Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10
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The Murray club will hold the annual
meeting this evening for election of Off
GERS in the Unversalist vestry at 7.So.
The Grange Dramatic club will hold its
annual meeting and election of officers
Wednesday evening. A social will be held
after the business meeting.
The 4O-hours devotion will begin We'd
nesday, May Is, in st. MichaeIs Roman
Catholic church. Several visiting priests
will assist.
V. O. Jones received a bad shaking up
Tuesday by falling from ladder while
making some small repairs on the roof
Of his house. He was stunned by the fan
and physician was summoned. Power
full restoratives were used and Mr.. Jones
recovered consciousness in a short time.
He is reported as doing well and rapidly
overcoming the shock and its effects.
The Brattleboro Ministerial union will
meet in the Brooks House Monday fore
noon, May 10. at 10 o'clock. The program
will include a paper on Ethical Instruc-
ton in our Public Schools by Rev. e
O. S. Osgood, a paper upon Marriage and
Divorce" by Rev. J. D. King of Whining
ton and an address upon The National
Peace Conference in New YORK" by Rev.
il. R. Miles.
Beauseant Commandery, No. :. X T.,
hall A railroad representative will be
present TO discuss a side trip from Sara
toga at the close of the triennial con-
clave in July. The proposition is for the
Brattleboro party to return via Lake
George, Lake Champlain and Burlington.
and to be away from home one day longer
than previously planned.
Two more men have resigned their local
positions with the Central Vermont Rail-
way company, b. T. Riley, night yard
master and Richard Heaphy night clerk.
A new Office has been created, that of
night station agent, and w. f. Duffy has
come here from New London to fill it.
He will do the work formerly performed
by the night clerk w ]. Allen. a brake
man, has taken Mr. Rileys place as night
yardman.
Pomona Grange met in Brattleboro
Wednesday with an unusually large num-
Der in attendance for a closed meeting.
The morning session was given up largely
to hearing reports from the subordinate
oranges, indicating a very flourishing con-
dition. In the afternoon State Master
George w. Pierce and the masters of the
local oranges gave short addresses and
the fifth degree was conferred in full form
on a class of 10 candidates by the officers
of the Pomona Grange.
The Auditorium Opera company of so
people under the personal direction of
spring opera season in Baltimore Monday
evening in Robin Hood" The Baltimore
American in its review of the perform
ance said: THE hit of the evening was
made by William Schuster, the sheriff of
Nottingham. the rollcking, drinking
sheriff. with the inimitabe conceit. Mr..
Schuster vocally was excellent and the
spontaneity of his manner added mate
rally to the enjoyment of his part"
The directors of the Brattleboro base
ball association will hold their first meet
ing tonight when the outlook for base
ball this season will be thoroughly dis
cussed from a practical standpoint. In
order to get baseball started a practice
game will be played tomorrow afternoon
at $50 o'clock on the island between the
Brattleboro Independents and a team
picked from local players. All who play
ed on the Athletics team last season
have been invited to fill their old places
and some new material may be utilized.
The object is to find out just what ma
terial there is available in town for a
good team. The game will be free and
all are invited to come to wake up en-
thusiasm for better things in the future,
The various bodies of odd Fellows in
town will be well represented in the an
nual session of the grand bodies to be
held in Montpelier May IA to II. Tues
day will be Patriarchs Militant day and
a good sized delegation will go up. Among
those who expect to attend are w. 7.
Cain, G. A. Metcalf, A. w. Roel, Fay
cite Miller VIII Hudson, Carl Cushing
Emerson Peak, l.. H. Slater, Arthur Hor-
ton, Charles G. Staples, Frank Perry,
Charles Merrill, w. H. st. Germaine, w
T. Haigh, C. E. Sturgis, Walter Sturgis,
Walter Sylvester and II. c. Reynolds
John Howe, w E. Coombs, Clifton Fox
f. e. Barber, M. r. Micott, G.. NJ Glib
son, A. F. Roberts, n. NJ Wilson, n. H
TAl dc
d. H. Scovill and William L. McCrilis
The Patriarchs Militant from Brattleboro
will give an exhibition drill. 1t is prob
able that few more will decide to go
at the last minute. Most of these will
remain through the meetings. Among
those who will attend from the Re-
bekahs are Mrs. A. L. Maynard Mrs
Eric Landry and Mrs. Frank Perry
F. C. Clark, the groceryman, by quick
and plucky action, rescued two women
who were in imminent danger i'm run
away Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Clar-
ence Ingram of Dummerston, who was
accompanied by an older woman was
Baptist church when the horse took sudden
fright on the approach of an electric car
The horse dashed around the High street
corner so rapidly that the carriage was
on two wheels, and when the wheels on
the lower side struck the ground one of
them collapsed. The horse then let out
another link of speed, and two or three
rods further on the second wheel on the
lower side dropped to pieces. Mrs. In
gram held to the reins and her companion
TO the side of the carriage while the
vehicle shot forward with the hubs OF
the broken wheels dragging in the dirt
MIR. Clark, who happened TO be coming
down the street, near the junction with
Green street, ran out, seized the horse by
the head and stopped it quickly. The two
women, who had been i'm a perilous po-
sition but who escaped without a scratch.
were out of the carriage before any of
che numerous witnesses of the accident
could reach the scene. Mrs Ingram Sc
cured another carriage of Liveryman G.
b. White and drove home a little later.
Keep the Balance Up.
1t has been truthfuly said that any dis