Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-28

An original pension OF $l2 month
has been granted to Sylvester e. Raw
son of Jamaica.
About 25 members of the Baptist
Christian Endeavor society held a bas-
ket picnic on Thurber Hill Saturday
afternoon witnessing the sunset.
The Young Ladies' Sodallty will hold
a reception Tuesday evening in st. Mi
chaePs Catholic church. Twenty can
didates will be received into the So
ciety.
Bishop Michaud of Burlington will
be here Tuesday to confirm a large
class of children in st. Michaels Ro-
man Catholic church at 730 in the
evening.
The lawn party which the st. Ce-
celia Altar society had planned for
last evening, was postponed indefinite
ly on the account of the case of diph-
liberia on Walnut street.
The bailiffs as individuals have re-
quested the proprietors of two hotels
to close the bar rooms at 1890 week
day evenings and entirely on Sunday.
A similar request has also been made
to proprietors of pool rooms.
The young daughter of e. E. Wander
pool was badly bitten on the right
hand Wednesday by a dog owned by
Mrs. j. NJ. Reed. The child as at play
with other children near the Reed
house when the dog seized her.
G. A. Boyden has received this week
handsome Hambletonian bay mare,
standard bred, six years old, which
was bought through +. H. Howard.
This mare was bred at the Orwell
stock farm, and is considered one of
| the fastest roadsters owned in Yer
mont.
The members of the Unitarian Sun
day school and their friends will have
their annual picnic at Central park
next Tuesday, July 2. A cordial invita-
| ton is extended to all interested to be
| present and participate. Take train
for the park at 1925 a. m. returning
arrive at Brattleboro at 5.45 p. m.
The graduating class of st. Michael's
| Parochial school and the Sth grade
| held a reception Wednesday afternoon
| from 5 until 6 o'clock in the school
house hall. Refreshments were serv-
| ed. Rev Father Cunningham gave di-
| plomas to the graduating class whose
names are as follows: Katherine
| Adams, Margaret Sullivan, Daniel
Riley John Austin and John Grady.
At the session of the Vermont Fun
eral Directors & Embalmers associa-
| ton in Burlington Wednesday, II. r.
Bond of Brattleboro was reelected
| president, and he was also chosen
delegate to the national convention.
The secretary is G. H. Roarkes of
Montpelier, and the treasurer is w. S.
Hudson of the same town, formerly an
employee of Emerson &c Son.
Rev. DIR. Marble was in the northern
part of the state June Gath, in the
interests of the Baptist state conven-
ton, and on the 25th he gave the adj
dress at the Caledonia County Sunday
School convention at st. Johnsbury
His subject. "The Bible School of the
Twentieth Century" was handled in a
very able manner, and was a strong
plea for better grading of our Bible
schools, and a more thorough and sys.
tematic study of the Bible, both in the
home and in our Sunday schools.
Frank Young, 6S, of Jericho, died
very suddenly Monday afternoon about
o'clock at the home of his son, vii.
liam o. Young, on Spruce street. He
came here a week earlier on his way
to Boston, and he remained for a rest
before proceeding. as he was in poor
health, having suffered from asthma
for years and having been weakened
by two hemorrhages only last spring
He was sitting on the piazza with his
| grandson, Leon Young, when he was
suddenly seized with a hemorrhage
Leon carried him into the house
and summoned a doctor, but he died in
less than 90 minutes, soon after the ply
stefan arrived, Leon Young went to
| Jericho Monday night to make ar
rangements for the funeral, and Will
liam o. Young and his brother, Ed
ward Young, of Boston, formerly OF
this place, went there Tuesday. The
funeral was held Wednesday in the
Roman Catholic church at Underhill
Centre, and the burial was in the
cemetery in that place. Mr.. Young
was a farmer and a lifelong resident
of Jericho. where he was held in high
esteem. In addition to the two sons
mentioned. he is survived by two other
sons, Walter of Boston, and Carlos
who lived at the home in Jericho.
College Degrees for Brattleboro Men
Honors are easy for Rev. C. o. Day
this year He has been elected presi
dent of Andover Theological Seminary
has been given ID. ID. by Dartmouth
College and by western College, and
Yale, his alma mater, has made him
an M. A.
At the 10th commencement of Yale
University held on Wednesday, the de
| gree of Doctor of Divinity was confer