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

| lodge, NO. oO, +. N a. NJ, VIII De nelu
! next Tuesday evening.
William A. Hendrick of the Rutland
| Evening News staff and Miss Florence
! A. Buringame, formerly of Brattle-
! boro, but for several years a resident
of Springfield, Mass. were married in
! that city last evening.
Welcome, bully wind" sang Edwin
! Arnold in his poem on March, but the
people of Brattleboro, who had been
breathing and chewing dust for a week
previous to the storm of Wednesday
do not share the poetic sentiment.
Rennie & Pine, the Providence, r.
l.. seedsmen, issue an unusually well
arranged and clearly printed cata-
logue of vegetable and flower seeds
with other goods in their line of trade.
This is the firm of which w. S. Pine,
formerly of Brattleboro, is a member.
J. H. Kidder of Wilmington was cho-
sen trustee at the first meeting of the
creditors of Principal Franklin T..
Head of Nottingham academy, held
Saturday i'm the Office of A. +.
SChwenk, referee in bankruptcy.
The meeting of the Alliance Study
class will be held at the Brooks House
reception room, Monday evening next
at 80 o'clock. Subjects The Cap
| tives' Dreams Fulfilled" and Begin
ming the Bible All are cordially
| invited.
J. \. Stafford of Brattleboro. has
| taken charge of the local Singer sew
ing machine agency. formerly held by
Darwin c. Cooper. and has changed
the location of the Office from 40 Cen
Gpuara n tho EnppGaN block y
Cooper has taken charge of the Singer
Office in Providence Keene Sentinel.
Bingham chapter, Order of Eastern
! Star, held a regular Convocation in Ma
sonic hall Tuesday evening. Supper
was served at $50. There was a
! large attendance at the business meet
ing. which was of special interest, the
! occasion being the annual visitation of
| the grand matron, the grand patron
and the district deputies.
reception was given Mr.. and Mrs.
| c. A. Van Doom who are soon to leave
| town, at the First Baptist church,
! Thursday evening. Refreshments were
served and there was informal speech
| making. Regret was expressed that
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Doom are to leave
| town. Mrs. Van Doom has taught a
| y
at the First Baptist church for about
- years. Greenfield Gazette.
Rev. E. NJ. Fuller, a former Brat
! tleboro BOY who is pastor of the Bap-
fist church in Barre, is attempting to
raise the debt of $4,000 for that insti-
tuition. The rate Daniel . Ford pub
! Usher of the Youths Companion, left
| from $4,000 to $4,000 to the Baptist
state convention OF Vermont. and
| $4,000 of this sum is available for use
in liquidating the uebt OF Mr. Fuller's
! church in case the society in Barre
raises the other $1,000.
Alden Bass. who is to play an en-
| gagement here April IS. in A Poor
Relation" is one of the few actors
who can come before the curtain for
a speech without an acute attack of
stage fright, and knowing this his
| audience always expect a little talk
from him. 1t is said Mr.. Bass is the
best Defore-the-curtaln talker of all
the so-called speechifiers and his sue
cess in the Sol Smith Russell part
| Noah Vale is the talk of the profess
sion.
The funeral of Miss Lucie May
Pratt who died last Friday morning
at her home on High street was held
| Sunday afternoon at 2.3O o'clock. Rev.
H. r. Miles of the Congregational
| church officiating. The burial was
| in Prospect hhl cemetery. The
bearers were Louis Whitney. Frank
Baker. Fred Burnett and Luther Mil
! Ter The esteem in which Miss Pratt
was held by her many frineds was
shown by the large number of floral
offerings.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Wheel club was attended by about 80
members Tuesday evening. a resig-
nation was accepted and one new
member was elected. The present
membership is l47, lacking only three
! of the limit. After the presentation
of the annual reports these officers
were elected President, Charles \.
| Harris; vice president. Anthony
! Schwenk; secretary. Charles f. Bing-
! ham; treasurer, c. W. Richardson:
captain, John l.. Stewart; first lieu
tenant, William F. Dunleavy; second
| lieutenant, John Ryder; board of gov
| ernOrs-in addition to the president.
vice president, secretary and treasur-
er-GeOrge F. Barber. George S. Fos-
| ter, Michael j. 4doran.
The funeral of James Boyce, SO,
| who died Friday afternoon at his
! home on Western avenue after a lin
| gering illness of several months. was
| held Sunday afternoon at 3.15 in
! charge of Rev. E. T. Mathison of the
| Episcopal church. The bearers were
! Will Kane, Matthew McNeigh, Carl
| Cain and Louis Cain, and the burial
was in Prospect Hill cemetery. Mr..
Boyce had been nearly lifelong
resident of Brattleboro but for a mum
! Der Of years had been unable to work
on account of his advanced age. He
| is survived by two sons. William and
! James BOyce. both employees of the
! Estey Organ company, and two daugh-
| tiers, Misses Jennie and Elizabeth
! Boyce, who live at home.
Robert H. Sargent. who has sold his
farm to j. c. Newton, announces an
auction sale of personal property, in
! Guiding live stock, farming tools and
! household goods to be held on Tues
| day, April 16. This farm is the well
! known J. II. Sargent homestead on the
| Putney road. Mr. Newton, who has
! been for several years in charge of
! the Ferguson Brothers farm on Fish
! er's Island. buys the place for a home
and will probably occupy it sometime
! during the coming year. The plans
! of Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent for the future
are not settled, but they will probably
! visit relatives and other friends in
! New York and Ohio in course of the