Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-06-30

The high school class of O5 went on
tsly-ho ride today to Forest lake, Win
The First Regiment band will give the
next open air concert on the common
Tuesday evening, July A.
Brattleboro lodge. No log, A. F.. & A.
NJ worked the first degree at n special
communication last evening.
The Hooker Corser & Mitchell com
pany are putting several new sewing
machines in their overall factory.
There will be waltzing party in the
Odd Fellows new HAN Monday evening
Everybody is invited Music will be fur
'nished by Leitsingers orchestra.
The stores generally will be closed all
day Tuesday, the It'll. The post office will
be open until s12' O'Clock but the letter
carriers will make no deliveries.
The meeting on the common last Sun
day was attended by 7S4 people. There
were 300 men In the audience. The new
chairs were used. making a total of 400
chairs.
The Audubon society will meet on the
island at the end of the bridge for
mountain walk July 5, at 3 o'clock. Tea
VIII be served at the first outlook or at
the summit as desired.
The Sisters Of ST. Joseph went to Rut-
land convent Wednesday to remain dur
ing the summer vacation. Rev. Father
Carmody will live in the convent while
the rectory is being repaired.
There was small attendance at the
meeting of Protective Grange Wednesday
evening. The lecturer had charge OF the
program, which was as follows: Plano
solo, Miss Eloine Franklin; reading, Miss
Bessie Hopkins; recitation, Mrs Nellie
Norris; reading, Mrs. Lucy Sargent;
reading. Miss Zetta Weld.
The trustees Of the Congregational
church have given the contract for put
ting In three new furnaces to w ].
Pentand. The work OF painting the
church. which was interrupted by the
state convention, has been resumed this
week. The granite steps in front of the
church have been reset this week.
The work Of the children of st.
| Michaers parochial school, which was on
exhibition Sunday In the schoolhouse hall,
was viewed by a large number of people
and II was well worthy OF inspection and
| a credit to the Sisters and pupils. The
work consisted of writing. drawing with
| pencil and pen, music, maps, needle work,
etc.
The bailiffs at a special meeting last
evening, voted sewer assessments to the
| amount of $3.50 against people who have
erected buildings on Canal, Clark, Main
Elliot and North streets. Scion A. Rich
mond was appointed a regular member of
the police force, and % special policemen
were assigned to duty for July and 4.
Nothing was done in regard to the street
lighting contract, as no written report
has been received from Alton d. Adams
OF Worcester, the expert who was en-
| gagged to examine the plant and business
OF the Brattleboro Gasligth company.
Additional evidence has come to light
TO Indicate that the body found In Mar
raganset bay June was that OF Herbert
n. Gum, formerly a Brattleboro real es-
tate agent. Every circumstance of the
drowning and every detail of description
from Quonset Point. where the body was
found and from WEXFORD. r. l., where IL
was taken to the undertaken, has gone to
show that Gum was the man. The
only statement to the contrary was in an
article in the Keene Sentinel. a part of
which was reprinted I'm The Phoenix of
June t. The Sentinel said that a brother
and sister of Gum went 10 WEXFORD TO
see the body and that they were fully
satisfied IL WAS not that of their brother"
Gums mother, who lives in Gllsum ~
H., has written letter to Mrs Conyers
In Guiford, where Gum lived in which
she says that Gums brother and sister
did see the body as stated and that they
were positive that II was the body OF
II. N Gum. furthermore, Mrs. Gums
mother states that the goods in the trunk
which Gum sent to his children were ar
ticles which he would want II he was go
ing to some other place to live,
Augustus Smith Jerome. rs, formerly
partner Of the late Edwin H. Chase OF
Brattleboro and a frequent visitor to this
town, died at the Allyn House in Hart
ford, Conn, Friday afternoon after
long illness. The body was brought to
Brattleboro Monday for burial in Pros
pect Hill cemetery Rev. +. T. Mathi-
son, rector of st. Michaers Episcopal
church otficiated at the committal ser
vice. Mr.. Jerome was born in Litchfield.
Conn, Nov IL. 1927 He went to Hart
ford from New Britain in 1854 and went
into partnership with the late David
Clark in the grocery business. This part
nership lasted until January. 1859, when
he went into business with Alfred b. Red
field, with whom he continued until 1867.
Later he was associated in the tobacco
business with George b. Barnes. In 1867
he removed to Louisville. KY, and there
engaged in the distillery business with
r. II. Chase. Mr.. Jerome's first wife was
Louise Dickinson, daughter of the late
Ashbel Dickinson of Brattleboro His
second wife was Eliza Isham of Con-
necticut, who died in 1896. That year
Mr.. Jerome retired from business and
again went to Hartford to live. He was
member OF ST. Johns church and a
charter D10mhaT M To