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

The first and second degrees VIII be
| conferred in the regular meeting of Pro-
| tectve Grange Wednesday evening
The Grange Dramatic club will hold a
waltzing party in Grange hall Tuesday
| evening. Leitsinger's orchestra will
play. Everyone is invited.
The decorations at the Hunt-Hunt
wedding Wednesday night were furnished
by Florist Carl S. Hopkins and the cater
| ing was done by Austin f.. Miller.
The Bratteboro hose team will hold
| another dancing party In Grange hall
Friday evening, May -. Leitsinger's
orchestra has been engaged to play.
e. M Frye of Boston, supreme secre-
tary of the n. f. O. p, stopped over
Wednesday night in Brattleboro and at
tended the meeting of Brattleboro lodge.
The last lecture in the series at the
Unversalist church was given Sunday
evening The church was taxed to its
utmost capacity. Miss Katharine Mar
| tin sang two solos.
A meeting of the balliffs and the board
of civil authority will be held in the Of
| flee of Gibson e Waterman at 7.3O O'Clock
tomorrow, Saturday. evening to make
needed changes in the check list to be
The frame of one of the three two
tenement houses to be built by Holden
| e. Martin on Fort Dummer Heights is
laid Work on all three is being pushed
rapidly.
The body of Miss Alpherellis j. Ellis
10, was brought here Monday morning
for burial in Prospect Hill cemetery
She died in Searsburg Jan. 2, of typhoid
fever and the body was placed in the
tomb in Greenfield.
Edward Russell, who was shot in the
left side by the accidental discharge of
his shotgun while repairing a boat at
| Marlboro South pond April 3, is doing
we'll in his home on the King place in
| Marlboro. He is under the care of
| professional nurse, and his complete re-
covery is expected
S. w. Edgett & Co. report the sale of
the w. H. Childs house on Green street,
recently owned by Henry r. Brown. to
Charles Miner, who buys for an invest
| ment The grantor was the L. +. Adams
| estate. The same firm has sold to Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Kenney of West Brat
tleboro a house and one acre of land in
the village of Bernardston, Mass.
A Springfield despatch in the Rutland
Herald says: Crosby & Parker have
closed a contract to build steam rail-
road eight miles in length from West
port, n. Y, on Lake Champlain, to
Elizabethport, n. Y. f. C. Crosby.
with a civil engineer, is now on the
ground and the work will start at once.
The road is to be in operation on or
before October l." f. C. Crosby states
that the contract has not yet been
signed.
page in the last issue of the Congre-
gatonalist Is devoted to an article on
The Better Brattleboro Campaign" by
Rev Roy NJ Houghton, secretary. The
article contains the platform adopted at
the last meeting, and says in closing:
The Better Brattleboro campaign has
revealed new approach to the manhood
of a city. 1t has proved that there is
basis on which all the citizens of the
community, irrespective of class, creed or
religious conviction can work for civic
betterment. 1t may be called a modern
revival. Brattleboro is a representative
community. Any community may carry
out such campaign on the same lines"
The work of building stone retaining
wall at the Elliot street bridge Is finish
| ed and Road Commissioner Perrys men
have been filling in the street leading
from the top of the hill to the bridge.
| The proposed work on the Elm street
bridge was held up temporarily, to Sc
cure permission to shut off the water in
the canal for the convenience of Con-
tractor Bean. who will build the retain
| ing wall On the road near Hinesburg
| Commissioner Perry has been using a
steam drill to drill into lodges which
abound there. The lodges are blasted,
and the soft stone taken from each blast
is used to fill up depressons in the road
The boiler which supplies the steam for
the drills is on wheels and has proven a
| valuable adjunct in Mr.. Perry's work. 1t
is owned by the state and probably will
be used in other state work which Mr..
Perry contemplates doing the coming
summer.
Protective Grange was delightfully."- en-
tertained by Broad Brook Grange at a
special meeting Wednesday evening,
when 43 members of the visiting Grange
and members from neighboring Oranges
were present. The program consisted of
, piano solos by Miss Winifred Walbrdge;
, songs by quartet composed of Mr.. and
Mrs. George =. Miller, c. A. Baker and
Mrs NJ. A. Thomas vocal solos by C.
A. Baker. Archie Miner and Mrs. Her
: bert Waite; piano duet by c. y. Baker
and Fred II. Coombs; banjo duet by Mr..
: and Mrs Harry White recitations by
Frank Houghton; an address by John II.
. | Walbridge: selection on mandolin and
guitar by Mr.. and Mrs. White; dialogue
=, 1.-THE phantom doughnuts," by Mrs
Frank L. Welman. Mrs. James Thayer
Mrs. Herbert Waite, Miss Nora Jaquith
,. and Mrs. f. W. Legate. After the en-
l | tertainment supper was served by
! Protective Grange and was followed by
s remarks and a social hour with dancing
+, The contested tax cases of Frank Car
penter and his mother, Mrs. Roxy Car
penter, were heard by the listers and
| board of civil authority Saturday, At
! torney W. D. Smith appearing for the
y Carpenters. From the testimony 1t APP
peared that the listers were not satisfied
| with Mrs. Carpenters list of IS and made
1t s5000 but that they did not first double
= the original list. Mr.. Smith claims that II
= | failing to double that list the listers die
not proceed according to law and tha
the final list is invalid. The matter was
= left with A. p. Carpenter and F. d, +
/, Stowe members of the board of civil
Y authority, who will advise the tax col
y lector according to their judgment
II Frank Carpenter has paid taxes on his
# farm at the assessed valuation of $1,000
It since the last quadrennial appraisal, bu
s he has paid under protest, feeling tina
5 the tax was excessive. The case wal
v disposed of the same way as the RoX!
e Carpenter case The contest case of Mis-
IS Mary Carpenter was settled several day
e earlier
:, II The street sprinkling problem ha
!, reached an acute stage this week. Mail
l. and Elliot streets are being watered
:, money for this purpose having bee
=, raised by subscription as usual. In othe
:, sections of the village the air is file
= with clouds of dust. The agitation 70
~ oiling the streets has left the Who'll
q stua ton in an unsettled condition. Som
=, of the people express a preference TO
oillng, and David T. Perry has made ar
rangements to buy apparatus to be use
n in snra wing the streets with oil but