Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-23

The grocery stores will be closed from
/ . m. to p. m, or both days Of the VAL
ley Fair.
There will be two masses in St Mi
chaers Roman Catholic church Sunday.
at 9 and 1920 o'clock.
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday OF
this week are the autumn ember days OBJ
served by the Roman Catholic church.
S. b. Emerson is receiving his annual
consignment of grapes from his Lake
Erie vineyards for the supply of the To-
cal market. The crop Is abundant and
the fruit unusually fine In appearance
and flavor.
Encouragement comes to tobacco grow
ors in the sales made at Hinsdale this
week a. Il. Davis IL Son selling their
1904 crop for 1Sk cents per pound to r..
Weaver of Sufficld. Conn w. d. Stearns
received 10 cents from Mr.. Weaver
BY special authority from the post
office department the local post office
will be closed from IL to 6 o'clock on the
afternoons of both Valley Fair days, and
the afternoon carrier delivery omitted.
The Office will be open from to the usual
closing hour of S.
John +. Tasker, with a handicap of 10,
played in the Springfield Country club 5
tournament Friday and Saturday. On the
first day his card for IS holes was 80
gross first round SO second round. On
the last day his score was 80. over 80
players competed and only seven were
marked to give handicaps to Tasker.
The last base ball game Of the season
will be played by Amidon's Bluebirds at
liinsdale tomorrow afternoon against the
Nashua New England league club. Shell
don will pitch for Hinsdale. In three
games, against Springfield, Greenfield and
Leominster, Sheldon struck out 43 men,
was hit safely only four times and but
one run was scored by his opponents.
Gov Mccullough has designated DIR. c..
r, Anderson of Brattleboro and DR.. G.
c. Berkeley of st. Adams as delegates
from Vermont to the International Con-
gress of Military Surgeons to be held at
the Worlds Fair, St Louis, Oct. 10 to
Is, inclusive. This congress will be at
tended largely by special delegates from
foreign nations, who have received invi-
tations to be represented.
The annual meeting of the Morning
side Cemetery association was held We'd
nesday at the office of f. w. Chlds.
The following officers were elected:
President, DR.. S. L. I.awton; vice presi
dent, Judge II. II. Wheeler; secretary,
Miss Susan f. Clark; treasurer, DR.. C. s.
Clark; auditor, S. b. Emerson; direc-
tors, F. w, Childs, DR.. c. s. Clark DR.,
A. I. Miller W. r. Geddis was elected
an agent for the sale of lots.
George Fitzsimmons has resigned as
secretary of the Y, NJ. c. A. in Burlng-
ton to go to a similar position with the as
ISOLATION in. Passaic. N. ]. The Free
Press compliments him highly on his
work, and says of his wife, who was for
merly Miss Sarah Cobb of Brattleboro:
Mrs, Fitsimmons has also been actively
connected with the work of the associa-
ton and will be greatly missed. She has
helped great deal in the social life and
especially In the boys department.
The first rounds in the handicap golf
matches for the fall cup were played on
the Wantastiquet links Wednesday and
Thursday. c. NJ Miller, (scratch) defeat
ed w. e. Hubbard 10) up and l to
play; Harry Bingham (S) beat George
Tanning Q5) up and to play; John f.
Tasker (scratch) won from Fred Harris
90 up; w. Tanning US) won from c. F.
Bingham (scratch) 4 up and to play;
70. j. Waterman 10) defaulted to r.
Greene QS), Crosby Adams (S) defaulted
to Hayes Bigeiow QO). The second rounds
will be played Saturday.
Mrs. Eliza Jane Roberts, 70, of Putney