Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-12
BRATTLEBoRo FRIDAY, u 1900

Invitations for the Masonic socials for
the coming season will be issued tomorrow
morning.
A collection amounting to St01 IS was
taken at the Roman Catholic church for
the aid Of the Galveston sufferers
Friends in town of the veteran poultry
| Judge |. X. Felch have sent him one of the
Retreat pumpkins weighing 1873 pounds.
Our Bellows Falls correspondent records
the sale of the Towns hotel property in that
village to j. g. Ullery and f. L. Hough-
| ton.
John G.. Baker has sold his span Of
handsome horses to a man in Cleveland,
Ohio. Matthew McVegh has gone to
! Cleveland with the horses.
Ross White, manager of paper mill in
| New York, is in town this week negotia-
ting for the lease or sale of the Sunset
paper mill on Elm street. Mr.. White be-
lieves that he has an outlet at good prices
for all the paper he can manufacture.
The Dennis Rebekahs held a memorial
service in Odd Fellows hall last Saturday
afternoon. Several poems we're read and
remarks made appropriate TO the occasion.
The members then went to the cemetery
and decorated the graves of the deceased
members.
S. B. Emerson has bought lot in
Morningside next to that Of Merrick Dow.
| ley. Carl W. Cushing, Mrs. Emogene Z.
White, formerly of Brookline, and Rev.
Edward w. Sharp of Rochester, this state,
are other recent purchasers of lots In the
new cemetery.
Gum & Co. Of 80 Elliot street have sold
for E. II. Stacey his stock farm in Towns
| hand IN Ui1ifa praanOft If Graannald
Mass, and Edward Bushnelrs farm to
William Mcconnell of Long Island; also
w. @. Phelps's farm in Guilford to Will
liam O'Brien of New York.
The sale of the Marcus w. Adams farm
property in Newfane on the Dover line, an
nounced to take place next Wednesday, is
one of the largest sales Of its kind of the
season. 1t includes large and productive
farm with all the farm produce, farm stock
and tools and household furniture. G. p.
ellison will be the auctioneer.
Mrs. Mia Ellen Gleason, who died at
her home In Cazenovia, Wis. Sept. 2S,
was born in Brattleboro, March IL, 1922,
and moved to New York state with her
parents when a child. She and her hus-
band settled in Cazenovia in 1854. She
was the mother of nine children, three
sons and six daughters, two Of whom sur
| vive her.
Mrs. Washington A. Rabllng Of Tren-
ton, n. j., vice president general of the
society Of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, will be the guest Of Mrs. Jul
Illus j. Estey on Thursday, Oct. IS. Invi-
tons have been sent TO all the chapter re-
gents in Vermont and to the Brattleboro
chapter TO meet Mrs. Rebllng at q state
conference on that day.
G. A. Billings, Suffer Brothers agent,
who has been in town this week, reports
the tobacco crop throughout the Connect
cut valley as being of unusually good
quality. For the past month Mr.. Billings
has been buying the Connecticut leaf.
While here he bought some crops in Hins-
dale and Vernon and reported the quality
good. He had not seen personally the
crop in Putney and Westminster, but his
buyer was 10 be there this week. This
years prices range from Is cents for Or
binary to is cents for the best leaf. Suffer
Brothers will begin curing artificially at
their warehouse at Hartford the coming
month.
A meeting Of some of the men of the
Congregational parish was held last even
ing at the home of Rev. II. r. Miles for
the purpose of talking over a plan to organ
ize mems club. 1t was voted to organ
lie such a club, having for its main object
the promotion of general sociabillty among
the male members OF the parish. Meet
ings will be held once month at place
TO be determined by the executive commit
tee, and the members will have the privi-
lege of inviting women. Short programs
of literary nature will be given upon sub
jects Of general interest and will be within
the grasp Of all. A banquet will be serv-
ed at the first regular meeting, and 1t is
likely that further arrangements in this
line will be made. 1t was voted to call the
organization The Congregational club, and
these officers were elected: President,
Charles H. Thompson; vice president, L.
+. Adams; secretary and treasurer, Fred
@. Adams; executive committee, H. L.
Emerson, II. F. Jordan and j. L. Knowl-
ton; membership committee, George Clay,
W. T. Haigb, Alfred S. Thompson, l.. A.
Gregg and W. A. Gilbert