Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-04-29

ferred the third degree on a class OF ~ /
Monday evening The initiatory degree
Will be conferred next Monday evening.
The Brattleboro Medical club held one
of its occasional banquets in the Brooks
House last night, nearly all the practicing
physicians of the town being present.
A meeting Of the women of the Con-
gregational church took place yesterday
afternoon and it was voted to lay hard
wood floors in the parlor and Sunday
school rooms.
The annual convention of the grand
bodies of odd Fellows will be held in
Burlington May 1920. f. e. Perry is
grand master of the grand lodge and w
Y. Haigh is colonel of the uniformed
rank, Patriarchs Militant.
In the regular meeting of the Quonek-
tacat tribe of Red Men Friday evening
it was voted to buy new Indian suits and
moccasins for the degree team. The
present suits have been in use about 20
years. Pocahontas council also voted to
buy new costumes.
1t rarely happens that an attraction
gives more satisfaction than does Phil
OTIS Comedians. They will return to
the Auditorium Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week. giving matinee and
evening performances on the second day,
and this announcement will be read with
pleasure by everybody who saw them on
their former visit.
The report of the j. c. White COM
pany, contractors, who built the Vernon
Hinsdale dam. for the last fiscal year
shows an increase in surplus from $685.
406 to 1891 1874 after paying regular divl-
dends on the preferred stock President
White says that the company is acting
as designing and supervising engineers
for important work in Canada, amount
ing to several million dollars. and that
it never had a more desirable business
prospect.
The vote of the Brattleboro board Of
trade to invite President w H. Taft
to visit Brattleboro on the occasion of
his visit to Burlington or at some other
time has not been communicated to the
President but a formal invitation will
\ be extended in due time. EX-Congress-
man Kittredge Haskins, who was to
write the letter. to be signed by officers
| of the board of trade, expects to go to
| Washington soon, and it is probable that
| ne will present it in person. President
| Taft is said to have expressed to Senator
| Dillingham; and Representative Foster
wish to visit his ancestral home in
| Townshend.
George A. Doyle. the 14-year-o old boy
| who has been missing from his home In
| RoXbury, Mass, since April 3, is be
| lieved to have been in Brattleboro Sat
| urday night boy whose description
| was very similar to that given Of young
! Doyle in the Boston papers appeared with
| "A companion at the Bratteboro House
| Saturday night and hired a room. on
| Sunday morning he asked the price of
! the room for a week but IL was too
| high and he went away. Miss Loretta
| Turner noticed the similarity between the
! boy and the picture and accounts which
were published in the newspapers and
| she wrote to his mother, Mrs Mary
! Doyle of RoXbury. He registered as
| George l-ackey at the Brattleboro House
1t is believed that his companion was
! George Hannum Of RoXhury. who was
| supposed to have gone with him. Moth
ing further has been seen or heard from
either Of them.
The Brattleboro druggists seem to be
| divided in their opinion as to the wisdom
Of keeping open Sundays more than an
| hour at noon. w. f. Root went back to
| the old hours two weeks ago and fair
| number of the patrons of the store took
| advantage of the wider latitude in hours
| Fred II. Holden opened his store the
| same hours last Sunday and he reported
Il good number Of patrons, especially in
| the early evening. He believes that the
| change is one which the people will APP
| preciate and that 1t is necessary that
| there should he an open hour in the
| evening. At c. T. Graffam's store an
| evening schedule was put i'm force in
| the clerks in charge reported that trade
| was not very brisk. {. F. Thomas stuck
| to the noon open period except that he
| increased it to include the time from IL
| to l o'clock. Keeping the store open
that length of time proved an accommo-
| dalton to the physicians and Il made
| little difference to the clerks.
Brattleboro appears to be on the verge
of another Sunday-closing crusade. In
the meeting of the seectmen last night
"a petition was received for a common
victualer's license for Joseph Morse and
\. DeAngelis of the New York Fruit
company store in the Judge building.
The selectmen looked upon this petition
as a subterfuge to gain a legal right to
keep the fruit store open for business
on sunday and they laid IT on the table.
The petition was sent in by Robert c
Bacon, solicitor for the petitioners. The
company opened its store for business
two weeks ago, but the proprietors were
| warned to close. The seectmen had no
special feeling in the matter but Mayor
| T.. j. Waterman was quoted as saying
that he would prosecute the proprietors
of the store if they opened Sunday, IL
cense or no license, and the selectmen
| decided not to arouse any controversy
between the village and town authority.
| 1t was represented to the selectmen that
John Equi, proprietor of the fruit and
| confectionery store formerly conducted
| by Alright q Cassassa. wanted a license
If the other fruit store had one, but that
he would rather not open Sundays. He
would not want a victualers license eX-
| cept as a matter of business protection
| against the new firm. 1t Is a pity that
leniency in the enforcement OF the law
should not be met with a disposition to
observe the dignity of Sunday and to
refrain from an offensive display of trade.
The open fruit stand, under the same
conditions as on week days, is as Of
fensive on the one hand as the rigid
enforcement of the law is on the other.
The drug stores always have conducted
their Sunday business in a way inof-
| fensive to the most fastidious people.
| Mr.. Equls position indicates that he de-
sires to use similar discretion.
Albert Turner Smith.
Albert Turner Smith, IS. son of Shera-
ton j. Smith of Brattleboro, died Of pneu-
monia Tuesday morning at $50 in the
| home of Mrs. Charles X. Ames in Will
| mington after an illness of less than FIVE
| days. He worked on Thursday OF last
week. but that night he complained of
| pains in his side, and pneumonia affect
| ing both lungs developed rapidly. His
| condition was considered very serious
| form the first. but on Monday there were
| some hopeful indications. He was cared
| for by a trained nurse and physicians
| form Wilmington and Brattleboro gave
| him every possible attention. During
| Monday night he grew worse, however
and failed rapidly until the end came
| The young man was born i'm Groveton,
n. H., March II, 1892 and was a son
OF Sheraton j. and Mary Daley Smith.