
Mrs Peter Porte, a Frenchwoman. was
buried from the Roman Catholic church
Tuesday, the body being brought here
from Jamaica. The case is a very sad one.
The woman was IS years old, and leaves a
family Of nine children, several of them of
tender years. The family lived for several
years in Hinsdale, and two years AGO NOV
ed from that place to Jamaica, about seven
miles from the village, where Mr.. Porfe
had charge OF sawmill owned bv Rev.
Father Wilde of Hinsdale. The mother
was taken i'll two or three weeks AGO with
Inflammation of the bowels, followed by
grip, which caused her death Saturday
She was visited during her illness by Rev
Father Cunningham, who did not at the
time consider her illness likely to terminate
fatally