Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-02

the Retreat next Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Protective Grange will work the third
and fourth degrees Wednesday evening,
June I. Supper will be served to which
all members are requested to contribute
without further notice.
Rexford Benson has hired the front |
part of the store in the Emerson build
ing, formerly occupied by G.. o. Abbott |
& Son. He moved his harness shop
there yesterday from his old quarters |
over Howard & Yearlys livery stable. /
Timothy Connors was taken before
Judge w. r. Daley in the municipal |
court Saturday by Chief Of Police Wilson
charged with intoxication. He pleaded
guilty and was fined IS and costs. Being
unable to pay, he was sent to Newfane
Jail to serve a sentence of Is days.
The Is remaining Italian laborers who
We're working on the ledge opposite the
station were discharged Sunday and went
back to Boston. Timkeeper C. NJ
Howell and G. f. Norbert, boss of the
dynamite crew, went to Montpelier. 1t
is expected that the entire crew will re-
turn to work about July l.
The three -cornered plot of ground
near the junction of North Main street
and Park place has been greatly improv-
ed by the Civic Improvement league. The
old stumps have been removed, the lawn
has been re-seeded and an attractive bed
of red geraniums has been set out, ad- :
ding much to the attractiveness of the
spot.
Copies of the new laws passed by Con-
gress and issued by the bureau of navi-
CATION have been received. All motor
boats less than 20 feet in length are sub
iect to the provision of this act and rigid
regulations are laid down as to equip
ment, both as to lights and ife-s saving
devices. 1t is stated that the laws Will
be ,igidly enforced by the department
and it behooves all of our fresh water
motormen to keep informed as to the
provisions of the law, as the penalties
are rather severe.
The annual red tag day of the
Brattleboro rest room will be held
Saturday June 10. The solicitors will
start on their routes promptly at
o'clock and will visit every house and
place of business. 1t is hoped that all
friends of the rest room will give gen.
erously so that this room, which means
so much, not only to our townspeople.
but to our neighbors who do most of
their trading here. may be kept open as
place of rest and relaxation, where all
are made welcome Last year unfavor-
able weather handicapped the work of
the solicitors and so small an amount
hold a rummage sale.
A very pleasant social and patriotic
gathering took place Saturday afternoon
on the lawn of Mrs. Henry NJ. Ladd's
home, "Chetalah." The affair was flag
raising and again the red, white and blue
! hoated over the ''old camp ground" so
widely known during the Civil war when
the boys in blue to the strains of 'The
| Star Spangled Banner" bravely marched
Of ntt of
| never to see the dear old Vermont hills
| again The children of another genera
| ton marched with their tiny flags as
the strains of America" floated over the
| hills 1t is we'll to keep alive the patriot
ic spirit in our own hearts and those of
our children.
The Italian Gazette, published in Flor
ence Italy contained in its issue of May
Is the following: Last week, al the
Allori cemetery, over the recently-closed
| grave of the much regretted Professor
Iarkin Goldsmith Mead was placed a
beautiful white marble monument repre-
| senting the Recording Angel, which the
eminent American sculptor had, when a
boy, first moulded in snow in his native
town of Brattleboro, Vermont. The
Angel, finely sculptured in every detail
stands on marble pedestal. which bears
a medallion in marble with the portrait
| of Professor Mead moulded by himself
| Inc work, erected by the WIDOW, was
| executed at the late sculptor's studio in
Via degli Artist by one of his assistants
| The ceremony of unwilling was witness
ed by few intimate friends and ad-
mirers of the late Professor Mead"
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Federation of Womens clubs will be held
in Lyndonville Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. Reports of the various Of
ficers and committees will be given, in
GLIDING one by Mrs. Clarke c. Fits
treasurer and one by Mrs. George f
Warner, chairman of the Legislative
committee. Besides the transaction o
business addresses will be given as fol
lows: Tuesday evening, "Vermont's for
ward movement in education" Mason S
Stone, state superintendent of education
Wednesday morning, What can our Ii
brares do for the rural schools?' Mrs
l Harriet NJ Ide and an address by r. y
Merrill, director of the agricultural de
e partment of Lyndon Institute; Wednes
= day afternoon, THE general federatio
r its relation to state federations,' Mrs
= Philip ~ Moore; Thursday mornng
:, Social hygiene" DIR. Evangeline W
,. Young of Boston: Thursday Afternoon
s 1.-The neighborhood club" Mrs. Rebecc
= p. Fairbanks.
There was an attendance of 215 per
e sons in the high school room Monda
i afternoon at 2.45, when the e-Memori,
! day exercises of the grades from to
e inclusive were held. Delegations from tn
IL Grand Army and Woman's Relief corr
a. were escorted to the place of honor in tn
'N centre of the room. The songs under TT
y. direction of Miss Gregg, musical instru(
- tor were a particularly inspiring featur
W The recitations were very fitting to II
occasion and were delivered in mann'
70 which indicated that the children were
touch with the spirit of the themes. I'll
y program as published in The Ph9n
- was carried out with but few change
&c Lawrence Barker of grade 5, Canal sire
a school, who had been assigned 'Tl
- Battle Ballad of the Flag" was unab
u to be present owing to Illness, and in Il
absence of Judge Martin, who was d
or tanned in New York, Rev. f. Q. S. o
OF good chairman of the school committe
ed made brief remarks, drawing an analol
re between the duties of the soldiers al
of the participation in the exercises of t
at day The program closed with t
to singing of america" by school a
to audience and the pronouncing of t
SIS benediction by Rev. F. a. Wells.
tn
on Arthur Chesleigh Barr, 80, superi
er tendent of the city delivery of the POI
IT. office in Manchester N H., died of ACT
I'm indigestion at midnight Saturday mig
he in his home on Amherst street, Ma
ey chester. His death came very sudden
no He attended to his work as usual 81
k urday and accompanied his wife to
nm theatre that evening. He was in exc
to lent spirits on arriving home, but sho
is ~ afterward was stricken and died
" less than an hour. He leaves his WI
who was Miss Dorothy Estella CIR