Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-13

VI 0tNtil NOtNtOth NlOHudys
Prof. Willston Walker will preach
in the Congregational church next
Sunday.
Fort Drummer, Royal Arch Chapter,
held a regular convocation last even
ing to confer the Mark Master and
Past Master degrees.
]. G.. Ullory has moved his office
from the third to the second floor of
his building. to the rooms formerly oc-
cupied by Lafleche Brothers.
P. F. Crown has sold his house on
Forest street to Marshall Grout who
will take possession soon, and his
house on Green street, opposite the
Retting house, to John Manley. jr..
who has already taken possession.
Funds are being raised this week
| for the purchase of pipe organ for
| the Methodist church. The subscrip-
| ton paper is in the hands of DR.. c. G.
| Wheeler. 1t is a worthy project and
there is a prospect that it will sue
| coed.
The funeral of Hiram X. Chamber
lain was held at his late home. 20
Green street, at 100 o'clock Sunday.
Rev. r. X. Marvin of the Universalist
church officiating. The singing was
by Mrs. Edythe Chamberlain. The
members of Protective Grange attend
ed in a body and OBLIGATED at the
burial, which was in Locust Ridge
cemetery. in the Waite district The
bearers were II. G. Everleth, NJ. d.
Whitman. L. P. Bailey and w. D.
Waite, members of Golden Rule lodge
of Masons of Putney.
Stockholders of the Boston & Maine
| railroad have received an official noti-
fication that at their annual meeting
on Oct. 8 they will be called upon to
authorize an issue of 81 900. 900 i'm
| provement bonds. President Lucius
futile explains that the proceeds of
these bonds are needed to pay for per-
manent improvements on the COM
pany's leased lines. Immediately
after the annual meeting the Boston
& Maine stockholders will be called
together in special session to ratify
the lease of the Fitchburg railroad
The next meeting of the Woman's
club will be held at the Brooks House
Friday afternoon, Sept. 20, with Mrs.
]. p. Elmer. At this session the pro-
gram for the year will be opened and
its purposes and method discussed by
the chairman of the program commit
tee, Mrs. Whitaker. To get the most
from the years progrom it is advis-
able to attend all the meetings, es-
pecially this Introductory meeting. In
addition to the outline of the years
work, art treasures in Boston and in
New York will be discussed by Miss
Horton and Mrs. Miner.
The school board of district No. 2
has engaged Miss Emma Wardle of
| Hudson. n. Y. as supervisor of the
grades up to and including grade sew
en-. The supervising of the grades
above the seventh will be done by
Principal Whitaker and the members
of the board. At the last annual
school meeting the question as to the
advisability of engaging a special SUI
pervisor was discussed at length and
was finally left to the discretion of the
committee Miss Wardle has had an
experience of IL years as a supervisor.
the past four years having been spent
in 2lattsburgh, n. Y.
A pleasant reunion of the Barrett
|
was held on the old farm in district
No. 10, about five miles west of Brat
tleboro village Wednesday. There
were IA in the party, four of whom
were born on the place-Mrs. Janett
H. Greenleaf of California, Mrs. F. ].
Bassett of Brattleboro and Hervey d.
Barrett OF Topeka, Kan. children of
David Barrett. and Mrs. c. L. Cobb of
Brattleboro granddaughter of David
Barrett Only one previous reunion
of the family had been held, that of
nine years ago The old house has
almost wholly disappeared, only a part
of the ell remaining. The barn is still
standing, and in that a board table
was constructed, on which dinner was
served. The afternoon was spent in
rowing about the place and telling in
teresting "reminiscences.
The Brattleboro Woman's club held
its opening meeting for this season Fri
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. o.
j. Pratt on High street with large at
tendance. A meeting of the directors
preceded the regular meeting of the
members. Miss Edith Stolte was
elected a director to succeed Miss
Minnie Brasor, whose absence from
town VIII prevent her from serving in
that capacity. Brief reports of the
vacations of several members were
followed by an interesting talk on the
Pan-American exposition by Mrs. H.
A. Metcalf, mother of Mrs. E. S. Bow
en-. Mrs. Metcalf stated that there ap-
peared to be fewer Vermonters pres
ent at the exposition than citizens of
any other state in the Union. A tri-
butte to the memory of Miss Annie L.
Grout, former secretary of the club
and daughter of Rev. Lewis Grout of
West Brattleboro, gotten up and print
ed by her father for Miss CIRCUITS
friends, was presented to the members
of the club, in the form of a small
booklet, with a picture of Miss Grout
on the front page. Year-books were
also distributed among the members.
Miss Lenna Thomas sang two solos,
which were well received. Mrs. Met
calf was guest of the club. She has
spent several weeks at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition with her husband, who
is one of the officials.
Morrlson's Faust.