Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-03-04
BRATTLEBORO.

A collection for Indian and Negro mis-
sions will be taken in st. Mlchael's Roman
Catholic church Sunday.
Several local automobilists tuned up
their machines in the streets yesterday.
f.. c. Crosby has been running his car
large part of the winter.
The women of the Universalist church
served an excellent escolloped oyster
supper in the vestry last night with a
large number in attendance.
Candidates for the grades of corporal
and sergeant in Company I, V. n. G..
were examined in the armory last night.
the examination being prepared by
Adjutant G. H. Thompson of Bellows
Falls.
Last night was amateur evening at
the Lyric theatre and a number of Brat
tleborO performers appeared in vaudeville
acts. The winners of the prizes were
Harry St Cyr. Charles Belden and Fred
'Currier.
Charles William Hawkins clerk in the
Durham shoe store, and Miss Ada Hol-
land Hale of Gloucester, Mass, were
married Feb 81 in Boston. the ceremony
being performed by Rev George w. King
in the Peoples Temple
The selectmen last night made the
following appointments: Fence viewers
George II. Thomas r. II. Briggs, Fred
d. Marsh; pound keeper, ]. G. Stafford
surveyor of wood and inspector of lumber
and shingles A. E. Merrill
Will B. Smith, clerk of the incorporated
schooF district, has completed the annual
census of the children of school age in
the district. The census show that there
are 205 children between the ages of five
and eight years $50 between eight and 10
years and 246 between Is and IS. making
a total of 9S1. OF these 4S2 are boys and
499 are girls.
Company A, 18th Massachusetts regi-
ment, boys brigade, will come to Brat
tleboro Mar. 81 to give an exhibition and
competitive drill in Festival hall. They
have invited the Magnet club to meet
them in series of competitive indoor
sports, and it is expected that there will
be a basketball game to round out the
evening.
Vermont academy sent an invitation
to the Bratteboro high school to join
them in a winter athletic meet tomorrow.
The tnaw changed conditions that the
meet was postponed TO Mar. -, and the
invitation holds good for that date. 1t
is probable that a group of high school
boys will go up to enter into friendly
competition in Snowshoe races and skee
ing contests
The annual United States inspection Of
Company l. V. N. G., and the LIST regi
ment band for 1910 will be made by Capt.
is stationed at the Plattsburg barracks,
Plattsburg, N. Y, Tuesday evening, March
%. The band will be inspected in the af-
ternoon and the company in the evening.
The headquarters of the LIST Infantry will
be inspected also.
The students of the Clawson- Hamilton
business college were the guests of one
of their number Miss Alice Connarn in
West Dummerston Friday evening. About
IS took the occasion to enjoy sleighride
on the country roads in a large sled.
They were chaperoned by Mr. Ond Mrs.
N. d. Clawson, teachers of the school.
The evening was spent playing games,
and refreshments were served
Beauseant commandery X. T., will
confer the order of the Temple in a
special concave this evening. The an
nuai inspection of the commandery will
take place next Wednesday evening.
Right Eminent Grand Commander Dew
ey and other grand officers will be pres
ent Many visiting Sir Knights are ex-
pected from Rutland, Bellows Falls,
Northampton. Greenfield and other
places. banquet will be served in the
Masonic hall at 6.15 and the inspection.
with the comforting of the order of the
Temple. will follow an hour later.
There will be a half night of prayer
tonight in the Salvation Army hall, the
service beginning at 10, after the regu-
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praise service at and a salvation service
at 3. Mr.. Hawkins will speak in the
evening service. On Monday there will
he an interesting service when the com
rades who have been converted in the
past four months will be enrolled pub
licly as soldiers of the local corps by
Capt. B. Hoke, under the new army
flags. Harley Bruce, John Hogstrom and
Miss Clara Burdett will be enrolled as
senior soldiers and Benjamin Hin and
Albert Ovitt as junior soldiers.
The unusual spectacle of an engine
frozen so tightly to the rails that its own
power was insufficient to move it was OBJ
served during the cold snap of Friday
morning a South Vernon. The engine of
the Montreal express backed up to the
standplpe and took supply of water. but
the fireman cOud not shut off the stream
ihe intense cold, % degrees below zero.
having frozen the valve. Water poured
over the tank and down the wheels in
great quantities before the water could
be shut off In the tankhouse, and when
the engine attempted to start IT was
found to be impossible the tank trucks
being solid mass of ice. Another en-
CINE was brought out to give the stalled
one few bumps. and she finally was
started.
David T. Perry began his reign as road
commissioner Wednesday by giving Main
street a bath with the aid of a few
sections Of fire hose and two men he
washed away the accumulated filth of
the street and left the ice clean and
smooth. The improved appearance of the
street was amazing and everyone who
had occasion to cross the street. es-
pecially all women, were appreciative.
Last night Mr.. Perry met the selectmen
in conference, and the plans for the COM
Ing season were gone over in detail. Mr..
Perry began work today on the recon
structisD of the footbridge across Whet-
stone brook to accommodate the Estey
shop hands who live on Frost and Elliot
street. The drainage on Oak street Or
gan street and Central street will have
the attention of the new road commits
sioner as soon as it is possible to work
to advantage The tile necessary for
the work will be ordered soon and bids
for the whole amount will be asked for
from local dealers.
Delicious Lady Baltimore cake will be
served In the tea room at the Chlldren's