Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

society will hold sale of ice cream and
cake and lemonade on the common next
wednesday evening.
William c. Horizons agency has sold for
| Egbert Brasor his new house on Pine
street to person out of town for a
home.
orders have been issued for the an
nual encampment of the Vermont Nation
al Guard, to be held near Fort Ethan AL
len the week of August STA.
George e. Crowell planted peas i'm lis
garden at Lindenhurst April % and on
June % he picked for table use sufficient
for large family fully grown and well
/ developed peas.
William Saudcrline of the Dummerstnn
hill road fell from his team ON the Brook
| road Monday night while turning the
| team around. one of the wheels passed
| over his neck but he was able to rise and
continue his journey
A. " Mays agency has sold for Robert
G. Bacon administrator of the Winifrcd
| Randall estate. a fern i'm WestmoreIaud
| n H., to j, h. Edison of Townshend. lie
Will take possession at once and will
engage in the poultry business. Terms
of sale are private.
States Attorney Robert c. Bacon WAS
in Bellows Falls Saturday on the cases
of Ed Miller and Frank Inmau. heard be-
| fore Justice Z. +. OBrien. Miller was
| charged with horse stealing and Inman
with burglary. Attorney c. II. Williams
| was counsel for both and they were bound
over to the county court
The holders of the lucky numbers among
patrons of NJ j. Moan's furniture
! store who drew the three prizes Saturday
| nisht were Mrs. j. j. Clune, who won a
sewing machine, Andrew Worden. who
won couch and Miss Margaret johnson.
| who won picture Each purchaser of
81 worth of goods in June was given a
| number and the lucky ones were drawn
| saturday night.
The weather frowned again on the open
air meeting Sunday and the attendance
was consequently small. not more than
| 100 being present \ few drops of rain
| fell while the service was i'm progress and
| a shower caught many of the people
before they reached their homes Rev.
| r. e. ). Osgood of the Unitarian church
| preached and the musical program was
furnished by Mr. and Mrs Arthur May
| nard
Theodore Roberge was fined the usual
| 80 ana costs yesterday for celebrating the
glorious Fourth by getting So iutoxica ted
| Nednesday night that he disturbed the
! peace of the village unduly. even for that
! night. He was arrested and brought be-
| tore Justice Robert G. Bacon on town
| Ernest
| w. Gibson of the municipal court was
not in town. The costs raised the total
of the fine to 5000.
Attorneys y. f. Schwenk and Z !
| Waterman went To South Newfane Mon
! day on hearing of the case of Ellen NJ
| Moore against her former husband. j. H.
| Moore before Justice John Morse The
| case was continued until Monday. Mrs
Moore seeks to recover 1928 alleged TO
| he Il h.ar.
nursing him in a recent illness She Sc
| cured a divorce from him several wears
| ago but went to work for him when he
was ILL., She claims that the money is
due her as wages.
The experiment which William c.
| Horton has been trying raising
purple martins by setting martin
eggs under tree swallows came to an
| untimely and mysterious clos4 Friday or
early Saturday morning. Mr.. Horton
| found one of the young martins dead on
| the ground beneath the bird house where
| the swallows had their nest and on exam
| ination found that the other three were
not in the nest. The young martins
were 10 days old and to all appearances
were thriving. Whether they died and
their foster parents went away or whether
the old birds deserted them and left them
| 10 die OF starvation cannot be known
The recent order of the post Office de-
partment allowing ordinary postage
| stamps to be used in place of special de-
| livery stamps meets with general ap-
| prevail Some misunderstanding arises
from it, however 1t is necessary to write
| or stamp special delivery" under the
ordinary stamps and not simply put on
stamps to the value of L. cents 10 for
| special delivery and two for the regular
| postage. If special delivery" is not
written or stamped beneath the STAMPS
| the clerks at the post Office do not know
whether special delivery or registration
Is desired. In place of this size most
| people register their mail personally but
in larger post offices many of the large
| business houses send their valuable mat
ter to the post office with the request to
| register.
The warrant for the annual meeting
of school district No. >. on July 1G. was
| posted this week. Besides the regular ar
| ucles providing for the election of officers
and raising and expanding money. the
| warrant contains the following special ar
| ticle; TO see if the district will author
ize the prudential committee in co-opera-
| tlon with the Womans club of the town
| to continue the school of manual training
| during the summer of 1908 so far as NAV
| seem advisable, ana to appropriate there
lot sum of money not exceeding 5000
| To be taken from the appropriation of the
| year This article is substantially the
| same as the one passed last year for the
| nrSt time but is made more elastic in or
| der that the experience gained this sum-
| mer may govern the management of the
! school next year to a greater extent The
| manual training school will start next
| week ana the measure Of its success will
| determine the extent and methods of the
| school next summer
The Sunday school of the Baptist
| church held its annual meeting Sunday
| ana reelected the old officers. L. w
Hawley, who has been superintendent of
! the school - years, wished to withdraw
but was prevailed upon to accept the
! leadership another year. His election
| was accompanied by a demonstration by
the school which spoke eloquently of the
| feeling the members have for him. The
oIhcers elected We're: Superintendent,
! /. W. Hawley; assistant superintendents
FRED $. Knight, Mrs. Nora l.. Kenney:
| superintendent of the home department.
! Mrs. Enos White; secretary. II. A. Col
burn; treasurer, c. N Moran; auditor.
| H. +, c. Toedt librarian, Mr. Toedt:
assistant librarians, Mrs f. ]. Eddy,
MRS A. L. Maynard and Miss Nettie
| Harris. The reports of the officers show
ed that the year had been n successful
one and that after the payment of all
bills small amount remained in the
| treasury.
The local branch of the New England
| Telephone and Telegraph company moved