Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-24
BRATTLEBORO.

BRATTLEBORO.
The women of the Unitarian society
will give their annual fair and festival
in Festival hall Sept 10.
The stock in the Retting furniture
store on High street will be sold en-
tire at auction Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock.
The Hooker, Corser & Mitchell
company's factory will be closed ten
days beginning July so to give the
employees a vacation.
The International Sunshine society
will hold the regular monthly meeting
with Miss Shea at her home on Oak
street Friday afternoon July 81. at 3
o'clock
There will the usual cake sale this
week Saturday afternoon at the rooms
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. The sale will be in charge of
the ladies of the Episcopal church
The Methodist Sunday school post
poned until next Wednesday the pic
mic which they were to hold in Brook
side Park this week. the grounds be
ing in an unfit condition because of
rain.
The members of the Junior Audubon
society from both parts of the town
will meet next Monday afternoon at :
o'clock at the corner of Canal and
Brge streets for a bird walk. They
will take their lunch.
Rev. E c. Drouhin of Woodstock
deputy high chief ranger, will come to
Brattleboro next Tuesday to make a
semi-annual visit to the local court
of Foresters. He will come in the
place of Rev. Father Cahill of Spring.
field, who is i'll.
Harlan P. Howe of Halifax exhibited
in Brattleboro Wednesday several rock
specimens said to contain gold. The
ore was sent to Burlington to be as
sayed. Mr.. Howe was very enthusiast
tic over his discovery, which he thinks
of sufficient quantity to warrant eX-
tensive mining.
Miss Mary Ann Woods, SO, died at
her home in West Gardner, Mass,
Sunday. She was a daughter of Mrs.
Edmund Carey of Canal street and
was known in Brattleboro through nu-
merous visits with her mother. The
funeral was held Tuesday. David S.
Carey and H. B. Haus attended the
funeral.
The following local corporation has
filed articles of association with the
secretary of state: The Dewitt Gro
Gerry company of Brattleboro, with a
capital stock of $4,000, divided into
400 shares. and following subscribers
De Wese P. Dewitt, Milton H. Eddy
David Carey, A. F. Schwenk, and Kit
fridge Haskins, all of Brattleboro.
Edwin c. Davis, clerk in Goodnow
& Pearson's store, and Miss Grace NJ
Thayer of Townshend were married
by Rev. Thomas Cain at the Baptist
parsonage in Windsor July u. After
weeks wedding trip they came tC
Brattleboro last Sunday. They. viii
begin housekeeping as soon as they
can find a suitable tenement. Mr.
Davis is son of Mr.. and Mrs Calvin
C. Davis of Montpelier. For a yeal
and a half he was motorman for the
BrattleborO Street Railway company
but has been employed by GoodnoW
G Pearson the past two years. Mrs
Davis is a daughter of Mrs. E. NJ
Thayer of Townshend and formerly
was clerk for Clapp & Jones.
hearings III the UHlleu oldJeS DlS
trict court were held before Judg.
Wheeler in the probate Office Tues
day The first hearing was ON the
petition of F. d. E. Stowe, trustee o.
the H. n. Gum bankrupt estate, Il
have AR. Gum show cause why he
should not return a certain horse
which he took to Boston, also $25 il
money. The court ordered that thu
horse be returned forthwith, but dis
missed the petition in relation to the
money. The next hearing was in the
j. f. Haynes estate. A claim of the
New England Rubber company wa!
disallowed by F. D. E. Stowe, referee
The company brought petition t.
have the case reviewed. The cour
continued the case two weeks. The
findings of Referee Stowe in the E. A
Starkey estate, which were in effec
that diamond in ring owned by the
bankrupt had been removed and ;
worthless stone substituted, were mex
taken up. The case was referred bacl
to the referee for further testimony.