Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-08-05

The ladies of the Episcopal church will
have charge of the cake sale at the Y. NJ
c. A. rooms tomorrow afternoon.
on account of threatening weather
Tuesday evening the First Regiment |
band gave up the proposed moonlight eX- |
cursion to West Brattloboro.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor gave a party for
a few of her young friends Monday, the |
occasion of her 18th birthday anniversary.
Games were played and a very pleasant
time was enjoyed.
e. f. Bagley has just composed a march
for the First Regiment band entitled
Colonel Estey March," which will be
played for the first time at the band con-
cert on the common next Wednesday
evening.
Two cases of contagious disease are
under quarantine on South Main street.
The youngest daughter of DR. and Mrs.
J. L. Rathbonc is i'll with measles and
the youngest son of Mrs. Fisk c. Rogers
has diphtheria.
The narrow gauge passenger train
which left Brattleboro about half an hour
late Saturday night. was delayed three
to four hours near the West Dummers-
ton quarries the forward trucks of the
baggage car jumping the track. \ wreck
ing crew was sent to the scene from
Brattleboro.
To accommodate Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon the dates for his speeches i'm
Vermont have been changed. He was
met by Senator Proctor In Washington
and arrangements We're perfected for the
appearance of Speaker Cannon in the
Vermont campaign at Burlington We'd
nesday, August 10, and at Brattleboro
Friday, August II.
A special train will leave Brattleboro at
$50 o'clock next Wednesday morning to
A.. s.F
| the Windham County Veterans associa-
ton. which will be held in Putney Re
| turning the train will leave Putney at
| > o'clock The fare for the round trip
| will be 40 cents. Excursion rates have
been secured on regular trains from Bel
! lows Falls and on the Brattleboro &
Whitehall railroad. Dinner will be served
on the basket picnic plan, and Greenwood
| post will furnish coffee, brown bread and
beans. There will be vocal music by Il.
| II. Miller of Dummerston, Miss Izetta
| Stewart of Brattleboro, accompanist. and
| the SaXtons River cornet band will be in
attendance.
The Valley Fair association has made
| arrangements with the company of uni
form rank Knights of Pythlas, of North
Adams, to give two exhibition drills on
each day of the coming fair This is an
| exceptionally fine company and has taken
IA prize wherever it has given an eX-
| hbiton in competition. The company
was recommended by Mayor Stafford of
North Adams, director of the fair. Ar
rangements also have been made for an
exhibition of Albert d. Davss fine herd
| of Jersey cattle from the Bonnie Brae
farm in Great harrington, Mass. The
Marshalls of Nergennes will exhibit sew
eral breeds of sheep, and r. Parker &
Son of Vergennes probably will show some
fine merino sheep and Ayrshire cattle.
Holden & Martin have moved the grand
stand this week so that three additional
bents may be built on.
The trustees of the Thompson fund
have petitioned the supreme court OF
Massachusetts for an order allowing them
to convey the hospital property to a Yer
mont corporation, which will have en-
tire control of the estate, and this pc
tition has been granted. The organic
ing committee have engaged as superin-
tendent DR.. /. r. Brigham, formerly SUI
perintendent of the Whdden Memoria
hospital in Everett Mass. and o
other similar institutions of that state
The doctor is a graduate of the medica
department of the University of Michi
gan and the Massachusetts College o
Pharmacy The buildings of the hospita
are now completed, but it still remains {,
put in the equipment AS soon as this i
done. the institution will be ready to re
ceve patients. The committee reques
|
. the hospital while this task is being ac
! complished. When this is finished Their
2 will be a reception, to which the publ
l will be cordially invited, and of whicl
: due notice will be given
The night White Mountain passenge
train from New York which arrives Il
Brattleboro at 2.20 in the morning, go
) ing north, ran into a freight train at tn
Cedar Hill freight yard, near New Haver
u -.
killing Engineer James A. Mcintosh an
{ breaking Fireman Charles Slellewerf'
legs so that one of them had to be am
> putated. The baggage master had on
shoulder broken, but aside from thes
: injuries the casualties We're not seriou:
n A train was made up which reache
( Brattleboro at o'clock Sunday morn
E ing. The track was not cleared unit
2 Sunday night. Only railroad men VIII
We're at the scene of the wreck Sunda
k could realize what n narrow escape tn
e express train had from complete de
It struction The freight train stood s
e that several of the cars extended o
# the main track occupied by the express
Six freight cars were side ripped" an
K although they were heavily laden the
8 were reduced to kinding wood The lc
6 connective was of a heavy mogul typ
V and took nearly the entire shock of tn
: collision. Had ii been light in weigh
n the damage to the passenger train woul
~ have been more serious The locomotiv
o plunged down an embankment.
II The entire First Regiment band ha
e been engaged to give a sacred concel
T. at the open air meeting on the commo
D next Sunday evening The concert wi
{ begin at o'clock and continue unit
o'clock, and there will also be specii
e music by the band in place of the usui
d vocal selection. The address will be dc
a livered by Rev. Frank d. Penny, one
O the leading clergymen of Burlington.
II F. Adams will preside. Those havin
e camp chairs are asked to bring them, q
= it is expected that the regular supply wi
n be entirely inadequate for the demand
r. In case of storm the meeting will be hel
g in the Auditorium, but the concert wi
i be postponed to the first pleasant Sunda!
e The o'clock meeting in Esteyvile wi
It be addressed by Rev. F. w. Lewis.
Is the Methodist church The program al
e ranged by the band is one of unusual eN
e cellence and consists of the following sc
d lections: March from "Tannhauser,
o Wagner; Pilgrims Chorus" Wagner
cornet solo, "Cujus Amman" Rosni, b
Mr.. Morse; March Religieuse," GounoC
u paraphrase, Jerusalem the Golden,
Robinson; trombone solo, Beyond I'll
Gates of Paradise" King, by Mr., Wyatt
e The Heavens Are Telling" Haydn
:, The Central Vermont passenger trai
- which Is made up at Brattleboro an