Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-10-04
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

Mrs. G. II. Smith announces her fall
opening of millinery for Saturday and
Monday
Col j. G.. Estey and family made a trip
by automobile to the state fair in White
River Junction Wednesday.
castor bean plant of gigantic pro-
portions, owned by Miss Helen Chandler.
i'm w. Il. Banl<s's garden on Green street.
has leaves which measure exactly one
yard in width.
In the second day session of the YER
mont federation of Woman's clubs in
Windsor yesterday it was decided to
Lold the next annual meeting in Brattle-
boro i'm october, 1908.
Harry Edwin Ingram, IS, son of Mrs
". W. Sharp died in his home in North
field, this state, this morning of bron-
chal pneumonia. The body will be
brought here for burial Monday.
William Sexton was arrested last night
by by Chief of Police j. II. Evans. He
pleaded guilty to charge of intoXica-
ton before Justice E. ]. Waterman this
morning and paid the fire of IS and
costs amounting to 5000.
]. II. Burke has sold to John II. Allen
the restaurant which he bought recently
in Hinsdale in exchange for the City
lunch rooms in the Judge building in
Bratteboro. The City lunch rooms will
be closed Monday for several days to
make much needed repairs.
Mrs. Caroline Fuller Sherman. who died
at the home of Oscar Lawton, Linden
street Sept 81 was half sister to Joshua
j. and Parker Fuller and Mrs Gracia
Fuller Carpenter of Putney, and aunt to
Mrs. Flora B. Ellis, Mrs. Carrie B. Allen,
Frank A. and Homer II. Buxton of Brat
tleboro.
Elisha B. Worrel OF Boston will give a
free lecture on life insurance in the Au-
ditorium Thursday evening at 745
o'clock His subject will be "The Ethics
of Profits of Life Insurance" He is an
enthusiast in his subject and his address
will be well worth hearing Admission
will be BY ticket only but the tickets can
be secured free of charge at the box
office Monday.
The senior class of the high school
reaped a rich return from their effort to
raise money by the sale of post cards
and souvenir booklets at the Valley Fair
The returns were not all in this week and
all bills had not been paid but it was
known that the net results were more than
satisfactory. During the three days of
the fair about $3.50 was taken in. The
members of the class still have a small
number of postal cards and booklets for
sale. The most popular card was that
showing Town Clerk William S. Newton
and his cat. 1t was necessary to order
an extra supply Of these to meet the I'M
expected demand.
Trouble descended on the clerks in the
post office Tuesday when the order Of the
post Office department that all outgoing
mail should be weighed by classes and a
record of it kept by states went into
eHect. The order that all mail should be
weighed for six months beginning July
l was bad enough but this order re-
quirng the mail for different states to
be kept separate resulted in no end of
trouble The mail will be weighed in this
manner a month. Only a few offices in
the country have been given this order
and Postmaster II. f Taylor does not
know what the post Office department is
trying to accomplish He supposes that
ii has something to do with the collec-
ton Of data relative to the cost of trans
porting mails of various classes. An ex-
ira clerk has been hired to help with
the weighing.