Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-08-04

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The Unitarian church is closed this |
week for the usual summer vacation. |
Services will be resumed the second Sun
day in September.
on account of small attendance no
business was transacted in the monthly
meeting of the Vermont Wheel club
Tuesday evening. The question of a
field day was scheduled for discussion.
The regular meeting and picnic COM
bined of the Sunshine society, branch 1,
will be held this afternoon in Mrs. Big
CLOVIS grove in West Brattleboro. If
the weather Is stormy the meeting will
be indefinitely postponed.
Brattleboro chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, urge all patriotic
citizens to display the American flag
Aug. 49, the 13lth anniversary of the
battle of Bennington, when the Ameri-
cans under General Stark defeated the
British under General Baum.
There will be a service on the com
mon Sunday afternoon at o'clock at
which Rev. DIR. r. A. Torrey, one of the
Mortified speakers will deliver the adj
dress Music will be provided by
Mortified quartet. In case of rain the
service will be held in the Baptist
church.
ser & Mitchell company was held We'd
nesday. Mark Elllan of Chicago was
elected director and second vice-presi-
dent and Henry r. Brown was elected
secretary and treasurer to succeed w.
c. Mitchell, who recently disposed of his
holdings in the company.
Articles of association have been filed
with the secretary of state by the Nae
irema Chemical company of Brattleboro,
Il. lie i nh
ical supplies. The company has CAPT
tai stock of 100000, divided into 1000
shares. John c. Yates and A. NJ. Per-
kins of New York and Harold E. Whit
ney of Brattleboro are the sgners.
A hearing is scheduled for next Tues
day evening before the board of select
men on the petition of several residents
and owners of land who are interested
! in building a street from Oak Grove
avenue. nearly opposi+ Blakeslee street,
| into the field south of Fort Drummer
| Heights 1t is expected that the meet
ing will be lively as there is said to be
some opposition to the plan of putting
a street through although several new
building lots would be opened for de-
velopment.
Tony Merno, an Italian employed by
| f.. G. Crosby, was stabbed in the hip
| Sunday evening by an Italian who has
not been located. The men We're in a
car in the freight yard and Tony says
that he was assaulted and stabbed with
out warning and that he had not had
any words with his assaant He was
rushed to DR.. Thomas Rice's office where
the stlleto, an evil appearing piece of
steel about six inches long, was removed
from his hip. Chief-of-Police Wilson is
looking for the man who did the stab
bling.
Bertram G. Spencer of Springfield
Mass, who has been under observation
at the Bridgewater, Mass, hospital fol
insane criminals and who was shown t.
be the man who broke into DR.. c. S
Pratts house and stole a large amour
of jewelry and other articles, was re
turned to the Hampden county jail il
Springfield Tuesday. He will be triet
in October on the charge of numbering
! Miss Martha b. Blackstone in Spring
field March 81, 1910. A certificate signe
by the officials of the hospital say
Spencer is sane.
The Chace & Hartman interests wi
begin in a few days the constructio
work on a concrete dam across tn
, Deerfed river at Shelburne Falls, whic
will take the place of an old woode
structure there. Engineers are now o
the ground making plans. The Lamso
& Goodnow Manufacturing company
; who receive their power from the pres
ent dam, will be supplied with electric
: ity from the Vernon plant while the ne
dam is being built. From 300 to 81
men will arrive in Shelburne Falls witt
in the next few weeks to work on tn
dam.
Francis Lynch, 10, an employee of tn
Vermont Printing company, was injure
!; Wednesday morning by being caught be
l tween an ascending elevator and one
the floors at the company's place of bus
ness. Lynch started up from the base
Il ment, making the elevator go slowl
D Just before reaching the third floor
leaned over and looked downward an
e lost his balance He fell with part of h
u body outside the elevator and was caugl
between it and the floor above. TT
p elevator stopped and his cries for he
!" brought other employees to his aid. d
e G. r. Anderson was summoned and II
boy was hurried to the Memorial hospit
q in the ambulance. An eXamna tic
+ showed that no bones We're broken a
9 though the lad was suffering from ba
nervous shock. He was taken later
- the home of his aunt, Mrs. C. j. Miller
: Elliot street, with whom he has bee
living.
t Road Commissioner D. T. Perry bega
. work Monday morning with a force
e men on Linden street, just north
= Chase street. The sidewalk will
e raised about two inches and opposi
+ Chase street the street will be widen,
II four feet and curve Strengthened. o.
o posite II. Il. Bonds house the sdewa
X will be widened and the grade in II
: street reduced. During the past ye
l. $500 loads of gravel have been dump,
on the bank on the Retreat grounds
!, the east side of Linden street. $500
- the Retreat and 1000 by Commission
- Perry The grading is not complete
: and this week employees of the instit
lie ton began finishing 1t by dumping
20 more loads near the south end of Il
W bank. The gravel comes from a pit
y the Retreat farm and the town is Civ
"a the privilege of using without char
+ all it wants on any of the public hig
A., ways that border the property of t.
institution.
Dt An automobile accident which, VIII
10 not funny in itself had some amusii
< features happened late Tuesday night
l. the corner of North Main street a
rs Park place. Harold f. Whitney w
D. driving his Ford car down the street wi
n, j. Willard Cobb as a passenger and
- ne turned out for a team the right re
wheel collapsed near the public flow
Of garden at the junction of the streets a
no the machine turned turtle Both you
men were pinned, under II and Mr. Co