Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-16

The Epworth League of the Methodist
church will hold the regular monthly bust
ness meeting next Thursday evening,
Sept %, at o'clock The cabinet will
meet Mt 730.
Mrs Ellen Leahy has bought the new
house recently erected by Leslie Smith
on the Eddy place on Clark street. Mr..
Smith expects to build two more houses
on adjoining lots.
The t. T. Stockwell real estate on
Spruce street. which was sold by auction
Saturday by Charles G. Staples, admin
istrator was bought by Mayor T.. w.
Blodgett for Si10O.
The knights Of Columbus from the
council in Bellows Falls will come to
Brattleboro tomorrow, Saturday. to
cross bats with the brethren OF Leo
council In the second of a series of ball
games.
Henry Glenwood has moved his bar
Der shop from the old toll house on the
island to the building occupied by the
granite works on Depot street. Peter
Cakes has opened barber shop on Flat
street.
The annual meeting of Fort Dunn
mer colony of Pilgrim Fathers will be held
next Tuesday evening in Grand Army
hall. Officers will be elected and special
business will he transacted, so that IT is
requested that all members be present.
The Womans Alliance will hold a par
| lor sale i'm the apartments Of Mrs Charles
| Warder at The Colonial next Wednesday
afternoon Sept. 81 from until o'clock.
| Tea will he served. All Interested I'm the
good work of the Alliance are invited to
be present in order to make the occasion
| a success.
Mis-. Ellen Boyce celebrated her goth
| nt 10 homo n he
| daughter Mrs McNcigh. i'm district, No. G..
| when she received the congratulations Of
| relatives and neighbors and was remem-
| bered pleasantly with several gifts. Mrs.
| Boyce looks much younger than she really
| is and is strong and active and alert of
mind.
Miss Theodore Auman, field secretary
! of the Womans Home Missionary union
| for Vermont, will speak and sing at the
| chapel of the Congregational church this
| evening at 100 Miss Amman has a re-
markably fine voice. and her singing alone
will repay any one for attending the
meeting. All are invited.
Alvah Thomas, the coupe driver. re-
| ceived painful Injuries in a runaway acct
dent Monday afternoon. He was coming
| down the hill from EsteyVille when the
pole strap broke allowing the pole to dror
and frightening the horses so that they
ran. Near the foot of the hill the carriage
| was overturned and Mr.. Thomas thrown
out. His head was cut and one hip sc
badly bruised that he has been unable
| to walk. Two passengers, both women
jumped. One escaped without injury anC
another had an ankle spralned
The Chinese conversation" which wa!
an interesting feature of the MONTH,
missionary meeting at the Baptist churcl
i'm June. will be repeated by request a
the September meeting, to be held to
night. The conversation is in English
between four ladies in Chinese costume
one representing a missionary and tn
others natives Of China. and it continue
for a period of about half an hour. 1t /
| expected that Mrs l.. Hughes, a mission
airy OF Moulmain. Burmah. will speal
during the evening The invitation 4
attend the meeting is general.
Rev Patrick Joseph Donovan. who /
temporarily the priest in charge Of 81
Michaers Roman Catholic church wa
formerly a well-known young man q
Springfield. this state. where he wa
assistant postmaster and later head cler
In the Jones Il I.amson office. He wa
ordained to the priesthood i'm Swanto
August 80, celebrated his first solem
high mass September I and his secon
mass I'm the church here last Sunday
He has recently completed an eight year.
course of study at St Charles colleg,
Elcott Md, st. Michaels. Toronto. Can
ada. and the Grand seminary in Montrea
1t is expected that he will Toe statione
later in Bellows Falls as curatc to Rev
Father Reynolds.
Leo Stern. the noted violoncellist VIII
played in Brattleboro last year when hi
wife. Suzanne Adams, sang in the Y y
c. \. star course, died suddenly in Lon
don Monday. He formerly Travelled wit
Patti and had played before most Of tn
: | crowned heads Of Europe. He had beau
tfu gifts presented to him by Quee
= Victoria, Emperor William of German
e and others. He was an Englshman.
few years ago a group of music lovers
- London. headed by Lord Amherst c
, Hackney, presented him the famou
: General Kid" cello Of Stradivarius.
is the largest of Stradivarius's instrr
o. ments, and the richest in tone of any
+ his 'cellos. 1t was made in 1894. and NJ
Stems admirers bought it for 10000
n Joseph Cunningham. an old offende
, was arrested by Chief Hail Saturda
s night. in an intoxicated condition II
T appeared before Judge Newton Monda
f and was fined SIS and costs for thir
( offense Being unable to pay he VIZ
o taken to Rutland to serve n term of
Il days in the house of correction. Cur
!. ningham has been WORKING in Greenfe
!. the past six months, being brick lay,
g by trade. He told the officers that l
n went to a ball game in Millers Falls Sa
= urday. The next thing he knew he Wa
r in Brattleboro and during his next mC
ment of clear realization he was i'm Il
y lookup" Doubtless during his thin
h moment Of consciousness he will be
q the house of correction at Rutland an
n will realize that it is case of "thr,
v times and in"
With its bright, CHEEKY comedy scene
t its clever characteriZations it's novel ST
y uations and its wholesome lessons Il
= great New York and London success, "Tf
. Mummy and the Humming Bird" com,
!. to the Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 9
, There are not many characters In Il
play, but each one is n distinct type an
; gem of a type The audience soc
e gets to love the dear old Mummy"
II sympathiZe with his sweet neglecte
l. wife, to despise the brilliant but de.
= picable "Humming Bird" and to admit
the logged persistency with which Il
II organ grinder pursues his search for yer
{ geance; whilst all through the play II
u love making of the charming widow an
: the eligible young bachelor keeps ever!
{ body highly amused. THE Mummy ar
l. the Humming Bird" certainly provides
! rare evenings entertainment
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