Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-04-26
lRMONT PHENIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, APRIL 26,

Six consecutive days of rain ended
last night.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet next Wednesday evening with
Miss Nellie Stewart on Elliot street.
The Womans Relief Corps will give
a clam chowder supper in Grand Army
hall next Tuesday evening at six
o'clock.
Patrick Ferriter has been engaged
as captain of the Y. NJ. G. A. base ball
team. The team will begin practic.
ing soon.
Mrs S. w. Richardson is repairing
and improving both of her houses off
High street, formerly owned by the
Collins Clark estate.
odd Fellows hall was crowded to
overlooking at the dance last night
The last of the series of dances will
be given next Tuesday evening.
The annual business meeting of the
Y. NJ. 1. and the board of directors
will be held next Wednesday eve
ming at 100 o'clock. The old officers
will submit reports and officers will
be elected for the coming year, in.
Guiding three new directors to fill va
cancies.
At the annual meeting of the Wo.
mans club. May I'd, the program com.
mittee Will present a draft Of the pro
gram for l9Ol-l902. The committee
hope that there will be a large at.
tendance that the program may be
completed then by the selection of
parts for the coming year
The '9S club met last evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. James lizard. The pro
gressive prizes were taken by r. A.
Austin and Mrs. c. c. Turner, and
the BOBBY prizes went to c. G. Tur
ner and Mrs. J. c. Sullivan. The club
will meet next Thursday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Eckels.
The school board of district No. .
has engaged President Harris of Am
herst college to deliver the address at
the commencement exercises of the
High school. Congressman ID. J. Eos.
ter of Burlington will deliver the com.
mencement address at Brattleboro
Academy.
The body of Walter c. Carpenter
who died in Augusta. Maine. several
Nt'No hSos was blOuBnl w ID at ltDDl u
Wednesday by Mrs. Carpenter and her
cousin, Mr.. Branch of Waterville
There were brief services at the grave
bearers were Martin Austin, jr., DR. c.
s. Pratt, C. O. Robbins and +. f.
Perry.
Richards NJ. Bradley of Boston one
of the trustees of the Thomas Thomp-
son estate, is in Barttleboro this week
to investigate the conditions and needs
in regard to the distribution of Brat.
tleboro's share of the annual income
from the estate. Mrs. Bradley is also
here and they are guests at Col. Rich
ards Bradley's.
5. b. Carter of Boston. a member
of the firm of Carter Il Peabody and of
the state executive committee in Y. NJ
c. \. work, will speak on The Claims
Of the Young Mems Christian associa.
ton upon the Church and Commune
ty' at the anniversary observance of
the local association May - The
service will be a union evening service
in the Baptist church. At the !
o'clock meeting in the \. NJ. c. \. Mr.
Carter will speak on The Young
Mans Need
\ hearing was held before A. F.
Schwenk, referee, Monday. on specifi-
cations of certain Out-of-town credi-
tors obiecting to the granting of dis
charge from bankruptcy to Laneche
Brothers. +. w. Gibson appeared for
the creditors and c. c. Fits for the
bankrupts. The objection was made
on the ground that the bankrupts' OBJ
ject in not keeping books was to con
ceal their financial condition in con
temptation of going into bankruptcy.
The arguments in the case will be
made later before Judge Wheeler.
The winners in the Grange enter
talnment contest-the young unmar-
rled people-were given their reward
Wednesday evening in the shape of a
first class supper. About l75 persons
sat down to the tables in Grange ban
quet hall and We're furnished escal-
loped oysters cold meats, ice cream,
cake, etc, prepared by the men of the
Grange who were in the kitchen. and
served by the married women. whose
entertainment was second to that of
the young people. After supper a
farce was given by the Dramatic club.
after which dancing was enjoyed.
the Brattleboro High school has
Just received a valuable gift from the
late Miss Annie l.. Grout. A memo
randum was found among her papers
directing that all her herbariums, to-
gether with her books and pamphlets
relating to the subject of botany. be
given to the High school. The col
lection contains many valuable speci-
mems not often found in the posses
sion of private individuals. Especial
~ notable is large portfolio of ferns
containing many rare varieties found
only IN Africa. The school is fortu-
nate in coming into possession of the
results of Miss CIRCUITS lifetime of
study and observation.
In Offering a reward of $500 for the
detection of the person or persons who
make IT point to fire the mountain
every spring, the citizens of Brattle-
Doro and Hinsdale put themselves un-
mlstakably on record as to what they
are ready to do for protection of our
natural scenery. Their declaration
and the names signed to it are print
ed elsewhere in this paper. These
names could have been doubled or
quadrupled in number had it been
worth while to give the time to the
effort.
strenuous Life" Boys Have a Mill.
Two youths who are imbued with
the idea OF strenuous life" sought to
settle a difficulty yesterday according
10 the French code. The one who is
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