Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16

The state Epworth League owen
ton will be held in Montpelier We'd
nesday and Thursday, June % and 20.
The Mobiles of Mt. Sinai Temple,
Mystic Shrine, will make a pilgrimage
to White River Junction Thursday,
May %.
Four nurses in the Boston city hos
pital have volunteered to go to Mar
Unique. One of the number Is Perley
Il. Holmes.
A. V. May has sold for Mrs. Abel ID.
Brown of Quincy, Mass, formerly Mrs.
Rhoda NJ. Durham, her house and
seven acres of land in Putney to Mrs.
Frances II. Ware of that town.
AS a result of P. w. Clements visit
to Brattleboro a Clement club is being
formed here for the purpose of sup
porting the candidate for high license
and local option in the Republican eau
Gus.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage next Tuesday night in Green
field. Mass. of Ezra G.. Wilcox and
Miss Sadie Wright. Mr.. Wilcox man
ages the Greenfield store of his father,
s.. Wilcox, of Brattleboro.
A general invitation has been eX-
tended to members of the Vermont
Wheel club to attend a birthday an
%niversary celebration which Fred c..
Gale will give at his home in North
Hinsdale tomorrow evening.
X. L. Haskins. who went from Brat
tleboro to Greenfield, where he has
been running the Greenfield Lumber
company several years. has sold that
business to f. w. Durham of Green
field, e. E. Todd and E. w. Todd Of
Charlemont.
The work of repairing the tile drain
on the hill from Canal street to the
Elm street bridge was completed by
Road Commissioner Games Wednes-
day night. A section of tile about
20 feet long was smashed in the re-
cen washout.
H.. F. C. 'Todt has in the col
lection of curios which he gathered in
his trip around the world as paymas-
ter's clerk in the United States navy,
a piece of tile which he took II years
ago from the room in which the En-
press Josephine was born in a small
house in st. Pierre, Martinique
The annual encampment of the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows will be
held next week in Ludlow, when it is
expected that every canton in the state
will be represented. Among those
who will go from Brattleboro are w. T.
Haigh, f. f. Perry, A. w. Roel, w. f,
Goddard, John Retting and Leopold
Retting.
The regular meeting of the Daught
ers of the American Revolution will
be held Tuesday evening. May 90, al
$50 at the Brooks House. A paper
by Mrs. Abbie E. Fuller on Eighteenth
Century Industries will be read
also, n on Eighteenth Century Man
ners and Customs by Mrs. George F
Barber.
About $50 boys responded to E. ]
Fenton & Co.'S announcement last
week, and were on hand when the
projectiles were fired from the tops
All of the attachments of the airships
t were recovered, although some o
them landed on the roofs of the build
= ings after being thrown 100 to 200
5 feet in the air.
; The temperature fell to 80 degree!
above zero Saturday morning, but
high wind prevailed throughout tn,
: night, and the damage to fruit trees
Z and to early vegetables was slight
5 Snow fell Friday in several towns il
the county, and in the northern par
| of the state a depth of from two t
l four inches was reported.
{ After May 20 the Brattleboro Stree
l Railway company will issue but on,
style of ticket in addition to the regu
: lar round trip ticket. Heretofore Their,
: have been four other kinds of tickets
e some of which have had certain limita
D lions. To simplify these one tickle
|. will be issued which will be good 70
4 all people at all times, in books o
}, "a, which will sell for 81. Other tick
: cts already issued will be good unit
n used.
y Miss Maud Essex's horse ran ava,
Il Tuesday afternoon, damaging the ira
+ considerably, but beyond that no sc
; rious harm was done. The team wa
u descending the hill leading from tn
t golf grounds, the occupants of the ira.
being Miss Essex, Miss Emily Tones
d Miss Edna Burnett of Putney an,
= Lawyer James F.. Hooker. 1t |
g thought the crossbar came in contac
S with the horse, which caused the an
t ma to kick until it had overturned tn
g trap and gotten free. The horse IA,
1 IuIOuSH the ItelIedJ WOOuS, past III
S Marsh building to the Retreat garden
o where it stopped.
u The next contest in the local leagu
:, series will come Saturday between tn
!, Y. NJ. C.. A. and the Catholic Unior
. The full schedule of all the games i
, given below. The island has bee
= assigned for use in practice a
:, follows: Monday night, Y. NJ. c. A.
Tuesday, Durham Brothers; Wednel
day, Catholic Union; Thursday, We
S mont Wheel Club; Friday, to tn
L team to play on the following Sa'
l. urdar. If any club fails to appear o
:. a day when it has a game scheduled,
t fine of so will be imposed. If an
s. club drops out without PLAYING its 81
n ries of games, it will lose all it's shar
l. in receipts, and the averages of all it
PLAYERS will be dropped. A secon
S diamond is being built for practice
II and estimates are being prepared fo
{ a grand stand which will probably b
II built within two or three weeks.
Manager Fox will bring the entel
Il tainment season at the Auditorium t
L a fitting close Thursday, May 29, wit
the finest production in the musics
comedy line ever seen here. The a
traction will be Frank Daniels and hi
&c company in Miss Simplicity" Thi
will be the last performance here unit
rs next September. This will be ideI