Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10

The First Regiment band will play at
the dance following the basket ball game
this evening.
There will be meeting of the ladies'
Catholic benevolent association at NO.
Harris place next Tuesday evening.
Fred s. Knight will speak on Christ
the Great Physician" at the Y. M. {. "A.
meeting Sunday. Rev. H. A. Goodhue
will speak on "Sin" at the meeting In
Esteyville Wednesday evening
hearing was held before Judge
Wheeler in the United states court sat
urday upon petition for naturalization,
and two men were given final certificates
OF citizenship. Final certificates were
issued to three persons Monday. The
board of civil authority added 10 or more
names to the check list at their meeting
Saturday.
Clinton L. Hall. 3d. died Tuesday at the
home of his sister, Mrs Warren +. Banks.
on Green street, after an Illness of sew
eral weeks with cancer OF the liver. Nh.
| Hall was for a long time stage driver be-
tween Williamsville and West Dover, and
came to Brattleboro to live recently. He
| is survived by widow. Funeral services
were held at the house at o'clock yes
| terday, Rev George b. Lawson, Of the
| First Baptist church. officiating and the
body was placed I'm the tomb in Prospect
| HIN cemetery.
The Young Mems Christian association
gymnasium classes will give an athletic
exhibition in the Auditorium Thursday
evening. March 10. at o'clock. Lett
singers orchestra will furnish music, and
| the exhibition will include calisthenics,
musical drills with wands Indian club
and dumb bell movements, maze run
pyramids, high jumping, fancy club
swinging double baton swinging, phan-
tom drill, clog dances, etc. Reserved
seat tickets will go on sale at the Y. VI
| c. A. rooms Saturday morning, March
II. at . o'clock.
Everything points to large gathering
of members and guests of the Brattle-
! boro Woman's club at the meeting to be
held at the home of the president, Miss
| Susan l.. Clark. in West Brattleboro,
next Wednesday afternoon March Is. at
! $3.50 O'Clock. The session will be given
over principally to a paper on library
work in Vermont by Mrs. w. p. Smith Of
st. Johnsbury. who will be a special guest
Of the CLUB. Current events will he given
10y Mrs. Charles A. Boyden. During the
social hour tea win be served and musical
numbers rendered. The special cars for
the club will leave Prospect Hin immedi-
ately after the regular o'clock car.
The Claremont, n. H., Advocate of last
week contained the following regarding Il
company which will be seen here i'm
April THE Sunny South company
pleased large audience at the opera
house Thursday evening Mr. Rockwell
has gotten together a strong troupe of
colored people, consisting of dancers,
comedians and singers Their acts are
clean and mirth provoking and the en-
tertainment throughout was one of tho
most satisfactory seen upon the local
stage this season The orchestra was ex-
Ceptionally good. Patrons will be pleased
~ In ODD
the company for a return date next sea-
son"
Charles Hall h.hs. SO. Of West Brat
tleboro. for many years driver for local
liverymen. died Wednesday morning af-
ter an illness OF two weeks. He was born
in West Brattlehoro Jan &c. lS49. and
was a son of w. w. Ellis and Cynthia
Hall. He always lived in this town and
at one time owned the West BrattleborC
stage line, buying it OF j. A Taylor. Fol-
long time he drove the village" hack
also the baggage and express wagon, and
was well known throughout the town
lie gave up work about two years ago
lie is survived by his mother. who lives
in West Brattleboro. and one brother
William Ellis. of 30 Canal street. The
funeral will be held AT the home Of nj,
brother at . O'Clock today. Rev. l. NJ
Keneston OF West Brattleboro officiating
The body will be placed in the tomb IN
Prospect Hin cemetery.
What am to be | am now becoming 81
This was the central thought. the funda
mental teaching, of the lecture of Prof
John Il. Denote given in the Auditorium
last evening-the closing number In tn,
Y NJ c. \. Star course Of the present
season In its essential features this
lecture was the complement of Prof. De-
Notes lecture of three years ago ON 9TH,
Harp of the Senses" extending and elabO.
l. H.
upon the methods Of character building
and the memorable law by which eVi
habits and wrong courses of life find theii
victim. and drag him down to perditon
while pure thoughts and clean and aspir-
ing lives come just as surely to their owl
fruition. The lecture leaves a moral i'm.
preston which can never bee effaced. II
reveals the moral earnestness of the mar
behind IL, and In both these respects II
was fitting conclusion to an entertain
ment course whose several numbers hay,
been of unusual excellence.
Mrs. Margaret NJ Shea. 60, died about
$50 O'Clock Monday morning at the HON,
of her son, =. l.. Shea, on Myrtle street
less than a week after the death OF hei
husband, Timothy c. Shea, which tool
place the previous Tuesday morning al
the same house. Mrs Shea had been il
four months with brights disease and was
critically i'll when her husband died. Sh,
was born I'm Wheatland. p. O.. Feb %
1915, and was a daughter of Patrick anC
Rose (Birney) Carroll. She came to Brat.
tleboro when "A young woman and was
employed for some time in the family OF
the late Silas NJ. Waite. Her marriag,
to Mr.. Shea took place about "a years
ago, and thereafter her life was spent IN
Brattleboro. She enjoyed the confidence
Of her neighbors and the respect of the
townspeople generally She is survived
by two sons Patrick l.. and ID. Frank
Shea of Brattleboro. and three step-sons
John w. and NJ. j. Shea of Brooklyn n
Y, and Edward j. Shea of Brattleboro
She also leaves sister. Mrs. oliver CayC
of Lavinere, y. O., and two brothers
Frank Carroll assistant chief engineer OF
the Montreal fire department, and John
Carroll of North Walpole, N. H., super
intendent of wood construction for the
Boston & Maine Railroad company.
Having served a sentence in the house
of correction for opening a letter and
abstracting the contents, Edward l.
Hutchinson, formerly of Felchville but
recently employed i'm Townshend, now
finds himself confronted with charge OF
forgery i'm connection with the same
incident. 1t is alleged that in October
1903 Hutchinson forged the name OF
Harry Prouty of Halifax to a check for
S25 from j. w. futile & Sons of Boston
In February, 1904, Hutchinson gave him
self up to United States District Attorney
Martin, confessing that he opened the
letter, forged Mr. Prouty's name and
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