Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-05-05
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

The New England auxiliary will meet
with Mrs. NJ. ]. Larrabee on Clark street
May - at 29O.
Every morning during May mass will
be celebrated at S o'clock in st. Mi
chaels Roman Catholic church.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Garment Workers union was held Tues
day evening in Union hall. Two were
initiated.
Frank Larrow sold this week bay
horse to George Whitney, a bay pair to
G.. II. Davis, a pair of gray geldings to
Henry Brown, and several to parties out
of town.
The directors of the Fort Dummer Mills
have issued a call for a 2O-percent pay
ment of the capital stock before Monday,
May Is. one instalment of 10 percent has
been paid in by the stockholders.
In a special meeting of Connecticut
Valley council, r. & S. NJ, last evening
+. c. Adams was chosen captain of the
guard in place of Norman A. Howe, who
went this week to Northfeld, this state.
Antonio de Fretti, an Italian employed
on the ledge near the railroad station,
while lifting a heavy stone Monday morn
ing lost his grip on it aud when it Slip
ped ii crushed a finger on his left hand.
He was taken to a surgeon. who dressed
the wound. While thus disabled he is
employed by the company as water car
rier
J. F. Allen & Son have bought the
store formerly owned by H. 5. Goode-
nough and recently sold by him to F. e.
Buffum & Son of South Vernon. Mr..
Allen, who was in the Buffum store
in South Vernon, is acting as man
ager here until his father arrives which
will be in about a month. The new firm
will continue to carry on cash business.
NJ. G. Chace and Henry l. Hartman.
who provided a large part of the funds
for building the Connecticut river dam,
expect to develop water power on the
Deerfield river at Shelburne Falls the
present year, it is understood. The plan
includes the building of two concrete
dams and two power stations, one of the
dams to replace the present wooden dam
at the cutlery shops. To convey water
from the second dam to the power sta
tion, which will be erected near Bowens
grove, a mile above the village on the
Buckland side, it will be necessary to
tunnel through Gragg hill, from half to
three quarters of a mile At least one
new shop is assured for Shelburne Falls
The last issue of the Bradford Opinion
commented approvingly upon Brattle
boro's plan to raise $50 600 for a boys
said "Brattleborc has taken up the
matter of making a better Brattleboro'
in earnest, and it is certainly true that
no mistake is being made in investing
$4,000 in a building for boys. Nothing
will make any town permanently better
more surely than looking after the inter-
ests of the boys and girls. We are
thinking more of this phase of life than
we did before the kindergarten idea
became popular. The time to make good
men is in the morning of life and this
building dedicated to boys will yet make
Brattleboro proud of its men,"
William II. Mansfield 54, a travelling
salesman we'll known among New Eng
land dry goods men, died in the Me-
mortal hospital last evening of organic
heart disease and chronic bronchitis. He
came to the Brooks House last week and
became i'll Thursday. On Saturday he
was taken to the hospital, but he ap-
peared to be gaining until yesterday af-
ternoon, when he became worse and fail
ed rapidly until the end. He leaves a
wife and a daughter about "a years old.
Mr.. Mansfield represented Farley, Har-
vey 4 Co. of Boston and had been com
ing to Brattleboro about 25 years, He
| possessed a pleasing personality, was a
thoroughly competent salesman and had
many personal friends in the dry goods
trade. The body was taken to his home
IN newton Highlands, Mass, today, ac-
companied by Major c. Houghton.
Mrs. Mary Newman Bryant r. widow
of William Cullen Bryant of Greenfield,
died Tuesday in the home OF her daugh-
ter, Mrs. II. r. Beals, in Keene, after an
illness of about a week with apopleXy,
The funeral will be held in Keene today
and the body will be brought to this
town for burial tomorrow. Rev. F.. Q. S.
Osgood will officiate at the committal
service in Prospect Hill cemetery at 11.30.
Mrs. Bryant was one OF the eight chill
dren Of George and Lydia Gee) Newman
OF Brattleboro, A large part of her mar
ried life was spent In Greenfield, where her
husband, William c. Bryant, was a we'll
known tailor. He died in Keene IS years
ago. Mrs. Bryant had lived in Keene
the past 20 years and was active In the
affairs OF the Unitarian church. She
leaves two daughters, Mrs. Beals OF
Keene and Mrs. S. II. Rice OF Waltham,
Mass, and two sisters. Mrs ]. H. Wig
gin and Mrs. II. A. Deane, the latter OF
East Windsor Hills, Conn. Mrs. Bryant
was a sister of Mrs. G. II. Ryder, who
died in this town in March. 1910.