Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-23

CROWDS tnlS week. Inc tent is at tne
corner of Pine and Central streets.
Company C. Second Vermont regiment,
Is holding its annual reunion today in
Grand Army hall This is' the 5Oth ami
versary of the enlistment of the COM
pany.
The Daughters of Pocahontas will
have another dance in Red Mems hall
Saturday evening to which everyone Is
invited Music will be furnished by
Hines and Dugan
The sixth annual baby meet will be
held on the common Saturday afternoon,
July ], at o'clock. The First Regiment
band will give a concert. All mothers
and babies are invited.
The next Grange meeting will be held
Wednesday evening, June 2S. The pro-
gram will include vocal and instrumental
music, Rotations, and talks on parlia-
| mentary practice by II. w. Sargent and
Judge f. b. Pier
Brattleboro ladge, No 1902, F. & NJ.
conferred the Master Masons degree
upon three candidates last evening. This
evening four candidates are expected to
be present when the first degree is work.
ed Columbian lodge will confer the
| third degree upon three candidates next
| Monday evening.
The interest and attendance at the
| streets, have been good this week and
| those in charge say they feel that they
| have met with very pleasant welcome
| in Bratteboro. Services will be con-
| tinued next week each evening except
Saturday and some of the most wonder
full and interesting prophecies of both
the old and new testament will be fully
explained.
Carroll Wood last week sold to Oscar
| Marshall, summer resident at Spofford
lake, an 1S-foot Morris canoe. Mr.. Wood
| and his father and brother have been
at work on a new motorboat the past
few months and expect to launch it the
| second week in July. 1t is a craft of
their own design and will be fitted with
a. Fox motor. On paper the boat is
scheduled to make at least 10 miles an
hour and the owners believe she will
exceed that speed.
The Central Vermont train leaving
Brattleboro at 1O15 a. m. and returning
at 5.52 p. m, will stop at the site OF
Fort Bridgeman on the Hubbard farm
in Vernon to accommodate all who wish
to attend the basket picnic and exercises
at the dedication of the marker there
Tuesday, June 81, by Brattleboro chap
ter, d. a. r., and the people of Vernon
Should the day be stormy, the program
will be carried out as far as possible il
the parlors of the Hubbard home.
The members of Outlaw hose team
participate in the field day of the Ad
ans Anti-Tubercuoss league July
They will compete with the Alerts o
that town in a hose contest runnint
1853 yards to a hydrant and laying 90
yards of hose. The local boys hav,
volunteered their services to help tn,
; work of the league The Alerts are
strong team, the same aggregation VIII,
won first money at the Valley fair las
Coll I,f. loo AZ
by a quarter of a second.
A union Universalst Sunday schoo
picnic, to include the schools in Brattle
boro, Bellows Falls. Springfield an,
, other places, will be held in Barbe
park, Bellows Falls, next Tuesday. Al
orchestra will furnish music and Dime
, will be served on the basket picnic plan
Athletic contests will be arranged, in
Guiding a basketball game between Brat
-tleboro and Bellows Falls and possibl
one between the ministers and laymer
= Special electric cars will meet the morn
i ing trains, north and south. Further in
formation will be given in church Sun
Y day.
The graduation exercises of the mint
. | grade of the grammar school were hel
! | in the Baptist church Friday afternoo
: and a large audience listened with inter
est to the program, which was pub
lished in the June 3 issue of The Php
e nix The colors of the class were Grim
son and white and these coors wer
used in the color scheme of the deco
e ratons. Back of the altar rail wer
= banked crimson geraniums, in the rea
e of which were ported palms. Bouquet
d OF white mountain laurel tied with Grim
e son bows also were used. The gradu
e ates We're presented their diplomas b
r Rev e. Q. S. Osgood, who, in shol
f talk, gave the class some interestin
n nRt in Nd 70
+ ton.
y The slippery pavement on the Mai
street bridge caused another accider
. late Monday afternoon. when the auto
Z mobile of Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Seymou
of Taunton, Mass, skidded and demo
# ished the front wheel on the right sic
s Of the machine Mr. and Mrs. Seymol
+. had started for Taunton and went dow
l., the Main street hill at a fair rate
q speed. Just before reaching the birds
Le Mr.. Seymour evidently intended to 6
a up Canal street, but changed his mir
o and turned sharply to the left towal
W Vernon street. The pavement had bee
J. watered a few minutes before and Il
Is car skdded. 1t brought up against II
a. curbing on the Bridge street side vii
lie sufficient force to crush the rim of Il
t. wheel and damage the tire. Repai
a. We're made at the Brattleboro garag
P. Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour were not hun
Id Two automobile races of interest
Brattleboro people occurred Saturdi
!, afternoon at the aviation exhibition
e Claremont. In a 10-mile race betwe,
ro light cars II. w. Williams, formerly
=, this town, but now the Bennington re
:. resentative of Manley Brothers, was d
NJ feated by a professional driver fro
"a Boston in a Buick. Mr.. Williams w
NJ in 1911 model, No 4, 90 horsepow
10 Ford The Buick was a IS horsepow
-, machine. The track was in poor co
40 dition, the turns being comparable wi
20 a newly plowed meadow, and the drivil
&c was difficult. The race was for a
Iv silver cup and $l5 in gold and was w
If in minutes 1917 seconds. The conte
al was close and the more powerful c
~ won by less than one-quarter of a mi
~ John Manley drove in a race in a
en- horsepower National and without al
previous tuning up of the car entered
race with c. l.. Blake of Keene in
ey 40 horsepower Chalmers. The race W
of close and interesting until sm
Sc trouble with Mr. Manleys carburet
ch made him drop out of the contest.
W. did two of the miles in less time tn
~ his competitor. 1t was a fve-mlle co
IL test with no prize offered.
an Marriage of Arthur J. Monroe.