Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-27

Inc annual meeting OF the slOCkuOlueTS
of the Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad
will be held in the Brooks House tomor-
row, Saturday, at 10 a. m.
The postofice will be open Memorial
day from to IL. The carriers will
make the morning delivery only. The
rural carriers will make no delivery.
Walter S. Stearns has bought John A.
Lindseys cottage house on Brook street,
formerly occupied by w. II. ST. Germaine.
He will move there within the next two
weeks.
A special meeting of the Unitarian
parish will be held in the rooms of the
Brattleboro Trust company Wednesday
at $3.50 o'clock to see what action the
parish will take relative to the proposed
gift of a replica Of Larkin G. Mead's
Recording Angel by Henry X. willard
of washington D. C.
An intercommunicating telephone sys-
tenn has been installed by Horton d.
Walker in the Tyler house at the corner
of Tyler and Terrace streets, recently
bought by Mason S. Stone Of Montpelier.
state superintendent of education. 1t
connects Mr.. Stones office with the va
rious rooms in the house.
The return ticket system has been
abandoned By the Central Vermont rail
road and orders have been given out not
to sell round-trip tickets after May 81
No other railroad in this part of the
country has kept such a system and It
has proved to be more trouble than II
was worth The one way rates will re-
main as before. The decision will not
effect special excursion tickets.
a reception to those who participated
in the band opera. Pirates of Penzance"
was given in Odd Fellows hall Tuesday
evening. Each member of the company
had the privilege of inviting a friend.
About $50 attended, and there was dam
cling from to II o'clock. Refreshments
of ice cream and cake were served The
matinee performance of the opera Sat
urday afternoon was attended by a
large audience and it was said by many
to be the most finished of the three
presentations.
The house north Of the Brattleboro Re-
treat buildings. occupied by Louis A.
Cain, an anploye at the Retreat, was re-
leased from quarantine for diphtheria
Tuesday, Mrs. Cain having recovered
from the disease There is now no house
in Brattleboro under quarantine. Health
Officer Henry Tucker has not had sin
gle case of anything to report to the state
board of health since a week ago last
sunday, which is an unusual record.
During the last winter season nearly 500
cases of measles were guaranteed in this
town, but five years had elapsed since
the previous epidemic of measles
The first examination even held in
Brattleboro for the New England COL
lege Entrance board will be given Mon
day, June %. and a few DAYS following
Brattleboro was selected this year at
the request of Principal +. b. Smith
as there are a number in the high school
to take examinations. Rev Il. G. s
Osgood. chairman of the prudential COM
mittee, will be in charge Besides the
Brattleboro candidates there will be
others from this locality. Graduates Of
the Brattleboro high school are allowed
to enter most colleges on certificate but
there are a few colleges which require
examinations and have entered into an
agreement which provides for a uniform
| examination for all colleges. Three Brat
tleboro boys will take the examinations
Charles Ramsdel for Columbia. Arthur
Dewitt for the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology and Harold Staples for
Harvard.
The six-inch water main on South Main
| street gave out under the high pressure
near the corner of South Main and Pine
streets Saturday night. The water gush-
| ed to the surface and quilted a deep hole
| before it could be shut of William Bet
terly was driving home to his farm in the
| evening and he did not see the hole in
1 all
| over The animal was pulled out after
much hard work and it did not appear to
have been hurt seriously. The break in
| the pipe was due to an old crack OPEN
| ing under the high pressure. A similar
| break occurred in Chestnut street the last
| of the week. An old crack had been re-
paired by putting on bands which closed
| the opening. but the bands were not
strong enough to withstand the pressure.
| f4N 1NaaY
eral breaks in service pipes resulted from
| turning on the high pressure i'm the south
| part Of the town. The water company Is
| pushing the hydrant installation as rapidly
| as possible About so MIGRANTS have been
| put in and all Of the SO called for in the
contract will be in position by July l.
After 20 years or more Of continuous SER
| vice the old overshot water wheel which
| has turned the machinery I'm the Stel-
| man machine shop on Arch street, for
| merry the Hines & Newman shop has
finished its work. The old wheel, which
| was IS feet in diameter with buckets six
! feet wide broke in two a few days ago
/ in its dark quarters in the basement OF
| the building, the iron work having be-
| come rusted and the wood work water
! logged, and one section settled down up
on the rocks below The wheel had
| given out on previous occasions and had
| it will be put into service again In an
ticipation of trouble the Twin State Gas
| and Electric company, owners of the
| building, had placed an electric motor on
the ground floor, and this has furnished
power since the wheel gave out. with
the exception of the big wheel in the Cole
paper mill in Putney, which is "a feet in
| diameter, this is the largest wheel of Its
| kind in this part of the state. Formerly
| there were three of them running side
| by side, but the two others gave out and
were removed some years ago.
More than 800 joval Mystic Shriners in
vaded Brattleboro Friday, on the oc-
casion of the pilgrimage of Mt. Sinai
Temple and late in the afternoon Main
street from an upper window resembled
an immense animated poppy bed, with the
brilliant red fezes dOtting the sidewalk In
| every direction. Melha temple of Spring
| field was represented by a delegation 100
| strong, who came on a special train, and
| nearly the same number came from Mont
| peler, the home of Mt. Sinai temple, and
places nearby. Other temples represented
| were Cairo of Rutland, Bektash of Con-
| cord, AleppO of Boston, Oriental of Troy
| and Sphinx of Hartford. The Brattleboro
Shrners met the visitors at the railroad
| station and escorted them to the Brooks
| House, the official headquarters. Three
hundred and eight partook Of the banquet,
| served at $50. In the later evening the
ceremonial work took place in Festival
hall. The novltates who crossed the hot
sands were F. r. Vaughan, w. ]. Pent-
land, jr., L. l. Durham. c. H. Niles. X,
| p. Darlington, o. F. Benson, Horton d.
Walker and Jesse E. Haynes of Brattle-