Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1908-07-03
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The officers and teachers of the Baptist
Bible school will be installed next Sunday
morning.
A picked team of baseball players will
go to Spofford lake tomorrow to cross
bats with Pine Grove Springs
Barrows g. Co.'s coal office will be
closed Tuesday and Thursday evenings
during July and August.
The barber shops will keep open until
II tonight, but will be closed all day Sat
urday.
Mrs F. P. Hopkinson froze ice cream
with hail stones after the storm yester-
day afternoon.
The local members of the Vermont
society of Colonial Danes are invited to
attend business meeting at the residence
of Mrs. Kittredge Haskins Thursday,
July 9, at o'clock.
The management of the picnic of the
Methodist church. which will be held to-
morrow at Central park, Vernon, has Sc
cured a special rate on the trains. The
picnickers will go down on any train
which suits them in the morning.
c. j. Glidden, who made a balloon as
cent in the darkness before o'clock at
North Adams yesterday, landed at AIS
on the Putney farm in Wilmington. The
qualify as a pilot.
A party of boys have been camping at
Mortified this week under the charge of
George s. Perry and Rev. d. E. Trout.
The boys who spent the entire week there
are Homer Ellis, Dwight Wilson, Lau-
renee Thayer, Walter Wiggin, Harold
Newell and Thomas Hall. Murray Ham
ilton Joined them yesterday and all Will
remain over Sunday.
Rev. DR.. F. K. Sanders of Boston, Sec
rotary of the Congregational Sunday
school and Publication society, was I'M
able to come, on account of sudden
illness, to Brattleboro Sunday to
preach in the Centre Congregational
church and his place was taken by Prof.
L. B. Patton of the Hartford Theological
seminary, who is at his summer home on
Ames hill.
The Epworth league held a pleasant
lawn party Wednesday evening at the
home of Mrs. w. w. Plimpton on Canal
street. The lawn was gay with Japanese
lanterns and the ice cream found a ready
sale owing to the sultryness of the night
and the large number present. There was
music at intervals throughout the evening
and the young people enjoyed themselves
with games.
Miss Katherine S. Slate, "a, of Ber-
nardston, sister of Mrs Nj. E. kirkland
of this town, died in Montague Wednesday
at the home of another sister, Mrs Clamp.
Miss Slate had been i'll only short time
and went to her sisters home only re-
Gently. She was born in Bernardston and
had spent the whole of her long life there.
The funeral will be held there this after
noon at o'clock. Mrs. Kirkland went
to Bernardston this morning.
The Brattleboro delegation in the dis
trict convention at st. Johnsbury included
G. c. Fits, w. H. Bracket, E. W. Glib
son, James F. Hooker, A. F. Schwenk, R
9. Bacon, H. c. Rice, w. E. Hubbard
Harold e. Whitney. W. H Vinton, F. E
Barber. Col. H. E. Taylor ]. G. Taylor
+. b. Putnam and S. A. Daniels attended
the convention. The state delegation was
the same as the district except s. A
Daniels in place of w. H. Bracket. H
H. Taylor and ]. G. Taylor were specta-
tors at the state convention.
Brattleboro chapter, D. A. R., will hav,
a basket picnic at the home of Mrs
Blanche Goodnow Pratt, Newfane, Tues
day. Mrs. Pratt would like to know how
many to expect and all who intend to e
are requested to notify Mrs. F. H. Hol
den, the corresponding secretary, by to
morrow noon. Those desiring transporta
ton should leave their names with Mrs
Holden also Teams will leave tn,
Brooks House corner at o'clock. Thu
feature of the meeting will be the reading
or paper on "Old Deerfield' by Mrs
Aldrich of Somerville.
The cases of two Cinnamon who cam
into the state from Canada early in tn
spring were considered in a session of tn,
United States district court before Judg
j. L. Martin Friday. The first case Gale,
was that of Bark Coon who came acros
the border in April He had been re
leased under bail of $500 furnished b,
Rufus E. Brown of Burlington. Neithe
the Cinnamon nor his surety put in al
appearance and the bail was declares
forfeited by Judge Martin. Suey Lung
who crossed the border with Bark Gool
and had since been in jail, offered n
testimony in his own behalf and Judg
Martin ordered that he be deported. Al
order Of deportation in the case of Bar
Coon was also made, but as his where
abouts are not now known 1t is uncertain
how the order will be carried out
The will of Miss Sylvina Withheld o
Vernon, which was recently filed in tn
probate court, is an unusual document 4
many respects. 1t was drawn up by Mis-
Whithed personally and is about fiv
times the length OF the ordinary will
The convictions which Miss Whithe
entertained about the manner in whic
the Withheld cemetery had been conducte
IN the past few years are reflected in tn
will in a passage which openly charge
jury anu lISSpdSS On lue part OF SUN
bof her townspeOple. The basis on whic
these charges rest was a claim which Mis-
Withheld and others made that a monu
ment erected on one lot in the cemeter
was placed so that 1t INSTRUCTED the pass
way to some extent. AS a remedy 70
the conditions which she claimed existe
IN the cemetery Miss Withheld bequeathe
all her real estate in Vernon to the tow
under the condition that the town sha
call special town meeting and vote
keep the cemetery In good repair. What
ever money is left from the beques
after this is done is to be used for tn
support of the town poor In case tn
town does not accept the legacy unde
these conditions the will provides the
1t is to-be offered to some other town. /
order that the bequest may be of a ceI
tain value the will provides that enoug
securities belonging to the estate sha
be sold to remove any membranes o
the real estate The property, exclusiy
of the real estate, is left In charge Of
sister for the beneht OF the brothers an
sisters. hta
nrec rrAv,rrr. $500. $1,000 J..