Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-03-30

CnurCn VIII serve q cnannB OlSn supper IN
Wells hall Tuesday evening, April 10.
The Murray club will hold an Easter
sale in the vestry of the Universalist
church Thursday, April ~. An egg lun-
cheon will be served,
The Junior class in sloyd manual train
ing under the direction Of II. r. Miles,
will be omitted during the public school
vacation as several of the boys are out of
town.
Dennis Rebekah lodge will hold a mas
querade ball in odd Fellows hall next
Wednesday evening. All members Of the
Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges are in
vited to bring a friend.
The first meeting OF the creditors of
Truman b. Barnes will be held in the
Office of Referee f. d. e. Stowe Satur-
day of next week, at 10 a. m, to prove
claims and appoint a trustee.
The Brattleboro Professional club will
meet in the Brooks House next Monday
evening, when Dr. G. r. Anderson will
give a paper on Appendicitis" The dis
cussion will be led by DIR. Henry Tucker.
Supper will be served at Gas o'clock.
The Vermont Wheel club will hold its
annual meeting in the club rooms next
Tuesday evening The nominating COM
mittee will present three candidates for
president, c. H. Pratt, the present in
The White River Junction Landmark
in its account of the state championship
basket ball game, said: 1.-THE sympathies
of the Junction crowd were WITH Brattle-
boro all along and everyone, except the
ST. Johnsbury contingent, was well pleas
ed with the result"
Washington dispatches announce the
granting of a patent for a parallel bench
wise to William II. Snow Of Brattleboro
Mr.. Snow, who formerly conducted a
sporting goods store in the Ray build
ing, went to New York state few months
ago to promote the interests of his in
vention.
The ladies' aid society of the Meth
odist church held their annual business
meeting in the church parlor Wednesday.
March 2S. These officers were elected:
President, Mrs. VIM; first vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Mabel Moore; second vice
president, Mrs. Adams; secretary, Mrs.
Rawson; treasurer, Mrs Thomas; direc-
tors, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Haskell, Mrs.
White and Mrs M. A. Moore.
The annual roll call Of the First Baptist
church will be held next Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, and In connection Herewith
there will be a special communion SER
vice. The annual supper and business
meeting will be held next Wednesday
evening Supper will be served at $50,
At this meeting Mrs. L. X. Fuller will
give a historical paper covering various
experiences in the life Of the church.
The annual meeting Of Wantastiquet
Golf club will be held at the Brooks House
Wednesday evening of next week The
club is in a more prosperous condition
than at any time in its history, and plans
viii undoubtedly be made for furnishing
entertainment and sport for nearly 200
members the coming season. The active
golfers hope to form a team to compete
against the teams of other well known
clubs of New England. There has been
a great revival of interest in tennis at
the club the past two seasons and the
popularity of the game is sure to be con-
tinued this year.
w. A. Gilbert, clerk Of the Incorporated
school district No. 2. has filed with the
town clerk as required by law the figures
showing the enumeration of school chill
dren in the district for 1906. The num-
Der of children between the fifth and
18th birthday anniversaries is 9S9, an in
crease Of one over last years list There
are POI between the ages of five and eight
$50 between the ages of eight and is and
235 between the ages of Is and IS. The
girls outnumber the boys by 10, there be-
ing 504 girls and ASS boys. An interesting
fact which is not essentially n part of the
record, is that three of the girls" are
married women.
The excitement recently caused in
Metuchen, N. J., by the report that Mary
Wilkins Freeman drew the characters in
her novel, THE Debtor" from living
prototypes in Metuchen seems to have been
unfounded. An investigation has brought
out the fact that the story was planned
before the author went to live in Metu-
chen. In last Saturdays issue of the Pub
fishers Weekly it is stated that Mrs
Freeman denies emphatically that she had
put her friends into her work. 1T would
be dishonorable," she said. II would
never steal the purse or the personality
Of one 1 knew. I shou-- regard either
action in the same light"
The will of Mrs Jane E. Atwater, who
died at her home on Vine street last week.
was filed with the probate court Saturday
Mrs Atwater gives all her money to
charitable and religious objects, $1,000 to
the Seventh Day Adventist orpanage in
Battle Creek, Mich, $1,000 to the Seventh
Day Adventist home for old people, the
Haskell home, in Battle Creek, $1,000 to
the American Advent Mission society, one
half to be used in China and one half in
India, $500 to the Brattleboro Home for
the Aged and Disabled and the residue
to the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Methodist church. Mrs. Atwater's funeral
was held Friday afternoon, Rev. l. N
ing. Mrs. Atwater was a member of the
Methodist church. but for the past few
years she had affiliated principally with
the Adventist church. She named F. d.
E. Stowe as executor of her will.
Robert Henry. now policeman in New
York city, who has had an adventurous
career, has written for the Saturday
Evening Post the story of his discovery of
the town of Joaquistita in the Sierra
Madre mountains of California, where he
was held in captivity 16 months by
Indians. Henry ran away from his home
in Fishkill, N Y, at the age of Is, and
after various privations became a miner
in Virginia City, Nevada. One of his
companions there was "Yank" Benson
who came from Brattlebopo. BY having
samples of ore tested, Henry, Benson and
few others found out the real value of
John w. Mackay's Crown Point mine in
which Henry worked, and by buying
stock Henry and Benson made $4,000
each and a landlady who befriended Henry
realized $4,000 on her investment Later
Henry Benson and two other companions
Sailed a mine with quicksilver and sold
1t to Senator Hearst, father of the present
proprietor of the New York Journal for
100000. Three more chapters of Henry's
experience will appear In the Saturday
Evening Post, but whether "Yank" Ben
son will continue to figure in the narra-
tive remains to be seen.
Miss ]. Adele Morgan, teacher in
grade of the Brattleboro schools. has
demonstrated that she can hit a nail on
the head and that men are not the only