Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-20

be held in Newfane Thursday and Friday,
June . and 3.
The board Of trustees of the Austine
fund will make a general public state
ment of great interest through the col
umns Of the local papers next week
Bingham chapter, o. E. s., conferred
the degrees Tuesday evening; two candl-
dates were initiated and several appli-
cations were received. Refreshments
were served by the retiring officers.
The might letter" telegraph service
whereby the Western Union Telegraph
company sends so words at the regular
price of a 10-word day message, seems to
be appreciated, many taking advantage Of
1t.
At the strawberry supper and sale
which the Congregational women will hold
June q a treasure table will be one Of the
features. There will also be an apron
table and a booth for the sale Of home
made CONNECTIONS.
The Grand Trunk railroad announces
from Montreal that the cost Of extending
its line from Palmer to Providence will
amount to 100000. Engineers are now
locating the proposed line and the work
of construction will begin in the fall
An abstract Of the individual lists Of
the taxpayers Of the town was lodged in
the town clerks office Saturday by the
listers. All taxpayers should see that
their lists are correct. The listers will
be in session in their room in the town
hall building tomorrow at o'clock to
hear all who feel aggreved and to correct
any errors that may be discovered.
The Girls club served an excellent
supper in the rest room Saturday even
ing for the benefit Of that room The
menu included salad. delicacies from the
chatting dish, rolls, sandwiches, cake,
coffee, fruit punch and shcrbet. Mrs
\. J. Currier had full charge of the
supper and was assisted by young wo-
men, most Of whom had been in the
cooking class under Miss Olive Weather
head. About 500 was realized.
The lecturer had charge Of the program
at the Grange meeting Wednesday even
ing. The questions, Have you started
the garden yet? If not, why not? Are you
going TO have a garden? II not why not?
What, when and how shall plant?" were
discussed by p. T. Franklin, c. S. Hop
kins, F. A. Phelps, Mrs. F. d. Tucker,
Mrs. Ada Niles. a. J. Currler and others.
Miss Nellie Eddy. Mrs II. w. Sargent and
Miss Ada Eddy spoke about porch and
window boxes for flowers. A recitation
was given by ]. +. Lawrence. a. ]. Cur
rier gave an interesting talk about lis
ters duties. labors and perpexltes and
Mrs. p. E Franklin gave reading
y building owned by Matthew Howard
| of BrattlebOro, on the blud opposite Dew
Drop Inn at Spofford lake, was burned
early Saturday afternoon II had been
! used several years as a combined cottage
| and stable by Mr. Howard in running a
livery business during the simmer
months. He was getting the premises in
condition for opening and at noon built
a fire in the stove so as to warm his
dinner. little later. while painting out
side he was startled by finding the in
terror a mass of flames. There was but
| little opportunity to save any Of the con-
tents, and the building was soon in ruins
The loss was about $500. Mr. Howard
carried $1,000 insurance on the building
| through Taylor & Sons agency.
Daniel X Butterfield widely known as
hotel man, died Saturday in Ludlow,
where he had been proprietor of the
! Ludlow House the past seven years
| Death was due to brights disease and he
had been In poor health a long time Mr.
Butterfield ran the Union House in Cut
| tngsville . years. He was a. one time
| proprietor of the American House in
Brattleboro and for a short period pre-
vious to going to Ludlow was clerk in
/ the Brooks House He was also connected
| with the Bardwell House management in
Rutland about two years. He was
| member of Rutland lodge OF Free Masons
He Is survived by his wife. who was
| Miss Mary Dawley Of Cuttingsville and
| a sister. Mrs, George Sawyer of SPRING
field. Mass. The funeral was held in
! Ludlow Tuesday and the body was taken
! to Cuttingsville for burial
Hayes Bigelow's canoe house was erect
| ed the last OF the week. and nearly all the
canoeists have put their crafts in II.
Among new canoeists are James A. Austin,
rlng.l Hasa
! ter Arthur, who bought Hugh Harwood' 8
Oldtown canoe. and Floyd Coolidge. who
bought Paul Behring's Morris canoe last
! fall. number of improvements are
being made. including electric lights in
| the boathouse. Mr. Bigelow is planning
! TO construct a suitable wharf Just below
the bridge on the Vermont shore This
VIII make IT convenient for the canoe
/ men to take passengers on board without
their being obliged to walk across the
bridge and to the boathouse. Mr. Bige-
low also intends to build a veranda on the
south end OF the island boathouse with a
| pleasant waiting room inside the build
! ing This also will add to the pleasure
and convenience Of passengers.
The schools will follow the custom of
| other years and hold pre- Memorial day ex-
ercises the latter part of next week. The
most pretentious gathering will take
! f'HN' iAhiN AFTERNOON, Wnen all grades
| from five to nine will assemble in the
| high school room Each grade will be
| represented by a speaker and all will
! unite in the singing. The representatives
of various grades will be: Ninth grade.
Ralph Root eighth grade, Philip Putnam
| and Uanna Beard; seventh grade. high
school building, Bryan Gale; seventh
| grade Canal street building, Christina
! Croll; sixth grade, high school building.
Leila Thompson; sixth grade. Canal
street building, Hugh StowelI; fifth
grade, high school building, Stewart
| Stearns; fifth grade Canal street build
| ING Mildred Knudson. Besides the pro-
| gram by the children there will be brief
| speeches by Rev. e O. s. Osgood of the
| prudential board, Rev. John r. Cow and
| Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton. The exercises
| VIII begin at 2.45 o'clock and all interest
ed are invited. The third and fourth
grades of the high school building will
have their pre-Memorial day exercises
| wednesday afternoon and the same grades
| in the Canal street building will have
their exercises Thursday afternoon, from
1.S0 to 230 o'clock
Halley's comet stll proves very elusive.
| and few people in this locality have ac-
tually seen any trace of 1t, notwlthstand-
| ing the fact that the earth passed through
the comets tail late Wednesday night.
| II the sky is clear tonight the comet
may be seen soon after sunset, when for
the first time 1t will present a really typ-
ical appearance For some time after
wards 1t will be a striking spectacle.
The comet set last night at 7.52 O'Clock.
only 35 minutes after the sun set This
dinerence was not enough to make II