Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-28

Rev. E. q. $. OSgood VIII conduct tne
| chapel service at the Retreat Sunday
afternoon at o'clock.
The odd Fellows will hold the last
! dance of the series Friday, April Is
Both halls will be open.
The Daughters of Pocahontas will hold
dance in Red Mems hall tomorrow
night. Hines and Dugan will furnish
| music. The public in invited.
About IS couples attended the dance
| given by the Brattleboro hose team in
! Grange hail Tuesday evening. Leitsing-
er's orchestra provided the music and
the hall was decorated in purple and
white. The team probably will hold
another dance soon.
Herbert A. Wood, local agent for the
| Fox motors, has an interesting display
! of motor boat engines and appliances
in the window of II. NJ. Woods store.
Mr., Wood has sold a number of motors
| in Windham and Cheshire counties the
past year.
Open cars appeared on the line of the
| Brattleboro street railway Monday and
have been running regularly on the day
| trips this week. The open cars were
taken out for a few trips Easter Sun
day, but the weather was not mild
enough to warrant keeping them in SER
vice.
Plans are being worked out for be-
ginning the canvass, to raise $4,000 for
the proposed building for boys and young
men, but the campaign will not be
| started next week. The managing com
mittee are working as rapidly as pos
slble and hope to have some announce
ment of Importance. to make soon
st. Peters club of st. Michaels Epis-
copal church held a meeting in it's rooms
Wednesday evening A full attendance
was present and baseball was discussed
After the meeting cards were played,
| The members expect to have a good
baseball team this year and will play
under the management of Miss Char
lotte Macleod.
The annual meeting of Brattleboro
lodge. No. 102, f. & A. NJ, will be held
this evening in the Masonic temple The
meeting was postponed from last night
under a dispensation granted by the
| grand master of the grand lodge, in or
der to give several members of the lodge
an opportunity to attend the meeting of
Royal and Select Masters held last night
| in Bellows Falls.
The Salvation Army will hold a rum
mage sale in the west store of the En-
erson building, Elliot street, May IL, u
and 10. Friends having clothing or sale
able goods they wish to give may tele-
phone or write to Captain Perrett on
Elm street Children's clothing is much
needed. Old newspapers and magazines
will be accepted. Packages may be sent
to the Salvation Army hail. Retting
building.
f. e. Bennett and daughter, Miss
Flora Bennett, former residents of Brat
tleboro, have sold their farm in West
Guilford to Arthur Lynde and Ernest
Thomas, who will take possession May
10. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett moved to the
farm from South Main street in 1890.
Since then Mrs. Bennett has died. Mr..
Bennett and daughter will live in the
house in Centreville formerly occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Barnes.
The Boston Sunday Post published a
story about a column in length giving an
outline of the campaign. The Introductory
paragraph was as follows: THE trans
formation of a New England city into a
modern Utopia in which the Golden Age
is to be worked out again in terms of
factories, public buildings, streets and all
forms of moral uprightness, thus build
ing up a model community after which
every other in the land, from Boston to
San Francisco, may pattern is the am
bilious enterprise now on foot in Brattle-
boro, VT"
The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Jannette
Lamb was held ~ the Home for the
Aged and Disabled Monday morning
Rev f. j. Lewis of West Brattleboro
officiating. Miss Emma j. Gregg sang
in Prospect Hill cemetery, in the Dunk
lee lot. and the honorary bearers We're
j. NJ. Phelan of Brooklyn, j. NJ Tyler
T. c. Crosby, Robert Dunklee, Charles
r. Dunklee and II. f. Weatherhead
Out-of town persons present were ]. NJ
Phean of Brooklyn. John NJ. Grout OF
Medford Mass, Mrs. Laura NJ. Keep
hart of Utica, n. Y, and Miss Laura
Dunklee of Springfield, Mass
President Dennison Cowes has APP
pointed the following chairmen of com
, mittees to serve the board of trade the
coming year. House and entertainment
f NJ. c. Houghton; insurance and taxation
Arthur l.. Maynard; legislation, Georg,
l.. Durham; local trade, NJ j. Moran
manufacturing and new industries j. f
Melen; membership, William j. Pent
land, jr.; mercantile affairs y. f. Rob
r erts; postal, telephone and telegraph
Horton d. Walker; printing and pub
ments, Clarence L. Stckney; transpor
I taton, Lyman T. Holden ways anC
Means w. A Shumway,
Six new members We're voted in anC
; these officers were elected in the annua
meeting of the Brattleboro Memoria
Hospital Alumni association in the head
quarters of the Mutual Aid association
President Miss Mabel DeGraux; vic
president, Miss Flora Cattanach; secre
tary, Miss Mary B. LOOMS; treasurer
Miss Elizabeth Hennessy; executive com
l mittee, the four officers named and Mis-
= Zilla Yeamans; visiting committee, Mis-
e Martha Wooley. Miss Catherine Va
= Gumster and Miss Flora Cattanach. TIL
4 new members are Miss Mary f. Schu
Q macher, Miss Charlotte Macleod, Mis-
e Mary e. Waitfield, Miss Elizabeth Ross
n Miss Grace Van Gumster and Mis-
a Katherine Burns Refreshments wer
t served and the meeting closed with
$ social hour.
: L. II. Barber of this town and Franl
Il Childs of Wilmington were shaken vi
badly Tuesday evening by being thrown
l. from carriage in Wilmington, Mr.
$ Barber went there on a business tri
U and Mr., Chllds had been riding with him
i After completing their business the
| went to the home of Charles Barlow t
$ see colt recently bought by Mr. Barlow
y Darkness fell and while Mr.. Barber wa
IS turning the carriage around the whee
s went into guley and tipped the car
riage to one side. which frightened tn
G horse. The animal started across lots a
n full speed and a sudden lurch caused tn
I. seat to fall, carrying with it the tw
n men and top After lying stunned a fey
,r minutes the two men eXtricated them
"a selves from the top. No bones wer
,r broken but Mr. Barber and Mr. Child
Ie have been contend to their beds since
10 The horse was stopped about mil
,r from where he started and horse an
= buggy were returned to Bratteboro I
ID the owners, Howard & Yearly
II An informal rpceptiOn given bV N