Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-14

heid Tor business meeting and at 10
p m, banquet was served at The
Mortified.
Mrs. c. Il. Fox and her daughter
from brooklyn have been the guests of
Mrs. N. p. Wood. Miss Fox was re-
covering from pleuro- pneumonia and
was steadily gaining. but a sudden
weakening of the heart resulted In her
death last Wednesday. Her mother
Mrs. Fox. was a native of Vernon and
Miss Fox was a frequent visitor in
this vicinity, where she had made
many friends, The suddenness of her
death came with a great shock to her
friends and her mother Is Frustrated
with grief. The burial was in the
family lot In Vernon, VT.
There have been several hard show
ers In the last few days. some of them
accompanied by severe thunder and
lightning. On Sunday a bolt struck
the chimney on the house owned by
Paul Moody and occupied by Mrs.
Clutter. II simply divided the chin
ney. scattering the brick over the roofs
but did not enter the house or set any
thing on fire. Mrs. Clutter is an in
valid and it gave her a nervous shock
but none of the inmates received any
effect from the electricity. The excess
sive heat has continued for several
days but the farmers are busy getting
in their hay of which there Is a good
crop.
The students conference closed Sun
day evening. this being the goth an
nual session, Robert f. Speer was the
principal speaker in the middle of the
week and his addresses have been
most impressive. He also conducted a
question box in which many queries
We're asked and answered i'm regard
to missionary work. Another help in
the missionary work was the unex-
pected arrival of w. b. Eddy. a young
missionary from India. who gradual
ed from Yale in 1898. Principal
Stearns of Andover mas been one of
the prominent new speakers. This
was his first visit but he has been in
strumental in having large numbers Of
Andover men attend the conference.
In the last part of the week Rev. G..
Campbell Morgan was heard and
warmly welcomed by the students who
remembered him from his previous
work in Mortified. He expects to
give daily lectures during the Young
Womens conference and also will be
one of the principal speakers at the
general August conference. DR..
Johnston Ross of Cambridge. Eng.
who represents the student associa-
ton work in Great Britain, gave the
main address on the last evening. the
students had grand rally in the au-
ditorium and DR.. Ross was followed
by several impromptu speeches from
various heads of the delegations. The
work of the conference was gone over
and an attempt was made to sum-
marize the points which had been
made by the various speakers. Al
the same time Rev. G. Campbell Nor
gan preached to the general pubic III
the congregational church From the
trend of the speeches 1t was generally
conceded that the closing conference
was the most successful IN recen'
wears. The missionary spirit has been
most prominent and the spirit of mar
mony among the colleges has been
very conspicuous. AS usual mucn az
tention has been given to the alh,etic
sports. The Mt. Hermon boys had al,
unusually strong baseball team am
carried away the honors IN seVera.
successful games. One or tne nla,,,
social events was the large Igosp ,o I'd
given by the Yale men to Harvard
pr;ncaton Pennsylvania and the gen
aral secretaries of all the colleges ~
was attended by about 400. Sociai ne
;s on important part of the conference
as the Hotel Mortified and the iarsu
hoo rdjng houses of the town are WEI,
Allied with young women VINO Wa We. H.
~ baseball and tennis games. II -
astimated that the conference was az
tanaed by a larger number than IN
49, Toars although no statistics nave
haan as vet compiled. Monday la1se e
numbers of young ladies came as ,r ,
Y ,lo,,1 Women's conference opened July
- to 70 continue until July 20. Rev "
eipal speakers and many OF ,ton ,he these Ses
dents are remaining to attend '"ese
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