Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-01
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

Catholic church.
johnson & Halgren have begun painting
the new Connecticut river bridge. They
LOOK the job by contract for $780,
Two sisters from the Orphan, asylum in
burlington are in town this week making
their annual collection for the orphans.
The hearing on Daniel Sherwin's claim
against the ]. @. Shumway estate in
Jamaica closed Tuesday The commits
sioners allowed Mr.. Sherwin $50.
The annual meeting of the Western
Aqueduct association will be held at the
ONCE OF the Brattleboro Gas Light COM
pany Tuesday, June 5, at 7.30 p. m.
The members of Company 1 appeared
In the Memorial day parade in their new
regulation dress uniforms, recently issued
by the department They are blue with
light blue trimmings.
f. I. Swift received Tuesday a box of
five land-locked salmon and one trout
from-his brother Parke b. Swift who is
in Grandlake Stream Maine The six
fish weighed is pounds.
1t is expected that Rev. Albert II.
Gage of st. Johnsbury will speak tonight
at the Baptist church. Mr.. Gage will
leave soon for foreign mission service
under appointment of the missionary
union.
An epidemic of humps is raging in
the villages of Wilmington and Jackson
Vile. In Wilmington over 20 cases have
been reported this week. A large number
of people in Jacksonville also are suffer-
ing and two schools there have been
closed
Bert o. Ware, Spanish american war
veteran, has been granted an original
pension. Col. John Hunt, the pension
agent, also has been notified of the grant
ing of a Widows pension to Mary A.
Worden Of South Newfane and an increase
to Charles Brown of Putney.
Luclus Bradley, a prominent business
man of Crawford. N. j., died at his home
in that city last Monday after an ILL
ness of only two or three DAYS. Mr.
Bradley married. in 1881, Miss Sarah A.
Perkins. the sister of Mrs. Henry Burn
ham, and a well known resident of this
village. who survives him.
The annual June drill of Company /,
V. N. c., Capt. e. w. Gibson, Is being
held today The company was inspected
in Festival hall this morning by Major
Herbert T. johnson of Brandon, major of
the third battalion, assisted by Adjutant
General w. II. Gilmore of Fairlee and
| Capt. c. F. Burnham of Bellows Falls.
ordnance officer After the inspection
the company went by special car to West
| Brattleboro, marching thence to the range
on the Winslow farm, where drill and
rifle practice will be held.
Six bids for the construction of an
Independent water system had been re-
ceived by the village water board when
the time for receiving bids closed Fri
day afternoon. They were opened FRI
day night. but the figures have not been
disclosed to the public, but 1t is under
| stood that they ranged Approximately
| from $3.50, 900 to $3.50 900. The three low
est bids contained features of merit, and
| they have been considered carefully this
week, but the contract has not been
awarded definitely.
The S4th annual convocation of the
grand chapter Order of the Eastern
| Star, of Vermont. will be held in Enos-
! burg Falls next Tuesday and Wednesday
| June and 6. DR.. f. G. Pettee grand
patron, Mrs. Fremont Hamilton. grand
| marshal Mrs. Pettee Mrs. F. J. Swift
and Mrs. Mary A. Walker of Brattleboro
will be in attendance. The total member
| ship of the order is now 50O5 a gain of
| 81 since the convocation in Brattleboro
last year. The four largest chapters in
Vermont are in Newport, st. Johnsbury,
| Brattleboro and Rutland.
The ground has been strewn with
thousands of green maple leaves this
week. A similar condition Is reported by
| our correspondents in Bellows Falls and
other places. Many people have express
| ed fear that some pest was attacking the
!
trees seem to be affected. 1t is probable
that the leaves. which developed very
rapidly, were chilled and made brittle by
the cold weather, and that they were
whipped off in the heavy winds of Mon
day and Tuesday. An examination Of
leaves and trees fails TO show any evil
dence Of insects or other pests.
The directors of the Brattleboro Home
for the Aged and Disabled held their
mn nal r,nnn I'M IaI
to install new laundry plant and a new
elevator. These officers were elected;
President, DR.. Henry ID. Holton; vice
president, James NJ. Tyler; secretary
and treasurer, George c. Averin; audit
ors, F. W. Childs II. F. Weatherhead;
Oscar M Lawton, George F. Crowell, f.
L. Waterman. James NJ. Tyler F. w.
Childs, II. F. Weatherhead, f. c. Crosby;
committee on admission to the home, F.
w. Childs, H. F. Weatherhead. E. C.
Crosby. Resolutions We're adopted on the
death of Charles F. Thompson. who had
served as clerk of the home for many
years
Mrs. Mary Pettis Sargent, so. widow
of Chester Sargent died at the Brattle-
boro Home for the Aged and Disabled
about 1890 o'clock Wednesday morning
after an illness Of three months. She
was born in Brattleboro April IA, 1924
ana was one OF nine chlldren OF dolanu
and Eliza (Knight) Pettis, Her great
grandfather, Samuel Knight, was the
first lawyer and judge in Brattleboro.
Her husband was a farmer in his younger
days and afterward was a painter After
his death Mrs. Sargent was housekeeper
for Joseph L. Jones Is years, going to
the Home for the Aged last September.
Mrs. Sargent leaves two sisters, Mrs.
Helen r. Lane of Church place and
Mrs. Carrie ]. Cook of 1 Church place.
The funeral was held at the home at 10
o'clock this morning, Rev. II. r. Miles,
of the Congregational church, officiating.
The burial was in Locust Ridge cemetery.