Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10


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The mission circle Of the Universalist
church will meet i'm the vestry Thurs
day, May 16, at 8 p. m
The large plate glass window to replace
the one accidentally broken in the new
American building arrived yesterday and
was put in place.
The repairs in the county clerks office
were completed this week and f.. d. Il.
Stowe moved in again after a thorough
house cleaning.
The Professional club will hold no May
meeting Clarence NJ. Miller's paper on
THE Opening of Thibet" which was on
the program for the month will be given
early next season.
The women of the Universalist church
served an excellent supper to a hungry
crowd last night in the vestry. \ regu-
lar meeting of the ladies' aid society was
held in the afternoon.
James Donohue, the brakeman whose
foot was crushed i'm the freight yard two
weeks ago. is making a good recovery
and the foot will not have to be am
putated, as was at first feared.
News has been received of the sudden
death in New York May from scarlet
fever of Morris Balfour CDidy) Waite,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William f. Waite.
Another child in the family is critically
i'll with the same disease.
The listers have lodged in the town
clerks Office an abstract of the indi-
vidual lists of the taxpayers of the town
Of Brattleboro. The listers will be in
session in their room I'm the town hall
Monday, May 90 to hear all who may be
aggrieved and to correct any errors.
\ small delegation from the odd Eel
lows in fun regalia. ana Rebekahs at
al Iltst f1,tl,., ief
church Sunday morning on invitation
from. the pastor. Rev. J. \. Mitchell
Mr.. Mitchell preached an appropriate SER
mon for the occasion and there was a
special program of music.
The board of civil authority and the
bailffs met Saturday night in Haskins &
Schwenks office to revise the check list
used i'm the village meeting Tuesday.
Village Clerk w d. Perry had several
names to be added to the list and a few
TO take off. The net increase was more
than usual
The demand for dry batteries for gaso-
line engines and automobiles has in
creased so rapidly that Horton ID. Walker
has made a contract with the National
Carbon company of Cleveland, O., for the
delivery of barrel of No. 6 Columbia
dry batteries here every two weeks. Mr..
Walker hopes to be able to keep up with
the demand.
James H. Aliens Brooks House barber
shop has been retinished and refurnished.
The walls are finished in green and white
and the ceiling in white enamel. Four
of the new high efficiency lights have
| been put in. \ new electric massage
machine has been installed and three
new hydraulic leather covered chairs are
| expected the first of the week.
The ladies' Enterprise society elected
! the following officers in the annual meet
| ing held in the home of Mrs. +. p. Hop
| kinson on Cherry street Wednesday after
| noon: President, Mrs. Z. A. Foster vice
| presidents. Mrs. F. p. Hopkinson and
! Mrs. II. H. Winchester; secretary, Mrs
| Charles Sargent; treasurer. Mrs. a. l.
| Williams trustees. Mrs Hopkinson. Mrs
| c. II. Davis and Mrs. Charles II. Evans
The DeRue Brothers Ideal Minstrels
| which will appear in the Auditorium
| Wednesday evening May 10 have en-
| gagged as a special vaudeville feature for
this season Leon Stanford, the wire
| cyclist. This young man performs SEEM
| ngly impossible feats upon the swinging
wire, introducing a large number of nov
city sensations, one of which is the act
ual riding of unicycle in mid-air on the
| swinging wire.
The SSth anniversary of the founding of
| the Independent Order of odd Fellows
| in this country was celebrated Friday
| evening by a well attended gathering in
| odd Fellows hall. The program in
cluded music by an orchestra and selec-
| tons by a quartet consisting Of Mrs. w.
e. Hubbard, Mrs. Eric Landry. Miss
Emma Gregg and Mrs. r. c. Bacon, be-
sides an excellent address by James F.
Hooker Refreshments We're served.
Walter Hearn. the celebrated English
tenor, has been engaged as principal vo-
calist with the DeRue Brothers Ideal
Minstrels. For many years he sang in all
the leading churches of England, where
his wonderful voice won for him unlim-
tied praise and merit After many in
duCements he was prevailed upon to APP
pear with DeRue Brothers for this sea-
son. The MINISTRIES will appear in the
Auditorium Wednesday evening. May 10.
Tickets will go on sale al the box office
Monday morning.
Clark Hulett was arrested Tuesday
night by Policeman j. II. Evans on a
charge of drunkenness. Hulett had been
on a spree about week and his family,
a wife and four children, were in hard
circumstances in their home in the water
cure building on Elliot street. He has
been employed by Rockwell & Sherwin
and earned good wages. In the munich
/ pal court Wednesday morning Judge e.
w. Gibson gave him some sound advice
and continued the case with the under
standing that Hulett sign the pledge and
take care of his family as he ought
Policeman Evans escorted him to Rock
well e Sherwin's and the firm gave him
his old place again. He was fined, the
costs amounting to $50.
Charles Louis Pollard of Washington
d. c., will give free lecture on The
Pasr, Present and Future of Plant Pro-
lection" in the Baptist church, May % at
O'Clock in the evening. Mr.. Pollard is
secretary and treasurer of the wildhoweT
preservation society of America, organized
five years ago to combat the rapid de-
! struction of the forests and the whole
sale gathering of wild flowers, He is
making a lecture tour of New England
and Canada with the aid of a grant from
the Stokes fund of the New York Botani-
cal garden administered i'm cooperation
with the society The lecture Will be il
Illustrated with numerous handcoored Ian
tern slides from the famous Van Brunt
collection belonging to the garden.
Caleb Willis IS, died in the Home for
the Aged Wednesday night of heart dis
ease He was a native of Marlboro and
had lived in Vernon previous to coming
to Brattleboro seven years ago to live
at the Home. He had been able to do
light work until two years ago, but old
age had recently made it impossible for
him to do much. He had been in fairly
good health until about two weeks ago
| and only a short time before that had
been on the street He was born in
Marlboro April 10, 1922 and was the son