Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-05-06

May IL
The first meeting of the creditors Of
u. H. Wheeler of Putuey i'm bankruptcy,
was held Monday i'm the office of f. ID. f..
stowe. \. c. Spencer was appointed trus-
/ tee
The time for the Sunday evening meet
| ngs in the Brattleboro churches was
| changed from to 80 beginning last
Sunday. The week day prayer meetings
will now open at 7.45.
Miss Roche. the contralto. who will be
heard at the Choral Union concerts May
! Il and is. is gaining an enviable reputa
+ tion throughout New England. Her sing
| ing is bound to arouse the highest en-
thusiasm.
The members of the Swedish Congrega-
! tioual church are planning to build an adj
| diton to the church, i'm which to hold their
/ mid-weelI services. Lumber and labor
| have been promised without expense to
the society.
The body of w. p. Jones was taken
from the tomb and buried i'm Morning
side cemetery Friday. The body of Or
| Webster was buried Saturday and that
of Samuel u. Brown Monday, both in
! Morningside cemetery.
\ memorial service was held in the
| Tniversalist Sunday school last Sunday
| for Miss lnez Hullender, a member of Mrs
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| life and offered prayer and several of her
! favorite hymns were sung.
II. L. Emerson has decided not to build
a house on the site Of the Reed property
| on Green street this year if at all. on aC-
| count of his inability to arrange with w.
! e. Banks to move his house back to the
! line of the other buildings
The Guiford citizen who was detected
! defrauding the Brattleboro Creamery
association by substituting high test sam
! pies of cream for lower test samples has
settled with the association for $1,000. the
! amount in full of their demand.
The Essex Junction schools. of which
| Carlton D. Howe of Newfane is principal.
made recently an elaborate observance of
Arbor day, combining it with appropriate
! bird day exercises. Mr. Howe is pres
dent of the Audubon Society of Vermont,
in which many Brattleboro people are in
| terested.
A meeting of the corporators of the
| Brattleboro Hospital association was held
! in c. c. Fitts's office Saturday night. when
| four new corporators were elected to fill
vacancies, and various phases of the sit
uatlon with respect to the Thompson
| fund were discussed. The new corpora
tors are G. l.. Durham and Col c. A.
| Miles of Brattleboro, and Laurence Mi
not and r. NJ. Bradley of Boston. the two
last named being trustees of the Thomp-
son fund.
The Bratteboro branch Of the Inter-
national Sunshine society has placed in
| the academy supply room at West Brat
| tleboro a library for circulation All res
! idents of the rural districts about West
! Brattleboro are welcome to the use of
the books. The library will be open each
! afternoon. excepting Saturday and Sun
day, from to 4.30 O'Clock. 1t will be I'M
der the supervision of the president of
/ no tr1t OH hr1, ,,.b IF h.
shine society.
The tril calendar for the May term
of the Vermont supreme courts esssion
! which will open at Montpelier May
| 10, shows 80 cases. smaller num-
Der than usual The cases of the
state against Edward Gonyer. Leon
| Canedy and Peter circuit of Brattlcboro
are docketed. These three respondents
have been pardoned and will not be tried
| although it is necessary to keep the en-
tries on the docket until the time when
their sentences would have expired.
Gen. O. O. Howard. who will speak at
the Y NJ. G. \. anniversary exercises
| Sunday evening. is one of the most fa-
nous surviving officers Of the civil war
| He commanded the brigade at the battles
| of Bull Run and Fair oaks, division at
| Antietam and fredericksburg and an
| army corps at Characteristic. GettYs-
burg, Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga,
and led the right wing of Sherman's army
in the famous march from Atlanta to the
sea. lie lost an arm in the battle Of
| Charlottesville. He retired from the
army in 1894, as major general. and
has since devoted much time to religious
and philanthropic work. He was one of
| the warm personal friends of the late
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postmaster Taylor is circulating
| petition Whlch is being very largely signed
by business men urging the post office
department. 10 nave railway postal car
attached to the train leaving SPRING
! 1leld' Mass, at l25O p. m, passing through
Brattleboro at 30 p. M and arriving in
81. Adams at p m Returning, this
car Would leaNe ~. Albans at II a. m,
pass brlttienoro at $50 p. m, ana arrive
AT SprlnSheld at go p. m. The petition
| states mat inns would be OF especial ben
eht IN giving quicker and more regular
| communication to the greater part of
! vermont ana New Hampshire, and por-
lions OF New York and Canada, where
mails cannot now be despatched from this
! place between II a. m. and 10 p. m. AS
! previously stated in The Phoenix, the in
creased service would he a great improve
ment all along the line from New York
hans and - tou ~, tt, ~ - a. "a
y,ieion of tbo pns,o,, o. ~; -,
Sin,iiar notitiors NH i'' ~, ~
AIhans SnrincfoId 90 atiio. 49, 49, ~, %.
would faat ,,o,io,,t,i '. 10
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The Buffalo, n. Y, Evening News of
| April p contained an appreciatiVe no