Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-04-28

hall Monday evening.
Congressman ID. j. Foster will deliver
the address at the commencement eX-
ercises of the Brattleboro high school,
June %.
S. w. Edgett & Co.. have sold for Mrs.
Abby Il. Fuller a front building lot on
Canal street to Orrin d. Stowel who will
build house thereon.
The subscription sale T tickets for
Babes in Toyland, which will be seen here
May 5, will open at the Auditorium box
office next Tuesday evening.
Dr. w II. Lane, who recently sold out
his practice in Readsboro, came to Brat
tleboro yesterday, where he will open an
office, living with his family at 10 Grove
street
The annual meeting of the Young Mems
Christian association will be held i'm the
association rooms Wednesday evening,
May 3, at o'clock. The presence of all
members is desired.
The act passed at the last session Of
the legislature requiring the state fish
and game commissioner to appoint ward
ems for each county does not repeal the
law requiring selectmen to appoint ward
ems for their respective towns Senator
Pierce has called the attention of the
selectmen of the various Windham county
towns to this fact and has asked them
to appoint wardens as usual.
Food and entertainment are solicited
by the local w. c. T. L. for their guests
of next week. The delegates will be
entertained in the homes of the people
two nights and for two breakfasts The
noon and evening meals will be served
in the vestry of the Methodist church
People are requested to open their doors
and to send food of any kind to the
church for the collations Of Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 2 and 3.
The third biennial state camp of the
Modern Woodmen of America will be held
in Brattleboro next Wednesday when
about $50 delegates are expected to gather
An address OF welcome will be given by
James F. Hooker at the opening session
at the town hall. At noon there will be
a parade headed by the First Regiment
band. The local committee OF arrange
ments consists of William Boyce, f. j.
Whitcher and c. l.. Young.
Victor S. Reed, who resigned recently
as secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A., has de-
clined the call to become assistant sec
rotary of the railroad association in
Concord, n. II. Mr.. Reed will remain in
Brattleboro until after the annual meet
ing of the local association. which will
be held next Wednesday night, but he
expects to leave town during next week.
He intended to stay until the anniversary
service a week from Sunday, but finds it
necessary to be elsewhere. He will take
up Bible study before entering upon
another position.
Plans are under way for the develop
ment Of another granite quarry in West
Dummerston, and It is expected that they
will be carried out during the coming
summer. \ large section of granite de-
post was bought some time ago by a
of
organized themselves under the name of
the Dummerston Granite company,
Clinton G.. Gowdy of Springfield. Mass.
being the chief counsel. Mr.. Gowdy and
an engineer were i'm Brattleboro and
West Dummerston this week. It. is eX-
pected that a side track from half a
mile to a mile in length will be built.
starting from the main West River
railroad at n point a short distance south
of where the Holden & Martin steam
mill stood and running around the base
of the granite mountain. The company
received several orders last year. which
were turned over to other companies,
Mrs. j. Fitch. -. of West Brattleboro
died Wednesday after an illness of two
years with a complication Of diseases.
She had been seriously i'll about a month.
She was born in Addison May II. 1927,
and was a daughter of John and Mary
(Stearnsl Wright. She lived in Addison
until her marriage to Barnabas Fitch OF
Bridpoft. when she was % years old.
They lived in several places. coming to
West Brattleboro some 25 years ago.
Mr.. Fitch carried on a farm until his
death. which took place about Is years
ago Mrs. Fitch then moved to West
Brattleboro village, where she lived alone.
She was the last survivor of n large fam
lily. She leaves a son, Norris p. Fitch OF
Casselton. y. D., and a daughter, Mary
r. Fitch of South birmingham. Mass.
The funeral will be held in the Congrega-
tional church in West Brattleboro at >
o'clock today. Rev. l.. NJ. Keneston Of
floating. There viii be prayer at the
house before the funeral The burial
will be in Meeting House Hin cemetery.
Mrs. Fitch was member Of the Congre-
gational church.
The program for the county w c. T. T..
convention. which will meet in the Metho-
dist church May and g. has some
features of special as well as local inter
est Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Ida II.
Read, state president. will give a talk to
young women. All who hear her will be
well repaid Tuesday evening Mrs Read
will give another address which has an
attractive name. Mrs. A. ]. Currier will
express the welcome Tuesday forenoon
Wednesday afternoon the Brattleboro
ministers are invited to take part in a
symposium of good fellowship. Wednes-
day evening Mrs. Maria Weed of Chicago
will speak of THE Psychology of Dipso-
MANIA" of which subject she has made
a careful study. Those who heard Mrs
Weeds address on Mormonism last
autumn will remember her finished,
thrilling and convincing arraignment OF
that terrible evil The music will con-
sist of organ solos, choir singing, the
rendering of The Holy city by Mrs.
Katherine OConnor Weeks, and solos
by Miss Gertrude Matthews, Mrs, Fred
w. Putnam and others. Following Mrs.
Weeds address Wednesday evening six
matrons from the Brattleboro union will
engage in an Evolutionary contest. The
public is cordially invited to all the meet
ings OF the convention.
A despatch sent to various newspapers
by the Associated Press Friday night
stated that r. W. Moloney of Rutland
and Charles A. McCarty of Rochester, n.
Y, attorneys for Mrs. Mary NJ. Rogers,
who is in the state prison at Windsor,
convicted of murder, had gone to Brat
tleboro to file a petition for a new trial.
The attorneys intended to come here. but
on account of the absence of Judge
George NJ. Powers, presiding at the Wind
ham county court, they did not do so.
Before the attorneys can file a petition
before the supreme court for a new trial
they must first submit to two judges of
the court affidavits setting forth the
nature of the new evidence, and If In the
opinion of these judges there is sufficient
reason for considering a petition for a
new trial they will give the attorneys
permission to file such a petition before
the full bench. 1t was expected that