Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-09-22

House billiard and pool room next Mon
day evening.
The Brattleboro banks will be open from
to IL O'Clock on Wednesday and Thurs
day Of next week.
The advance sale Of reserved seat
tickets for the grand stand during Valley
Fair will begin at o'clock Saturday
evening at Thomas's drug store.
The Congregational church has been
equipped with three furnaces and cold air
apparatus The church never was so
well supplied with heating facilities as at
present.
Leon ]. French. 2, son Of Elmer f. and
Sarah Andrews French, died at 19 Laurel
street yesterday after an illness Of five
months with tuberculosis. The child was
born in Chester May $. 1903. The funeral
will be held tomorrow.
A representative Of the New England
Telephone & Telegraph company is in
Brattleboro making preparations for put
ting the Main street telephone wires under
ground 1t is expected that the viaducts
will be laid before the ground freezes.
The selectmen have decided to repair
the foot bridge extending across Whet-
stone brook in the rear OF the Sherwin
house on Frost street. They are having the
fence on the south side Of the South
Main street hill put in good condition.
Amedee Lecuyer and Miss Zela Nyr-
telle Ellis were married Wednesday fore
noon by Justice William S. Newton. Mr..
! Lecuyer is employed in the Brooks House
barber shop. Mrs Lecuyer is a daughter
! Of Mrs. Stephen G. Ellis of South Main
| street.
! s. b. Sargent, master of dancing and
! department. will open dancing classes for
! the second season in Grange hall on
! Thursday, Oct 5. as follows: For chill
! dren at 400 for men and women at 100
! Mr.. Sargent has had instruction from
| teachers Of dancing in London and Paris.
Prof L. B. Patton of the Hartford
! Theological school will give an address
! in the Congregational church this evening
upon Village Life in Palestine" Prof
! Patton has recently spent year in Pales-
! tine. as head of the American School in
Palestine, and the address will be illus
trated by 100 views which he took. The
| admission is free and the public is in
| Vited.
Those who saw the sky Wednesday
| night at sunset witnessed what easily
might have been the finest combination
of cloud illumination and rainbow effect
| Of perhaps a century. The glory Of the
! sky seemed complete For an unusual
| length of time the beautiful coloring
stretched from the western horizon to
| the zenith. Then. almost Joining IT. so
~ a
five-ring rainbow that apparently rea he'd
the earth, both to the north and to the
south.
Laura P. Pratt. 65. widow Of Morton
| Pratt Of Dummerston died at the Brat
! tleboro Retreat Sunday night after an
| illness Of several weeks there. Mrs Pratt
was born in Newfane November 9.
| 1910, the daughter OF Ebenezer and
Laura Persons, and had lived there near
| ly all her life. The funeral was held
| Thursday al Dummerston, Rev w. p
| Jackson of st. Adams, former pastor
Of the Dummerston Congregational
church. officiating. The burial took place
in Newfane
The ladies' association OF the Congrega-
| tional church held its annual meeting yes
| terday afternoon and elected these Of
| ficers; President, Mrs. z. L. Waterman;
vice president. Mrs. H. r. Miles: sec
rotary. Mrs. c. C. Maynard: treasurer.
Mrs. E l.. Parker. The usual commit
tees were elected. of which the following
are chairmen: Parish. Mrs F. A Wells:
home missionary work. Mrs. II. E. Bond
| foreign missionary work, Miss MARY
Cabot; flower. Miss Emma Gregg; par
sonage, Mrs. n. l. Hawley.
Services in the First Baptist church
will be resumed in the vestry next Sunday
morning, including both the regular church
service and the Bible school session. II
will be several weeks before the main
auditorium will be ready for use The
alterations have been completed but the
decorating remains to be done. The new
organ. given by Col ]. Gray Estey and
Capt. j. Harry Estey as a memorial 10
their father, the late Gen. Julius j. Estey
is in process OF construction at the Estey
organ plant, but probably II will not be
installed before November.
The annual meeting of Fort Drummer
Colony Of Pilgrim Fathers was held Tues
day evening, when these officers were
elected: Governor, George A Stone;
lieutenant governor, Mrs. Georgia Stone,
secretary, Fred p. Thompson; collector
Mrs. w. G. Norris; treasurer, d. w
Tenney; chaplain. Miss Sadie Merrill;
sergeant at arms, Mrs. Mary Cook deputy
sergeant at arms, Mrs. J. p. Mack: senti-
mel at inner gate, J. p. Mack sentinel al
outer gate, w. C. Norris: trustee fol-
three years. r. II. Baker; auditors w. C.
Norris ]. p Mack and Miss Sadie Merrill
The installation Of officers will be held al
the next meeting, Oct. 3. when refresh
ments will be served. The public is in
vited.
Troop L, 18th United States cavalry
arrived in Brattleboro soon after noon
Monday, en- route for Greenfield, where
1t was one of the attractions at the fair
wednesday and yesterday. The trool
was in command of Capt. C. W. Kirk
patrick and Lieutenants A. n. Pickel and
l. S. Martin. The cavalry was followed
in about an hour by the commissary
wagons. Altogether there were SO horses
The men proceeded a once TO the Valley
Fair grounds, but on account Of rain and
wet grounds no tents were pitched, the
horse sheds on the east side OF the grounds
being converted into barracks The
troop camped in Claremont n. H, Sat-
urday night. proceeding to Westminster
Sunday. On Tuesday it covered the dis
lance between Brattleboro and Greenfield
II will return to Brattleboro today on its
way back to Fort Ethan Allen.
Miss Ida Belle Scott Of Brattleboro and
William Henry Sergeant OF Springfield
Mass, were married at the brides home
on Forest street at noon Wednesday
Only near relatives were present. The
ceremony was performed by Rev H. R
Miles, Of the Congregational church, a
ring service being used. The room where
the wedding took place was decorated
very handsomely with hydrangeas, ferns
and autumn leaves. The bride was
gowned in white silk. She is a daugh-
ter of Mrs. Annie Scott OF 10 Forest
street She graduated from the Brattle-
boro high school in 1895. after which
she was engaged in the millinery business
in Ware, Mass, several years and after
wards in Greenfield. Mr.. Sergeant
is secretary of the Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance company. Mr.. and Mrs
Sergeant were the recipients OF many
beautiful gifts. After an informal re-
ception the bridal couple started on a
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