Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-04-11

hindrance to the sale. 1t is expected
that work will be begun Immediately
upon the repairs on the building and
that some IL not all the rooms will be
in condition for occupancy next fall.
For the remainder of this school year,
the town will continue to occupy the
room down stairs as for the past two
years.
Miss Jennie Church of the telephone
Office is i'll this week.
Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Robb Of Wash
ington, d. c., are expected here the
first of next week to spend ten days or
more.
Only three more weekly rehearsals
of the Choral Union will be held be-
fore rendering The Holy City" next
month.
Seventeen members of the local
United Irish League went to Brattle-
boro Sunday TO assist in organizing a
league at that place.
The late Roswell w. Robertson gave
$4,000 by his will to st. Luke's church
at Charlestown, Of which he was an
active member for many years.
Rev. F. W. Lewis went to the annual
Vermont conference of Methodist
churches Monday afternoon. He has
been in Bellows Falls five years and
his future location is indefinite.
A new two-tenement residence will
be erected this season on South street
by Walter G. Blake. 1t will stand
upon the location of the old residence
of Mr.. Blake, the old building being
for sale to be removed.
Rockingham will sustain a loss Of
$4,000 in its grand list through the
removal of Mrs. Hetty Green's legal
residence from this town to Cohasset,
Mass, where she has entered into an
agreement with the tax assessors, who
will fix her inventory at a nominal
sum.
Kendall Banning of Dartmouth Col
lege has furnished most of the illustra-
lions for embellishing the annual pub
LEGATION Of the college paper, the Aegis,
and his well-known artistic ability
shown while in the local High school
is winning favorable comment in a
wider field.
Peter Dorand of Bartonsville, over
seer of the poor of Rockingham, has
been quite i'll ever since March l with
a complication of grip and kidney trou-
bles. The selectmen have attended to
his duties while he has been laid up.
He is somewhat better, but not so as
to be away from his home yet.
Rev. c. R. B. Dodge, who closes his
pastorate of IL years May l, will
spend the summer at his old home in
Nova Scotia. He has been incapaci-
tated from work since about Feb. l,
from grip and nervous debility, but
hopes the respite from work and care.
will render him able to resume his
labors in the autumn.
The Vermont Conference has been
asked to appoint a minister for the
Athens church. which has of recent
years been supplied by the Bellows
Falls minister. The people of Cam
bridgeport have arranged to unite with
the Athens church in the support OF a
pastor instead of trying to have one
of their own, he to preach al both
places.
y. G. Williams returned Wednes-
day afternoon from a short trip to Old
Point Comfort and Hampton, Va. Miss
Williams, who went with him. return
ed as far as New York. where she is
visiting a few days before coming
home. and Miss Genevieve returned to
her studies at Oberlin College direct
from Old Point Comfort.
Henry A Stoddard. B. F. H. S. '01,
was surprised Saturday evening at his
home in Rockingham by 81 of his
young friends who called TO remind
him the next day would be his 21st
birthday anniversary. A pleasant
evening was spent and when they left
he found himself the owner of a gold
pen, a gold watch and chain, and S21
in money more than he had when they
came.
Jerry Scanlon was taken TO Keene
Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Perry Of
Walpole. Scanlon got on the rampage
Sunday in North Walpole and Chief
of-Police Brown arrested him and had
a serious time getting him to the lock
up, and he was obliged TO use his club
pretty freely. Soon after he was shut
up he set the mattress on fire in his
cell and large portion of his hair was
singed OF. In the police court Mon
day he was given 126 days in the
Keene Jail.
The fourth organ recital of the sea-
son, given by George Blakeley at the
Congregational church, will occur next
Tuesday evening. Each recital given
has drawn larger audiences. proving
that they are of merit and popular
with the music lovers Of the place.
The last. one filled the church TO
| nearly its entire capacity. The pro-
gram for next. week is an unusually
| fine one and includes vocal parts by
Mrs. NJ A Summers, who is a soloist
of much merit
John NJ. Hume has received the APP
pointment of superintendent of the
John T. Moore & Son mill in place of
B. B. Wetherbee. Mr.. Wetherbee
has filled the position since the pur-
chase of the mill formerly owned by
the Westminster Paper Co., by Blake
& Higgins and the subsequent resig-
nation of the superintendency of the
John T. Moore & Son mill by Mr.. Hig-
gins. Mr.. Wetherbee has now gone TO
Lincoln, n. H., as manager of the pa
/ per mill recently erected there by j.
E. Henry & Son.
Holy Cross commandery of Knights
| Templar voted Tuesday evening TO
| celebrate ascension day May IL by at
tending divine service in a body, and
| Sir Knight Rev. H. L. Ballou OF Ches-
ter has been invited to address them
at that time. The commandery has re-
ceived formal invitation from the
Grand Army post at Springfield to act
as escort to that post Decoration day
and it has decided TO accept it, 1t is