Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-05-13

Harry 3. Haus has sold to the Standard
oil company a plot of land adjoining the
land on Vernon street 1t was
part of the land bought recently of the
Murningside Cemetery association by Mr..
IIaus.
The second degree will not be confer
red by Wantastiquet lodge, l. o. o. F.,
Monday evening on account of the grand
lodge meetings in Burlington. The de-
gree will be conferred Monday evening,
May %.
The reports given in the monthly meet
ing of the Brattleboro Mutual AID as
ISOLATION Monday afternoon showed that
April was busy month. Sxty-eight
calls were made on the association for
nursing, attendance and homework and
the five attendants were on duty con-
stantly throughout the month. Several
additional helpers had to be secured for
brief periods of work.
Melha temple Of Springfield, Mass, will
send a delegation Of about $50 members
to Brattleboro next Friday afternoon, May
20, to join in the festivities with the Mo-
bles of Mt. Sinai temple, Mystic Shrine,
who will come here from all parts Of the
state A banquet will be served at the
Brooks House at $50 and the ceremonial
work, with a large class of candidates,
will take place during the evening in Fes-
tival hall
In the annual meeting of the w. c. T
L. Saturday afteroon in the home of
Mrs. Henry Tucker on Grove street these
officers were elected President, Mrs
Henry Tucker; vice president Mrs. a. j.
Currier; secretary, Mrs. Harriet Tucker;
treasurer. Miss Emma Heath; auditor,
Mrs. Frank L. Perry. After the business
meeting there was a social hour and
refreshments were served and a very
pleasant and profitable hour was spent.
The next regular meeting will be held
May "a in the rest room.
In the annual meeting of the ladies' aid
society Of st. Michael's Episcopal church,
held Wednesday afternoon in the home Of
Mrs F. W. Chds on Terrace street,
these officers We're elected: President,
Mrs. Ernest w Gibson vice presidents.
Mrs Fred Gipson, Mrs. Christopher
Babb and Mrs. Lillian Royce; secretary,
Miss Ruth Childs treasurer Mrs. A. w.
Montgomery. After the business meet
ing there was social and refreshments
We're served by the hostess.
Charles A. Couch a mining engineer
associated with the gold mine in Lebanon,
y. H., was examined before Judge Thorn
as A. Seaver in the probate court in
Woodstock Monday on petition of the
selectmen Of Hartford for the appoint
ment of "A guardian for Couch as an in
sane person. He had been confined in
the police station in White River juno
ton 10 days. The evidence showed that
he went from Lebanon to White River
Junction and made arrangements to meet
Ernest +. Towue of Springfield, Mass, in
Brattleboro the next day. Towue is the
mine promoter by whom Couch was en-
ployed The selectmen did not appear at
the hearing ana Judge Seaver said there
was a mystery about the case that he
did not like. wherefore he dismissed the
petition.
The high school athletes are doing
some hard work in preparation for tne
track meet which will be held on the
Valley fair grounds May y. Bellows
Falls and Greenfield have accepted the
invitation to take part in the meet and
Vermont academy ana Kcene high school
have been invited to participate II all
five schools take part the contest ought
to be a hard one. So far as their athletic
performances go the Brattleboro boys are
rounding into good form. but few Of
the leading athletes are not up to the
mark in their studies and may not be
allowed to enter the contests. Whether
they win or lose. the Brattleboro high
school is going to stand squarely by the
regulation that no athlete shall take
part in the meet who is not doing work
passing mark Some of the boys who
are in danger of being barred from the
meet on this score are making great
efforts to come up to the mark before
the meet
Manley Brothers have added to their
garage facilities by the construction OF an
addition equipped with a mercury arc rec
tifer for recharging storage batteries.
There are so few electric automobiles in
"a no. "a >
the recther viii be much in demand for
them, but it will prove a great conven-
fence in rechaTging Ignition cells for au-
tomobiles and motor boats The firm
heretofore has recharged the ignition cells
| by coupling together a number of lights,
but the process has been expensive on ac-
count of the waste The mercury arc rec
tiher recharges ignition cells quickly and
without waste. The rectitier Is simply a
device for changing the alternating cur
rent to a direct current. The alternating
current in common use for electric power
in the smaller establishments OF Bratte-
boro cannot be used to recharge a bat
terry. The same type of a rectifier is in
use a t the telephone exchange, at the
Estey Organ works and the Carpenter
Organ company factory. The addition to
the garage is on the east side of the main
building. At the south end is a room for
the rectiher and the rest will be used for
housing an automobile during the process
of recharging. which takes several hours.
Although only two Brattleboro drug
gists have made a return at the county
clerks office of the number of prescrip-
tions for intoxicating liquor which they
filled in April ii is apparent from an
inspection of the partial record that the
general average was more than kept up
during the last month of the druggist
license system Dr. +. r. Lynch heads
the list again with 166 prescriptions cred
tied to him at the two stores. The rec
| ords of the physicians at the two stores
are as follows: DR.. G. r. Anderson 5,
DR.. c. r. Aldrich 43. DR.. f. S. Bowen
"a, DIR. H. p. Greene g.. DIR. j. w. Gregg
81 DIR. G. b. Hunter Is, DR.. Fremont
Hamilton Il, DR.. w. II. Lane 16 DR.. E.
r. Lynch 166, DR.. A. I. Miller 10, DR.. F.,
II. O'Connor 20, DIR. c. S. Pratt s, DR..
Thomas Rice 2S, DR.. Henry Tucker Al,
DR.. H L. Waterman 40. The records
are interesting also viewed in the light
of the men who had them filled. One
of the leading physicians of the town
said recently that it was a matter of
opinion with a physician whether a man
needed whskey as a medicine but that 1t
ceased to be a matter of professional
opinion when a man secured more than
a half-pint a week. One man secured
from one drug store for medicine" two
pints of whiskey April 5. two April Il,
two April 10, two April 10. two
April 81, two April 26, two April q
and two April 29. In addition to this
supply the same man secured from the
other drug store which has returned its
record two quarts of whiskey April 2, a
quart April so and a pint May l. The
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