Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-01
BRATTLEBORO.

BRATTLEeoRo.
Rev. Henry Lamb of West Brattleboro
will conduct the chapel service at the
Retreat Sunday at 3 o'clock.
The election returns will be received
at the Vermont Wheel club rooms
Tuesday evening and luncheon will be
served.
The women of the Universalist socie-
ty will hold rummage sale in Emer-
son building Friday and Saturday, Nov
and 3.
During the month of November Rev.
Roy NJ. Houghton will have charge of the
Sunday afternoon services at the Home
for the Aged.
X. E. Mosher, who has recently taken
the agency of the Cadillac automobile,
has sold a four passenger torpedo body
car to John r. Ryder, for delivery this
fall.
All Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are
invited to a box social, dancing ana
cards Tuesday evening in odd Fellows
hall. Free dancing at o'clock. Auction
of boxes and supper about S.45. Election
returns will be posted in the hall.
The women of the Centre Congrega-
tional church will hold an annual
thanksgiving food sale in the church
parlors Tuesday, Nov. 20. Orders for
food may be sent to Mrs. f. j. Water
man, telephone go or to Mrs. A. L.
Pettee, telephone sow
Mrs r. s. Foster entertained the
Home club at her home on Walnut street
Monday afternoon chicken-pe sup
per was served at o'clock and a mu-
steal entertainment was enjoyed in the
evening 1t was one of the most enjoy
able meetings the club ever held.
II. F. Weatherhead, agent for the E.
A. Strout company. has sold for Emory
f. Evans & Son their 3O0-acre stock and
dairy farm in Halifax to Robert E.
Pretow of New York, who will take
possession in the spring. Mr.. Evans will
stay on the farm through the winter.
In the eating contest at local
picture theatre Wednesday night Tom
my Hopkins was beaten by John
Mcdonald, the latter eating nine dough-
nuts in six minutes while Hopkins was
able to devour only six. Milk was sup
piled, but the contestants were handi-
capped by wearing boxing gloves.
Clarence L. Stlckney took possession
this week of the Wilder property, next
north of the high school building, which
he bought recently of Mrs. l.. A. Fales
of Worcester, Mass. Mrs Faes was
here the first of the week to make the
transfer Mr. and Mrs Stickney will
move there to live as soon as some in
terror changes in the house are made.
These changes will not be completed for
several weeks. Scott Games, who has
occupied the premises, moved this week
to the Gobie house on Grove street.
States Attorney Barber and Sheriff
Mann, who went to Albany yesterday,
expect to return tomorrow with E. A.
Holmes, who was arrested in New York
city Oct. %. They are arranging for the
extradtion papers. Holmes Is charged
with securing an automobile from the
Brattleboro garage under fraudulent
representations. 1t is expected that he
will be tried in the present term of
county court. Holmes and his wife and
two daughters lived at the Melrose sew
eral months in 1911. Holmes claimed to
be contractor in New York city.
Michael Flemming, who lives in a
little house on the river bank near the
railroad, sustained a bad injury to one
leg Sunday, but it was not until We'd
nesday that he received surgical atten-
ton and was taken to the Memorial
hospital, a railroad employe notifying
Overseer o. T. Ware, who sent Dr.
Thomas Rice to look after him. The
family tell conflicting stories as to how
he received the injury. Much difficulty
was experienced in getting, Flemming
down a narrow flight of stairs to the
ambulance, and his yells and the shrieks
of his wife added excitement to the
occasion.
An institute for the promotion of eff
ficiency in Sunday school and young peo-
pies work will be held Monday with the
First Baptist church. This is one of a
series of nine conducted in the two
weeks following by DR.. W. A. Dawson,
the superintendent of Baptist missions in
vermont The session at D. M will
be addressed by H. " Meyer of Boston
on THE business end of the Bible school"
by Rev. Guy c. Lamson of Boston on
The development of missionary inter-
est in Bible school and young peoples So
cieties," by DR.. Dawson on THE rela ton
of school and society to state conditions"
and by Rev. w. E. Chalmers, d. D., OF
Philadelphia on How may the needs of
our schools be practically met" Supper
will be served to out of-town visitors as
the neighboring Baptist churches have
been invited to send delegates. An even
ing session at 73O will listen to an ed
ucational address by DIR. Chalmers and
an inspirational address by Mr.. Lamson.
A cordial invitation is extended to all who
are interested in these topics to be pres
ent
That work will be begun, in a few
weeks on Vernon street in preparation
for the proposed railroad improvements
is the opinion of Frederick Holbrook of
the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins corpor-
alton. His firm has been given the con-
tract, provided it Is decided between the
Central Vermont railway and the Bos-
ton & Maine that the latter Is to do
the work 1t is expected that the Amer
lean Bridge company of New York will
ship the steel for the new Connecticut
river bridge next week. Work will be
begun at once as it will not be neces-
sary to wait until all the work on the
piers Is completed before beginning the
bridge construction. Pier No will be
finished in about two weeks, and under
water work has been begun toward lev
ellng the ledge upon which Pier No. 1
VIII rest. Work on this ledge is a diff
cult engineering problem and dynamite
blasts will have to be set off under
water The east abutment is about
three-quarters finished. heavy blast
SET or on the New Hampshire side
wednesday sent a shower of dirt and
rock 800 feet into the air. The work will
De continued through the winter and
storms and cold weather will not re-
tard progress.
Everyone suffering with Asthma
Bronch1tls, Consumption or any throat
or lung trouble ShOuld II