Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-23

! being dreams.
Col. E. H. Chase will build a barn in
the rear of his residence on North Main
street this spring.
An over heated oil burner in the house
| of Ii. f. Weatherhead in West Brattleboro
caused damage Sunday to the extent of $50
or more.
The Mary Howe-Lavin operate Con
cert company will give a concert in North
! Adams, Mass, tonight, in Pittsfeld, Mass,
Monday night and in bloomsbury April g
John Kennedy, who has been at the
Retreat tor the past year, died here Wed
nesday with consumption. The funeral
will be held at the Roman Catholic church
| tomorrow morning.
Master Homer b. Ellis entertained 25
of his young friends Saturday afternoon in
honor of his eighth birthday anniversary.
Each remembered him with a nice present.
Refreshments were served and all enjoyed
the pleasant occasion.
Sir Arthur Sullvans setting of Rudyard
Kipling's 1.-THE Absent Minded Beggar'
has broken all records IN English musical
history. More than 60, 900 copies were sold
in three days. The composer has arranged
it as a march, for orchestra.
The Athol Transcript says: CDR. O. F.
Stearns, the veterinary physician, whose
father, Adebert Stearns of Windham,
VT, met with a violent death as described
in the Transcript last week, is one of the
four heirs to an estate valued at 500 600 or
$4,000" AdelDert Stearns was brother
of Miss Mary Stearns of Brattleboro.
Can it be that Miss Mary E. wilkins has
exhausted the New England "diggings?'
At all events, in her new story, THE
Hearts Highway" which is to be pub
lished soon by the new firm of Doubleday,
Page & Co., she leaves the field in which
she worked so assiduously and turns to
colonial life in Virginia. Springfield Re
publican.
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Richardson, who
have carried on the town farm since Mr..
and Mrs. II. S. Josseyn left, have re-
signed, their resignation to take effect as
soon as successors can be secured. Mr.. Rich
ardson has secured another position in this
town. They leave the town farm because
of the extra large amount of work which
devolves upon Mrs. Richardson.
w. B. Crombie received telegram yes
terday morning announcing the death,
Wednesday night, of his sister, Mrs. Kate
E. Savage, of Osceola, Iowa. She leaves
son four days old and two other children.
Her girhood home was in Cromwell, Conn.
Mrs. Savage was a sister-in-law of Miss
Lucy Savage, teacher of mathematics in
Mortified seminary, and was A years old.
AS a party of four Brattleboro sports
were driving through these villages Sunday
evening they made an unprovoked assault
on two of our popular citizens with the
whips belonging to the teams A lively
fight Immediately followed, resulting in
the Brattleboro parties being badly pun
shed, which it is hoped will be a salutary
lesson to those freshies looking for trouble
who have been frequent visitors here of
late Ashuelot correspondence in the |
Keene Sentinel.
The st. Johnsbury Republican of Wed |
nesday contained a two-column sketch, |
with portrait, of Mrs. Mary Howe LAWN, |
under the heading pride of the Green
Mountain State" The introduction was |
as follows: 1.-The world has not yet ceased |
applauding the Vermont boy who, of an
early morning in Manila bay, said: You
may fire, Gridley, when ready This story
of Vermont girl shows that the Green
Mountain state does not put all her good
material into her boys"
The day session of the Woman club met
at the Brooks House Friday by invitation of
Miss Crowell and the evening session with
Mrs. W. p. Jones on Oak street Saturday.
The subject was "Italy." A paper on
''Pompeii' was read by Mrs. Dinsmore,
one on "Italian Painters by Miss Edith
Esterbrook and one on "a Day in Rome"
by Mrs. f. D. Whitney, the latter being
written by cousin of Mrs. Whitney. At
The day session Mrs. Cowles read from
Browning. The next meeting will be the
annual meeting and will be held in the
Brooks House April g.
The Congregational parsonage, which
was finished this week, was opened to the
public yesterday forenoon. The house is
partly Colonial in design, and is admirably
appointed being fitted with the most mod
,rn improvements The rooms in the
'front.' part of the house down stairs are
inished in quartered oak, and all of the
Town stairs floors are hard wood. All of
he rooms are large and very pleasant
hose in the front part commanding an eX-
'ellent view north, east and south The
tudy is rear room on the second floor
rom which may be seen the whole of
Nantastiquet mountain.
Miss Emily E. Thomas died at the Home
or the Aged and Disabled Tuesday after an
illness of less than a week with grip, which
vas followed by apoplexy. Miss Thomas
vas born in Hinsdale, n. H., So years ago.
She was the daughter of William and Re-
'ecca Thomas, and is survived by three
'rothers, James, who lives on the Hins.
lale road a short distance below this vii
age, Andrew, who is an engineer at
Jlaremont, n. H., and Edward of New
Iork city. Miss Thomas had been at the ,
Home about two years. The funeral was !
leld from the Home yesterday afternoon !
I 3 o'clock, Rev. F. f. Marble officiating.
The body was placed in the tomb. This
vas the second death at the Home within r
week =
The exhibition by the gymnasium classes !
# the Y. NJ. G. A, which was given at I
he Auditorium a few weeks ago, was re. /
eated Wednesday evening before a larger 9
adience than attended the first exhibition 4
he work done by the classes was practi- c
ally the same as at the first exhibition al
hough one or two features were added
ne principal addition to the program was
wand drill by rs young ladies from the S
mystical culture class of the High school /
he work of the school girls was highly c
satisfactory and the drill made a pleasant d
version from the regular class work. c
here was also 'trOt" drill by 1G mem /
ers OF the senior gymnasium class, which c
took well with the audience. The mem '
ers OF the High school class who partici- 1
ated were: Margaret Averill May Lam '
on, Grace Ees, Sadie Streeter, Helen S
hilds, Pauline JENNIE, Mabel Hunt, Grace S
'ailey, Pearle Gibson, Clara Whitman, a
iarV Cundiff ANNA Tamh Edith unD4 .