Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-03

Office.
The supper which was to have been
served in the Universallst church last
night was postponed until next Thurs
day evening.
Tickets are now on sale for "Pecks
Bad Boy, which will be seen Saturday
in the Auditorium, at matinee at 23O
and evening performance at s.
There will be mass each morning at 73O
in st. Michael's Roman Catholic church
during the month of May, followed by
May devouons. There will also be May
devotons every Thursday evening at I3O.
The last mothers meeting of the sea-
son will be held in the Congregational
chapel Wednesday afternoon at $3.50. 1t
will be a question box meeting, at which
questions concerning the life of school
children will be discussed.
The women of the Centre Congrega-
tional church will hold the last home
missionary meeting of the season in the
chapel Thursday. May 9, Mt $50 p. m.
A business meeting, with reports of the
May festival will follow.
Mrs. George f. Barber will entertain
Brattleboro chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, in her home Thurs
day afternoon, May g. at o'clock. Mem
bers please notice the change of date.
A report of the Continental Congress will
be given by Miss Clark and Mrs. c. B.
Crowell will give her paper upon Cali
foruia's Catastrophe
The bailins and the board of civil au
thority will meet in the Office of Has
kins and Schwenk tomorrow night at
7.30 O'Clock to make needed corrections
and additions to the check list to be used
in the annual village meeting Tuesday.
Anyone who believes his name to have
been wrougfully omitted from the list
should present his case at that time.
The Powers brothers. fancy roller
skaters did not meet with as enthusiastic
a welcome in Brattleboro as expected and
their appearance in the CentTeVille rink
was limited to two nights. The opening
night there was n fair attendance and
they did some clever work which drew
forth great applause. The second eX-
hibition was slimly attended and 1t was
decided not to give another.
The two Post Books of Brattleboro,"
which \. e. Atwood has just issued are
the most attractive developments which
we have seen of the post card craze.
Each book has l. pages of post card size,
and with the combinations effected almost
double the number of views of Brattle-
boro buildings and scenery are given.
They are arranged SO that message may
be written on the inside of the front
with two cent stamp.
Bert Todd colored, and Willard c.
Beede of Guilford We're arrested on a
charge of breach of the peace Wednesday
and fined in a session of the municipal
court held in Guilford by Judge Gibson.
They had had a row over some small
matter and came 10 blows. Beede was
fined So and costs amounting to 5000 In
all and Todd was fined So and costs
70 q wa -
auired to recognize in 5000 bonds to keep
the peace for one year.
The May meeting of the woman's aux
iliary of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be held in
the association rooms Tuesday after
noon at o'clock After the usual de-
votonal and business meeting talk
will be given by one of the members
upon places of Interest in Seeing Bos-
ton" This will be the last meeting until
October and it is hoped that large num-
Der will be in attendance. The meeting
| of the executive board will be held at 2.l5
| prior to the regular meeting. All mem
| bers of the board are requested to be
| present, as there are several matters OF
Importance to be considered.
The Young Peoples union closed its
! season with business meeting in the
! Baptist chapel Tuesday evening in which
| reports of the years work were given and
! son has been a very prosperous one.
| Since the union was organized 10 months
ago a number of classes have been con-
| Quoted and many good speakers have been
! brought here for free lectures The union
| has supported all these enterprises
! giving but two money making af-
| fairs and is enabled to close the year
practically free from debt There are now
116 members, a slight increase over last
! year. Committees were appointed for
| the strawberry supper to be served in the
! chapel May II.
DR.. f. p. st. John of the Hartford
school of religious pedagogy spoke to two
| good-sized and earnest audiences Sunday
! in the Congregational chapel. In the az
| ternoon he spoke on The children we
| teach and the children who teach us, -
dealing with the psychology of the child
at various periods of his growth. In the
evening he dealt principally with the
| control by suggestive direction of the
| mind of boys and girls from u to 16 years
of age, which he said was the most diff
| cult and dangerous time for parents and
teachers to guide them. Both addresses
We're as much for parents as for Sunday
school teachers, although he came here
as a practical Sunday school worker.
| The evening service was union meeting
and many from other churches were
| present.
The last of a series of Monday evening
meetings for men was held i'm the home OF
| Rev. G. b. Lawson, pastor of the Baptist
! church, this week with about 40 men of
! the church in attendance. These infor-
NAL gatherings with opportunity for full
and free discussion of affairs in the
| church and outside have been full of in
! terest this season and the attendance has
| been excellent. There has never been any
| definite organization of the men of the
church and the possibility of forming one
was discussed. Those present told what
! they knew of mems clubs in other church.
es and a committee consisting of II. f. c.
Toedt, w. b. Smith and Mr.. Brooks was
! appointed to look up the subject and re-
| port at a later meeting. There is d.
| versity of opinion as to whether the men
or the church would be any better off with
! a definite organization. The informal
meetings seem to serve the purpose well.
Col. Charles S. Forbes of st. Adams,
secretary of the Vermont commission for
| the Jamestown tercentennial exposition,
was in town yesterday making arrange
ments for the exhibits from Brattle-
boro which will be placed in the state
building at the exposition. A large pic
ture of the Estey organ works, has al
ready been sent with a piano and an or
gan from the works. Yesterday he made
arrangements to have a large colored
panoramic view of BrattlebOro forward
ed by the board of trade and for num-
Der of photographs of cattle and horses
collected by George w. Pierce. One of
the most satisfactory exhibits which he
sapurad here was the large frame of