Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1908-07-03


12 tomorrow, July L. No delivery will be |
made by the carriers or the rural car
rlers.
1t is definitely announced that Rev. c. |
o. Day has accepted a call to the pastor
ate OF the Congregational church at Bar
net and will begin his work about the
middle of July
There will be a service on the common
next Sunday afternoon at 430, preceded
by concert of sacred music by the band.
Rev. Mr.. Webb will preach. II stormy,
the service will be held in the Congrega-
tional church.
w. G. Doolittle has bought this week of
Alfred williams of South Newfane a
tract of 100000 feet or more of valuable
timber composed mostly of oak of the
best quality. 1t is probably the best tim
Der lot in the county. Mr.. Doolittle
owns several large timber tracts of oak
In the same vicinity.
The annual meeting of the incorporated
school district will be held in the high
schoolroom July p at o'clock. The
warrant for the meeting contains seven
articles and will be posted in a few days.
All the articles are routine. The mem
Der of the prudential committee whose
term of three years expires this year is
Judge ]. L. Martin.
The Epworth league is making plans for
raising money with which to redecorate
their room in the church in the fall. To
that end the members are making a col
lection of old rubbers, papers and any
thing else of similar nature that is sala-
BILE and later will dispose of their collec-
ton for cash. All their friends are urged
to save their old rubbers for them.
1t has just become generally known
that Louis Herrick of West Chesterfield
and Miss Maverette e. Randall were mar
rted quietly last week in Palmer, Mass.
The ceremony was performed Wednesday
by Rev. Francis w. Gibbs, pastor of st.
Paurs Universalist church of Palmer,
their only attendants being Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry r. Davis of Brattleboro After
a short wedding trip to Springfield and
Hartford they returned to Mr.. Herrick's
home in West Chesterfield where they
will live.
Miss Clara L. Carruth of Spencer, Mass,
has been appointed by the prudential
committee teacher in the commercial de-
partment now being established in the
high school. Miss Carruth comes we'll
fitted to her task, both through study and
training, and is especially we'll prepared
to give instruction in penmanship. In adj
dition to her preliminary education, she
has done practical work in an office,
there obtaining much needed experience,
and has taught successfully for two years
commercial branches such as are gem
orally included in a high school business
course.
The summer railroad traffic is now on
in earnest and this week has seen a big
rush for the mountains in one direction
and for the shore in the other. The sum-
mer train schedule, which went into effect
Monday, helped out the situation some
what although there were just so many
trunks to handle, but with the additional
trains they were scattered along through
the day. The first White Mountain train
of the season which pulled into Brattle-
boro little after 2 o'clock Monday after
noon bore a load of vacationists that far
surpassed anything that preceded it this
season, and the northbound trains have
Kept well up to the average in the num-
Der of passengers through the week. Gen
eral business may be dull, but people seem
to be able to take their vacations as
usual. The rush is not felt at the local
| station as it is at Greenfield and Spring.
field, but the transfer of passengers and
trunks from the New London division to
the, White Mountain trains is sufficiently
large to keep the force at the station NOV
ing from morning until night.
| N. D. Clawson of the Clawson- Hamilton
| business college came to Brattleboro
Tuesday night and is making preparations
for opening the local branch of the
college Sept l. From now on he will be
at the office on the third floor of the Ul-
lery building to receive prospective stu
dents and give information concerning the
| courses in the college. This week the Of
flee and instruction rooms, comprising the
! four rooms on that floor of the building.
have been fitted up with handsome oak
furniture, and before the opening of the
school the rooms will be in very attractive
| shape for work. The outlook for the
opening is bright as there are now 25 pro-
spective pupils with the opening two
months Off. The courses in the college are
so arranged that a student may enter at
any time. Mr. Clawson expressed himself
as well pleased with the action of the
4 school district in the special meeting when
1t was voted to establish a commercial
course in the high school. He thought
that this indicated that the citizens of the
town appreciated the value of practical
business training and that the courses in
the high school would prove a stimulation
to young people to enter the college fol-
higher training in practical business meth
DDS.
Neighbors' night was observed by Pro.
tective Grange Wednesday evening
Cheshire Grange of Keene, whose mem
bers eXemplified the third and fourth de
grees at the last meeting of the nationa
Grange, was invited to exemplify thos,
degrees for the entertainment and in
struction of Protective Grange and a del
egation of 1873 members of the Cheshir,
Grange arrived on a special train at 49,
o'clock In the evening. The work wal
given in beautiful and impressive man
ner, the floor work and singing being es
pecially fine. All appreciated the tableai
1.-The Home" representing the famil!
from the grandparents to the 10 months
old baby. After the work supper wal
served to more than 400. Visitors wer,
present from all the nearby oranges. TIL,
master, H. w. Spaulding, welcomed tn
guests in a pleasing speech and callet
upon the master, overseer and secretar!
of Cheshire Grange, w. H. Ryder RalpI
Libby and d. NJ. Spaulding, for speeches
also on David T. Perry, past master o
Protective Grange, George W. Pierce
Hon. H. o. Hadley, master of the new
Hampshire state Grange and A. j. Per
ham, master of Cheshire county Pomoni
Grange. After the speaking there was al
hour of sociability and dancing, tn
guests leaving on the special train a
LIS o'clock.
The lawn of George L. Durham wa
J an attractive place Tuesday Afternoon
} when the children of the north end o
the village held their annual fair for tn
benefit of the Sea Breeze mission fund
A prettier sight could hardly be imagine
than the attractively decorated lawn, tn
} tables bearingsa store Of pretty, usefu
! and toothsome things, each presided owe
J by misses in light dresses, and the thron
of children and their parents as well al
J chatting merrily and having delightful
time, besides helping on a most worth
: cause. The girls in charge Of the variou
tables had busy time from the opening
of the fair at 3 o'clock until s, the clos