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


6.15 o'clock.
The auxiliary of the N. f. O. p. will
meet Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in
the home of Mrs. Fred Davis on Canal
street.
Four persons united with the Congre
gational church on confession of faith al
the beginning of the communion service
Sunday morning.
An editorial i'm the high school Dial
sta ties that for the first time in five years
baseball schedule Is being arranged.
The February number of the Dial con-
tains the usual literary and department
feature.
Rev. Arthur Il. Whitney, who has been
pastor of the Unitarian church in Saco,
Maine, the past four years, has resigned
to accept call to the First church in
Plymouth. Mass. Mr. Whitney is a son
of Rev. +. w. Whitney, formerly pastor
of the Universalist church in Brattleboro.
The n. T.. o. p. will hold a dance in
Red Mems hall Wednesday evening, when
the gold watch and silver spoons will be
awarded the persons holding the luck
tickets. Mrs. Jane Brockington will be
floor director assisted by Mrs. Graves
A supper will be served from to 7.30, to
which the public is invited The supper
will be in charge of Mrs Fred Davis
Templar conferred the order of the
Temple Wednesday night and the same
order will be conferred again tonight
The annual inspection of the cOmmandery
will take place next Wednesday night
George f. Root of Newport, acting grand
commanders William Herrick of Montpe-
lier, inspector general, and other grand
commandery officers will he present a
banquet will be served at 6.15.
The brotherhood class of the Congre-
gatonal church took up Sunday the topic
of public utilities and particularized upon
the question of railroads. j. G.. Stafford
gave history of railroad building in the
United States and Arthur l.. Clapp re-
viewed the railroads of several foreign
countries, bringing out the strong fea-
lures of the different methods of handling
the railroad problem. The question will
be discussed next Sunday by f. j.
Guthrie, station agent, and E. c. Crosby
Further trouble occurred Saturday on
the Connecticut Valley street railway, of
which +. c. Crosby and G. c. Averill of
this town are part owners. AS stated last
week, trouble arose over the discharge of
some union employees. The trolley wire
near Laurel Park was short-circuited
Saturday night. which cut off the power
from Laurel Park to Northampton on
the Greenfield line and from Hadley to
Northampton on the Amherst line. The
job was done about o'clock and the re-
pairs were made about 9 o'clock.
Oscar f. Benson, secretary of the Val
ley Fair association, attended a meeting
of the officers of the international cir
cult, i'm St Johnsbury Wednesday. Bar
ton has dropped out and Sherbrooke has
been moved into Barton's dates. 1t is
expected that Northampton will come
into the circuit, with dates the week
following the Valley fair. The classes
here win probably include a 2.3O pace,
2.30 trot, 2.17 pace, 2.13 pace. Mr.. Benson
attended the races at the St JOhnsbury
club and was present at the clubs ban
quet in the evening.
p. O. Harris, who had been a promi-
nent business man i'm Greencastle, In
diana, since 1872, died in that city Feb
% from pneumonia. His two sons. Edgar
l.. Harris ana Lucien =. Harris, We're as
ISOLATED with him in his milling. coal ana
feed business Lucien p. Harris was a
resident of Brattleboro many years. =.
o. Harris served in a Vermont regiment
during the Civil war. He had been
councilman in Greencastle and was a
member of the indianapolis board of
trade. The body was taken to Weathers-
field. this state, for burial beside his
wife.
The board of selectmen met last even
ing and organized for the coming year
John Calvin was elected chairman and
y. r. Merrill clerk and Mr.. Calvin was
chosen overseer of the poor. A. p Car
penter was again appointed as town
counsel Routine business was trans
acted. Road Commissioner Perry will
begin to fill in on Chestnut street and
will build stone wall on the west side
of the bridge at the junction of Elliot
and Williams streets and will fill in the
sidewalk on the street leading from the
bridge to Birge street, thus doing away
with the old wooden sidewalk that has
seen service many years.
Justice F. d. f, Stowe sat through a
lawsuit between Italians Saturday fore
noon and an interested crowd of specta-
tors heard the testimony spoken in
Italian and interpreted. The plaintiff
Mary Lapoulo, was very excited and
when she and all the others talked at
once 1t was difficult to maintain the
usual dignity of the court room. The
| plaintiff sued Tony Barnard for $40 for
| the care of "A baby Is weeks The de-
PENDANT claimed an offset, also that
| the price charged was excessive. Several
| witnesses were summoned by each side
Justice Stowe found for the plaintiff to
recover $27 and costs. Attorney Charles
S. Chase appeared for the plaintiff and
Attorney Myron =. Davis for the defend
ant
Saved from death by a small bush on
| the steep sides of Mt. Washington was
| the experience of Fred II. Harris of Brat
| tleboro, captain of the Dartmouth college
outing club who returned to Hanover
Monday night after a ski and snowshoe
trip up the mountain Saturday with sew
eral members of the club. Harris on
skis had gone ahead of the mountain
climbing party and reached point within
a mile of the summit. Then with his fin
gers and toes partly frozen and so
thirsty he had to eat snow, he began the
downward trip. He had gone only a
short distance when he slipped and fell
Gaining momentum every second. he was
speeding to the edge of a rocky preci-
pice, which meant instant death, when
he sighted the small bush near the brink
and was able to turn his course sufi-
GENTLY to get into line with the abstruc-
ton. Grasping this in his whirlwind
flight he checked himself just in time to
escape being hurled on the rocks below
Harris's mark is the highest one I'm ski
climbing ever made at Mt. Washington
and he believes he could have made the
summit except for freezing his fingers
and toes. The others of the party who
started ON snowshoes We're unable to go
within two miles of Harris's distance
Hanover despatch in Springfield Union,
March T.
Carl S. Hopkins is well qualified by
training and experience to fill the i'm
portant position of town clerk, to which
he was elected Tuesday. He was en-
ployed as bookkeeper by a large firm
four years and has served as. assistant
town clerk the past two years. That
his business training has been valuable
= a Inv tha