Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-23
THE VERMONT PHOENIX BRATTLEBoRo FRIDAY, JUNE 3D. 1911

Rev. F. A. Wells will conduct the
chapel service in the Retreat next Sunday
afternoon at o'clock.
At the monthly meeting of the Mutual
Aid association Monday 1t was voted to
hold no, more regular meetings until
October when the annual business meets
ing will be held.
The members Of the graduating class
of the high school were entertained yes
terday by the faculty at Principal e. b.
Smiths cottage, Camp Chesterfield, at
Spofford lake.
The board of civil authority will meet
Monday at 2.30 in the selectmen's room
to consider the appeal Of Frank o. car
penter to the board from the final de-
cision of the listers
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
Society of Seamstresses, Needlewomen
and Shopglrls will be held In Festival
hall next Monday at 7.45, for the election
of officers and transaction of business
Ouonektacut tribe of Red Men observed
Memorial Sunday with exercises In their
hall which were conducted by the officers.
| After the exercises the graves of former
members in the various cemeteries were
decorated.
The retreat for the women of st. MI
| chaels Roman Catholic church opened
| Sunday night and with service morning
| and evening until yesterday, with ser
| mons by the Vincentian fathers, they
were well attended. The retreat Tor the
men began yesterday morning and VIII
| continue until Sunday evening. Rev.
| Father Judge of the Vincentlan order OF
| Springfield, Mass, Is conducting the re-
! treat for the men, which also is being
well attended.
While peddling fruit with Peter Al
exander near West street Saturday
afternoon Philip Thomas tripped on a
wire fence and fell with a fruit knife
in his hand cutting cash in MS side
| which necesstated treatment in the Me
mortal hospital. He was crossing be-
tween two houses, and the fence, which
was of barbed wire, was so low that ne
| did not notice It, The knife went into
| his side, and the wound bled protuseIy'
| but 1t did not prove to be serious. Inc
ambulance was sent for and Mr.. Thomas
was taken to the hospital where the
wound was dressed by DR.. H. L. Water
man and DR.. c.. S. Pratt.
II. f. Weatherhead, agent for the r.
A. Strout company, has sold the George
II. Cogswen farm in Green River. with
growing crops, to Thomas NJ. Crepar OF
Dilworth MINI. Mr.. Crepar has been
train dispatcher a number of years, Du'
after Sept / will make this farm his per
manent home. on Friday he sold the II
L. Clark farm of 220 acres in Guilford
together with stock, tools and all crops
to Archibald Campbell and sons of Scot
land. They landed in New York the
previous Sunday and have bought intend
ing to make this their permanent home
Also on Friday he sold the T. l.. Thayei
farm in Guilford, containing 80 acres t'
Edward l. Colburn of Canal Zone, Pana-
ma. Possession will be given soon. Or
the same day he sold the Lewis ID. Larn'
ed farm in Guilford, containing 100 acres
with all growing crops and some persona
property to Roy c. Day, who has taker
possession. He formerly lived in Maine
but recently returned from Florida witt
! his family.
, College entrance examinations have
; been held in the high school this week
under the direction of Rev f.. Q. ). Os-
good, chairman of the prudential com
mittee. S. F. Breese Morse took entrance
examinations for Harvard university
Onslow E. Thompson for Amherst college
4, and Roy b. Miner for the University Of
Vermont Appleton T. Miles will go tt
Exeter for one year and then will entel
Worcester Polytechnic institute. Rober
: c. Knowlton will enter Norwich univer
sity, Carroll II. Drury Worcester Poly
technic institute, Miss Evelyn Emerson
!, Simmons college, Miss Laura Il. Wal
Waite the Massachusetts, Agriculture
college, Miss Helen b. Kenney, Mis-
Edith F. Kendall Miss Jessie Ransor
and Miss Lucy G. Weatherhead tn
Westfeld Normal school. Miss Abel
A. Cowles will return to the high schoC
next fall for a post graduate course. l
= the graduating class this week ther
9 were 10 tuition pupils, outside the tow
limits of Brattleboro.
= The summer schedule on the Bosto
Y e Maine and Central Vermont railroad
t will go into effect Sunday night at mic
g night. About the only material chang
= in the running time of the Central Vei
mont trains is that the train leaving
. 4 in the afternoon will leave at 3.45
= order to accommodate Brattleboro pee
- pie who wish to connect with the Bo
. ton q Maine train for Keene at Sout
Vernon, as this train leaves there
a 40 and arrives in Keene at ocloc
- The Boston & Maine changes also a
- slight. The parlor section of the Viii
g Mountain train from New York at 9.
- n. m. will arrive in Brattleboro at 2.
- p. m. The north-bound sleeper W
n reach here at 2.l5 in the morning. II
a daily-except Sunday-express will a
N rive at 1.55 p. m, on Sundays at 2.25
70 m. The south bound parlor car secti'
~ of the White Mountain train will lea
n at LIP and the sleeping car section W
&c of the White Mountain train, carryil
q regular coaches, will leave at 1.55. II
: south train leaving now at A.
will leave at AIS.
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" Final corrected footings of the graz
in list have been made by the listers. II
N district school grand list is $50. 96046 al
IF the town school district grand Ii
D. $12,66776, making the total grand list f
p the town 500, 62S.22. The village graz
m list is $50, $780, which is slightly lie
rs than the school district as while the "
er lage and district limits are nearly ide
err teal they are not exactly so. The graz
l. list in the district but not in the villa
III Is $l53.60. Subtract from this $29 so, 4
lg grand list in the village but not in 4
60 district, and the remainder Is $12410, {
IN amount of the excess of the district Ii
st over the village list. Deducting tn
ar from the district list and the figures W
e. be the village list, 50,S36.36, previou
40 ly stated. The tax rate is made up
~ follows: Town AZ cents, special highw
a cents, highway 20 cents, state school
a cents and state highway 5 cents, tot
as SO cents. That will raise $52,S15. TIL
Ill there is the village tax of As cents viii
or will raise 22,S7S49, and the town schC
lie tax of so cents which will raise 1884
IN The total of these is $S2, O27. 80. T
n district school meeting has not been he
but If 62-cent tax is voted, the same
last year, it will raise $41, 595. 40, maxi
the total amount to be raised by taxati
in Brattleboro. this year 1929, 80.