Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-04-03
RMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY. APRIL 3, 1908.

Howe has taken a large group pic.
ture of the Catholic Union basket ball
team.
d. McGillivray %advertises this week
a lot of very fine lilies and other flow
ers for Easter.
The hose cart which has been kept
in A. X. Harris's barn on Prospect
Hill has been replaced this week with
one of more modern type.
Members of the Brattleboro Private
school, with their friends. had a jolly
April Fool Party at Miss Parks
home Wednesday evening.
The meeting of the Alliance Study
class will be held at the parsonage on
Monday evening at 1880 o'clock. The
subject will be "St. Francis and the
loving spirit"
y regular meeting of the Audubon
society will be held mex Monday even
ing at 1880 o'clock with Mrs. Arthur
Wyatt. Mrs. Jennie b. Powers will
give the paper of the evening.
Brattleboro lodge. New England Or.
der of Protection, will serve a supper
in Red Mems hall Wednesday even
ing, April s, at 6 o'clock. There will
be a dance from s to - o'clock.
A consignment of $4,000 brook trout
fry was received Tuesday from the
government hatchery at Washington
for distribution in brooks and private
ponds in Brattleboro and vicinity.
William F.. Spring, who has been
employed in the Brooks House barber
shop the past year, will open a barber
shop in the Milestone building, adj
joining the City Market. next Mon
day.
Mae Richards Durgin, divorced wife
of F. r. Durgin. formerly a Brattle-
borO druggist, was married March %.
in Union City. Mich. to Col. William
Manning Hatch of that city. They
will be at home in Union City after
May |.
Luther Herman Toof and Mrs. Mabel
Adeline Huntley of Keene were mar
ried at the Unitarian parsonage in that
city Saturday by Rev. Charles B. FL
der. Mrs. Toof formerly lived in Brat
tleboro. Mr.. and Mrs. Toof came to
Brattleboro for a visit.
ht illSllIl TdlllcIS Will give Llt
last of their series of arc socials
next Tuesday evening. The Misses
Tuthill and Simonds will entertain
the company with several instrument
tai selections. and refreshments will
be served. Members and friends are
invited.
\ freight car on an extra train on
the narrow gauge railroad jumped the
track at Cobb brook bridge near ia
maica Wednesday afternoon. The
evening passenger train from Brattle-
boro was held at Jamaica until
about l o'clock yesterday morning
while the track was being cleared.
w. G. Doolittle. who has sawed out
several hundred thousand feet OF lum-
Der at the mill in Vernon. taking the
timber from lots bought of the Wealth
erhead estate and Henry Lee of Mon
tana, has this week bought an adjoin-
ing wood lot from Lewis Fairman.
His force of lumbermen will continue
work in Vernon until MAY /.
The last in the series of mothers
meetings in the Congregational church
was held Wednesday afternoon. when
Mrs. John l.. Knowlton gave a paper
on the subject: What children should
know before reaching the age of ma
turity." There was a large attend
ance. The meeting was one of the
most helpful and interesting in the
series.
Main street has been surveyed be-
tween Elliot and Flat streets this
week by c. 7. Walcott of Greenfield
to determine the location of the East
side of the highway. The survey
was made for l.. F. Adams and c. r.
Crosby, who recently bought the
American House. and who contemplate
erecting a building on the site of the
hotel next year.
Lieut., Wallace n. B%atchelder has re-
ceived recently from President Roose-
welt "A pair of front horse-shoes from
the Presidents saddle horse. Renown,
and a pair of hind shoes from his sad
die horse Bleinstein. The shoes were
intended for Lieut.. B~atchelder's
Edmund A. B~atchelder of
Springfield, this state. who owns some
shoes taken from President McKin-
ley's favorite pair of horses. The
shoes came in a neatly arranged pack
age and were accompanied by a letter
from Secretary Loeb extending the
Presidents good wishes to the elder
Batchelder.