Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-31
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Monday being legal holiday the gro
Gerry stores will be closed all day.
Ladies are especially invited to attend
the Republican rally on the common at
2 D. m. Saturday.
Examinations for those high school
pupils who were conditioned last year will
be held on Saturday of next week at 8
o'clock in the high school.
The speakers at the Republican rally
on the common Saturday at p. m. will
be Fletcher d. Proctor, Senator William
p. Dillingham; and ]. L. Martin.
There will be an important meeting
of the Brattleboro branch of the Irish
league at the parochial school hall inn
mediately after mass next Sunday 1t
is important that every member be
present.
Next Monday, Labor day, the post Of
fee will be open from to IL. but will be
closed throughout the afternoon. The
carriers will make the morning delivery
only and the rural carriers will make
no delivery.
The ladies of the Unitarian church
will hold their annual fair at Festival
hall on Thursday, Sept 6. Doors open
at 4 o'clock. Supper will be served from
to s, followed by a concert and dance.
All are invited.
The last fusion rally of the season will
be held in the Auditorium at o'clock
tonight. The speakers will be James E
Burke, mayor of Burlington Thomas
II. Browne of Rutland and D. A. Guilt
imam of Bennington. The First Regiment
band will furnish music.
Fred C. Leitsinger has graduated today
from Charles p. Dolan's Boston school Of
piano tuning, repairing and fine tone
regulating, and will devote his entire
time to piano tuning and music. Mr.
Leitsinger is located here in Brattleboro
and is known as a thoroughly accom-
plished musician.
Assistant Judges Worden Of Halifax
and Pier of Jacksonville met a represen-
tative of a New York firm in Brattleboro
Wednesday relative to equipping the
county clerks Office with a system of
cabinets for filing legal documents
1t is probable that such a system will be
bought, together with a card index sys-
tenn and some new Office furniture.
The biennial freemen's meeting to vote
for state and county officers, town rep
resentatives and justices of the peace
will be held next Tuesday, beginning at
o'clock. The voting for town repre-
sentative will cease at 3 o'clock and the
voting for state officers at O'clock All
members Of the board of civil authority
are requested to be on hand promptly to
count the votes.
J. e. Mann has made extensive i'm
provements in the basement of his store
extending the down stairs sales room the
whole width Of the block thus making II
the same size as the up stairs room. 1t
is fitted with windows of prism glass and
the G. e. M. electric lighting system
The cloak department has been equipped
with wardrobes and the rear Of the
room which Is to be used as a drapery
department is furnished with rods for
NJ bot
Thirty-one people, in automobile parties,
put up at the Brooks House Saturday
night One party consisted of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. ]. Park of New York Mr.. and
Mrs. N. H. Stabb of Peekskill and Mr..
and Mrs. r. H. Hunt Of Port Chester.
Their machines were equipped with the
most improved device for expanding tires,
consisting OF a tube Of liquid air. The
tube was connected with the tires in such
way that as the liquid rarefied the tires
were expanded without requiring any
physical exertion. In talking with a
Brattleboro man who is interested in
good roads Mr.. Park said that New York
state had appropriated $50 900, 900 for
good roads, but that the roads in YER
mont were so per cent. better than those
of New York.
The regular session of the probate
court was held last Saturday and the
following business was transacted: A
license to sell real estate was granted
to James H. Stark Joseph F. Stark and
Elsie Stark, minors, upon petition of
their guardian. Edith NJ. Stark. The
accounts of the estates of George B.
Kendall and Luella A. Kendall of Wards
borO were allowed George E. Fox was
granted a license to sell real estate for
the estate of e. w. Fox The real estate
of the Jason Atwater estate was ordered
and decreed to be assigned and trans
ferred TO lana AfWafar ao-
counts Of the Lyman M. Newell estate
were allowed and the balance ordered
paid to Alkaline e. Barrows, residuary
legatee under the will. A license to sell
real estate was granted to Arthur ].
White, administrator of the Joseph
White estate. The final settlement OF the
Thomas T. Stowe estate was made and
the accounts allowed The petition of
the selectmen Of Brattleboro asking that
the estate Of David Booth, deceased, be
transferred to the town in the absence
Of heirs was heard and allowed.
Rev. Frederic. H. Mathison, S2, rector
of the Church OF the Good Shepherd in
Shelton, Conn, who died in that place
Friday, was the only brother OF Rev. E.
T. Mathison, rector of st. Michael's Epis-
copal church of Brattleboro His death
took place following an operation to re-
Iieve an obstruction of the bowels but
for several weeks his condition had been
bSIlOuSt WIN Dul Illle nOpc VI ICCoNSiys
Rev. F. H. Mathison was a native Of
Bridgeport N. Y. a graduate Of Hill
house high school in New Haven, Of Yale
university in the class of '96 and Berkeley
Divinity school in '9S, Previous to his
graduation from the divinity school he
was lay reader of the church in Shelton
and he became its first rector. He had
accomplished a great work in building
up a large society which had erected
fine church edifice and carried on a large
and successful work. Mr.. Mathison was
a martyr to his work and last year was
granted a long vacation, which he spent
in travel in the Holy Land and the Far
East Six months ago he broke down in
health, and the partial paralysis with
which he was afflicted affected his vocal
organs and facial muscles. Only a few
months ago Mr. Mathison gave In Brat
tIeboro a lecture on his travels the pre-
vious year Mr.. Mathison was unmarried
and his mother lived with him In Shell
ton. Rev e. t. Mathison went to Shelton
Thursday night and was there at the time
of his brothers death.