Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-06-17


| their annual Memorial day observance
| Sunday with services by the Rebekahs
at the hall and decoration of the graves
| in the cemeteries. on account Of the
weather the odd Fellows memorial ser
vice al the cemetery was omitted. There
| was singing by a male quartet.
Native strawberries appeared in the
markets in small quantities this week
/ Walter r. Walker of DummerstOn
| brought In a few Monday, fully a week
ahead of any former year. With favor
| able weather now the strawberry crop
| will be one Of the best in years as the
| wet weather has developed berries to a
| good size. Fair and warm weather is
| needed to ripen them of.
A party Of As students from the civil
engineering department of Princeton uni
versity reached Brattleboro Wednesday
night on their way to Spofford lake,
where they will spend two weeks in field
| practice. The department takes a two
weeks outing each year at this time and
the students generally go to some summer
resort where they can get good accommo-
| datons. After supper at the Brattleboro
House they were taken to the lake in
Mosher & Putney's tally-hos
The Brattleboro Water Works com
pany has been given an order by the
| board of health requiring them to give
| reasonable notice before shutting of the
water supply from any section and or
dering further that the supply shall not
be shut off for more than L hours at a
time This action was brought about by
the fact that certain sections Of Prospect
hill were without water two days. eX-
cept what was brought from neighbOrs
on other streets. The water was shut
! of without warning
The selectmen held a hearing Wednes-
| day evening a I the junction Of Chestnut
| and Locust streets on the petition Of resi-
| dents OF that locality to widen the bridge
| on Chestnut street at that point. Road
| Commissioner David T. Perry approved
of the plan suggested by the petitioners
and made an estimate on the cost OF con-
! structing a concrete culvert to extend 40
| feet down the brook from the present
| bridge. The selectmen decided last night
| to put this culvert in later in the year,
| provided the necessary funds were avail
able.
Children's Sunday was observed by the
| Methodist church Sunday with appro-
| pirate exercises BY the Sunday school in
place Of the usual morning service. After
a brief devotional service the children
| gave an interesting program Of songs,
! exercises and rotations. Among the
| prettiest Of the numbers were the exer-
| cises by group Of little flower girls.
| Among those who recited were Dorothy
|
| Boorn and Eleanor Chamberlain The
| pastor Rev. F. 4. Wells, made an APP
propriate address at the close OF the
| exercises.
Margaret Leavitt Smonen. daughter OF
| G. Howard Leavitt, millionaire resident
Of Flushing L. l., died Friday night in a
| private sdhatorium in New York city
from blood-polsoning. Last January Mrs.
| Smollen elOped with her fathers chauf-
fsrr,
she left her husband and went abroad.
She returned from Europe less than a
| week before her death. Smollen attribu-
| ted her action to the influence brought
to bear by her family, and talked of
| bringing suit against them for alienation
Of her affections. The Leavitt family
We're summer visitors in Brattleboro for
| some years.
Mrs. Florence Magll Wallace. widely
| known as a contributor to the entertain
ment department OF the Ladies' Home
Journal, visited in Brattleboro from Fri
| day to Monday and called on many Of her
| old friends She is well known in Brattle-
boro as Miss Florence MagiH having
| lived here and attended school when a
| girl Besides her work for the Ladies'
| Home Journal and other publications for
| women Mrs. Wallace has won a high
| position as a playwright. one Of her
| productions will be put on by the Schu-
| berts in New York next season. 1t will
| be given its first trial next week. Mrs.
Wallace and her husband will sail for
| EurIHe Tuesday with Miss Mary Field
daughter of the late Eugene Field on
! their return to America the two women
| will collahorate I'M writing a novel Mrs
| Wallace was so much pleased with Brat
| tleboro and the country round about that
she will attempt to persuade Miss Field
| to come here with her and remain here
! 20 .rft he &.
| relative Of Col II. +. Taylor. and most
of her visit was spent with him, and in
! visiting no Linn II. Taylor's At : W.
| Edwards and at Dr. l.. :. Edwards's to
! whom she is related also Mrs. Wallace
| went Monday night to NORTHAMPTON to
! attend the commencement exercises at
Smith college. Her husband IS an engl-
neer. now in Panama.
Darwin f. Carpenter. es, formerly of
this town, died in his home in Spring
| held, Mass Sunday after an illness of
| three years with heart disease. He was
! born in Mortified, this state. but for
/ about % wears he lived in this town
being employed by the Estey Organ
company. From Brattleboro the family
| moved to Guilford, where they lived nine
| years, going to Springfield u Years ago.
About year ago Mr. Carpenter, because
! or Ill health, gave up a position in the
| United States armory. where he had
| been employed eight years. He enlisted
| from Mortified in Company ? LIST Yer
mont Regiment May 2, 1861, and was
mustered out Aug. Is of the same year.
| He enlisted in Company c. 18th Vermont
| Regiment, Sept. II, 1862 was made
| coporal Of the company and was muster
| ed out Aug. 5, 1863. He was a mem
| Der of Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fell
| lows of Brattleboro Besides his wife
Mr. Carpenter leaves eight children, Mrs
Henry II. Fletcher of Springfield, this
| state, Mrs. L. d. Franklin OF Guilford
William F. Carpenter of Meriden, Conn.
Henry w Carpenter of Greenfield, Mass,
Martin B. Carpenter of Spokane, Wash,
| and Mrs. Robert Kibbe, Fred B. Carpen-
ter and Ralph s. Carpenter of Springfield
Mass. The body was brought to Brat
tleboro Wednesday morning, escorted by
a delegation Of odd Fellows. A delegation
from Wantastiquet lodge conducted the
committal service at the grave in Pros
pect Hill cemetery.
The annual convention of the Windham
and Bennington Association OF Universal
lists was held in the Universalist church
in Brattleboro Tuesday and was one of
the most interesting and most largely
attended in recent years. Rev. d. E.
Trout pastor of the Brattleboro church.
presided at the morning service. which
Was given over largely to business. The
reports of the secretary and the treasurer
showed that the work during the year
had been satisfactory for the most part,
and the churches whose representatives
reported appeared to be doing good work
The churches represented were those I'm
Wilmington, Vernon Guilford. Jackson
Vile Bellows Falls and Brattleboro.