Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-04-13
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Col. c. A. Miles will repeat his paper
on "old Heidelberg for the Young Peo-
pies union at the Baptist Chapel Tuesday
evening at 730.
Charles A. Smiths house on the corner
of Canal street and Oak Grove avenue is
receiving its finishing touches and will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Pension Attorney John Hunt has been
notified of the granting of increase in
pension to H. F. Brooks, H. c. Streeter
and John L. Newman of Brattleboro and
Preston S. Knapp of Wardsboro.
William Casey, who has been employed
at Browns livery stable, is fitting up
for a lunch room the quarters in Ray
building formerly occupied by w. H.
Snow. He will open 1t in few days.
The Easter offering in the Congrega-
tional Sunday school next Sunday will be
devoted to the relief of the victims of the
terrible famine which is sweeping over
the northeastern provinces of Japan, leav-
ing heartrending suffering in its track.
1t is probable that the number of acres
of corn grown in Brattleboro this year
for the Snowflake canning factory will
not be as large as last year. A con-
siderable amount of canned corn was
carried over from last season, the market
being overstocixed.
The board of civil authority and the
bailiffs will meet in the office of Haskins
& Schwenk Saturday, April 2S, at 7.3O p.
m. to make necessary changes in the
check list to be used at the annual village
meeting, Tuesday, May 1. No names can
be added to the list after the meeting
The Boston Society of Natural History
will publish with it's proceedings for the
month of April a paper, with surveyed
maps, on River Terraces Of Brattleboro,
vt" by Miss Elizabeth F. Fisher, asso-
ciate professor of geology at Wellesley
college. Miss Fisher has been to Brattle-
boro several times to study the river ter
races, considering the town one of the
best in the world, so far as the OPP
portunity which it offers for that kind of
study Is concerned.
The subject of the lecture to be given
by Rev. DR.. F. E. Marble of Cambridge at
the Baptist chapel next Thursday even
ing will be "Cameragraphs." The ad-
dress-an illustrated one-will deal with
the people seen along the highways and
byways of Europe rather than with public
buildings and like things with which peo-
pie are more or less familiar. For this
reason the lecture is bound to be intense
ly interesting. DR.. Marble will come to
Brattleboro under the auspices of the
young peoples union and the lecture will
be given for it's benefit.
George Van Dyke, president and gen.
eral manager of the Connecticut Valley
Lumber company, says his concern will
cut upwards of 60,000000 of spruce this
season near the headwaters of the Con-
necticut, and a large part of 1t will be
floated 400 miles down the Connecticut
to Mt. Tom and Holyoke. The company
will start with 600 to 700 men, but this
number will be reduced to $50 or 300 be-
fore the destination is reached. In 1872
Mr.. Van Dyke sent his first drive down
the Connecticut, and since 1881 he has
had charge of the main drive. When he
visited upper Coos county in New Hamp-
shire last week he found the sleighing
the best of the winter and numbering
operations going on as lively as in Janu-
airy.
About 60 members and guests of the
Congregational club attended the closing
meeting of the club for this season Tues
day evening in the Brooks House.
banquet which was particularly good was
served at o'clock, and at its close a
musical program was given, made III
largely of "old favorites" The Brattle.
boro male quartet sang annie Laurie,
"Old Oaken Bucket" "Juanita," bonnie
Doom" and other "old home" pieces, Mrs
Katherine OConnor Weeks sang ''Kath.
leen Mavourneen" and other songs, there
were vocal solos by Fred G. Adams ant
Helen F. Crosby, and a trio, the "Steir
Song" by Fred, George and Crosby
Adams. The program was source o.
delight not only to those who ATTENDED
the banquet, but to number of other:
who came in just to hear the music.
Judge Pike, in the superior court II
Keene Monday, sentenced o. w. Hopkin!
of Westmoreland, N. H, to six months II
JAIL Hopkins having pleaded guilty to the
r1ao rorn ~ 81 a.,
the Richardson meat market on MAR
street the past winter. He secured 6
posi- ton as buyer of hides for Carroll S
Page of Hyde Park. Mr.. Page advanced
800 for him to use in the business, and
Hopkins furnished security by forging the
name of Earl Warren, a merchant IL
Westmoreland. On his failure to accoun
for the money Warren was called on t
pay the guarantee and then the fact o.
the forgery came out Sheriff Tuttle Of
~, Keene came to Brattleboro and located
Hopkins and the latter returned to West
moreland, where he was placed undei
bonds in the sum OF $500 for his appear.
ance in court in Keene, on default OF
which he was taken to jail. In pronounc'
ing sentence Juuge Pike said that it wa.
made light in the hope that Hopkins
would reform.
81, Mrs. Julia Houston West,.Whose singing
of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" at the
great peace jubilee in Boston in 1869 was
one of the principal events of her re-
maTkable career as a vocalist, died at the
Brattleboro Retreat Monday She was
born in Massachusetts about 73 years ago
For many years she sang soprano in the
Old South meeting house in Boston and
afterwards In the Old South church
Later she sang In DR.. Hale's church and
became the highest salaried woman singer
in any Boston church, receiving $500 6
year. Dr. Robert Collyer's church in Chi
cago offered her $4,000 year, but she pre-.
ferred to remain in Boston. Mrs. WestN
greatest honor was the invitation to sing
al the peace jubilee when there werS
gathered 200 leading singers of the world
With a chorus of 10000, music of aug
mented bands and orchestra an organ
Ginning of bells. firing of volleys and
booming of cannon and other accompani-
ment, Mrs. West sang 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" under the direction of the world
famous p. S. Gilmore. She married James
F. West of Haverhill and shortly after
his death in 1908 she became insane. The
most pathetic feature Of her dementia was
her hallucination that she was still APP
pearing before great crowds of people
Seated at a piano she would play and sing
by the hour, saying very little and recog-
mixing none of her old friends The funera
was held in Haverhill, Mass, Wednesday
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