Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-11-01
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

The Young Peoples union OF the
Baptist church will hold its first business
meeting OF the season Tuesday evening
when report will be made on the plans
for the educational work this winter.
The teachers meetings of the Unlver-
salst church Sunday school will he dis
continued for the present owing to the
series OF lectures by Prof. Edward =.
St John OF the Hartford school of re-
ligious pedagogy.
Rally day will be celebrated in the
Cniversalist Sunday school Sunday with
a program OF songs and rectations by the
children and a talk by the pastor, Rev. d.
e Trout The exercises will be held at
the usual hour and all present and past
members of the school or any interested
In II are invited TO be present
The first meeting Of the season Of the
Brattleboro Professional club will be held
Monday evening in the Brooks House
Supper Will be served at o'clock and the
paper of the evening will be by c. Menzies
Miller on The Opening of Thibet" The
announcement OF the meeting sent out by
the executive committee calls attention
to the fact of the difficulty in keeping up
the interest in the club and suggests
that in the business meeting the cues
ton shall be considered of whether the
meetings OF the club shall be continued
and If so, on what basis. The presence
Of every professional man in Brattleboro
is desired.
Rev. George B. Lawson completed five
years as pastor Of the Baptist church
Sunday and the day was httingly cele-
brated. In his morning sermon Mr..
Lawson spoke Of the five years that he
had been with the people and of what
they had accomplished together. His
words were a stimulation to greater work
with larger results in the next five years.
In the Sunday school session he was pre-
scented with $25 in gold, the presentation
! speech being made by Carl S. Hopkins.
Superintendent L. w. Hawley also spoke
briefly and Mr.. Lawson responded fit
tingly, thanking the school for the spirit
which prompted the gift. One of the
features of the celebration was the song
with words written for the occasion by
Miss Minnie Dietrich, sung by the school
to familiar hymn. Mr.. Lawson was
| completely surprised by the demonstration
though everyone in the school knew of
the plan beforehand.
c. A Harris and F. X. Barrows, who
returned last week from their tour of In
spection of the Brattleboro Savings bank S
Western farm loans, brought a highly
favorable report of the conditions which
they found to exist Mr.. Harris, who has
made this trip annually for several years,
says he has never known the farmers of
Minnesota and North Dakota so pros
porous. Their wheat crop is not as large
as In some previous years. but the quality
is the best and the high price more than
makes up for any shortage in the yield
Interest is promptly paid and in not a
few cases the farmers state their inten-
ton to avail themselves of their option
to pay the principal in advance of final
maturity. All through that section farm
ers and business men are entirely un-
affected by financial conditions in New
York. They laugh at the troubles of the
stock spectators and glory in their in
dependence of the East.
The Mergenthaler-Horton Basket
Machine company, New Jersey corpora
ton which has gone to smash struck 4
rise from number Of Brattleboro peo-
pie few years ago with its beguiling in
ducements set forth in full-page adver-
tisements The local investors lose
amounts ranging from S25 to $500 each.
The company sold $500, 900 in stock by
popular subscription. Charles r. Barlow.
treasurer of the company, disappeared
with the accounts recently The company
was incorporated at $4,000, 000 the par
value Of the stock being 81. The stock
was started at 25 cents and when the ad-
vertising was being pushed the price OF
shares went as high as SIS. The ad-