Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-05-25

The w. c. T. U. clearance sale Is now
being held AZ the rooms OF the organi-
zation on Elliot street.
Sedgwick Grand Army post and kindred
organizations will attend services at the
Unitarian church Sunday morning
Branch / of the Sunshine society will
hold It's annual meeting at the home OF
Mrs. H. II. Thompson at $40 o'clock
today.
Village Clerk w. Dorr Perry will pay
a note OF the village for $500 to the Ma
tional Life Insurance company of Mont
pelier June !.
Miss Cell Murphy who has been en-
gagged as matron at the DIR. +. r. Lynch
hospital will enter upon the duties of
the position June 1.
The frame of the new Central Vermont
freight house has been rooted over and
boarded UP this week The building will
be ready for occupancy within two weeks.
The annual inspection of Company 1
will be held next Friday. Mai II. T.
Johnson of Bradford commanding the
third battalion win be the inspecting
officer
Col Thomas Harmon of Bennington,
who bought the Willard house on Birge
street two years ago. will have 1t raised
and enlarged into a two-tenement build
ing this season.
Leslie G. Thayer has applied for IL
cense of the first class to sell liquor in
the Broad Brook House in Guilford. The
license commissioners will hold a hear
ing on the application on Saturday of
next week at o'clock p. m.
The Students of Brattleboro academy
will give a play entitled "A Bachelor
Banquet" Tuesday. May %. at O'Clock
will be charged to defray expenses of
prize speaking. Home made candy will
1 be on sale.
Miss Mary Ritter Shea will give an
illustrated lecture on Japan in the Con-
gregational chapel June at o'clock
for the benefit Of St Michael's Episcopal
church. At the close of the lecture a
number OF slides win be shown Of the San
Francisco ruins.
Mrs. Ellen Boynton Sherwin, widow Of
Oscar w. Sherwin, formerly OF Brattle-
boro more recently Of NARROW, N. H.,
/ died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
/ p. +. POLAND, in Waltham, Mass. Tues
day evening after a long illness. Burial
will be in Prospect Hill cemetery. The
body will be brought here Saturday on
the o'clock train and will be taken i'm
mediately to the Prospect Hill cemetery.
where Rev. Mr.. Miles will oficiate at the
burial.
Pre-memorial day exercises win be
held by the high school Tuesday morning
at 10 O'Clock. The exercises by the grades
/ from to will be held in the high school
/ room at 2.45 o'clock. A special, invita-
ton is extended to the Grand Army vet
Grams and members Of the Woman's Re-
lief corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Field viii observe
their 5Oth wedding anniversary next
| Tuesday evening. from 1880 to 10 o'clock,
at their home at the corner OF Pearl and
| Prospect streets The observance will be
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be issued. but Mr.. and Mrs. Field will be
| glad to greet all their friends
A meeting OF the policy holders of tho
Mutual Life Insurance company of New
| York will be held in the Brooks House
at IL O'Clock Monday pursuant to a call
issued last week by DR.. Henry d. Holton
| and Dennison Cowles. Steps will be taken
toward forming n state organization for
protecting the interests of the policy
| holders.
Miss Caroline Maria Hewins, librarian
| of the Hartford public library, who will
| give the address at the Congregational
chapel Tuesday. the goth, has filed that
position since 1892. She is regarded as
| an authority in her profession, especially
is earnestly desired that all interested in
| library or educational work should at
tend
A hearing on the claim of Ward &
| Douglas OF Barre against the White
River Valley railroad was held before o.
| NJ. Barber Monday and Tuesday in the
| Office of Waterman & Martin, Mr. Barber
presiding as master under appointment
by the United States court Frank Plum
ley of Mortified was counsel for Ward
& Douglas and Judge Waterman for Sam
| uel Williams, owner Of the road, and
others
Former Brattleboro high school stu
| dents who will graduate from colleges in
June are: Carl Hollender, Amherst: Lee
! land Carlton, University of Vermont;
| Arthur Monroe and Ira Ingraham, Wes-
| leyan; Dana Gilman, Norwich university
Dana Gilman, who Is captain of cadets
at Norwich university, expects to go
West after graduation. Miss Margaret
Martin, who entered the senior class at
Dana Hall school In September will grad
uate in June. Miss Adeline Warner will
finish one years course in the Berkeley
I Street School Of Domestic Science and
Miss Ruth Adams will graduate from
Abbott academy this year.
Mrs. Deborah H. Colburn, who lived
| half way between the suspension bridge
with her son. Norman Colburn, about
and West Chesterfield. ended her life by
| hanging herself to a clothes reel early
Sunday morning. The body was seen
first by one of Mr.. Colburn's sons soon
| after rising in the morning. 1t was
taken down and DIR. E. s. Bowen OF this
village was summoned, but there was
nothing for him to do. Mrs. Colburn was
| IS years old and had trouble with Her
| eyes. She feared that she would become
blind and would be burden to the fam
| lily. She lived in the house with her SIN
and his family. but kept house in a room
by herself. She left the house without
being heard and hanged herself with a
rope. The clothes reel was located at the
| top OF an embankment SO that she was
! able to swing of and accomplish her
purpose without difficulty. The funeral
was held Tuesday
Rev. George B. Lawson visited at his
| former home in Bennington this week.