Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-07-14
VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, JULY

Cobb's large Stevens-Duryea touring
car. .-+ t.
The ashes Of James B. Smiley of
Chicago, formerly of this town, who
died June rs. were brought here
last week and committal SER
vices were held at the grave
in Prospect Hill cemetery Saturday, Rev
Roy M Houghton officiating. The body
was cremated in Chicago.
Two engines, each hauling 25 New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
passenger coaches. passed through here
Sunday evening bound for Canada. When
asked where the cars were going one
of the conductors explained that they
were being taken to Montreal to be used
during the summer rush on the Grand
Trunk railroad.
A meeting of the executive board of
Brattleboro chapter, ID. A. r., was held
in the home of Mrs. l.. e. Holden Sat
urday afternoon. One new member was
voted in. 1t was decided to give up the
July meeting on account of it's coming
so near the meeting in Vernon for dedi-
cation of the Fort Bridgman marker.
At the time of the August meeting the
members will have a motor boat ride to
Echo park.
The fall term of school in district No.
2 will begin Sept. and end Dec. 20.
Inc winter term VIII DeRln Jan. ana
end March %. The spring term will be-
gin April 9 and end June IA for the
grades and June 10 for the high school.
School will not be in session Tuesday
afternoon and the whole of Wednesday
and Thursday in Valley fair week.
Thanksgiving day and the day follow
ing, Washingtons birthday, and Memo
rial day.
w. s. Carson of Greenfield, the real
estate agent. has sold for Henry Bond
of Brattleboro the former Pierce street
Baptist church and lot in Greenfield to
Hermann Sons, a fraternal organization
which has about so members and which
will use the church building as its home.
Hermann Sons Is an organization which
Is 300 years old and takes its name from
a German chieftain, prince of the Cher
usci and the liberator of Germany from
the Roman dominion.
George Anderson, a young man with
local reputation as diver, attracted
much attention Monday afternoon by
diving several times from the top of the
arch of the iron bridge which extends
from Bridge street to the island The
point is 20 feet or more above the water.
Anderson, when diving starts as in a
regulation dive, but before he reaches
the water he Is curled up like ball and
hits the water with much force. A good
sized audience watched him Monday
afternoon and each time that he reap
peared at the surface and struck out for
shore most of those who saw his daring
act were greatly relieved.
The annual meeting of school district
No. 2 will be held in the high school
room next Tuesday at s o'clock p. m.
The warrant contains nine articles, the
third of which is to elect officers for the
coming year. Judge j. L. Martins term
of three years as a member of the school
board expires this year. Judge Martin
doubtless will be reelected without OPP
position if he is willing to serve another
term. Article is to see what action
the district will take under Act &C of the
public acts of 1910, relating to teachers
pensions, and article is to see what ac-
ton will be taken under Act 70, relating
to medical inspection in the schools. All
the other articles are routine.
Mrs. Susan F. Ellis Fogg, IS, widow of
d. C. Fogg, died in her home in Keene
Sunday. Her sister, Mrs. E. L. Cook of
| Brattleboro, had been caring for her
| several weeks Mrs. Fogg was the
| daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs Hen
ry T. Ellis of Surry, N. H., and after
attending the normal school in Ply
| mouth taught school successfully several
| years previous to her marriage to Mr..
| Fogg, She was a woman of sterling
character, respected by all who knew
her The funeral was held in Keene
| Wednesday. Walter Cook came from
Richmond, Va, to be present at the
| funeral Mrs Fogg leaves brother.
| Frank Ellis of Surry, and three sisters,
Mrs. Holman of Hinsdae Mrs. Cook,
and Mrs. Joslin of st. Paul.
a searching party consisting of W. A.
| Shumway, II. f. Harris, DR.. G. F. Bar
| Der and Selectman John Calvin spent
about three hours Monday afternoon
looking for seven year old Lee Riggle-
man, who lives with his mother in one
| of the watercure buildings. Mrs. c. r.
| Riggleman works in laundry and
leaves the boy at home during the day
| She went to work usual Monday and
| on coming home to dinner could not To-
| cate her son. Neighbors had seen him
| about 10 o'clock, but not since then
| She notified Mr.. Calvin and he organized
the party. They separated and went tc
several swimming holes about town and
enlisted the aid of several of the boys
playmates. One of them finally found
| him near the lumber yard of Holden &
| Martin and took him home. He had
| been in swimming and becoming tired
| had fallen asleep in field near Whet-
| stone brook, where he was found.
Charles B. Waite, member of the no.
| torious doodle" board of aldermen OF
| new 1 YIN CllEt whose lame was IL part
| of the citys history in the early
| eighties, died Friday in New York, after
| a protracted Illness. Mr.. Waite became
| an informer on his associates when the
| district attorney deved into the sale OF
| votes which went on when Jake SharI
| was seeking a franchise for the Broad
| way railroad in 1884 Waite inherited q
! fortune from his father, Charles C.
| Waite, man who went from Brattle-
boro years ago, who became proprietor
of the Sherman House in Chicago, the
Brevoort in New York, and who had ar
| interest in the old Windsor hotel OF
| New York. Charles B. Waite and his
mother We're conspicuous members of the
| American colony in Paris some years
maintaining a luxurious establishment
there. Mr.. Waite was a liberal con-
| tributor when actively interested in pol
| tiles, and is said to have given $50 OOC
| to a campaign fund i'm New York In
1889, when Grover Cleveland was elected
governor. Mr.. Waite married in 1898 lie
| liza Wylie Hurd, proprietor of millinery
| establishment on Fifth avenue She was
| one of many Americans killed in the
wreck of an express train in Salisbury
| England, in 1906.
Few changes will be made in the tech
ing staff of school district No. the
coming year Miss Nellie A. Prouty
who was away the past year on a leave
| of absence, will resume her position IN
| grade in the Canal street building
| Her substitute, Mrs. Hortense s. Bruce
| will take temporarilY the Mace of Mrs