Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-08-12


NJ j. Moran has been appointed adj
ministrator of the James W. Austin es-
tate.
The Miller family reunion will be held |
Aug. %, but the place of meeting has
not been decided upon.
The Grange Sewing society will meet
in Grange hall Wednesday, Aug. II, at
o'clock. All members of the Grange are
requested to be present
Friendship circle held lawn party at
the home of Mrs. ID. w. Tenney yester-
day. Supper was served on the lawn and
all present found much pleasure In the
occasion.
The First Regiment band will give the
next open-air concert on Fuller park In
Esteyville next Wednesday evening. The
ladies' Enterprise will have a lawn party
and sell ice cream and cake.
The Ellen Manning place on Clark
street was sold Tuesday by f. w. Nc
Clure, auctioneer for Miss Mary Man
ming, administrators. Miss Catherine
Manning was the purchaser at $3.50.
Nicholas Baker started the bidding at
$1,000
Thirteen members of the Mortified
Farms Smithsonian club went to North
field Farms Friday to visit Mr.. and Mrs
Fordyce Smith. They were cordially re-
ceived by the host and hostess. Tables
were placed on the lawn, where bounti
full dinner and supper were served. The
party returned home on the late train,
having spent a very enjoyable day.
Protective Grange held a regular meet
| ing Wednesday evening. Two candidates
were instructed in the first and second
| degrees Miss Bailey gave n recitation,
Misses Franklin and Eames played
| piano duet, and Miss Zetta Weld read.
| The committees were appointed for the
| annual fair, which will be held as usual
| in October. After the close of the meet
| ing there was an hour of dancing.
II. H. Spaulding who is employed in
| Shea's fish market has invented an au
| tomato feeder for stock and has sent a
| model to Washington, accompanying an
| application for letters patent The de-
| vice holds the hay or grain over the
| manger until released by a clock arrange
| ment, when 1t falls into the cribs 1t is
intended to do away with getting up
early in the morning to feed the stock.
Several of the owners of timber land
| included in the big timber deal in Wind
| ham and Windsor counties, concerning
| which much has been said the past few
| weeks, together with members of the New
| York syndicate who have bought the tim
| Der and their attorneys. were in Brattle-
boro Monday and Tuesday arranging
| some of the details of the transaction.
The land owners were represented by
c. c. Fits
The rear of the log drive passed Brat
tleboro yesterday. The logmen arrived
early in the day and erected their tents
on the island towards evening Their
equipment consisted of a house boat, two
RATS for horses, several small boats and
| other paraphernalia. There was little in
| terest in watching the drive this year
the removal of the stone pier from the
middle of the river taking away the pos
| sibility of log jam.
The service on the common Sunday
evening will begin at G. 80 o'clock and will
be addressed by Prof l.. b. Patton. of thu
Hartford Theological seminary. There
will be singing by the choir of the Uni
versalist church and a chorus, and in.
strumental music by members of tn,
band w. r. Geddis will preside. Rev
DR.. Lawson. father of Rev. George b
Lawson, is expected to speak at the
o'clock meeting in the grove in Estey.
Vile.
The executive committee of the Wind
ham County Sunday school association
met at the Young Mems Christian asso
citation rooms in Brattleboro Wednesday
Aug. 10, to arrange for the convention
which will be held at Bellows Falls Sept
13 and IL. This association includes al
the Sunday schools in the county. EaCl
! school is entitled to representation In tn,
convention by pastor. superintendent ant
four delegates. The program will be an
nounced later
A hearing in the United States cour
was held in the Brooks House Tuesda,
on claims against the +. L. Miller estate
in bankruptcy, of Richford. The prncipa
, claim was that of Miller's mother-in-la v
for rent covering a period of six years
The creditors contested her claim on tn
! ground that she never intended to charg
rent. No decision was given. Attorney
f,Iy Af nd aII =,
: Richford appeared for the woman an,
, Max l.. Powell OF Burlington for the cred
, itors.
r With the formation of Wawbeek trib,
| OF Improved order of Red Men in Hard
wick last week, Vermont. which is nov
under the Jurisdiction OF the great coun
| Gil Of MaSSa chusetts, gained a member
4 ship sufficiently large to entitle her I,
t | a great council of her own. The question
e | of the formation of such council th
fall will be considered by the fraternity
( but it is understood that some of thu
= prominent workers In the tribes in tn
y. southern part of the state are of the opin
1 ion that it would be better to postpon
the formation To another year. The Re,
I Men now have a total membership o
3 nearly half a million.
The Daughters OF the American Revolu
, ton will be entertained by Mrs. Joe
Z Flagg, Mrs. George p. Miller and Mis-
mary r. oiIlINn at the nome OF MIS-
. | Flagg in Guilford Bennington day Tues
day. Aug, 10. A program. consisting o
readings, vocal and instrumental music
has been arranged by the board of man
agement. Teams will start from IN
/ Brooks House at o'clock. and will re
. turn at o'clock. All who attended meet
ings in Gulford in previous years testif.
TO what pleasant afternoons were give
r them, and the hostesses hope for a larg
:. attendance so that an equally good tim
+ may be enjoyed this year
3 Tickets for the Grand Army encamp
s ment in Boston next week Will be on sal
| at the local station tomorrow and Sun
v day. The Saturday tickets will be goo,
e going either via Millers Falls and tn
i Fitchburg railroad via Palmer an,
Y the Boston & Albany road. the round tr
Y fare for either route being $500. Sunda,
\ tickets will be good going via Greenfiel,
q and the Fftchburg road. Those wishini
Y to go Sunday will do well to get thei
g | tickets tomorrow. All tickets will b
s good returning until Aug. 20, and will b
= extended to Sept 20 on payment of .
cents additional. Tickets will have to b.
Y agency, 70 Federal street
0 The Colonel Estey March," compose
for the First Regiment band by Z. f
r Bagley in honor of Col. j. Gray Estey, o
u the Vermont National Guard, was one o
e the most pleasing numbers in the ban,
concert Wednesday evening. and although
, the evening was stormy ana few peopl
were on the street the number was on