Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-05
BRATTLEBORO,


The ladies of the Congregational
church at the west village will hold
an apron sale at their parlors next
Thursday evening.
L. l.. Durham took charge Monday
of the retail shoe store of Durham
Brothers. Mrs. Durham will come
here from Bellows Falls in about three
weeks.
The annual meeting of the Baptist
church, which was to have been held
Wednesday evening was postponed to
next Monday evening at $50 on ac-
count of the heavy rain.
During the year ended March S1st
1901, the receipts of the Brattleboro
post Office on postal account were
$21, 1O0.S1, the greatest amount in its
history, being Sl735 more than for the
preceding year.
Luther Wilbur, clerk in the Ameri
can House has filed a petition in
bankruptcy. His liabilities are about
$500, owing principally to creditors
in Cleveland, Ohio, and his assets are
about 5000 in uncollected bills.
The attraction at Melrose House
West Brattleboro, next Wednesday
evening will be a poverty party. A
prize will be given to the most unat-
tractive old thing in the form of
a male specimen of humanity and the
woman who is considered most poorly
dressed will be given souvenir Mel
rose spoon.
Henry Haynes Carpenter, a native
of Marlboro and a brother of Mrs. o.
F. Bailey of Canal street, died Tuesday
from consumption in the city hospital
in Boston. Mr. Carpenter was a law
yer, but had engaged in the insurance
business in Boston many years. He was
twice married, and is survived by his
wife and four children by the first
marriage.
Thomas Carey, H. son of David
Carey of Elliot street, died Saturday
afternoon about o'clock. He had
recovered from a two weeks illness
with pneumonia when he had an at
tack of spinal meningitis which caused
his death. He was born in Brattle-
boro and spent his life here, being EN-
ployed at the Estey and Carpenter or
gan factories Browns livery sta
BILE and Suffer Brothers tobacco fac
tory. He was an energetic young
man of good habits and was popular
among his associates. He had be-
come member of Company | recent
ly. The funeral was held in the Ro-
man Catholic church Monday morn
ing. Rev. Father Cunningham officiat-
ing, and the burial was in the Roman
Catholic cemetery.
The third and last in a series of en-
tertainments in Grange hall was Civ
en- by the unmarried members of the
order Wednesday evening before
large audience. The program open
ed with a piano selection by Earl
Woodland, followed by a song by Miss
Florence Thurber and a violin and
piano duet by Miss Ethel Randall and
Miss Florence Hildreth. A play emit
tied The Country Store" was then
given by a cast of about 10 persons
with John +. Gale as the proprietor.
The play dealt with life in the average
country store and was very funny.
introducing large number of local
hits The remaining numbers of the
program were chorus singing by those
in the play, aud a song and dance by
John Kennedy in blacK-face So
cial dance closed the evenings enter
tainment.
Edward c. Crosby is understood to
be one of the prime movers in the
developments in the electric railway
situation in Greenfield this week. F.
Z. Lowe, president of the company
owning the road between Greenfield
and Turner's Falls has retired and Ma
jor Pierce, the postmaster has been
elected in his place, and yesterday
Major PierOn was also chosen presi-
dent of the road which has secured a
franchise for a line between Green
field and South Deerheld. 1t is be-
leved in Greenfield that the Green
field and Turner's Falls road, the pro-
posed line to South Deerfield and the
Northampton and Amherst road, which
will be eXtelded to South Deerfield
will all be consolidated under one man
agement. A side line will probably
be built to Sugar Loaf mountain near
South Deerfeld village and an effort
made to boom this place as a summer
resort, riyalling Mt. Tom at Holyoke