Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-06-05

BRATTLEBoRo.
Company is annual field day and
inspection will be held next Friday.
June y.
Joe W.. owned by o. II. Ellis. was
sold for $500 at the combination sale
at Medford, Mass. last week to VIM.
Mahoney of Hyde Park.
Beginning today the depot yard will
be sprinlled by the village sprinkler
water being taken from the Boston
Maine stand pipe at the north end Of
the depot platform.
Gale and WilliamsQu's Durham won
second money in the free for all race
at Kingston Saturday. finishing close
to .he leader in 215A, which is eN-
tremely good time for the early sea
son.
Two freight cars on the narrow
gauge mixed train jumped the track
on a curve north of Jamaica Tuesday.
Measurement showed that the outside
rail of the curve was four inches lower
than the inside rail.
Adiutant General Gilmore has no
tilted Capt. Waterman Of the shipment
to Company | of 80 Krag-Jorgensen RI
fleS and the same number each OF
bayonets, scabbards gun straps, mag
azine covers. screw drivers and clean
ing rods, and five descriptive books.
DR.. George F. Gales meteorological
record for May shows these figures:
Barometer. highest 1928. I'd; lowest,
1851. 22d. Thermometer, highest, Sc.
GOTH lowest %, I'd: mean at I a. m,
45 9-31st; mean. | p. m. 6S12 mean,
Z p. m. Sc 6-31st. Precipitation. rain,
62-100ths inch.
The regular meetings of the local
camp of Modern Woodmen of America
will be held hereafter in Red Mems
hall the second and fourth Thursdays
of each month The next regular
meeting will be held Thursday, June
II, when number of candidates will
receive their degrees.
The Wantastiquet Golf clubs links
were formally opened Tuesday. when
the greens were used for the first
time this season. The men acted as
entertainers to the women A com
pany of about IS were present. Lunch
was served on the veranda of the club
house by Caterer Turner. Exhibition
tennis and golf games were played
of the members.
These directors were elected Mon
day at the annual meeting of the Brat
tleboro Home for the Aged and Dis
abled held in the Vermont National
bank: Dr.. H. d. Holton, ]. NJ Tyler
Richards Bradley. F. w. Childs. G. E.
Crowell, e. l.. Waterman. G. c. Averill,
c. F. Thompson and H. F. Weather
TlD Il,
ton president, ]. NJ. Tyler vice presi-
dent, G. C. Averill treasurer and C. f.
Thompson secretary.
A meeting of committees from the
Daughters of the American Revolution
and other patriotic organizations in
BrattlebOro was held in the Brooks
House Tuesday evening to talk over
the matter of erecting a monument on
the old camp ground. DR.. II. D. Hol-
ton was elected chairman and James
F. Hooker secretary. but on account
of the necessary absence of represent
tatives of some of the organizations
the meeting was adjourned to Satur-
day evening. when a meeting will be
held in the Brooks House at 7.3O
o'clock.
These officers were elected at the
annual meeting of the Vermont State
Letter Carriers association which was
held with the Brattleboro letter car
riers Saturday afternoon and even
ing: President, Frank B. Fuller of
Rutland vice president, p. II. Elem
ing of Bellows Falls; secretary. T. E.
Crawley of Rutland; treasurer. A. D.
Silloway of Montpelier; executive com
mittee, g. w Zero of Burlington, E. L.
Pond of Bellows Falls and John A.
Lindsey of Brattleboro. d. E. 1asker
was elected delegate to the national
convention in Syracuse, ~ Y. which
begins on Labor day. Resolutions
were adopted extending the thanks of
the association to William Randolph
Hearst. "a true friend of the plain peo-
pie and the legitimate property inter-
ests of the country" Mr.. Hearst has
been friend of the letter carriers and
has rendered them a signal service.
The delegates were given banquet at
the American House.