Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-05-31


has been set for the postponed meet
ing.
S. w. Edgett & Co. have sold a
farm in Chesterfield, owned by the
e. X. Goodall estate, Walter II. Lipe
administrator, to John Cornell of
Chesterfield
The Roland T. Cakes company Of
Holyoke, Mass, began this week the
work of wiring the Brooks House to
conform to the rules of the New Eng
land Fire Insurance Exchange.
A plan is under way looking toward
the erection of a band stand at some
convenient point on the common. A
meeting of those interested will be
held tomorrow, when the matter will
probably take definite shape.
The 43d and 44th regiments and
two battalions of the 3Sth regiment
are scheduled to start home from the
Philippines tomorrow on the trans
ports Fitzpatrick and Logan. Lieut..
j. Leslie Elmer of Brattleboro is
member of the 43d regiment.
The first quarterly conference of
the Methodist church will be held Sat
urday evening at 7.30. Rev. w. N.
Newton, the new presiding elder, will
preside, and Mr.. Newton will preach
Sunday morning.
The Forty hours devotion at the
Roman Catholic church closed at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning. The
visiting priests who assisted Rev
Father Cunningham were Rev. Father
CarmOdy of Ludlow, Rev Father Gaff
| ney of Rutland, Rev. Father Brown of
Fair Haven and Rev, Father Reynolds
of Bellows Falls.
d. w. Sheldon of Wardsboro filed
Monday in the United States district
| court petition in bankruptcy, the liza
| bilities being $15S7, and assets 1919,
of which $500 are claimed exempt.
| The largest creditors are: Moses
| Sheldon of Dorset, $500; George L..
| Richardson of Peru, $500; Brown &
| Ryder of Wardsboro, $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs H. F. Weatherhead of
/ West Brattleboro have issued invita-
tions to the wedding of their daugh-
ter. Laura, and John Earle Mann,
which will take place in the Congre-
gational church in West Brattleboro
at o'clock next Thursday evening.
The young couple will be at home at
SO Western avenue after July Is. Mr..
Mann is clerk in o. j. Pratts dry
goods store.
The first meeting of the creditors
of Belle H. Emerson of Brattleboro
and of d. W. Sheldon of Wardsboro
will be held in the Office of A. F.
Schwenk, referee in bankruptcy, June
IA. There will also be final meetings
at the same time and place on the
| allowance of the trustees accounts
in the estates of Luther Wilbur and
| Fred r. Durgin; also to consider the
matter of granting discharges from
bankruptcy to Miller & Kinson,
Luther Wilbur, Arthur F. Robbins and
Elijah Wales.
The Worcester, Mass, Spy of last
! Sunday contained a signed editorial
on The Art of Life" by Rev. Frank
! l.. Phalen, formerly pastor of the
Brattleboro Unitarian church. On
the same page the Spy presented a
portrait of Mr.. Phalen and a sketch
of his life, saying in conclusion: Mr..
Phalen's pastorate in Worcester so
far has been very successful and the
+ chruch over which he presides is
prosper Gus. At the last annual meet
ing of the military and naval order
of the Spanish-American war, hel3 in
l G%stGH t NC w Weeks @gC, Nj. ihalen
was elected chaplain"
Montalvio, the hypnotist and mind
reader, gave his opening exhibition in
Brookside park Tuesday evening, the
opening of the park being postponed
from Monday evening on account of
the rain. On Monday afternoon five
well-known young men got into a
hack and drove through numerous
streets and after hiding pocket rule
in the mouth of the cannon near the
soldiers monument returned to the
town hall. Montalvio blindfolded,
got on to the hack the young men
remaining inside, and drove the
horses at a rapid pace direct to the
cannon and recovered the article.
DR.. Charles NJ. Freeman, the man
who is or is not to marry Mary E.
wilkins, made a scene at the post
office at Metuchen, N. j., Saturday
morning. a local photographer had
a lot of photographs in a big frame
hanging up in the post office. Among
others on exhibition were those of
Dr., Freeman and Miss Wilkins.
When the doctor walked into the post
office to get his mail he saw the two
photographs and became very indig.
nant. He hurried out to the street
picked up a stone, and, returning
hurled it at the glass covering the
photographs, SCATTERING it. Then he
pulled out the photographs of himself
and Miss wilkins and tore them up
The photographer declares that Dr.
Freeman will have to pay for the
frame.