Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-04

| Hot coffee will be served free i'm the
| Grange store all day today and tomorrow
! by an expert dispenser
\ meeting of the Young Mems Chris
| tian association will be held i'm the ASSOC
citation parlors next Monday evening at
| 5 o'clock.
The Murray club will meet in the vestry
of the Jnversalist church next Thursday
| evening. March 10. The entertainment will
consist of representation of Gibson pic
| lures.
Rev. r. W. Lewis will conduct the
O'Clock meeting in the Y. NJ. G. y. rooms
next Sunday. state Secretary Morrison
who expected to be present, is detained
at home 10y illness.
\ number of Bingham chapter. O. e. S.
attended the district meeting at Ludlow
| Thursday afternoon and evening. and the
district meeting at Rutland Friday af-
ternoon and evening.
The Brattleboro Private school closes
today for a two weeks vacation. The
spring term will open Monday March ~
and the courses i'm shorthand and type
writing will I've continued.
The Sunday services at thqSIomc for the
Aged during the month of March will be-
in charge of the young people of the
Centre Congre gationa1 church. Meetings
will be held at O'Clock p. IN.
The funeral of Mrs. Mercy A. Day was
held at the home of her nephew. II. G.
Wilcutt, on Clark street at 23o o'clock
Friday. Rev. f.. @. 5. Osgood officiating.
The body was placed i'm the Prospect
hin tomb. The bearers were members
Of the family.
The funeral of Mrs Bridget Kane was
held at her late home on Western ave-
nue. Friday afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
T. r. Mathison OBLIGATED and the body
was placed i'm the tomb i'm Prospect Hill
! ba Will la. "a,
lin, ~ H.. the coming spring
There was a large attendance at the
funeral of Miss Edna Downs. which was
held at > O'Clock Sunday at the home of
her father, f. @. Downs, I'm West Dunn
merston. Flowers were sent from school
mates in Brattleboro and PutncY. Rev.
w. =. jackson otfciated and the body was
placed in the tomb in Dummerstou Cen
tire.
All Sunshiners ana many of their friends
made Il special effort Tuesday evening
Mar. l. to be present at the leap year
subscription whist party which WAS given
in the home of Mr.. and Charles A. IIar-
ris on North street y sufficient sum was
. realized so that the society will he able
to scatter sunshine i'm divers directions
, All this kind thought for others will give
pleasure to many
The lecture committee of the Y NJ G. \.
have engaged Benjamin Chaplin to give a
portrayal OF Abraham Lincoln Mar. IL IN
, place of tn" entertainment by Paul I.au-
renee Dunbar, who was unable to fiji his
enga cement. As an additional feature
> they have arranged with Leitsinger's or
Chestra to furnish music Those who
bought course tickets may use the Dun
, bar tickets for the coming entertainment.
, G. p Miller and f. w. Mcclure have as
/. sociated themselves together as auction
GERS with an office I'm the county clerk :
I office i'm Crosby block. Mr.. Miller has
had experience as auctionocr the last
ten years I'm almost every town I'm the
I county, and in nearby towns in New
I | Hampshire. Mr.. Mcclure. who has wide
q acquaintance through his Il years service
/. as deputy sheriff has also conducted
y many auctions,
J. License has been granted Henry G.
ID Clark on petition to the probate court.
to disrose Of and transfer all stools he-
lonenp to tho Fred II. Franks md q. II.
e clark estates. Jerome \. Nmidon las
been appointed administrator of the sally
u L. Amidon estate of Chesterfield. pcti-
tion has been made 10y the administrator
of the Moses Deyo estate for license To
= sch the real estate belou-ing to the oS-
! tate.
t Miss Lillian y. Childa of Landsrovc
and Carlton =. Shorey of Swampscott,
Mass. were married i'm the Brooks House
at O'Clock Tuesday. Rev. T. *. Marvin
"A photographer ana has studio in
." GNnu. NJ. S. Mrs. Shorcv j. a daughter
of Mr. ana Mrs Alfred Childs of Land
grove ana sister pt Mrs. Frank Mclcudy
of SoIth Londonderry Mr. and Mrs.
; Msltndy and daughter attended the mar
y riLgc ceremony.
h Bishop y. G. y. Hall came to Brattle-
. boro Saturday for special visitation at
st. Mthaers Episcopal church sunday,
# | preparatory to his visitation at Easter
- In the morning he preached ON "Truth,
in the afternoon at the y. NJ. &. y
- rooms, as noted elsewhere i'm this paper,
4 and in the evening ON THE Mutual Re-
= lations of Family Life" with special en-
y phasis on the reciprocal duties of parents
= and children. Bishop Han had large
- congregations. and his addresses were
! forceful and deeply impressive.
- An order was made Monday by F. u.
q f. stowe. referee in bankruptcy for the
sale of the interest of James W. Lester
of Putney. in bankruptcy. in the real es-
= tate OF which his homestead is part.
u The property will he disposed of by pr-
= vate sale 10y A. G. spencer. trustee Of
- the Lester estate This estate is one OF
y those involved by the Stowell 500. 600 note
y to the Vermont National bank. At first
- Mr.. Lester claimed that the property
y was owned by his mother. but the holders
, | of the note claimed that the sale to her
: was not bona fide. and a compromise was
: | reached
A fue in the narrow gauge locomotive
| No. was partially disabled yesterday
\ | morning by leak, which made it Diff
' | cult to get up steam. The morning pas
/ | senger train WAS 80 minutes late out of
4 | South Londonderry. and stopped several
2 | times before the salmon hole grade was
l | reached in order to get up steam. At
rownshend the train met the morning
mixed train. Tie locomotive from the
mixed train was put on behind the pas
senger train ana pushed until the grade
was passed. From that point the ioco-
motive No. came to Brattleboro I'M
assisted arriving at destination two
hours and % minutes behind schedule
time
Bratteboro's new shoe store. Fred :
Knight proprietor, will be opened tomor-
l row morning with full line of the best
makes and styles of foot wear. A large
f part of the stock has been made to
. order and bears Mr. knights name, and
! all of it comes from some of the most re-
5 liable houses in ;he country and is guar
: anteed. Mr.. Knight is in a position to
understand every need of his customers
having had 13 years of experience in the
: shoe business in Brattleboro, three years
in the Brooks House shoe store and for
the past 10 wears in Durham Brothers