Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-03-10
BRATTLEB ORO.

Miss Stafford the new nurse in charge
of the tuberculosis camp, would appre-
ciate gifts of seeds and seasonable bulbs.
Work on the amusement pavilion on
the island is progressing rapidly. The
frame work for the grand stand is par
TALLY completed.
The Mt. Hermon Y NJ. c. A. quartet
has been engag ed to sing at the meetings
of the Salvation Army Saturday and Sun
day evenings, March 25 and 26.
The members of the Young Peoples
union of the Baptist church held a social
in the parlors Tuesday evening. Games
and music were enjoyed and refresh
ments were served.
Plans of the first floor elevation of the
Fort hummer Mills were on exhibition in
the window of Robbins & Cowles's store
Friday, but it was found necessary to
send them back to Providence in order
that a few changes might be made.
A rummage sale for the benefit of the
rest room will be held March %, 81 and
%. The stormy tag day last June makes
this sale imperative i'm order to raise
necessary funds for the room. Ill
friends of the rest room are requested to
contribute articles for the sale.
The annual St Patrcks day fair by
st Michaers Roman Catholic church will
evening The members are hard al work
to make the affair a success. An enter
tainment will be given by the young peo-
pie of the parish and many novel effects
and decorations will be seen. The doors
will open at $50.
The laborers employed by the Central
Vermont railroad have continued this
week to tear away at the ledge opposite
the depot Several blasts each day have
n,,I 1,p attnft INF nf ct a
has been carted away and dumped on the
bank of the river. During the greater
part of the day an interested crowd of
onlookers watch the men at their work.
The Brattleboro Hose team will hold
ball in Festival hall Tuesday evening
April %. The dances which the team
have conducted in Grange hail the past
few months have been highly successful
and the ball probably will attract many
persons. Manager j. J. Clune and Walter
Spaulding went to Turner'S Falls Wednes-
day and signed John Murphy, who claims
the worlds championship for hose coup
ling, for the coming season. He will give
an exhibition of coupling at the ball.
Leitsinger's seven piece orchestra will
furnish the music, giving a concert from
g to 9 o'clock, followed by dancing until
2 o'clock
The Brattleboro Independents will play
James Donahue, who left the game Fri
day evening and was taken to Memorial
hospital, where he underwent an opera
tion for strangulated hernia. On Tuesday
evening they will meet here the st. Marys
team of Turner's Falls, with whom Dona-
hue played, and on Wednesday evening
they will go to Turner's Falls to play the
same team on it's own floor. On March "a
the Independents will play the strong
Strolers of Springfield, Mass. A game
with the medical corps of the Vermont
National Guard was scheduled for April
3, but will have to be cancelled because
of the Better BrattleborO" campaign in
the Auditorium that week.
In the meeting of Protective Grange
Wednesday evening Mrs. Bert Miller pre-
sided. The entertaining program con-
sisted of piano solos by Miss Irene
Mather songs by d. T. Perry and Ida
V. Chase, recitation by Ralph e. Thayer
and a debate on the question, Resolved
that country-bred people are less awk
ward in the city than city-bred people in
the country" The speakers brought out
some very ludicrous comparisons and the
debate was thoroughly enjoyed. The
speakers were C. S. Hopkins, d. T.
Perry, A. E. Miller, Leon I. Leader,
Ralph Thayer, Miss Lillian Hgley, Miss
Nellie Eddy and Mrs. Bessie Knowlton
The annual sugar supper of the Grange
of sugar can be obtained.
Henry f. C. Toedt has received news
OF the death of his father, C. II. A.
Toedt, n. of Altoona. Germany, near
Hamburg. Death was caused by shock
of apOpleXy Mr.. Toedt was in excellent
health up to the time of his death. He
was president of the savings bank in that
city, a member of the Society of the War
of 1s4s-51, the order of the officers Of
hat Nf 1i-t,
of Hamburg and vicinity. The funeral
was held in the home and the funeral
procession was headed by the military
band of the 31st infantry regiment sta
toned at Altoona, followed by veterans of
the war of 1851 and the officers. He
leaves four children, Mrs. Natalie Schlue
ter of Lubbock, Frederick of Dandenong,
Australia, Mrs. Amanda Kroymann of
Homburg and II. f. c. Toedt of this
town. The latter, with his wife and
daughter, visited his old home in Altoona
in 1900
Feignng Inconsistencies and injury
near the Brattleboro street railroad track
on Main street has resulted i'm years jail
sentence for Harry DeVries on convic-
ton Of larceny. DeVries is the man who
fell backward in front of the Durham
shoe store on Wednesday night of last
week while apparently attempting to
board street car, was carried into the
Leonard x Roess cigar store and thence
to the Memorial hospital lie was iden-
tilted i'm the hospital Friday forenoon by
Mrs. Isabella T.. shepard of North Adams
as the one who engaged "A room of her
and Disappeared just before she missed
1926. He was arrested by Chief-of-Police
George Wilson and turned over to Chief
Of-POliCe William f. Dinneen Of North
Adams, who took him to that city on the
2.07 train, When arraigned in court De-
Nries admitted that he received $75 in
Gardner and 500 in Greenfield for alleged
Injuries received on the street railroads,
and the officers believe he intended to
claim that he was hurt in Brattleboro
and to present a bill to the street rail-
road company for injuries,
An interesting window display has
been seen in Robbins & Cowles's
store this week The manufacturers of
the Keen Kutter line of Hardware have
display of duplicates of tools which Com
mander Peary, now Rear Admiral Peary.
took with him on his trip to the north
pole. In addition there Is huge bone
from a giant walrus, weighing about 100
pounds, and supposed to be the shoulder
Dlade of one of these amphibious beasts.
A skull of a polar bear also Is on exhibit
ton. The most interesting part of the
exhibition consists of a sledge harpoons,
snowshoes and guns which went with
Peary. The sledge Is about 10 feet long.
is made OF wood and the parts are tied
together with thongs of walrus hide. The
runners are shod with warus hide, The
whole outfit shows evidence of wear and
hard usage No nails are used in the
construction. Two harpoons, about
eight feet long, also are Of interest.
SiX-fOOt Niece Of wood of a size to handle