Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-05-12


meet with Mrs. c. II. Evans next We'd |
nesday afternoon at o'clock.
The ladies' of the Episcopal church are
planning for strawberry festival and |
lawn party at Mrs. Annie G. Cobb's on
June 90.
The odd Fellows and Rebekahs will
observe next Sunday as Memorial Sun
day. They will attend services in the
First Baptist church in the morning. The
Rebekahs will meet at odd Fellows hall
at 10 o'clock
p. l.. Shea has leased quarters in the
williams carriage building on Williams
street for a public laundry, which he
intends to start about June l. He will
have desk room in the Brattleboro News
company's store.
The May term of the United States
district court will convene at Windsor
next Tuesday The jury cases have been
nut over to Thursday to accommodate
Attorney General Fits, who is obliged
to be at Montpelier Wednesday to appear
before the supreme court.
The confectionery store owned by the
late Angelo Gorborino is being conducted
by William Shea of Keene, N H., brother
of Mrs. Gorborino. He will have charge
of it until some arrangements for its
! disposal are made. Mr.. Shea has been
employed by the Holbrook Grocery com
pany.
A coil in the generator at the West
! Dummerston power station was burned
! out by lightning during the early hours
| of Tuesday morning and the electric
! lights in Brattleboro were shut off while
an engine in the local power station was
| being connected. a new coil was put IN
! during the day.
Saturday, May 49, will be a field day
| of the Audubon society. Members and
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Central and Pine streets promptly at
| a. M The walk will be over the hills from
the Richardson farm to Broad brook,
and return from Guilford by the old road.
Luther H. Barber has returned from
Manchester, n. H., where he has been
selling pianos the past IS months for the
| firm of Piper & McIntire. He will open
a store in the Retting building, and will
keep an assortment of high grade pianos.
| His advertisement in The Phoenix next
week will fully explain the lines which
he will handle.
The supreme court convened at Mont
pelier Tuesday. The first case heard
was that of p. w. Manley of Dummers-
ton against the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance company. F. d. Il. Stowe,
counsel for Mr.. Manley, and E. l.. Water
man and e. w. Gibson. counsel for the
company, went to Montpelier, Monday
night, returning Wednesday. In the case
of ]. o. Frost against the North Britain
mic Insurance company the decision of
the county court for the plaintiff was
affirmed.
George Samuel Willis, a mechanic, so,
died Wednesday morning in the tenement
over the steam laundry on Flat street.
He was stricken with shock on
Monday. The body was taken to
Athens yesterday for burial. Mr. Willis
was born in Newfane April 10, 1855, and
was a son of Samuel n. Willis. His life
was spent principally in Newfane, but
| he lived a few years in East Putney
and Brattleboro. He bought the Wilder
job shop on Flat street after Mr.. Wilder's
death. He leaves one brother, Charles
Willis of Worcester
Camp Chesterfield, a summer camp for
boys will open its fourth season at Spot
ford lake Wednesday, June 2S and close
Wednesday, Sept g. This camp is under
the personal direction of Edgar Burr
Smith of Mr.. Leafs school for boys in
Plainfield, N. j., and it has been highly
successful the past three seasons in at
tracing boys for the summers outing
from prominent families all over the
country. a handsome prospectus has
, been issued describing the attractions OF
the camp and containing many illustra-
tions of Spofford lake and vicinity.
1 DR.. c. r. Aldrich gave an extremely
I interesting address before the Profess
2 sional club Monday evening on Light, the
1 X-Ray and Radium." Supper was served
in Shea's restaurant after which the
! meeting was held in Waterman & Mar
tins Office and was well attended. DIR
Aldrich did not have a paper, but spoke
! without notes, which made the address
all the more interesting. The main par
: of the evening was devoted to the sub
= ject of the X-ray, illustrated with ap.
paratus, and the application of the X
= ray in the treatment of diseases wa!
= considered at length. DR.. S. f. LawtoI
! and DIR. H. d. Holton took a prominen
. | part in the discussion
e Should the American flag be planted
. on the North Pole by Commander Rober
e that the feat will be accomplished b!
= this great explorer, every person who at
tends his lecture i'm the Auditorium mex
Wednesday will congratulate himsel
over and over again that he saw Peary
let lone the profitable entertainment III
I is sure to get Icebergs have no terror
e for Peary and THE Roosevelt" Pear!
L stands as the greatest of the internationa
Pole seekers. He will come to Brattle
boro under the auspices of the Congre
: gational club.
g Several hundred people attended tn
reception to Charles f w. Cunningham
a secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A. given il
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a ing by the woman's auxiliary. The room
e were filed from 100 to 10 O'Clock and tn
s secretary was given a cordial greeting
g Apple blossoms. spirea and hemlock wer
g arranged attractively about the rooms
and while the people were welcoming
the secretary to his new field an excel
lent musical program was given by Lett
$ singers orchestra and refreshments wer
e served by the ladies' The closing numbe
a was a selection by a male quartet con
ssting of Edwin Hidder, Crosby Adams
Arthur Peach and Arthur Clapp, VIII
responded to an encore.
e John Herbert, AZ, died at his home OF
, Brannan street Saturday after a year.
. illness with consumption. He was borl
4 in County Waterford, Ireland, and cam
b. to Brattleboro about 20 years ago. H
2 was employed on the railroad a shor
S time, after which he began work for tn,
e Estey Organ company and was nigh
. Waterman some IS years. He worked
j for F. u. Dickinson a few months, bu
$ for the past year he had not been abb,
to perform active labor. He married
Mary McHale of Brattleboro 16 years ago
: She survives with six children, john IA
Mary Catherine, Joseph, Willie anC
Bridget Mr.. Herbert also leaves on,
sister, Mrs. Alfred Holden of Grafton
He was a member of st. Michael's court
Catholic Order of Foresters. Members
| of the court attended the funeral Whicl