Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-03-08

take POSSESSION April l. lie sue WIS
made through a. V Mays agency
The Walsh Crystalplex glass blowers
! will give an exhibition throughout the
week of April / in Grange hall under the
auspices of Fort Drummer colony of Pill
grim Fathers.
The graduating classes of Mt. Hermon
| school came to Brattleboru Monday to
| have their pictures taken for graduation
| i'm the studio of j. &. Howe. This is the
seventh year that the Mt. Hermon sem
| iors have come to Mr. Howe. The grad
! uatng class numbered II and all took
dinner at the Brooks House.
Rev. Charles Andrews of Chicopee,
Mass. will preach in the Uuiversalist
! church Sunday. Most of the favored
! candidates for the vacant passionate have
| been heard IA second time and it is prob
| able that Il special meeting of the church
will be held in the near future to call
| a pastor. The choice has narrowed down
! to two or three men.
The first in series of young peoples
| meetings was held in the Baptist church
| Sunday evening. The choir was augment
ed by several voices ana Carl Leitsinger
! played Il Cornet solo. Rev. G.. h. Lawson
spoke on "Longfellow, the apostle of
purity in recognition of the Tooth birth
day anniversary last Wednesday. Next
! Sunday evening at O'Clock there will be
Il similar service when Mr.. Lawson will
speak on George William Curtis.
+. T. Barber and A. f. Schwenk and
| Deputy Sheriff T. X. ThaNer went to Yer
non yesterday and sold property of Lowell
| Brown to satisfy an execution of 800 Sc
| cured against him by the Russia Cement
| company of Boston. \ homestead OF 81
acres was put up at auction and bid in by
| Mr.. Barber for $40 for the company. \
life interest which Mr.. Brown held in
| another lot of 20 acres was bid i'm by Mr.
| Barber foG So. \. +. Schwenk represented
| Mr. Brown.
The Brattleboro Ministerial union swill
| meet Monday morning at 10 O'Clock in
the Y. NJ. G. \. rooms. Rev. l.. ..
Shelburne of Bellows Falls will preside
and the following will be the program;
Address on Some recent Phases of the
Southern Race Problem" by Rev. Ed
ward O. Thayer of Springfield VT; paper
on "A Trip to Petra" written by the
late Rev. f. II. Mathison and read by
his brother. Rev. T. r. Mathison; paper
by Rev. r.. .. :. Osgood on Ethical
Education in our Public schools"
Hon Charles II. Darling of Burling ton
will give Il lecture in the Baptist chapel
Tuesday evening on The, Panama Canal"
Judge Darling was Roosevelt's successor
as assistant secretary of the navy and
visited Panama as the guest of the canal
commission. He is thus especially quail
lltO 10 speak on llt SUBJECT. Inc lecture
will be given at o'clock and will be pre-
coded by a half-hour organ recital There
will be an opportunity to meet Judge
Darling after the lecture. Invitations
have been sent out to several of the or
ganza lions in town ana anyone Interested
will be welcome
The board of civil authority met
Saturday afternoon to revise the check
list preparatory to the annual town meet
II. L.
list, a much smaller number than usual.
The list was further revised Monday
when the selectmen checked of names
of delinquent tax payers furnished them
by Tax Collector W. a. SUBWAY. The
number of delinquents was less than last
year and Il number of them paid up so
that they could vote in town meeting.
Some of them did not pay until town
meeting day. but as soon as their ac-
counts were squared with the town they
were allowed to vote.
Fred Marsh's horse took long dis
lance trip at record breaking speed Tues
day afternoon after spilling Miss Carrie
Marsh out on the Ames hill road. She
was driving past Copelands mill when
the horse hit its heels on the runner and
started to run. She held on until oppo-
site +. G. Taylors place when the sleigh
tipped over. Miss Marsh was not hurt.
The horse continued down through West
Brattleboro alone, down Western avenue.
left the sleigh and most of the harness
near d. S. Pratt's house and continued
into town, stopping on Main street The
horse was not even scratched but the
sleigh was badly wrecked.
Alfred A. Butler. organist of St An
drews church in Pittsburg, Pa. delighted
an audience Of about 300 in the Baptist
church Wednesday evening with an or
gan recital and musical lecture combined.
The recital program was divided into
classes and Mr. Butler prefaced each class
with a brief explanation Of the origin and
character of the numbers He took up
the modern, the classical, the descriptive
and orchestral and the popular music and
In each class gave everyone a true reali-
cation of the fitness of the different num-
bers to convey the impressions for which
they We're composed and of the spirit
which moved the composer.
Mrs. Amanda w. Stark. 20. widow of
Clark Stark, died in her home Saturday
after an illness of seven weeks with
chronic bronchitis, She was the daugh-
ter of Henry Babcock and was born in
Guilford oct %. 1880, For the past y
years she had lived in BTattleboro and
since her husbands death, seven years
ago, had lived alone i'm their home
| / Chestnut street. She leaves II grand
children. The funeral was held Monday
afternoon at o'clock in the Advent
| cnufch IN ESteNNllle. KEY. j. W. Denton
| of Vernon offiCiated and Mrs Denton
sang. The bearers We're four of the
grandsons. The burial was in the family
lot in West Brattleboro cemetery
The whist party at Masonic han Fri
day evening, given by the ladies of Bing-
ham chapter, O. T.. S, was enjoyed by
players ut p tables While the company
was assembling piano selections were
played by Mrs. A. p. Carpenter Dur
ing the intermission refreshments and
CONNECTIONS were served in the banquet
hall The men We're in the minority
numerically and several ladies played as
men. Prizes were won as follows:
ladies-first, Mrs. w. II. Perry; second
Mrs A. Il. Carpenter; consolatio Mrs
Milton Eddy; men-first, w e. Haskell;
second, tie between A. l.. Billings, L.
f. Woodland and Mrs. X. w. Sutherland
awarded on the draw to Mr. Billings
consolation, Mrs. w. e Hubbard
The funeral of Nathan Sherman Howe.
who died i'm Hamilton, Bermuda, Feb. %
was held in the Howe homestead on
Harris place last Friday afternoon
Owing to the strain under which Mrs
Howe had been several DAYS the
funeral was for the relatives and closest
friends but many of Mr. Howes old
associates in business and social life sent
beautiful floral tributes Among the
flowers We're some fresh from Bermuda
which had been sent with the body
and had retained their frooro,,oo -,