Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-08-12
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bettSinger orchestra VIII pay at Ihe |
services on the common Sunday after
noon.
George Il. Bishop, the local tree warden, |
has taken the contract to trim the elms |
on the state highway in Mortified Mass. |
The odd Fellows Of Bellows Falls have |
invited the odd Fellows of Brattleboro !
to Join them in a basket picnic to be held |
at Barl>er park, Labor day, Sept s.
Quonektacat tribe Of Red Men is plan
ming a picnic to be held at w. A. Har-
riss farm early in September. 1t Is
planned to make it better than any outing
the tribe ever has held.
Tickets for THE Girl from Rector's"
will go on sale Monday morning at the
box office. The Auditorium is now
particularly attractive place for summer
entertainments, as with the new system
of ventilation 1t is the coolest place in
town.
The annual reunion of the Windham
County Veterans association will be held
in Wilmington Thursday in connection
with the Old Home week celebration.
Teams will leave Brattleboro at a. m.
Information may be obtained of Com
mander NJ. L. Bruce.
Mrs. E. L. Marcy, formerly of this
town died in a hospital in Salt Lake
City the first of this week following an
operation for appendicitis She was re-
Ddna Marcy, who has been teaching in
Alaska, and had stopped to visit her
brother-in-law, Frank Marcy.
The police have been notified to watch
out for a very aggravating form of petty
thievery-1he stealing of lanterns which
have been carefully placed to warn people
at night from dangers of excavations in
the streets Serious accidents are likely
to occur when such lanterns are re-
moved
The First Regiment band will give a
concert on the Brooks House balcony
Saturday evening of next week. and the
concert will be about two hours long.
There will be 80 men and a special pro-
gram will be arranged. The band will
leave al o'clock next morning for Pine
Camp jefferson county, N. Y, to remain
until Aug, 81 as the regimental band Of
the LIST Vermont Regiment.
The Red Mems league which was or
ganized recently in Quonektacat tribe was
mustered in Friday evening by f. b. Carr
of st. Johnsbury, first lieutenant of the
only other league in the state. The new
organization was started with p mem
bers. and there are number more who
expect to come in. The officers of the
company are: Captain, n. e Harris ;
list lieut., George Collins; ID lieut., Will
liam Thayer; adjutant John Birch; quar-
termaster, Charles Simonds; list sergeant
Of the Red Mems league, organized in
st. Johnsbury, was named Ethan Allen.
The Brattleboro league will be called
Stark company All companies will adopt
the Colonial costume. This custom is
followed so as to ensure uniformity in
case the various companies are brought
together. The costumes will be ordered
soon. Capt. Harris has had sufficient
training in such work to make him an
excellent drmaster The drilling will
be begun soon
A recent issue of the Great Falls. Mon,
Daily Leader gave an extended account
of the automobile trip of l.. II. Hamilton
from Boston to Montana in % days Mr..
Hamilton was accompanied by his nep-
hew, Leslie Stafford of Brattleboro. M.
Hamilton formerly was a prominent
stOckman in Great Falls. They left Bos-
ton June "a and had no intention OF
making any record so far as time was
concerned in crossing the country to
Montana. They Travelled only about eight
hours each day, and Mr.. Hamilton be-
lieves that if they had put in really long
days they could have made the journey
in about Is days On their way they
stopped in Syracuse three days and they
made another stop in Toledo. They had
little trouble with the automobile on the
journey. One tire had to be replaced
and one spring had to be repaired, They
drove into two irrigation ditches but nc
damage resulted. Leslie Stafford may
return to Brattleboro or he may decide
to remain in the West
Charles A. Clark of Springfield Mass
who is spending the summer i'm West
Chesterfield caught another big pike or
muscallonge, yesterday afternoon in the
Connecticut river near the outlet OF the
Slab Hollow brook. He had been fishing
for bass with a siX-Ounce fly rod and d
small sinner on a bass hook when he got
a big strike He had "A lively time Will
the fish about five minutes, but he sue
ceeded finally in getting it up alongside
the boat and hitting il a stunning blow
with a paddle. The fish was 80 inches
long and weighed 1874 pounds. 1t wa.
caught in about four feet of water Mr.
Clark has been having good luck witt
the FISH this summer, having caught a
least score of good ones None We're a.
large as the one caught Yesterday bu
one weighed upwards of pounds This
was not a record CATCH the fish ackinl
two inches in length ana three-quarter,
Of pound in weight of the one caught b'
Arthur Johnson and Wesley Miller a few
weeks ago.
Melvin Lawrence of Ashby, Mass. VIII,
appeared before the municipal court sew
eral weeks ago charged with a statutOr!
crime was brought before the court again
Tuesday on an information filed b!
states Attorney c. II. Williams. TIL,
the offence with which he was charge,
and could only hold him for trial by thu
grand jury in September. After beinl
confined in the county Jail at Newfane h
asked to have the information filed s.
that he could he sentenced at once H
v''e hrouoNt 10 Rrattleho~O nv DEBUT
Sheriff Dan =. Thompson Tuesday morn
ing and the states attorney appeared 70
the state. w. r. Daley appeared for tn
respondent and urged that la wrences con
dnement be in the states prison al Wind
sOr "ather than in the house of correction
in Rutland as the dampness at the hous
Of correction would be bad for rheuma
tism from which the respondent suffers
Judge Gibson sentenced Lawrence to no
more than IS nor less than Is months il
the states prison, MIR. Daley asked 70
a fine instead of Jail sentence. Lawrenc
was taken to Windsor by Sheriff A. II
Thompson that morning
An erroneous impression has been ere
ated in some quarters to the effect tina
the Central Vermont Railway compan,
is trying to delay carrying out the orde
OF the public service commission abol
ishing the railroad crossing on Bridg
street. In regard to that impression al
that needs to be said is that the mem
bers of the committee representing tn
town in the matter of aboishing tn
crossing and erecting a new passenge
station are perfectly satisfied with tn
progress that has been made and wit
the evidences of good faith on the par
OF the railroad officials. All that coul
be done since the order was made an
since the agreement between the cOmpan