Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-03-22

Sunshine Branch No. 1 will give its an
| uual charity whist party at the Brooks
House Thursday evening, April II.
The last meeting of the Alliance study
| class for the season will he held at tn,
! Unitarian parsonage next Monday even
| ing at $50. Subject "The Religion of
! Swedeuborg.
BY request of the seamstresses needle
women and shop girls of Bratteboro a
| special meeting will be held in Festival
| hail Tuesday evening, March %. A fun
| attendance is desired. as questions of in
terest to all will be considered.
Protective Grange will give the annual
sugar supper Tuesday, March %. from
$50 to In the evening. New sugar from
the Miller farm in Dummerston will be
served. All members are requested to
contribute to the supper as usual.
The grade schools will close today for
the regular two weeks Easter vacation.
As the high school had a weeks vaca-
ton ON account of the Washington trip
it will keep open until the latter part of
April when there will be another vaca-
ton of a week.
Trinity Methodist church Of Montpelier
has requested that Rev. \. j. Hough of
Groton be appointed its pastor the COM
ing year. Mr.. Hough formerly filled a
pastorate in the capital city. Hedding
Methodist church in Barre will ask to have
Rev. K. f. Lowe appointed its pastor for
a six year term.
The protecting boards which have Kept
the lower story of the American build
ing from view since it was started were
removed yesterday and people had their
first idea of what the completed building
will Dee like. The big show windows at
the front of the stores attract everybody's
attention. The absence of corner posts
by the doorway gives an unobstructed
view into the windows and affords full
scope for window displays.
The first meeting of the creditors Of
Guy O. Howe and Oscar f. Howe of Will
mingtou doing business under the firm
name of Guy -. Howe e Co. was held
in the county clerks office Monday. The
Iowes filed schedule in bankruptcy
March 4. The claims of the creditors
were proved and Clifford L. Mann Of
West Dover was appointed trustee
Walter s Brown. Il. O. Jones and j. H.
kidder Of Wilmington were appointed APP
praisors.
The first real new maple sugar made
its appearance i'm the Bratteboro stores
Monday morning. The sap began to run
last week Friday ana kept it up well
Saturday and Sunday so that n consider
able amount Of syrup and sugar was made
and brought in The cold weather Of the
first of the week put a damper on the
sap run and almost none has been made
since. Even yesterday was a bit too cold
for the sap to run we'll This makes the
beginning of the sugar season more than
a week later than last year but the wise
old sugar makers say that March 20 is
plenty early enough to begin a big sugar
season
The body of John King. a Somerset
lumberman who died in Wilmington Mon
day, was brought to Brattleboro Wednes-
day afternoon and taken to Bonds under
taking rooms. The funeral was held in
the Roman Catholic church yesterday
morning at o'clock and the burial was
in the Catholic cemetery. The bearers
were Daniel Cavanaugh, John Connors
William Shaffner and Joseph King of
Rochester, brother who came down to
take charge of the body. John King was
80 years old and had been i'll with pneu-
monia in the Somerset lumber camp
He was brought to Wilmington about a
week ago and had been cared for in the
home of II. f. Hotchkiss, where he died
Monday
Mrs. Ellen E. (KendalD Brooks. 70. wife
of Edwin f. Brooks, ticket agent at the
union railroad station in Gardner. Mass
died at her home 4S3 Chestnut street.
Gardner, Wednesday morning after an
Illness of four weeks with cancer of the
bowels. Mrs. Brooks was a native of
Westminster. Mass. Her home was in
Brattleboro 40 years, her husband being
station agent here during that long Pc
riod. Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks had lived I'm
Gardner the past five years. She leaves
besides her husband a daughter, Miss
Emma F, Brooks of this town, who was
with her mother during her last Illness
and two sisters, Mrs. Lucy I.ynde and
Mrs. Lydia Harrington, both of West
minister The funeral will be held today
in the Universalist church in Westmins-
ter and the burial will be in the family
lot in that town
The home of Elton BaTows on the Put
ney road was burned to the ground
Wednesday morning about O'Clock,
and he. his wife and four chill
dren lost nearly all their possessions be-
side having a narrow escape from being
caught in the flames. The home had been
finished off in one end of an old tobacco
barn on the Waite farm operated by
George Thomas. An engine had been saw
ing wood there the day before and it was
thought that a spark from 1t might have
been blown to the tobacco barn sometime
during the night as it stood close beside
II and the wind was blowing a gale The
barn was old and dry and In five minutes
was on fire from end to end. The family
escaped but only very small mart
before the flames spread into the end oc-
cupied by them The loss was set be-
tween $500 and $1,000, none of it covered
by insurance.
Lorenzo D. Elmer, 70, died early We'd
nesday morning in Millers Falls after a
long and painful Illness. He was a ma
tive of Vernon and in his early manhood
had charge of a section of the railroad in
Brattleboro. Later he was transferred to
a similar position in Templeton, Mass.
seventeen years ago, on account of i'll
health, he was obliged to give up his rail-
road work, and he then went to Millers
Falls where he ran a newsstand until the
hre of 1885 Increasing infirmity then
compelled him to give up work lie sus-
tanned shock seven years ago and since
then had been a great sufferer. He
served in the Sixth Vermont regiment
and was wounded on the day of Sheri-
dams famous ride He is survived by his
wife and four children, Mrs c. L. Cook
and Frank r. Elmer of Millers Falls.
Mrs. Fred Rowland of Portland, Me- and
George d. Elmer of Boston. The funeral
was held in Milers Falls today. The
body will be brought to Brattleboro for
burial.
The class day appointments of the SEN
Tor class of the high school were an