Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-11
BRATTLEBORO.


E. Crowell next Monday evening at 1880.
The next meeting of the Woman's club
will be held with Miss Annie L. Grout, Fri
day, May Is.
The Windham County association of
Congregational ministers will hold quar-
terly meeting at the Brooks House Monday
morning.
Ethan Hescock had the first finger of
his left hand cut off at the first joint last
Friday while at work on buzz planer at
the Estey shops.
March NJ. Wilson of Randolph and John
j. Wilson of Bethel, brothers, were admit
ted by Judge Wheeler yesterday to prac-
tice before the United States court.
James Wood of Chicago will speak in
Festival hall this evening on the labor
question. The lecture will begin at 7:4j
o'clock and every one is cordially invited
to be present
E. j. Henkel has been appointed one of
the census enumerators in Brattleboro, but
he probably will not accept the appoint
ment as he is now playing ball with the
Derby, Conn, team.
Among the suits entered in the superior
court at Greenfield, Mass, Monday was
Brattleboro vs.. Austin Kingsley of South
Deerield, an action Of contract for 5000.
The annual meeting of the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows will be held in Burlington
next week for three days, beginning Tues
day. Among those from Brattleboro who
will attend are L. j. Retting, John Ret
ting, George 81. Clark, W. F. Goddard and
S. M. Yeaw.
The funeral of Mrs. Janette Dean God
dard, GA, daughter of the late Lyman
Dean, formerly farmer on Dummerston
Hill, was held in Everett, Mass, Monday
and was attended by Mr.. and Mrs. r. S..
Childs and Mrs. A. Fl. Ward. Mrs. God
dard died in the Boston Homeopathic
hospital. She was sister of Mrs. Ward
and an aunt of Mrs. Childs.
The Episcopal church has extended to
Rev. W. H. Collins another months vaca-
ton on account of his health. Rev. and
Mrs. Collins will attend the wedding of
their son, Will F. Collins, in Utica, n. Y,
May %. There will be services in the
church as usual during Mr.. Collins's alb
sence, and it is probable that Rev. VIM. j.
Harris of Nashua, N. H., will occupy the
pulpit week from Sunday.
The Bratteboro office of the American
Express company reports its business dur
ing the month of April to have been the
largest in 10 years. The sugar shipments,
while considerable below the average,
were larger than last year, the increased
business coming largely from Brattleboro
firms. The company is planning to have
an office at the railroad station, thus OBJ
Waiting the necessity of hauling to the
High street office the freight which comes
from the narrow gauge and other roads for
transfer at BrattlebOro.
Miss Mary Wilkins sailed for Cherbourg
on the Hamburg American Line steamship
last week Thursday from Hoboken. She
will be gone less than two months. Per-
haps this fact would be hardly appropriate
for chronicling were it not an introduction
to the interesting news that her new book
will be published in London by John Muir
ray, and the particular interest in that
statement is because the house of Murray
in all its long and successful career never
before has had piece of fiction on its list.
This caps the Last Half-of- The Century's
answer to the question of the first half:
"Who reads an American book?"
Maj. F. W. Childs will act as agent for
the Red Star line the coming summer and
will personally conduct tour to Europe
and the Paris exposition if his health will
permit There will be three tours, each
starting from New York, the first on July
20, the second on Aug. s, and the third on
Sept. .. The members of these summer
parties will sail by the steamship South
wark or Kensington to Antwerp. and will
visit Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgi-
um, France, England, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales, being gone from As to 90 days.
There will be no steerage passengers.
Maj. Childs's family will accompany him.
The body of Thomas Atkins, 30, the
former BrattleborO boy who was murdered
by wharf thugs at HaVre, France, last
december while serving as a marine on the
United States cruiser Prairie, was brought
to Brattleboro Monday afternoon by his
sister, Mrs. Seymour Scott of New York
city. The body was sent to this country
by the United States consul at Havre.
Henry r. Brown, Henry Whitney and Will
Gam, who were classmates of Atkins in
the public schools here, and Carl Henkel,
WIN Shumway and Charles Endlich, acted
as bearers. Rev. Mr.. Osgood officiated at
the service at the grave. The casket was
covered with beautiful floral pieces. Mrs.
Atkins, the widow of the young marine,
came here from Lyons, N. Y, to attend
T,
was unable to be present, as his hip was
fractured by fall at Lyons recently.
Six or eight of the employees of the Brat
tleooro Hosiery company went out on
strike yesterday, but have returned to
work today. A few weeks ago a person
acting in the capacity of agent for the com.
pany hired several girls in Laconia, N. h,
promising them that their fare would be
paid one way by the company. He neg.
lected to tell them, as has since been found,
that II the company paid the fare 1t would
DE with the understanding that they were
TO remain with the company six months
One of the girls returned to Laconir a few
days ago, and on pay day, Wednesday, the
girls wages were paid to her brother, tn,
amount advanced for fare being deducted
The brother objected TO having the fare
deducted and he quit work. Five or siy
others quit in sympathy, but when tn,
situation was fully explained to them the
decided to return.