Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-20

The annual Valley Fair dance will be
held three nights of the fair in Grange
hall.
1t is expected that reunions of Company
b. 10th Vermont regiment and Company
*, 9th Vermont regiment will be held
on the first day of the Valley Fair.
The ladies of class No. 10 of the Baptist
Sunday school will hold "a sale of baked
beans, home made bread. doughnuts and
cake at the y, NJ. c. a. rooms Saturday,
Sept. a.
\ meeting of the Sunday school teach
ers Of the Universalist church will be
held this evening at $50 o'clock in the
home of the pastor, Rev. d. Il. Trout on
High street.
The vaudeville attractions at the Val
ley Fair will include the Royal Yeddo
japanese troupe OF 10 people; Rice Broth
ers in comedy bar act; Eta Victoria
contortiOnist.
DR.. and Mrs w. J. Aldrich and son
of st. Johnsbury were in town the first
of the week. They returned home in
New Model s Ford motor car, bought Of
Manley Brothers.
Merchants and others on Main street
are requested to keep their stores or
places of business Illuminated during
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday even
ings of next week
II. II. Hackley has started an under
taking business on his own account in
Greenfield, with headquarters at Wood
locks store, where he continues to hold
his position as furniture salesman.
Miss Emma Gregg and Miss Marguerite
Tucker entertained all the teachers of
school district No. at the home Of the
former Wednesday evening Chairman
Osgood the prudential committee was
also present
movement is on foot to form the
BARRIERS of Brattleboro into a local
branch of the National BARRIERS union.
a meeting has been called for Sunday
afternoon in Eagles hall when the
project will be discussed
The members Of the Vermont Society
| Of Colonial Danes living in Brattleboro
and vicinity are invited to meet with
Mrs. Kittredge Haskins Monday evening
at o'clock to arrange for the meeting
of the state society here in October.
In the annual meeting of the mission
circle of the Universalist church yester-
day afternoon officers were elected as fol-
lows; President, Mrs. j. f. Stearns; vice
president, Mrs. J. F. Newman: secretary.
Mrs. w. c. Stone; treasurer. Mrs H. NJ.
Wood.
Watson S French of Brattleboro has
brought suit in an action OF trover
against Mrs. Viola f. Miller OF Dummers-
ton to recover yoke OF Holstein steers
three years old. The case WIN come be-
fore Judge L. w. Gibson in the munich
pal court Sept 2s.
Mrs. C. II. Smith has a striking color
effect in her show window. A velvet
background IS used as a setting for dis
playing the prevailing shades Of mllli-
merry and the principal flower OF the sea-
son, convulus. forms an effective part
! OF the decoration
Company l. V. y. G.. has completed
| arrangements for the dances which will
be held in the new armory drill hall in the
Milestone block each night OF the fair.
There will be good music and refresh
ments and the boys will welcome all their
old friends in their handsome new quar-
| tiers.
Edward Weatherhead of West Brat
| tleboro was arrested early this morning
| by Chief-of-Police J. NJ. Evans and
| brought before Acting Judge A c.
| Spencer Of the municipal court this morn
| ing on a charge of intoxication. He
pleaded guilty and was fined the Gus
| tomary IS and costs amounting to 5000,
which he paid.
In the annual meeting OF the ladies'
association OF the Congregational church
| yesterday afternoon these officers were
elected: President. Mrs. II. T. Bond: vice
| president. Mrs Harry r. Miles: secretary,
| Mrs. II. F, Jordan; treasurer. Mrs E /.
Parker; assistant treasurer, Mrs. John r
Ryder. The various committees were
elected with the following chairmen:
Hospitality, Mrs w. II. Corser; parish
Mrs. F. A. Wells; foreign missionary,
Mrs. c. F. Thompson; home missionary,
Miss Emma Gregg; missionary box. Mrs.
II. ii. Thompson; parsonage, Mrs n. !.
Hawley; flower, Mrs f. J. Waterman.
The next great sun council fire OF the
Improved Order OF Red Men of Vermont
will be klndled In the hunting grounds
at Springfield on the 26th sun. corn moon
@. S. D., Thursday, Sept. &c The fol-
lowing great chiefs have been elected for
the next great sun: Great Prophet, Fred
{. Davis, Springfield; great sachem,
Charles b. Carr, St Johnsbury; great
senior sycamore, Dewitt Davis, Chester;
great junior sycamore. George w. Pierce,
Lyndonville; great chief of records, +. L.
Parker, Brattleboro; great keeper of
wampum. William w Russell. Barre.
These chiefs-elect will be raised up at the
great sun council at Springfield next
| Thursday.
Mrs Martha Boyden Snow, Il. widow
of Charles w. Snow, died yesterday In
the home of her niece. Mrs Charles
Knight, on Oak street. She had been in
falling health some years. For the past
~ SNdlS Sllt udu spent neT summers IN
Brattleboro and her winters in Palatka
Fla. She was born in Guilford, June g.
1890 ad was the daughter of Asa Boyden
and Betsey Burnham. She was first mar
ried to Oscar Il. Austin in 1913 and in
1873 she was married to Mr.. Snow, who
died about Is years ago. She leaves one
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Todd of New York
The funeral will be held tomorrow after
noon at o'clock in the home of her niece
Rev. f. Q. S. Osgood Will officiate and the
burial will be in Prospect Hin cemetery.
Canal street returned to a normal con-
dition this week after being torn up about
month by the laying of the strip of
macadam by County Road Commissioner
David T. Perry. There is now a fine
macadam road most OF the way from the
Universalst church TO a little above the
schoolhouse. The sidewalk has been
changed from its former erratic course
to regular curve following the street
line and both street and sidewalk have
been reduced to a regular grade This
left the car tracks foot or more above
the street level for about half the dis
lance but the street railway company this
week brought them down to the general
level, completing the improved appear
ance of the street. With the exception
of short strip near the lower end the
macadam is now as hard as a floor and
sheds water like a duck.
The senior class of the high school has
bought the privilege of selling souvenir
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