Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-19

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Mrs. Sarah b. Wheeler of West
Halifax has been granted an original
pension of So a month.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet next Wednesday evening with
Miss b. Sullivan, Clark street.
Richard Timson has bought the
home farm from the estate of his
father, the late Charles Timson.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Baptist Foreign Missionary society
will be held in Hartford, Conn, next
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Brattleboro Ice company an
nounces elsewhere an analysis of its
ice by the Vermont Experiment sta
ton, with a guarantee of its purity.
The Knights of King Arthur held
their last meeting of the season Tues
day evening and entertained the
Queens with refreshments and a bur
lesque illustration of how to conduct
a newspaper
Wantastiquet lodge Of Odd Fellows
and Dennis Rebekah lodge will OBJ
serve the SD anniversary Of the or
der in their hal Friday, April %, at
$50 o'clock p. m. All members and
families are cordially invited to be
present
The last car returning from the
dance at the MelrOse House Wednes-
day evening jumped the track at the
water house switch. Several men
standing on the platform were thrown
to the ground Harrie Pratt had one
hand cut slightly, but the others es-
capped without injury.
The '9S club met with Mr. and Mrs.
w. o. Young at their home on West
ern avenue. last evening. The pro-
-,ressive prizes were taken by Mrs.
James lizard and II. b. Haus, and the
BOBBY prizes went to Mrs O. p. II.
brisbane and N. T. Ryan. The next
meeting will be held Thursday eve
ming at James Yards.
The steel bridge connecting the
business and editorial offices of The
Vermont Phoenix with the composing
room in Harmony building has been
put in place during the past week. 1t
was built by the Berlin Bridge com
pany of East Berlin, Conn. and is a
handsome and substantial piece of
work.
Thirty-three new members were
voted into Wantastiquet Golf club
Tuesday and several applications for
membership have been received since
then. Cratus Weatherhead has been
engaged as green's keeper and will
devote his entire attention to the
work. The work of putting the
greens in good condition will begin
next week.
The Vermont Funeral Directors
and Embalmers' association of which
H. E. Bond of Brattleboro is president,
will hold it's annual meeting in Bur
lington June 20 to %, inclusive. On
the 26th Prof. A. c. Dodge, of the
Massachusetts College of Embalming.
will lecture on Anatomy and Embalm-
ing The election of officers will
take place the first day. On the last
day an excursion will be held on Lake
Champlain, and a banquet will be
served in the Van Ness House in the
evening.
The work of double tracking the
Vermont Valley road, which is report
ed to have begun at Bellows Falls this
week, is to extend only as far as West
minister, and is to be done for the pur-
pose Oh relieving the traffic at Bel
lows Falls and reducing the crowded
condition of the track room at that
point. The Sullivan county road has
already been double tracked to Clare
mont Junction, affording an outlet to
the north, and the work now in pro-
gress at Bellows Falls is to afford a
similar outlet to the south. The rail
road officials say that the movement
has no other significance than this.