Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-07-01
BRATTLEB ORO.


ford lake today.
The S A. Smith factory will be shut
down u Of next week
Friendship circle will meet with Mrs.
Myra stone on Forest street next Friday
afternoon from > to s. Members are
requested to go prepared to sew.
Bernard NJ Switzer for many years
superintendent Of the Brattleboro Ma
chine works, has leased the works and
will carry on the business alone.
In a meeting of the tuberculosis com
mittee Of the Woman's club last night the
resignation of Miss Alice Llndgren as
superintendent Of the tuberculosis camp
was accepted. Various matters concern
ing the interest of the camp were discus
sed.
The standing grass owned by the Con-
necticut River Power company on the
Hunt. Smith Johnson. Gushing and Pike
farms, south Of BrattlebOro, Will be sold
at auction Wednesday afternoon. July o.
beginning at 10 on the Hunt farm and
continuing on the other farms in order.
sedwick Womans Relief corps abseryed
its annual memorial day yesterday by
decorating the graves of members in
Prospect hill cemetery. About 50 mem
bers of the corps met at the han and
arranged the Wreaths before going to
the cemetery. The corps memorial ser
vice was conducted at the cemtery.
The sunday afternoon service on
on the cofmon at o'clock will be
addressed by Rev. F. A Wells of the
Methodist church. Music will be fur
nished by the quartet Of the Brown uni
versity glee club who are singing at the
Mortified student conference through the
week.
In the annual meeting Of the Brattle-
boro society Of seamstresses. needle
women and shop girls held in Festival
hall last night important matters were
discussed The old board of officers were
reelected as follows President. Mrs. \.
J. Currier; vice president, Miss Addie NJ.
Fay; secretary, Mrs. NJ. E. Butterfield;
treasurer Mrs. II. w. Cook; executive
board. Mrs. Currier Miss Mary Donnell
and Miss Jennie Duncan.
George Cain received painful burns
about the face and hands Monday
through the accidental setting afire of a
cover which he was making for his motor
boat in his barn on Chestnut street. The
cover was soaked with in1ammable ma
terais and when he inspected it with
lantern 1t caught FIRE and blazed up fu-
riously The flames ran up in Mr.. Gains
face and he was so badly burned that he
has not been at work since.
Residents on Prospect street were start
led Wednesday night by hearing a shot
from the street near F. L. Smiths house.
Several men, apparently Italians, We're IN
the street, all talking volubly and gestic-
ulating Wildly. y few minutes later one
Of them came to E Z. Fagg's house and
knocked at the door, but Miss Minnie
Flagg decided that il was A case for the
police to handle and she did not let him
in. A telephone message was sent to the
police department, but when they arrived
a few minutes later all was quiet, and
there was no further disturbance that
night. The policemen stayed on the hill
an hour or more. but they found no trace
OF the men.
Mrs Fred S. knight entertained the
members of her Sunday school class, the
Phlathea class, yesterday afternoon a.
her home on Western avenue. The gath
ering was on the lawn and the children
of the members OF the class We're tn,
centre of attraction as the event wa.
planned largely for them Sixteen mem
bers of the class with 10 children an,
seven visitors with three more children
made up a merry group. The Afternoon
was spent pleasantly in playing games
and toward the close Miss Jessie Hawlel
gave several plano selections. Refresh
ments suitable for the little folks wer,
served as well as those for their mothers
The children ranged in age from seve,
months to nine years.
Mrs. Kitty Clune Jones, wife Of Gu,
Jones, has brought suit against Mr.
JOnes's parents, Mr.. and Mrs Carlos X
Jones for 5000 for alleged alienation o
affections Of her husband. The paper
were served on Mr.. and Mrs. Jones Mon
day by Deputy Sheriff Chauncey !
Knapp. Mr. and Mrs Jones We're place,
under arrest but they were released OF
bail Furnished by A d. Wyatt TIL
writ sets up that the plaintiff wa mar
ried to Guy Jones Nov. :, 1915 and tina
son was born to them; that the defend
ants have WTOn aT1lllE Wpkai1y- 'rr,
justly advised her husband to leave he
and that by artful means they hav
corrupted his mind and destroyed hi
affection for her The writ is returnabl
at the September term of the count
court.
Glen Washington Russ ana Miss Stell
Jane Nash were married Wednesda
evening in the home of the brides aunt
Mrs. Christopher McCourt on Cana
street. The ceremony was performed b
Rev. d. f. Trout in the presence of tn
families and close friends the doubl
ring service being used. The bride wa
dressed in pOngee silk with white ha
trimmed with willow plumes. a luncheo
was served after the wedding and Nj
and Mrs Russ left for a wedding tri
to Middlebury and Sharon. They wi
be at home after July 6 at Il Cans
street. Mr.. Russ came here from Share
and he is employed at the White Rive
chair company factory The bride cam
TO Rrattleboro from Middebury and sh
has been employed in the Hooker, Corse
and Mitchell company shop.
very pretty wedding took place in tn
church Of the Annunciation in Ludlor
June %, when Paul Walker of Brattle
borO and Miss Nellie Fitzgerald of Ne,
York city were married by Rev. j. +
Dyrer. pastor OF the church. Mendelsohn'
wedding march was played by Mrs. ]. \
Lamere. Angelo Masiello was best ma
and the bride was attended by Miss Ma
Lamere. The wedding ceremony wa
followed by mass, during which appro
pirate music was played. The bride wa
dressed becomingly in pink mousselin
de sole with trimming OF alencon lac,
wore large hat matching the gown an
carried bride roses. The bridesmai
wore pale blue dotted silk muslin wit
hat to match and carried pink rose:
The brides gift TO the bridesmaid was
gold brooch and the bridegrooms gift I
the best man was an amethyst stick piI
A wedding breakfast was served, imme
diately after mass, in the home of NJ
Walkers mother, After a short trip NJ
and Mrs. Walker will live in Brattle
bOro
Vaughn F. Bunker 49, one of the Bos
ton Maine railroad crew which
putting in the block signal system bt
tween Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, wa
struck by a freight train at Grout aboJ
O'Clock last night and he was so badl
injured that he died about two hour
later. just as ne was being taken int
the Memorial hospital. Just how the az
cdent happened is not known but 1t