Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10


$. T.. Hescock of Bratteboro recently
bought George H. Waldron's house on
Union street in Springfield, this state.
walter f. Goddard has bought of Mrs
r. Gordon the house which he occupies
at the corner of South Main and Pearl
streets.
Il. H. Hildreth has bought Mrs. j. X.
Parker's house, corner of oak and Willis
ton streets. Possession will be given
about May 10.
Pocahontas council will give the last
dance of the season In Red Mems han
Saturday night, to which a cordial in
Vtation is extended to all.
The regular monthly meeting of the
committee of the Brattleboro Mutual Aid
association will be held Monday after
noon at $3.50 at the home of Mrs. George
w. Tyler
New mail boxes have been installed on
the second floor of the new American
building opposite the elevator and at the
corner of oak Grove avenue and Canal
street
The regular communion and reception
of members was held in the Baptist church
SUNDAY Twelve new members were to
be received but only nine were able to
be present.
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
IL Whltehal Railroad company will be
held in the Brooks House Saturday, May
%, at 1890 a. IN.
The Cheshire County Fish and Game
| Protective league has recently placed So
900 lake trout in Silver lake, Gresham,
and Spofford lake, Chesterfield. also co.
600 in Granite lake, Munsonvlle.
The second performance Of Liberty
Corners by the Grange Dramatic club
| Friday evening was even more largely at
tended than the first performance the
night before. About sac was cleared ON
! the two performances.
A new McCaskey account register was
! put in r. II. Amidons store this week.
! 1t will hold 400 accounts and does away
with the bookkeeping almost entirely.
| Every customer can be told almost in
| stantly the exact amount of his account
| up to date
The summer dancing season will open
/ at Centrevlle Saturday night May II.
/ with a waltzing party. The management
| intend to hold dances every Saturday night
! during the summer and dates for other
! nights will be given later Leitsinger and
/ Dugan will furnish music. Round trip
tickets ON the cars will hold good for
/ these dances.
After counting up the money which
/ they made on the May breakfast last
week the women of the Congregational
church are sure that they will give
another next May. The net receipts
We're about $3.50, About half of this was
| from the breakfast and the strawberry
| supper, and half from the sales at the
booths and the receipts az the door.
The death Of the three mares in How
| ard x Nearlys stables last week from
| poisoning has not been explained. Word
/ was received from the state laboratory Of
| hygiene in Burlington that the stomachs
! of the annals had been received but no
analysis had been made. 1t is hoped by
| horsemen here that the examination of
the stomachs for traces Of poison will be
performed promptly so that the nature
of the case can be better understood. Or
dinarily there is 50 much material on
hand at the laboratory that no report
would be expected for about a month,
but this seems a case for prompter ac-
ton. None of the other horses in the
stable have shown any signs Of a similar
Illness nor is anything of the kind re-
ported from other stables or from nearby
towns.
Artemus o. Wilkins, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. a. w. J wilkins. and Miss Marion
p. Chaplin, daughter of Mrs. H. a. Cha
pin, were married Monday evening in the
home of the brides mother on Forest
street The ceremony was performed
by Rev. L. .. S. Osgood, pastor of the
Unitarian church, with only the imme-
diate relatives present. The bridal couple
We're unattended After short wedding
journey Mr.. and Mrs. wilkins will live
for a time with Mrs. Chaplin who will
move to the house she recently bought on
Cedar street. The bride graduated from
the high school in 1894 and is employed as
stenographer in Z. L. Hildreth & Co S
office. The bridegroom graduated from
the high school in 1895 and attended the
Worcester Polytechnic institute one year
He is a mechanic with the Brattleboro
Machine company.
Arbor day was observed Friday by the
schools with exercises intended to stimu-
late a normal and healthy interest IN
trees and the outdoor world. The old
plan Of setting out a few spinding trees
in inappropriate places where they would
never amount to anything, with songs
and recitations by the children, has given
place to a more rational method OF arous
ing interest. At the high school two rock
naples were set out which will doubtless
afford shade and satisfaction in the years
to come. In the grade schools the plan
followed was to have an observation hour
in which the children were taught to OBJ
serve the trees about the town either In
short excursions or from the school build
ngs. The practical knowledge of trees
and their place in the world thus given
the children is of far more Importance
than any amount of exercises.
Protests on the method in which Road
Commissioner John p. Sargent is re-
pairing Greenleaf street in West
Brattleboro was presented to the select
men Saturday in a hearingS Il. II. Daven-
port William Rockwell and Daniel Harris
objected to the way in which the street
is being built up as they claim 1t damages
their property abutting on the street
After hearing the objections the select
men assured the AUDITORS that the street
would be fixed I'm a way that will be
satisfactory to them. All that the
AUDITORS wanted was an assurance that
Mr.. Sargent would not carry out any
more novel schemes for repairing the
street and that the selectmen would
direct what should be done to complete
the changes already undertaken. County
Road Commissioner David T. Perry was
present a the hearing and advised that
criticism be withheld until the repairs
are finished.
The body of John c. Toomey, who died
in Brooklyn Thursday night, May 2
was brought to Brattleboro for burial
Saturday. A requiem mass was said in St
Michaels Roman Catholic church at 8
o'clock Sunday morning by Rev. Father
Thomas O'Donoghue. The bearers were
Maurice J. Doyle, Thomas Long. Michael
Baker and Michael Lynch The burial was
in the Roman Catholic cemetery William
G. Toomey and Miss Nellie A. Toomey, OF
Brooklyn, brother and sister, came