Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-28

The band concert last night lost moth
ing by being postponed and the perfect
night made the attendance unusually
! large.
Brattleboro lodge. n. e. o. p. is plan
ming to spend July 4 at Harvey Holbrook' s
| farm in picnic fashion. There will be fire.
works in the evening.
A. V. Mays agency has sold for Stephen
| L. Dutton his farm in Dummerston to
Marcus Robbins and the latter has sold
the standing timber to Holden & Martin.
The funeral of ELI Clark was held Sat
urday afternoon at o'clock in the home
! Of his nephew, j. y. IIildreth, on the
! Putney road Rev. H. r. Miles OBLIGATED
! and the burial was in Locust Ridge
| cemetery. The bearers were nephews,
| Col G. H. Bond l.. Il. Bond, d. S. Bond
and J. 7. Hildreth.
The Woman's Relief corps will hold
| their memorial observance Monday, July
| /. The ladies will meet at o'clock at
| the Grand Army hall to arrange the
flowers and take the car that leaves West
| Bratteboro at $50 for the cemetery.
The round-robin tennis tournament be-
! gan this week with II entries. Play has
! been in progress all the week and will
| continue for some three weeks before the
| preliminares are played OFF On the re-
suit of the preliminary games handicaps
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able prizes to be played later in the sea-
| son.
good rat trap advertisement was seen
in Robbins & Cowles's window this morn
| ing. one of the large wire cage traps was
set in the basement of A +. Mlller's
| candy store last night and at least IL
| black rats were caught before morning.
They are so thick in the trap that no one
| could count exactly but all who tried
to count agreed that there were IL or
| more
A basket picnic will be held on July
by the Baptist churches of the east and
| west villages in Brookside park. Mr.
| Weatherhead has given permission TO
pass over his ground. Coffee and lem
onade will be furnished. There will be
game of baseball between the young
mems classes of the two Sunday schools
and many other attractions for young and
old
William II. Bryant. manager of the
Twin State Gas and Electric company.
and +. NJ. Smith, superintendent OF the
gas works. were in a runaway accident
Monday, but escaped without serious in
jury. They were driving down Maple
street when the horse became frightened
and ran. When the corner of Maple
and Canal streets was reached the wagon
overturned, pinning Mr.. Bryant under 1t
and throwing the horse Passers-by rem
dered prompt assistance and the damage
was found to be slight
The thunder shower Sunday afternoon
reduced the attendance at the outdoor
union service on the common but a fair
number were present j. T. Hall presided
and Rev. G.. B. Lawson Of the Baptist
church preached, Rev. a. H. Webb Of
the Methodist church offered prayer and
Rev. II. r. Miles of the Congregational
church read the scripture lesson. The
musical program was given by the chorus
and male quartet of the Methodist church
and members of Leitsingers orchestra.
The committee in charge announced that
hereafter the services will be held each
Sunday afternoon on the common unless
stormy, when the church bells will be
rung at AS to notify the people that
the service will be held in the Congrega-
tional or the Baptist church
The local union of Garment Workers
held a special meeting in Grand Army
hall Monday evening IN honor Of Miss
Margaret c. Daley of New York city a
member of the genera! executive board
of the United Garment Workers OF
America. Miss Daley gave a talk on the
union and union label. This was fol-
lowed by musical selections by Mrs. Amy
Ryan, Misses Hattie and Daisy Cough
and recitation by Miss Daley, which were
enjoyed by all. The latter part of the
evening Walter Church, secretary of the
Union Made Manufacturers association,
addressed the meeting and brief remarks
were made by Messrs. Proctor and Cor
ser of the Hooker, COrser & Mitchell com
pany. Refreshments were served and
very social time was enjoyed. All hope that
Miss Daley will visit the local union
again.
The class of 1855 was the first to take
up the suggestions made by Principal f.
Burr Smith in the alumni meeting Friday
night as to Offering prizes as a stimula-
ton to the pupils. In class meeting
held after the general meeting it was
voted to offer prizes of $40 and S. for eX-
cellence in some form Of public speaking,
the conditions being left to Mr.. Smiths
judgment. At least two other classes
are considering taking n similar action
and their definite action can be announ-
ced as soon as the members of the class
in town can be canvassed. The class Of
1883 reelected its officers as follows:
President, George NJ. Clay; vice president,
Mrs. C. C. Fits; secretary and treasur-
er, Miss Edith Stolte. 1t was voted to
celebrate the Goth anniversary of grad
uation next spring by having a class day
and planting an ivy at the high school
building
A decision for the defendant to recover
costs was rendered by Judge Ernest w.
Gibson in the case OF Isaac Newton of
Bellows Falls against David Meany of
Friday. The case was a somewhat COM
plicated one, suit being brought by New
ton to recover a bill of Si3.45 owed him
since 1901. Since that time Meany had
gone through bankruptcy and paid 81
cents on the dollar. Newton based his
claim on the fact that he had not re-
ceived notification of the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings at that time. BY mistake his
name had been omitted from the bank
ruptcy schedule. The testimony of wit
nesses tended to show that he was aware
of the bankruptcy proceedings though he
was not on the schedule and was not no
tilted. The plaintiff was represented by
Frank +. Barber who took an appeal to
the county court A. +. Schwenk APP
peared for the defendant.
The local branch of the New England
| Telephone and Telegraph company will
move into its new quarters in the Amer
lean building Saturday night Delays
in getting the new switchboard ready
made it impossible to make the change
last week, as expected. The operators
have been going through a school of
instruction under the guidance of D. w.
Bridgman of the Boston office Each girl
has been given about two hours a day of
practical instruction and all have mas
tered the working of the new system.
The practice with lines connected in the
exchange is rather different from the
regular business and it will be some
weeks before they will be able to give the