Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-05-17

+. flemlng is putting IN a STOCK Oh
hardware, paints and oils in his store
on Elliot street.
The Y. M. c. A. parlors are being
newly painted and papered and will
be partially refurnished.
Fred E. Gilbert will lead the four
o'clock meeting in the Y. M. G. A.
reading room next Sunday.
Miss Charlotte Slate, whose ex-
citing experience with a BURGLAR at
her home in Hinsdale Sunday morn
ing is reported in our correspondence
from that town, is a teacher in the
Brattleboro Grammar school.
Instead of the special meeting which
is usually held in May, the Brattle-
boro Bird club will observe Bird
Day" Saturday, May %. The object
is to spend the day in the field and
devote the time to observation and
study of birds. The place and hour
of meeting will be announced later.
Rev. G. j. Sutherland has resigned
as rector of st. Mary's Episcopal
church, in Mortified, the resignation
to take effect Sept /. Mr. Sutherland
has been stationed at Mortified for
the past seven years. BY advice of
physicians he will go to a warmer
climate hoping to find relief from a
| severe throat trouble with which he is
afflicted.
Herbert n. Gum of the local real
estate firm of Gum & Company has
! been elected vice president of the
| National Angora Goat Raising com
! pany of Lowell Mass, which is in
/ Corporated under the laws of Maine,
with a capital of half a million dol
| lars. The company will buy several
/ thousand acres of cheap land and
| stock it with registered Angora goats.
The stockholders of the Brattleboro
| d Whitehall railroad will hold their
| annual meeting in the Brooks House
! Saturday, May 25 at 1870 o'clock to
! elect a clerk and board of trustees and
! to transact other business. Stock
| holders will be carried to and from
! Brattleboro on the day of the. meeting
| free ii they will show their certificates
| of stock to the conductors.
consignment of about 10000 trout
! fry was sent TO Brattleboro Monday
from the state fish hatchery at RoX-
! bury to be planted in the brooks in
Brattleboro, Halifax and Newfane
/ Agents of the fish wardens of those
towns were at the station to take
| their consignments to the several
brooks. G. w. Fierce of Brattleboro
took charge of the consignment for
Bratt .eboro and sent some to West
Brattleboro.
The ladies' association of the Con
| gregational church will hold their an
nual fair in Grange hall next Wednes-
day. 1t will be on the wedding ami
versary plan, with booths representing
,ne honeymoon, paper, wooden, tin,
linen, crystal, china, silver, golden
and diamond weddings a short farce
entitled The Lippincott Square
! Church Coup" will be given. A wed
oIng breakfast" will be served from
$50 to s o'clock. The preparations
are in charge of Mrs. Fremont Hamil-
ton and Mrs. E. H. Putnam.
Glass No. I in the Baptist Bible
school enjoyed a fish supper in the
church dining rooms Wednesday eve
ming, 80 members of the class being
present. a number of the boys went
fishing in different directions Tuesday
and upon comparing results found
that they had over POO fish. most of
| which were horned pout. The fish.
together with clam chowder and other
eulDleS, were served by Flagg
! Brothers. caterers. and after supper
the young men adjourned to the
church parlor and told their expert
ences the day before.
Gum & Co. have sold William L.
Gales farm of 1870 acres in Townshend
to II. a. Ashford of Massachusetts,.
who has also bought the Streeter lot
containing 100 acres of timber land
in the same town. The King farm in
! GuilfOrd bought a short time ago by
| Samuel Greenough has been sold to
! F. NJ. Spaulding, who has taken pos
session. Mr.. Spaulding is at the head
of the Alaskan Coal and Transporta-
tion company of Boston. He has
bought the farm for a home for his
family while he is in Alaska. Reed
and Blood, the recent purchasers of
the Elliot White farm in Wardsboro.
have sold that property to r. n. Par
ker & Co. of Worcester. This farm
contains 1900 acres, a commodious
set of farm buildings. and 5000, 900
feet of timber. F. d. Warner of
Springfield. Mass. has bought the Rice
pasture, so called in Dover. and the
Bella brigham place in 1ownshend.
High School Dropped Two Games.