Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-06

women of the Universalist church.
The women of the Universalist society
will hold a rummage sale in Emerson
building Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13
and IA.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro Mutual Aid association will be held
Monday at $50 at the headquarters, 1
Canal street.
Mrs. A. w. j. wilkins has bought Ar
thur Blood's .Viele touring car, as Mr..
Blood will start the last of the week
for California, where a lemon, orange
and grapefruit grove which he owns is
coated
The Christian Union of the Universal
list church will hold its annual business
meeting in the church vestry Wednesday
evening at 40. The annual reports of
officers and committees will be followed
by the election of officers for the COM
ing year and other important business.
All members are urged to be present.
The board of bailiffs in a meeting
wednesday evening ordered that the old
sewer on Flat street be dicontinued and
that the residents of that street connect
with the new sewer on the south side
of the street. They also decided to buy
a 30O-pound boiler for the heating equip
ment of the fire headquarters on Elliot
street.
For the first time in several years, a
'leedle German band,' of six pieces ar
rived in town Monday. They played in
front Of the stores and business places on
Main street and gathered in numerous
coins. When they stopped in front of
the Brooks House someone with a per-
verted sense of humor threw from the
balcony a quantity of cold water. The
six bandsmen stuck nobly to their job of
playing I'm all alone" in spite of their
drenching, but when they finished the
tune they expressed in voluble German
and English their opinion of the person
who threw the wtter. 1t was a mean
trick as a cool wind was blowing and the
musicians were thinlY clad.
Superior Judge w. w. Miles of Bar
ton wrote Monday to County Clerk f.
D.. f. Stowe asking him to ascertain the
sentiment of the members of the Wind
ham county bar in regard to the post
poned September term of the county
court. There is some doubt about his
being able to find a judge at liberty to
sit in Windham county, Oct. II, when
the court is scheduled to open. Chief
Judge Miles said he felt confident that
Judge Stanton had not recovered suf-
ficiently to be able to sit on that date
and intimated that the term would lave
to be continued again. Some of the
members of the bar suggested that it
would be we'll to wait until November,
Wnlle OtnerS favored waiting untll Jan
uary. The county clerk advised Judge
Miles as to the various opinions of law
yers here and Is awaiting his reply.
A particularly interesting stereopticon
lecture on Charles Dickens was given in
the Congregational church Saturday
evening by Hon. j. Wilder Fairbank OF
Boston, one of the most authoritative
students of that author. The speaker
showed views of the homes and haunts
of Dickens, beginning with his early
life and surroundings when a poor boy
and following his development and in
creasing fame. The pictures also show
ed that most of the characters in Dick
ens's works We're taken from life, and
their haunts, largely in London and in
Guiding streets, buildings and cathedrals
were thrown upon the screen. Mr.. Fair.
bank was present when Dickens gave his
reading in fremont Temple in 1867, and
his account of that reading was OF
special interest to one member of the
audience, Mrs. ]. NJ Tyler, who heard
Dickens on that occasion. Mr.. Fairbanl
gave a free stereopticon lecture on Dick
ems Sunday evening, in the church. He
is a man of scholarly attachments ant
fine presence, and both lectures were re
ceived with great satisfaction.
Road Commissioner d. T. Perry begar
Monday to repair High street at thu
junction of Main street. He has low
cred the north side of the street abou
two feet which will make necessary {
curbing at hat corner. When Mali
street was lowered it left a shoulde
across High street and it was necessar!
to dig back to a point opposite the Ret
ting building to make the grade right
Crushed stone has been laid and will b.
covered with a tar preparation such a
} was used on Main street. While dig
2 PinP at the corner of the sidewalk oil
the north side of High street a grant
post was found near the curbing. Thi
1 is supposed to be the old boundary lin
I, of the Hooker property, as it is in lin
/. with a tree at the north end of tina
property and with one on the soutl
side. If this is the boundary mark
! shows that the greater part of the Mai
p street sidewalk in front of the propert
is on Mrs. HOoker's land and that ais
+ a good part of the High street side
walk encroaches upon her property
Yesterday Mr., Perry removed part o
the sidewalk in front of w. II. Geddis'
e and c. F.. Thomas stores and laid ce
= ment in its place. 1t was not finished a
s the time when the other part of tn
l sidewalk was laid. Repairs were ais
made at the entrance to the rear of tn
1 Hooker building.
e Gilman & Helyar, civil engineers, ar
locating the lines of the highway fror
e the junction of Pine and South Mai
e streets south along South Main stree
in order to place the Information in tn
hands of the selectmen. and they eX
d pect to have the work completed by tn
V end of this week. The selectmen wi
d then decide whether they will establis
a grade as desired by the Twin Stat
Gas & Electric company, who wish t
e eXtened the street railroad from Pin
e street, as petitioned by a c
the board of trade, to the point wher
o South Main street divides, one part go
s ing to Guilford and the other past tn
q cascade and the old Hunt farm. If tn
cost is not prohibitive the selectmen wi
establish a grade as soon as possible an
n the company will then begin the eXten
e sion, which will be about $500 feet Ion
and will cost agout $4,000. While a three
.e rod highway would take nearly all tn
d land between the houses on both tn
V east and west sides, near the propose
Il southern criminal, that fact probabl
d will not influence the selectmen In reach
q ing their decision, as a street railroa
IF and highway of standard width woul
result in the erection of a better grad
of houses and would be of materi;
n benefit to that section of the town. TIL
road in question Is one of the oldest /
town, being an old stage road. Whe
= l.. l.. Meloon of New York, president {
the Twin State company, was here re
Gently it was suggested that the stree