Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
Rev. F. e. Marble will lead the after.


noon meeting at the Y. M. G. A. Sunday.
Donnell & Davis are to have an addition
of 20 feet added to the rear of their store
this spring.
The annual meeting and banquet of the
Woman's club will be held in the Brooks
House April II.
Hackley & Moran have on exhibition in
their south show window about 20 bicycles,
this years models.
The Brooks House pharmacy has this
week put in new soda fountain from the
factory of A. ID. Puffer IL Sons, Boston.
The annual sugar supper of the ladies'
circle will attract crowd of young people
at Whithed's hall at Vernon this evening.
S. A. Smith & Co. are planning to put
an electric motor into the Crowel building
on Flat street to furnish power to run their
machinery.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton have decided to hold meetings at
the Brooks House the first Tuesday in
each month.
The sugar supper and dance held in
Grange hall Monday night was quite large
ly attended. The Changers realized about
$50 from the affair.
The late C. c. Waite, proprietor of the
Brevoort House in New York many years,
was member of the firm which ran the ILL
fated Windsor from 1876 to 1880
About so people went to Vernon on a
special train last Friday evening TO attend
the supper and dance given in the hotel by
the Vernon grange. A number more drove
down, making the total delegation from
Brattleboro about 100.
At meeting of Fort Drummer Colony,
Pilgrim Fathers, Tuesday evening, A. j.
Currier was elected representative to the
supreme colony which meets in Boston,
April >, to succeed d. w. Tenney, who re-
signed on account of illness.
The state railroad commissioners have
ordered car tenders placed in the next 80
days on all electric cars in Vermont. The
commissioners have approved three fem
ders - ipson-Barrett, Parmenter and
Providence fender of the Consolidated
Fender company-and one of these must
be used.
A meeting of the committee of the Bap-
fist church was held Monday evening to
consider ways and means for paying the
church debt of $4,000. On account of the
storm only few members were present so
the meeting was postponed to tonight.
A plan for liquidating the debt has been
devised, and it will be laid before the
committee and will probably be adopted.
Bcyclsts had good riding in Brattleboro
in March last year, and the Vermont
Wheel clubs first run was to Chesterfield,
n. H., April 6. March now has all the
symptoms of vigorous January, with snow
storms of almost daily occurrence. There
has been continuous sleighing since Nov.
%. On the western side of Vermont there
has been less than three weeks of good
sleighing, with the ground perfectly bare
nearly all winter.
A contingent of Brattleboro sports num-
bering about so went to West Brattleboro
Monday night TO attend the weekly exhibit
ton given by w. b. Mette and his pupils
in the "manly art" Four bouts, all more
or less friendly, were pulled off, and Mr..
Mette gave public lesson to one of his
pupils. Some of the matches brought out
clever sparring on both sides, while others,
in which the participants were new to the
game, caused deal of amusement.
The committee on arrangements for the
meeting of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows
of Vermont, which is to be held in Brat
tleboro May 1920, are receiving replies
from the preliminary circulars which they
sent out few days ago, which indicate
that the meeting will be the largest gath
ering of Odd Fellows ever held in this
state. Several lodges have voted to at
tend in a body, and to participate in the
parade. There will also be present many
Odd Fellows from outside this state.
The fourth quarterly Methodist confer.
ence for the Brattleboro, Gulford, and
Green River charge was held in the Meth
odist church Wednesday evening. Presid-
ing Elder w. r. Davenport was the pre-
siding officer These officers were elected :;
Stewards, A. C. Davenport, f. F. Gleason,
S. A. Daniels, d. p. Webster, F. A. Bagg,
H. p. Matthews, c. w. Weymouth, Z. W.
Harlow, f. +. Beeman, A. V. May, w. r.
Stewart, d. A. Henry, and C. Z. Davis !;
recording steward, f. W. Harlow; finance
committee, F. f. Beeman, S. A. Daniels
and f. w. Harlow; treasurer, S. A..
Daniels.