Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-31


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The ladies' circle of the Universalst
church viii hold a monthly meeting Tues
day afternoon in the church parlors. The
annual strawberry supper will be served
in the evening.
The women of the Baptist church will
hold their first food sale of the season in
the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms tomorrow after
noon at 2.30 o'clock These sales will
probably be held every other Saturday
through the summer
The first union open-air meeting Of the
season will be held on the common Sun
day afternoon at 8 o'clock The choir
of the Congregations church will sing,
and will be aided I'm the hymns by a
chorus of Sunday school children. T.. c.
Crosby will preside and the address will
be by the Rev. II. +. Peabody of Hart
ford Conn. In case of rain the meeting
will be in the Congregational church.
The smallpox situation in West Berlin
has SO far improved that Or. II. u. IIol-
ton, secretary of the state board OF
health has raised the quarantine on
trains going into the town. This order
goes into effect today. All trains have
been quarantined since the outbreak
four weeks ago DR.. Holton says that
the conditions in West Berlin are very
satisfactory now and all danger of fur
ther spread of the disease is past
An old boiler from Holden & Martins
shop delayed traffic on the railroad We'd
nesday noon an hour and a half. 1t was
being drawn to the station on a truck
and when the rear wheels struck the
rails the shock was great enough to
break the timbers supporting the boiler
and dropped to the ground. In spite of
help from motley gathering which as
sembled much time was consumed be-
fore the boiler was loaded again.
Tile is being laid on Flat street from a
point near Leslie Smiths factory to
Milestone brook to carry off the surface
water The sidewalk will be raised. The
road had been filed I'm from year to year
until the sidewalk was lower than the
road. The surface water ran upon the
sidewalk and 1t was either impossible or
covered with ice during the winter
months. A petition was presented to the
selectmen a short time ago asking that
sewer be laid to carry off the surface
water.
DR.. II. u. Holton left for Washington
Tuesday afternoon to attend the annual
conference between the surgeon general
Of the department of public health and
marine hospital service and the officers
of the state boards of health These con-
ferences are required by the law and
cover three or four days. DR.. Hoton will
return to Atlantic city Saturday to at
tend the convention Of the Academy of
Medicine and Of the Medical Editors as
ISOLATION and possibly will stay for the
convention Of the American Medical as
ISOLATION. He expects to return Wednes-
day.
Jerome Hall who escaped from the
Brattleboro Retreat about two weeks
ago, returned Saturday night of his own
accord and gave himself up without re-
sistance. He was first seen on the edge
of the woods near the Retreat and men
from the institution went to him and as
companied him to his old quarters He
seemed none the worse for his trip His
safe return justified the belief of the
officials that he would come back. Sew
eral times before he has left the insu-
tuition and always come back Of his own
accord. and in each case the search for
him was fruitless.
The degree stan of Pocahontas coun-
ell under Degree Master II. T. Harris
went to Bellows Falls Monday night to
institute new council OF 40 mem
bers there. Including the visitors the
party from Brattleboro numbered 2S
and many visitors were presenc from
councils in Springfield. Claremont and
other places. The party left on the
9."o train and had supper at the
hotel on arrival. After the new
council was instituted n banquet was
served in the hall by the new organiza-
ton. Mrs. Hattie Lord. past Pocahontas
or the local council. was elected deputy
of the new council. The delegation re-
turned on the "owl' train
The annual meeting Of the trustees Of
the Home for the Aged and Disabled was
heId Tuesday morning. The reports Of the
officers and committees showed the home
to be in satisfactory condition and few
changes will be made in the management
the coming year. officers were electd as
follows: President, Dr. II. D. Holton: vice
president, Judge J. NJ Tyler: secretary
and treasurer, George c. Averill: au-
dltors, II. F.. Weatherhead and F. w
Childs; executive committee. DR.. Holton.
Judge Tyler and George f. Crowen:
finance committee. Mr.. Averil, Judge f.
l.. waterman and o. NJ. Lawton; admis-
sion committee, Mr.. Weatherhead Mr.
Childs and L. c. Crosby
Reports from the peach growers in
nearby towns indicate that not q peach
Will be harvested in Windham county.
probably none in the state lie peach
trees should have blossomed several
weeks ago If they were going to at all
but in several large orchards no bios
SONS appeared. The excessive cold of the
latter part of the winter was responsible
for the failure to bud and blossom. ac-
cording to the growers. Some years thew
get through the winter all right but
late frost kills the buds after they have
started to grow. This year they did not
even start. The same causes and the
late frosts throughout New England and
the Atlantic states are thought to have
spoiled all chance of even an average
crop in the East and peaches will prob
ably be high and scarce this summer
There will be none shipped here except
from considerable distance
Stllman Clark, &c. died early Sunday
morning in his home on Frost street
after an illness of several years He had
been a resident of Brattleboro more than
80 years and had lived on Frost street
nearly that length of time Until 1895
he had worked In the Estey shops but
railing health then compelled him to give
up active work. He was born in New
Salem, Mass, Feb. g. 1881, son of Ansel
and Lucretia (Holden) Clark. His pa
rents moved to Orange Mass, when he
was a child. When a young man he
learned the tanners trade and worked
at 1t in New York city Winchester. N
H., and came to Brattleboro in 1873.
He married Miss Maria Howard of
Orange March "A 1867. She survives
MIN with two sisters, Mrs. Royal Stimp-
son OF Royalston, Mass, and Mrs I.ucre-
tia Brown of Montague, Mass. The
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at
O'Clock. Rev. E. c. s. Osgood of the
Unitarian church OBLIGATED and the burial
was in Orange.
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