Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-06-10

inc Ntlecnlclu country CluD VIII enter
tain the Wantastiquet Golf club tomorrow.
The uncollcctcd accounts due the estate
of l.. j. Rettng. i'm bankruptcy, will be
sold by auction by f. w. Mcclure, trus-
tee, at 10 o'clock tomorrow in the county
clerks office.
The next concert by the First Reg-
ment band will be given on the common
next Wednesday evening. The concert
this week was from the Brooks House
balcony, the band stand on the common
| having been newly painted.
a defective chimney caused fire in
Mrs. =. Connarn's house i'm West Dunn
mcrston Sunday night, which burned
through the roof and damaged the build
ing to the amount of 800 The property
was insured through c. f. X. Jennes
agency
The Brattleboro Automobile club will
! have a run to Bellows Falls on Saturday
of next week. leaving Brattleboro at 8
O'Clock. There will be about % machines
! i'm line. They will return on the New
! Hampshire side of the river. dinner be
| ing served at Walpole, ana will come
| back across the suspension bridge.
! Harold II. Ransom and Miss Ella May
! Winter We're married Wednesday even
/ ing by Rev. Charles T.. Hayward at the
/ congregational parsonage In Putney. AZ
| ter short wedding trip they Will live
at the Brattleboro Retreat, Mr. Ransom
/ being an attendant I'm the male ward and
/ Mrs Ransom an attendant i'm the female
ward
The annual meeting of the Brattloboro
/ Water company was held Monday even
/ ing in the Brattlebpro Savings bank.
/ These officers were elected: President.
/ Herbert b. Chamberlain. secretary and
/ treasurer, Elliot Phillips: directors,
George H. Crowcll Edward G. Crosby and
/ an assessment of so cents share.
Miss Elizabeth Barney, 81. died in Brat
| Ccboro Sunday forenoon of heart disease.
/ She had been an invalid from Her youth.
/ hut was able to be up ON the morning
| of her death. which came suddenly about
/ II o'clock. Miss Barney was a daughter
| of Aaron and Charlotte GBullocU Barney,
and was born I'm Guilford. She lived in
Guilford until about three years ago, wlcn
| She went to Vernon to live with her niece
/ Mrs f.. II. Akley. coming from there to
| Bratteboro. The body was taken to
| Guilford Centre, where the funeral was
| held at o'clock Tuesday. Rev II. X
| Marvin Of Brattlcboro officiating.
The Republican town caucus will he
| held in Festival hal at 3 o'clock tomor-
| row to elect is delegates to attend the Re
publican county convention. to be held in
! Newfane Thursday June %; to elect nine
delegates to the Republican second dis
/ triCt congressional convention, to be held
/ in Montpelier Wednesday, June 20; to
elect nine delegates to the Republican
state convention, to be held in Montpelier
June So to elect alternates TO all Of these
conventions. If it is decided to do so. and
to elect Republican town committee for
the ensuing two years. call for the
| caucus has been posted this week by the
! Republican town committee.
Not for many years. If ever. has an
en- in Bratteboro which gave more gen
| eral satisfaction or met with more spon-
| taneOus approval than the presentation in
the Auditorium Tuesday evening, by Am
herst college seniors, of Sheridan's COM
edy 1.-THE School for Scandal in five
acts. The young men came under the
auspices of the high school and We're
! greeted by "A large audience. Fifteen
| characters were represented, and every
role was exceptionally well taken. Four
of the young men We're dressed In female
attire and carried out their impcrsona-
lions to nicely. 1t would be hard to
! point out any one as having done better
work than any other. All were letter per-
feet and all acted with no small amount
| of dramatic intelligence. They made "A
/ very favorable impression, which Will re-
main long i'm the memory Of those who
were present There was an hours wait
| at the outset on account of the non-ar-
rival of the properties. on account of the
! crush At the Northampton anniversary
| celebration there was not time to trans
fer the baggage from the electric railroad
| to the evening train. 1t was takcn from
| Northampton to Greenfield on a freight
| train and brought from there to Brat
| tlehoro by team. During the wait Ed
ward Josiah Eaton entertained the audi
cnce with recitations, in which he demon
strated unusual talent The members of
the company We're warm in their praise
of the audience for the good humor in
which they endured the long wait. The
performance closed just before u.3o
o'clock.
Ilarland T. Miller. clerk in O. J. Pratt :
| store, will go to the St Louis EXPOSE
ton at the expense of the Boston Herald.
| having been one of the winners IN the
| Hcralds worlds fair contest, which be
gan Jan. | and ended May Is. The con-
testants were divided into five classes and
each class into three districts making 10
districts in all The five persons in each
district sending in the largest number of
! Herald coupons were winners. and of
these - the p putting i'm the largest num-
| her of coupons will he entitled to invite
! a guest, so that the whole company will
make up The Herald Hundred Mr..
| Miller won as one of the FIVE most popu-
lar statesmen in New England outside of
| Massachusetts. The Herald credits him
with $685. coupons but Mr. Miller says
| he sent in about 10000 more than that.
| which, for some unknown reason, have
not been credited to him. on the last
day of the contest he sent in about So
$50 coupons which he had held in reserve.
| Naturally he is pleased with the outcome,
but he says he never would enter another
| contest because 1t means a lot of hard
work. 1t was interesting work. however.
! Besides the people in Brattleboro who
saved coupons for him large number of
travelling statesmen Interested themselves
in his behalf and former residents of
! Brattleboro sent coupons to him every
day He received coupons from people
in every state in New England. from peo-
pie whom he never knew. One package
came from Chicago. Ten packages were
received in one mornings mail. The Her
aid train will start from Boston June 81
and will leave St. Louis on the return
trip July A. returning by way of Niagara
| Falls. Mr.. Miller is 10 years old and
has been employed in Pratts store the
past three years,
The old jealousy between the two
! Italian shoemakers, Il. Mancni and T..
! Mancini brothers. cropped out again
! Tuesday noon when the brothers met
near the Brattleboro House. Just what
| conversation took place between them is
| when b. Mancini, whose shop is under
rock as large as his two fists and hurled
II at his brother, striking him in the
ribs and nearly knocking MIN over.
/ Spectators say that T.. Mancni then pick
ed up the rock and hurled il back but