Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-11
THE VERMONT PHOENIX. BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, APRIL

Mrs, Farr will open her boarding
house on Linden street next Monday.
The letter carriers changed Monday
the time of making the first morning
collection from the letter boxes to
GAS, instead of 7.
]. Fl. Stearns has bought a 60-horse-
power boiler. which he will install at
Pine Grove Springs to furnish power
and heat for the hotel.
A special conclave of Beauseant
Commanderv. Knights Templar, will
be held tonight, when the Temple and
Malta degrees will be conferred.
The New Hampshire state fish COM
missioners have posted the little
brooks flowing into Spofford lake in
order to prevent the wholesale catch
ing of smelt.
Sedgewick post, G.. A. R., has re-
Gently voted to establish an associate
membership of all those who are will
ing to assist the Grand Army in its
deeds of charity and patriotic work.
The members of the post invite all
such persons to join them.
Despite the hard rain Wednesday
afternoon there was good attendance
at the mothers meeting in the Con-
gregational church Mrs. G. C. Averill
read a carefully prepared and highly
interesting paper on How to Retain
the Confidence of Children"
The stockholders of the Brattleboro
Creamery association elected these di-
rectors at their annual meeting in
Grange hall Monday: j. G. Stafford. G.
w. Pierce. e. II. Miller, l.. ]. Huntley
and c. Il. Snow. w. II. Bracket was
elected secretary and treasurer.
The last of the series of assemblies
in the Brooks House was held Friday
evening with about the usual number
in attendance. All of the dances have
been successful. and it is the intention
of the young men who have had them
in charge to arrange for another series
next winter.
The Republican and Democratic
, town committees have called a caucus
of the voters of the village to be held
in Festival hall next Tuesday even
ing at 7.30 o'clock to place in nomina-
tion candidates for village officers to
be voted for at the annual village
meeting. May 6.
There will be a regular meeting of
the Brattleboro Woman's club Friday
afternoon April is. with Miss Fits on
Chaplin street The subject will be
THE French Drama" There will be
papers by Miss Stedman and Mrs. May
nard, and readings by two or three
members of the club.
The sale of Henry Bells stock in
= Halifax did not take place Saturday
, on foreclosure proceedings, as adver-
tised by Chief-of Police Hall. Bell
, / or m MOI tho prt o. hold nv
; L. S. Alexander of Leyden. Sumner
Worden of Halifax has charge of Bells
stock and also looks out for the wants
, of Mrs. Bell and the children.
Assurances have been received in
Brattleboro from the Central Vermont
| Railway company that the third rail
will be laid from West River bridge
: to the local yard as soon as the ground
is in proper condition. The Boston
l & Maine Railroad company will ex-
tend the double track from Westmns-
ter to East Putney. possibly farther,
during the coming summer
, A local base ball league is a lively
? topic of discussion in certain circles.
and it is probable that committees will
/, be appointed to consider plans for a
/ championship schedule. The Y. NJ.
~. ~
r the clerks at Durham Brothers are
signing for fields to conquer, and the
l Catholic Union young men will take
up base ball as soon as the minstrel
show has been given. The Wheel
. club and one or two other organiZa-
, lions may also be asked to come into
! a league.
4 The meeting of the Junior members
| Of hn I'D % hn ol
L street building Wednesday afternoon
/, was attended by over one hundred
e children, interested and enthusiastic
S The blue bird and the robin were the
+ birds talked about. Pupils of several
= rooms had written, as a language les
= son, stories of these birds, and seven
o papers were selected to be read before
r the club. All were well written and
many showed the result of personal
observation Songs about the birds
We're sung by pupils from the sixth
and third grades.
:, Sixteen members of the Bellows
p Falls branch of the United Irish league
v came to Brattleboro Sunday afternoon
q for the purpose of organizing a loca
c branch. A meeting was held in the
Il evening in the rooms of the Catholic
A Union, which was attended by between
:. 40 and so 1t was decided to organize
/. a Brattleboro branch and temporary
organization was effected, Timothy
.. Aher being elected president and Dan
iel w. Shea secretary. Another meet
ing will be held next Sunday, when 6
e permanent organization will be formed
r The object of the league is to give
financial and moral support. to those
l. who are standing behind Irish affair:
s in the English parliament
:, The Gayley laboratory of chemis
= try and metallurgy, the gift of James
. w. Gayley to Lafayette College, wa:
% dedicated at Easton, Pa. Saturday
!, 1t is a three story building, constructed
= of notified brick, with trimmings o
Indiana limestone and terra-cotta. Tit
!, ceremony of presentation was per
- formed by Mr.. Gayley, in the presenc,
!, of his classmates of 1876, and this wal
= followed by a dedicatory prayer b!
=, his father, the Rev. Samuel A. Gayley
- d. d., who graduated at Lafayette il
= 1S47. The donor, who bought farm
! in Dummerston two or three years agt
~ and who intends eventually to built
. summer residence there, Is vic,
= president of the United States Stee
- corporation.
lie The arguments in the case O