Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-31

voir Is within about four feet Of the top
OF the walls.
The men OF the Universalist church will
hold their annual sugar supper Thursday
April 6.
Tickets for In the Sunny South will go
on sale at the box office Thursday morn
ing, April 8.
The Knights and Ladies Of Honor will
hold a regular meeting in Red Mems
hall Monday evening.
Eben Holden. dramatized from Irving
Bachelors famous novel, will be seen at
the Auditorium this evening.
Next Sunday will be ladies' Sunday at
the Y. NJ c. A. meeting. Attorney Gem
eral Clarke c. Fits will lead the meet
ing, speaking on Character and Success
The Chestnut Hill Reservoir company
has settled with the balliffs for expenses
| incurred in the purchase of a pump,
pumping by steamers, ETC., recently, pay
ing 1871.
All through New England the Sunny
South company is receiving highly COM
plimentary notices. It was said to be the
best show of the kind ever seen in Clare
mont, N. H.
County Examiner H. d. Ryder is con-
tinuing at the high school building today
the examination Of teachers which was
| begun Yesterday. There are 81 candi-
dates for certificates.
The last meeting of the IS club Of Canal
street, for this season, was held Wednes-
day evening. Twenty members had sup
per at the Melrose House, after which
cards and dancing were enjoyed.
A brief session Of the probate court was
held Saturday. Charles G. Staples's ac-
count as administrator Of the Harriet w.
StoclSwell estate was allowed The wills
Of Timothy G. Shea and his wife. Mar
garet M. Shea, were allowed
The Pilgrim Fathers had the first sugar
supper of the season Friday night. The
attendance was large, and during the
evening a pleasing musical program was
given by Misses Maud and Minnie Lett
singer and Miss Marion Simonds.
Pocahontas council No. 4, will trail to
the hunting grounds In Springfield, this
state, to institute q council there on
Thursday evening, April 6. Alexander
Gilmore. great chief of records OF Mas
sachusetts, will help exemplify the work.
Mrs. Etna S. RIckert, so, died at the
Brattleboro Retreat Wednesday after a
years illness. The body was taken to
Jacksonville last night, and the burial will
take place there today. Mrs. Rickert was
mother of A. M. Rickert of % Prospect
street, and widow Of Martin E. Rickert
At the annual meeting Of the ladies'
aid society of the Methodist church. the
following officers were elected: President,
Mrs. S. w. Vim; first vice president,
Mrs. A. E. Atwood; second vice president,
Mrs. Merrill H. Adams; secretary, Mrs.
Eugene Clark; treasurer, Mrs. George
| Thomas.
The ladies' circle of the Universaiist
society will meet in the church parlors
next Thursday afternoon. A proposed
amendment to the bylaws regarding a
change of the time OF holding the annual
meeting will be voted upon. After the
business meeting the men will serve their
| annual sugar supper.
]. Harry Estey and D. Frank Shea will
be the premier end men at the First
Regiment band minstrel show April 2G
and 81 The eight other ends will be
James p. Ferriter, John L. Stewart, Sam
| uel w. Hubbard, Edward Gonyer, Howard
c. Rice Alison Dugan. William O'Dono-
ghue and J. Willard Cobb.
The annual roll call of the Baptist
church will be held next Wednesday.
April 5, at O'Clock in the audience room
of the church edifice. At $50 o'clock sup
per Will be served in the chapel, and at
its conclusion the annual business meet
ing will be held, when reports of all de-
partments will be heard and officers will
be elected
Mr.. Daniels of East Providence, r. L.,
owner of the Huntington Maple Sugar
and Canning company, has been in town
this week, looking for a location for n
branch of his business. He found no
quarters suitable and went from here to
st. Johnsbury. 1t is his intention to es-
tablish in Vermont a business which calls
for an expenditure OF S35. 900 to $40, 600
annually for maple sugar. He has a proc
ess of refining the sugar. after which 1t Is
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high class trade.
Rev Martin d. Kneeland, d. D., Sec
rotary of the New England Sabbath Pro-
tective league, preached at the Congre-
gational church in West Brattleboro Sun
day morning, gave a brief talk in the
Congregational Sunday school in this
village at noon and addressed a union
meeting In the Methodist church in the
evening. At the evening service Rev. F.
w. Lewis presided and Revs. Lawson,
Miles and Osgood participated. The adj
dress was on the work of the league
showing the practical results which have
been accomplished and emphasizing some
OF the things which remain 20 be accom-
plished. The league attempts to secure
the enactment of laws at all sessions of
the New England legislatures which
shall protect the Sabbath, and some OF
the fruits of its labors are seen In laws
enacted at the last session of the Yer
mont legislature.
Rev. N. A. Wood, pastor of the West
Brattleboro Baptist church, read his
resignation Sunday. In the afternoon the
church voted to accept 1t in accordance
with Mr. Woods request that it be acted
upon as soon as possible. Mr. Wood
asked to be excused the last Sunday in
April. Two or three weeks ago he re-
ceived call from the church in Essex
Junction, which he decided to accept He
made his decision known to the church.
so that his resignation was not unex-
pected. He will begin his duties In his
new field the first Sunday in May, and
already the family are packing their
household goods. Mr.. Wood formerly
was pastor of the church in South LON
donderry. He went to the West Brattle-
boro church on Easter Sunday in 1899.
During his pastorate there the church
building has been decorated and the par
sonage has been repaired extensively,
over 80 new members have been en-
rolled and the work of the church has
been put on an excellent footing The
new field offers larger opportunities, the
church being larger and within six miles
OF Burlington Brattleboro regrets to
have Mr.. Wood and family depart, but
wishes them abundant success in their
new field.
Every possible effort to save the life
OF Miss Bertha Thomas, whose illness was
announced last week. was unavailing
and on Wednesday afternoon Miss Thorn
as died, at her home in North HinsdaIe.
The primary cause of death was acute
brights disease, contributing cause be-
ing appendicitis, for which she under