Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-08-18

Rev. Frederick w. Green of Middle
town, Conn, will preach in the Congre-
gational church Sunday morning.
A special meeting of Brattleboro camp,
Modern Woodmen of America, will be
held next Monday evening at o'clock.
The woman's Auxiliary will hold its
last cake sale of this season at the Y. NJ.
c. A. rooms tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock
f. w, Mcclure, auctoneer, will sell
the remaining household goods of the late
]. d. Roess at the Brook street residence
at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The annual meeting of the spofford
Lake Fish and Game league, which was
scheduled to be held Wednesday, was
postponed to today on account Of rain.
Capt Robert b. Somerville is i'll with
typhoid fever at Matanzas, Cuba. He
will come to Brattleboro to visit at DR..
F. a. Woodbury's as soon as he RECEIVERS.
The Windham County Veterans asso-
citation will hold a reunion in Barber
park Bellows Falls. Tuesday, Sept. s. A
special train will leave Brattleboro at
$50 in the morning.
The woman's auxiliary are planning to
| hold a secondhand clothing sale early
in the fall. 1t will be much appreciated
If the people having secondhand clothing
will save IT for this sale.
c. d. Britton. clerk in r. II. Amidon &
Co.'S grocery store, has bargained for a
half interest in a. NJ. Corsers general
merchandise store in Putney. Mr.. Brit
ton was head clerk for Mr.. Corser before
he came to Brattleboro.
| The seamstresses. needlewomen and
| shop girls of Brattleboro will hold their
annual meeting Saturday evening, Aug
| g. in Festival hall. The ACCESSIBILITY of
oh rrtFe 1n inc NeVl.N lgs
cussed and large attendance is desired.
The work of the First Regiment band
! of Brattleboro, which is the regimental
| band has been particularly fine. There
| are 80 men in the band, and their con-
| certs each day have constituted one of the
! especially enjoyable features of the mus
ter. The band is under the leadership Of
Fred c. Leitsinger.
| The September term OF the Windham
county court will convene at Newfane
! Sept. g. Wednesday. Chief Judge John
w. Rowell will preside. The docket will
| be issued next week! The docket con-
tains 252 cases. There are 1913 civil law
| cases, % divorce cases, Is Chancery cases
and eight criminal cases
Services at the Universallst church will
be resumed Sunday. Aug. p. The teach
ers will meet at the parsonage at 7.3O
! Friday the 25th to prepare the Sunday
engaged in preparing to entertain the
state convention. which will assemble
here on Monday Sept L.
Beauseant commandery Knights Tenn
| plar, at a regular conclave Wednesday
| evening, discussed the matter of Joining
with the Communicates Of the state in a
! big parade at Montpelier oct. l.. when
| that city will celebrate It's Tooth ami
| versary as the capital of Vermont. The
| suggestion came from the right eminent
| grand commander of the grand COM
mandery of the state.
The First Regiment band OF 80 pieces,
which will arrive in Brattleboro Saturday
afternoon on the return from the muster
of the Vermont regiment, will give a
concert from the Brooks House balcony
in the evening, at S o'clock. There will
be solos by Frank Heise and John Par
sons special program has been ar
ranged. The band has been highly COM
plimented on its work in camp.
a number of Brattleboro people. in ad-
dition to those who participated. attend
ed the midsummer concert in the Con-
gregational church In Dummerston We'd
nesday evening and enjoyed the occas-
sion. Those who took part were Mr.. and
Mrs. f. II. Miller of Dummerston and
Miss Helen Crosby, Miss Gertrude Mat
thews and the Brattleboro male quartet
consisting of w. a. Gilbert, A. l.. May
nard. +. c. Adams and G. f. Adams, OF
Brattleboro.
Andrew Blair Baird. 81, died Tuesday
night at Western avenue. He had been
i'll with typhoid fever several weeks. He
was making eXcellentprogress toward re-
covery. but had a relapse a short time
before his DEATH Mr.. Baird came to Brat
ueboro about year ago and had been en-
ployed plumber by p. Fleming
After prayer at the house Wednesday
.fW.rr I
was taken to Waitsfeld for burial Mr.
Baird leaves a widow. He was the
youngest of several children.
George f. Holbrook of Keene. N H.
aged 90, the head of the Holbrook Gro
Gerry company, died suddenly Of cerebral
hemorrhage at his home i'm that city on
Thursday evening Of last week Mr.. Hol-
brook was man of sterling character
prominently Identified during a lifelong
residence in Keene with the business, re-
ligious and phianthropic activities of the
community. He was known in Brattle-
boro through his trusteeship for a term
of years in the Vermont Loan and Trust
company. He is survived by his wife and
two sons.
DR.. Henry Tucker, health officer. saws
there is but one case of contagious dis
ease under quarantine in Brattleboro. a
case of chicken poX reported this week
The board of health is enforcing the san
itary regulations and is obliging owners
OF houses near sewers to put in sanitary
plumbing, the worst places being taken
care of first. Work has been mapped out
for plumbers until the winter sets in
and it is the intention of the board to
take up the good work again next year
and keep at 1t until all unsanitary places
have been put in proper condition.
The annual grove meetings at Sunset
lake will begin Tuesday evening Aug %
with Rev. S. p. Fairbanks of the Beacon
Light Mission New York city in charge
Rev. A. II. Webb OF Brattleboro will
preach Wednesday afternoon and even
ing. Thursday is missionary day. on
Friday services will be conducted by Mrs
Ida II. Read state president of the w
c, T. u, and Mrs Callie II. Howe of St
Joseph, Mo-, and Miss Margaret Assay OF
Ocean Grove, N. j., will speak. Friends
of the temperance question are cordially
invited to be present. Rev. L. M Ken
eston of West BTattleboro will preach al
2.3O on Sunday afternoon, Aug. q Other
speakers are expected.
The announcement made in a Barre
paper that George E. Fox will be as
ISOLATED with Harry T. Eaton in the man.
agement of the Barre opera house does
not mean that Mr.. Fox will move away
from Bratteboro or give up the manage
ment of the Auditorium. John e. Koran
who has been associated with Mr.. Eaton
in the management of the Claremont
opera house, will be resident manager OF
the Barre house, but the house has beer
leased by Fox q Eaton, who will dictate