Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-06-10

The program for the Grange meeting
Wednesday evening will be in charge of
Ceres, Pomona and Flora.
The women of the Baptist church will
hold food sale in the vestbule of the
church Saturday afternoon from to
O'Clock.
The next regular meeting of the w.
c. T. [. will be held Tuesday, June 2S,
at which time they will adjourn until
September unless a special meeting is
called.
The selectmen received a petition last
night from residents in Esteyvile asking
that the bridge near the junction of
Locust and Chestnut street be widened.
They set a hearing for Wednesday even
ing at o'clock on the premises.
The sloyd work which has been done
by the boys of the seventh. eighth and
ninth grades under the direction of Miss
Florence Goodenough this year will be
on exhibition in Arthur f, Roberts's
store Monday and Tuesday. The work is
Of unusually high grade and it is well
worth examination by all interested in
the schools.
The Young Women's association Of the
| Congregational church will meet Sunday
| evening at 73O o'clock in the chapel.
Mrs r. c. Averill will give a report of
the meeting of the Home Missionary
union recently held in Waterbury. As
| there are important matters to be con-
| sidered it is hoped that all young women
! of the parish, whether members of the
association of not, will be present.
Children's Sunday will be observed by
| the Cniversa1ist church sunday with
! service especially for the young people
| in the morning. The Sunday school will
| occupy the body of the church. eacn
| class sitting with its teacher The school
| will take part in the devotional service
| and after a few simple exercises by the
| primary department, the pastor. Rev
| D. f. Trout. will give an appropriate
| talk.
Sunday will be observed as a memorial
| day by the odd Fellows and Rebekahs.
| Both orders will meet in their hall at
80 o'clock where a short memorial ser
vice will be held by the Rebekahs. Both
organizations will march to Prospect hill
cemetery, where the odd Fellows me-
mortal service will be conducted and the
graves will be decorated Delegations
will visit Morningside and West Brat
tleboro cemeteries and decorate the
graves in the morning
In the annual meeting of Sunshine So
ciety, branch l, held recently in
the home of Miss Mary Stearns of West
Brattleboro, these officers were elected:
President, Mrs j. c. Dewitt; vice pres
dent, Mrs. \. w. Rockwell; secretary
Mrs Cora G. Leonard; treasurer, Mrs
G. c. AveriH; library committee. Mrs
Mary c. Warder. chairman. Miss Ruth
w. Chlds Mrs G. +. Barber. Miss Mary
Stearns and Mrs. G. e. AVerill After
the business meeting there was a socia
hour and refreshments were served by
the hostess.
In meeting of the pastors and rep
resentatives of the various churche.
Monday afternoon plans We're outline.
for the Sunday afternoon meetings OF
the common. y service will be hel,
June % and meetings will be held eacl
Sunday after that as long as the weathe
r remains warm enough. The speakers 70
the meetings We're assigned Professionally
Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton, pastor of tn
| Centre Congregational church. vii
| preach at the first service. The follow
5 ing chairman of committees were selected
General committee, Rev. DR., John r
Cow; music committee, Arthur l.. May
2 nard; finance committee, H. F.. c. Toedt
e press committee. II. L. Piper
! In looking over some old papers Pete
4 S. Chase came across an interesting doc
: ument which serves to show a decide
+ change in public sentiment toward tn
a flag. 1t is a resolution which he pre-
o sented to Sedgwck post, G.. A. R., in 1S9
d asking that the prudential committee
+ the school department be respectfully re
:; quested to have the flag flown at ever
It school building every school day in tn
year. After brief consideration tn
resolution was voted down by the mem
u bers of the post on the ground tha
" there was little proba bilty that the Soho,
>, department would grant the reques
- Since then the sentiment has change
. greatly and now the statutes require thu
the flag be displayed from every schoo
n, house in the state
l. A man known as John Brown died
d Maynard, Mass a few days ago, but /
n has been identified as John Mccain, WI
II formerly was employed as pressman seN
d eral years by Pratt. Wright x CO., Cloti
# iers. in the store now occupied by Coco
e now, Pearson x Hunt. He leaves tU
lie sisters, Mrs. James Brady and Miss Ann
Mccain, both of Jersey City, y. J. Notl
+ ing was known in Maynard concernir
II John Browns past life, but when II
lie selectmen looked through his effects a
t ter his death they found a clew to h
< relatives. Although Brown" was ger
ID orally considered a poor man, investig,
lie ton of his belongings showed that !
1t possessed at least $4,000 in real estat
d cash and bank deposits. Inquiry W;
De made in Brattleboro concerning him, ar
r it was found that he had been a memb,
ID of Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fellows.
l. One of Mosher & Putney's hors,
It driven by Raymond Birch, who is en-
70 ployed by the Twin State Gas and Ee,
u trio company, ran away Wednesday a
10 ternOon and caused some cOmmotion
II Main street. Mr.. Birch was turning Il
- horse around in front of the high scho
- building and the animal suddenly startt
III to run down the street. but the reasC
was not apparent to the driver. 1t WI
of attached to an express wagon, and
y passing between team and a large po
he near the Peoples National bank one
n the front hubs struck the pole and Il
f. wheel was smashed. The spokes We
ly scattered about, but the rim of the whe
ne rolled down to the bottom of the hi
lie The force of the collision nearly thre
t Mr.. Birch to the ground and one of Il
Id pole climbing spurs which were fastenC
" to his legs stuck into one of the horse
o. gambrels, making a bloody wound. NJ
m Birch chung to the reins and RENAME
u.s. in the wagon, although one end of Il
e. front axle was dragging on the groun
ly and the horse continued to run until
nd | reached the junction of Hudson stree
a which passes back of the Brattlebo
ty House where it was stopped.
h The commencement season of the Bra
of tleboro high school will begin Saturdi
he afternoon, June 49, at 8 o'clock with ella
f. day exercises on the lawn. The progra
&c. will be: Presidents address, Harold
Staples; class grafton Charles F. Ram
in dell class poem, Helen L. Hopkins; II
70 grafton Harold F, Johnson; il
40 ode, Miriam A. Howard; class histor
or Mary f. AUSTIN class prophecy, Mau
nd A. Brown. The baccalaureate serm
as will be preached in the Congregation
OF church Sunday evening, June 20, by Re