Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-11

The West river bridge is being wired 70
electric lights and lights will also be in
stalled al the two dark turns a short dis
lance beyond the bridge
The recently elected officers of Brattle
boro Aerie Of Eagles were installed Mon
day night one new member was initi
ated and three applications We're received
Ruth Hunt. Il. daughter of Arad Hunt
sustained fracture of the left leg sun
day while coasting with other children al
| the Hunt farm. She was taken to the
| Brattleboro Memorial hospital.
The basemen. of the town hall building
/ has been thoroughly cleaned and reno
waited in the past week and the employees
in the building are correspondinsy CRATE
full. \ large accumulation of waste pa
pers and debris Of all kinds was taken
out and burned.
There are now 37.024 rural delivery mail
routes in operation, and 1926 petitions are
! pending for the establishment Of ad-
ditional routes The rural routes in Yer
mont increased from 2Si June 80, to 297
] January l, and Of 42l petitions received
all had been disposed of except %.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
! and advisory board Of directors of the
Valley Fair association will be held at the
! Brooks House. Brattlehoro. Friday. Jan.
! Is. at II O'Clock m. for the hearing Of
! of the premium list and any other bust
ness tina. may legally come before the
/ meeting. a complimentary dinner vii. be
| served at l o'clock. to be followed by
| after dinner speaking Leitsinger's or
/ chestra will furnish music
At the annual meeting Of the Universal
/ ist church Tuesday evening officers for the
ensuing year were elected as follows:
/ President J. L. Martin; CLERK. Frank +.
Z L Is
tees Freeman Scott. +. G. Sargent \. +.
Roberts; auditor, c. G. Staples The
! question of calling a minister to nh the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF rev.
Frank /. Masseck. was discussed ut
length and II was decided to postpone
taking action until more candidates had
been heard. 1t was left with the trustees
to make the arrangements for supplying
the pulpit.
The officers Of Wantastiquet lodge Of
Odd Fellows were installed by District
Deputy Dewitt Davis Of Chester Monday
evening. The list Of elective officers has
already been published in The Phoenix
! The appointive officers were as follows
Chaplain. 5. NJ. Yeaw. warden, NJ. Cor
rillis; conductor, F. f. Barber; right sup
porter of noble grand. W. b. Combs left
supporter Of noble grand. G. c. Staples
right supporter Of vice grand, Louis Cain;
left supporter Of vice grand. Frank
Jacobs; right scene supporter. fred
Dunklee: lett scene supporter. Harold
Smith. inside guardian Wilson Brown:
outside guardian. George Reed; represent
atives to grand lodge. W. ]. Cain and w.
b. Combs. \ banquet was served.
H. F. Thompson. who has been chief
of the agricultural and horticultural work
at Mt. Hermon. has taken the position Of
instructor Of market gardening ami super
visor of field work al the Massachusetts
agricultural college in Amherst Frank
c.. Helyar of Brattleboro. a graduate OF
the University of Vermont. who has teen
in charge Of the animal industry work at
Mt Hermon, will now have charge OF the
entire agricultural work of the school and
farm. His assistant will be ID. 4. Dur
ward, formerly OF ClaremonJ, who has
been n student at Cornell and at the
state agricultural college at Durham. y.
H. He comes TO Mt. Hermon after in
struction work at the farm school near
Doylestown. Pa conducted by Hebrews.
Rice & Boyce is the name of the new
firm which on Saturday took possession
of the fish market and cigar store on
Elliot street formerly conducted by Dan
yew & Boyce. William Boyce. who was
in the old firm. remains in the store and
Albert r. Rice is the new member He
has had a practical experience in a fish
business in Hinsdale The firm will try
to please the patrons of the store by some
changes. Among them will be the receipt
of fresh fish from the shore three times
a week instead of twice and sometimes
only once a week as formerly. Only one
Of the two fish carts which have made
trips TO the surrounding towns will be
kept in commission, but on Fridays three
teams will be employed to deliver orders
in town
The first of the meetings for men was
held in the Y. NJ. c. a. rooms Sunday
afternoon at o'clock with a fair number
in attendance. The speaker of the after
noon was Rev Harry r. Miles, pastor OF
the Congregational church. His subject
was Character Building" and he SPOKE
for the active life of good works rather
than the passive existence, neither good
nor bad. Before the address there was a
pleasing musical prelude including piano
selections by Miss Emily Clapp, songs by
Arthur Maynard accompanied by Miss
Clapp. and selections by L. E Stafford on
the violin and Robert Goodhue on the
cornet. The next in the series of Sunday
afternoon meetings will be held Jan %.
when L. W. Hawley will speak This
meeting will be for boys. One meeting
for boys and one for men will be held for
the next four or five months.
In the first week of the recruiting sub
station here seven men presented them
selves for enlistment in the army. Five
of these were rejected after physical eX-
animation and two were accepted They
were James ]. Whelan of Brattleboro who
enlisted in the coast artillery and George
n. Ffheld of PeterbOrO y. H, who en-
listed in the cavalry. Lieut.. Thomas F.
Ryan of Springfield was in town Tuesday
looking over the field and Sergeant Peter
Zahner of the Springfield recruiting sta
ton spent Tuesday and Wednesday in
town to instruct Recruiting Officer Rich
ard H. Driscoll, who is in charge Of the
sub station in the manner of advertising
the service and canVaSsing the surround
ing towns. Driscoll has received orders
to make a canvass of the towns easily
reached by train, both in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. He will at once can
vaSs the towns on the Ashuelot and West |
river railroads,
flock of rare birds, white winged
crossbills, paid a visit to Bratteboro |
this week and We're seen by several |
people who are on the lookout for what |
the birds are doing. These birds live in |
the far north and only come here as win |
ter visitors. and then only occasionally. |
The last time they We're reported from /
Vermont was in the winter Of 1889. |
when they were fairly plentiful all over
New England. They feed on the seeds |
In the cones of coniferous trees and II is |
that there has been a shortage .
Of cones in the northern regions to .
drive them down as far south as this .
They were first seen i'm the hemlocks on
the bank above the ice pond near Frost /
place Sunday morning and afterWari in .
the hemlOcks near the EsteyviIe water .
ing trough and i'm other parts OF the town /
The flock was of eight birds only one
Of them showing the red Of the adult male .
bird the rest being females or young