Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-05-01

A regular meeting of the Audubon
society will be held at Mrs e. d.
Whitneys Monday evening at 1880
lions of Birds
Dr.. C. r. Aldrch has been appoint
ed deputy health officer to serve dur
ing the absence of DR.. II. l.. Water
man, who went away yesterday to be
gone two weeks
Charles f. Mason has bought a
building lot on Haywood street in
Greenfield of j. W. Riddell and will
build a two-tenement house thereon
during the coming summer.
Hollis d. Barber has bought the
Isaac b. Taft farm one and one-half
mile north of the village, and will oc-
cupy it at once. The sale was made
through A. V. Mays agency.
G. e. Gilman has sold five carloads
of horses at his stables on Elliot
street this spring He will go to
Keene today to sell two carloads by
auction. Another carload for his
home trade will arrive from the West
next week
The Greenfield High school and the
Brattleboro High school will play ball
on the island at 3 O'Clock tomorrow.
The Brattleboro boys have been do
ing some effective work in practise
and are in position to make the Wis
itors hustle.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro Woman's club will be held at the
Brooks House Wednesday afternoon,
reports of officers and committees,
and payment of the club dues can be
made at this time.
The last meeting of the Woman 5
Auxiliary to the Y. NJ. C. A. before the
summer months will be held Tues
day afternoon, May ), at 3 o'clock at
the Y. NJ. c. A. parlors The de-
votiOnal exercises will be led by Mrs
F. A. Woodbury., and Miss Newton
will speak upon her trip through the
Rhine country. Special music will
close the meeting, and cordial in
vitation is extended to the ladies of
the village to be present.
Andrew Carnegie recently donated
an Estey pipe organ to the Walton
avenue Methodist church in Philadel-
phia. AS bearing upon the standard
of the instruments which are being
turned out at the Estey factories the
statement of Edwin H. Lemare, organ
list of the Carnegie Music Hall, is in
teresting He says: Il was very
much struck with many things about
the instrument, especially the voicing
and beautiful way in which the work
has been carried out. In excellence
of tone and work the organ is one of
the best for its size on which | ever
have played"
Captain Charles Mason Fuller, a
retired officer of the United States
navy, will give an illustrated lecture
on Venezuela at Festival hall next
Thursday evening, May 7. Recent po-
litical events in Venezuela have at
tracted worldwide attention to that
country and this lecture will, there
fore, be of special and timely interest.
Captain Fuller has been long a resi-
dent of the tropics, is a pleasing
speaker and gives many incidents and
personal experiences. The illustra-
lions accompanying the lecture pre-
sent many views of tropical scenery,
as well as of buildings and cities,
and are described by the Boston Her
aid as new and picturesque"
Scarlet fever has appeared in two
families since John l.. Knowlton's
children were taken i'll with it, but in
neither case has the origin been dis
covered The first of the new cases
was in E. E. Vanderpool's family, Mr.
VanderpooPs ten-ylear-old daughter.
Marion, being the patient. The house
which they occupy on Green street
was quarantined Saturday. On the
same day Jerry Curtin's daughter
who lives on Vernon street, became
Ill with scarlet fever symptoms and
Mr.. Curtin's house was quarantined.
The Vanderpool girl attends school in
the High school building and the
Curtin girl attends the Parochial
school, Both cases are of a mild
type.
A party of % boys, including Sec
rotary Wilson and James Helyar, who
were boys in spirit if not in fact left
the y, NJ. C. A. rooms at 9 o'clock
Saturday morning for tramp on
Wantastiquet and Mine mountains.
They struck into the mountain path
south of Schorling's slaughter house
and followed it to the pinnacle, going
thence to Mine mountain Some of
the boys went into the mine and Sc
cured a quantity Of ochre, after which
the tramp was continued to Indian
pond, lunch being eaten near a small
stream on the way After spending
an hour or more fishing, bending sap
lings and enjoying the scenery the
party returned. arriving at the rooms
about O'Clock, much pleased with
the jaunt