Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-06-07

ant Episcopal church of Vermont will be
held in Christ church, Montpelier, June
Is to 20.
A purse of between $50 and $50 has been
raised for Emerson Graves, the young man
who broke his leg at j. II. Chamberlain
stable last week.
Rev. Thos. Gull will preach at the Bap-
fist church next Sunday, morning and
evening, He will also conduct the prayer
meeting this evening.
The flower mission work of the w. c.
T. L. will begin Tuesday, June IL, and
continue through next week The ladies
are asked to meet at II Green street Tues
day at 30 and contributions of flowers
are solicited.
The Brattleboro Water company held
their annual meeting Monday. These Off
GERS were elected: President, II. B. Cham
berlain; secretary and treasurer, Henry G..
Field; directors T. j. Knight j. j. Estey
and E. c. Crosby.
The members of the Womans Alliance
are invited to attend a reception, with tea,
next Wednesday evening from to 9 at
Wells hall Mrs. Robert E. Davis of New
York, secretary of the National Alliance,
will give an address.
In the Cheshire county probate court,
Wednesday, in the matter of the guardian
ship of the French girl, who came to Brat
tleboro from Canada to live in the family
of VIM. Mette, Henry A. Lowell of AL
stead was appointed guardian.
The report of the 25th annual meeting
of the Vermont Dairymen's association,
which was held at White River junction
last January, has been issued this week
from the press of the Phoenix job printing
office, and makes a closely packed pamph-
let of 230 pages. The papers and discus
sions at this meeting are given in full, and
the matter is such as every Vermont dairy
man will wish to keep for future reference.
The report has been published under the
careful supervision of g. w. Pierce, the
secretary of the association.
An interesting teachers meeting was
held in the Centre school building on We'd
nesday afternoon under the direction of j.
L. Warren, superintendent of schools. The
teachers from Bernardson and Mortified
were present with one exception. State
Agent g. T. Fletcher and Mr. Hall, SUI
pervsor of drawing in another part of the
state, were present and gave helpful talks
to the teachers upon the subjects of draw
ing and general management of schools
Mr.. Warren gave hints to the teachers for
preparatory work during the summer va
cation.
Companies c of the Second Vermont
regiment and f of the Fourth have issued
| invitations for their joint reunion, which
| is to be held Thursday, June 20. with Com
rade c. p. Gibson Company F, Fourteenth
| New Hampshire regiment, at his home at
| West Chesterfield. A clam-bake dinner
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| baked beans and coffee at O'Clock. Cap
tain Buffum of the Fourteenth New Hamp-
shire will give an address, and there will
be music, dancing and other amusements,
'including visiting, swapping lies, etc"
Carriages will be run from Brattleboro for
the use of those who wish to attend.
The death of Il year old Sidney Witte-
more occurred Monday from pneumonia
after an illness of about week. Sidney
was a bright young lad, who had been EN-
| ployed at the night lunch and in selling re-
freshments on the trains at the station
He made friends with those with whom he
came in contact by his happy and CHEEKY
ways. Young Whittemore was the son of
Mrs. A. p. WhttemOre of this place. He
had four older brothers and two sisters and
brother younger. A brother a year older
was killed at S. A. Smith & Co.'S factory
last December. Funeral services were held
at the house Wednesday morning. The
body was taken to Athol, Mass, the home
of the father, for burial.
The death of Mrs. Fred B. Davis, who
has been i'll for some months with con-
sumption, occurred at her home in Stearns
block, off Church street, Wednesday night
Mrs. Davis's maiden name was Mary L.
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husband is in a critical condition from
pneumonia. She leaves, beside her hus-
band, four young children. Funeral serv-
ices were conducted this morning at the
Universalst church, Rev. II. d. Maxwell
officiating, the burial being in the Davis
lot in Prospect hill cemetery. Mrs. Davis
was native of Halifax and was married
in 1888. Her father, Silas Wilcox, and
two brothers, one from Hinesburg and one
| from Chicopee, were here to attend the
funeral. Mr.. Davis's condition is reported
a little more favorable than yesterday.
The report on the observance of Memo
rial day, submitted by P. S. Chase, chap
lain of Sedgwick post, to Department
Chaplain Haynes of Rutland shows that
the total number of soldiers and sailors
graves decorated by the post was 1873. The
number of veterans buried during the year
was three. Eighty comrades took part in
the Memorial day exercises, and the total
number in the different organizations
which joined in the observance, including
the Woman's Relief corps, Sons of Veter-
ans Estey Guard and Boys Battalion, was
800 Outside of Brattleboro the post dec
GRATED 10 graves in two cemeteries in Dunn
merston and p graves in five cemeteries in
Guilford. son the whole the day was
never so generally observed throughout the
town, and the schools have never taken
such an active interest"
The heated term of four days, which
came to an end last Monday morning, was
a record-breaker for May and June weather.
1t covered practically the whole country
east of the Rocky Mountains, with the cen
trail section, from the Mississippi river
through to the Atlantic coast, showing the
highest temperatures. The thermometer
markings were anywhere from 90 to 100
degrees There were many cases of sun
stroke and prostration. Philadelphia head
ed the death list from these causes with a
record of II on Sunday. In Brattleboro
the maximum temperatures shown by Mr..
Childs's standard thermometer were on
Thursday Oh; Friday ST.; Saturday 81:
Sunday 96'. This is the highest June
temperature which he has ever recorded.
1t has only been exceeded once in any
month, July 20, '94, when the mercury
reached 97'. There have been several
August days when 9Go was recorded.
Brattleboro is not the only place which
gets excited over the building of a trolley
road. The residents of Deerfield street in
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