Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-03-15
BRATTLEBORO.

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The next Masonic sociable will be held |
on wednesday evening, April 3.
The annual government inspection of |
Company 1, " N. c., will take place next !
Thursday evening.
Columbian lodge, No. SO, A. f. & A. M, |
conferred the first degree upon two can
didates at a regular communication Tues
day evening.
Brattleboro lodge, No 1O2, a. f. &
A. M, will confer the third degree upon
several candidates at special commuhl-
cation this evening.
Rev N. E. Kron, the Swedish pastor
formerly of this town, now of Manches-
ter, n H, who recently received a call
from Norway, Mich, has declined 1t, but
will go to Dayton, Iowa, about 40 miles
from Des Moines.
A party of about 20 went on a seghride
TO Bernardston Sunday afternoon and
took supper at the hotel there. Others
Joined the company, coming in single and
double sleighs, making about 80 Brattle-
boro people in all who took supper at the
hotel that night
The most weird and spectacular noun
tain peaks in the world were conquered
a few months ago for the first time. They
are the Dolomites in the northern Ital-
ian Tyrol. How they were conquered
forms one of the most interesting features
of Lyman H. Howe's lifeorama, which will
be seen at the Auditorium Friday, March
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BY invitation of the commissioners of
agriculture of Maine DIR. Holton, secre-
tary of the Vermont State board of
health, will go to Maine next week to
speak on Sanitation at a series of farm
ers' Institutes to be held in different
towns and cities His first address will
be given at a meeting to be held in Au-
burn, on Monday evening.
The passengers on the 1918 train from
the south Sunday night had a narrow
escape A freight train pulled into the
yard about Is minutes ahead of the pas
Senger and had run on a siding and I'M
coupled the engine, which was taken to
the engine house The switch from the
main line to the siding was left open and
when the passenger train came along at
a fair rate of speed 1t took the switch
and ran on the siding. Before it could
DE stopped it ran up the siding more than
100 feet and was only brought to a stand
still within few feet of a string of
freight cars. The responsibility for the
misplaced switch has not been placed.
DR.. C. C. Wheeler gave an interesting
and instructive paper before the Profess
5ional club Monday evening on "Oste-
opathy Its Theory, History and Scope"
He traced the development of osteopathic
knowledge until it became a science
which resulted in a new school of physi-
Clans showing the place it had alongside
other methods of healing the sick and the
wide range of cases to which 1t can be
successfully applied. Osteopathy Is not
generally understood and much of the
apparent opposition to it becomes ground
less when its real nature is explained.
Many questions were asked which
brought out more points about the sub
ject.
The present aspects of the race prob
lem in the South were discussed in a
meeting of the Brattleboro Ministerial
union held in Y. M c. A. rooms Monday
morning. The paper on the race problem
was given by Rev. E. o. Thayer of Spring
field and there was a general discussion
afterward. paper on "a Trip to Pet
ra," written by the late Rev. f. H. Mathi-
son of Shelton, Conn, was read by his
Brother, Rev, e. T. Mathison. The last
paper on the program, Ethical Education
in our Public Schools" by Rev. +. Q. S.
OsgoOd had to be postponed on account of
the lateness of the hour The president,
Rev l.. o. Sherburne of Bellows Falls,
presided and II members were present.
Everyone interested in civic improve
ment will have an unusually good oppor-
tunity to listen to talk on that subject
next Wednesday evening, March 20, when
George W. Gable will speak on Northamp-
ton Prize Gardens. The Woman's club is
very fortunate in securing Mr.. Gable,
who is as we'll known through his phian-
thropic work as through his novels He
is the founder and manager of the Home
Culture club in Northampton, which has
been of such great advantage to the peo-
pie of that city, especially among the
poorer class. The Prize Gardens are
part of the work of the Home Culture
club, the success of which has been so
hDt hn hoe 10,
several other cities. The subject of civic
improvement is one in which the board
of trade hopes to arouse an interest
through the lecture of Mr.. Hartman later
In the month, Mr.. Cables lecture will
be in Grange hall at O'clock and will
be open to the public upon payment of
the usual small guest fee.
Hon. Charles H. Darling of Burlington
gave an address on the Panama canal
before an audience of about 400 in the
Baptist church Tuesday evening. He first
traced the history of the country and
gave short account of its geographical
and geological features. He is espec-
Tally qualified to speak on the canal ques-
ton, as he was acting secretary of the
navy at the time of the Panama insurrec-
ton, and later paid a visit to the canal
zone as a guest of the Panama canal
commission. He had several maps Civ
ing an excellent idea of the situation of
the canal One of the features in the
history of the canal which he brought out
strongly was the tremendous work which
was done when the French people tried
20 build the canal under the direction of
DeLesseps. When he visited the canal
zone he was impressed with the great
waste of money. He said that the wreck
age OF valuable machinery along the
abandoned canal was greater than in Bal
timore after the confiagration He spoke
of the present conditions indicating the
great difficulties which are being over
come.
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