Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-08-23

The local corps of the Salvation Army
will hold memorial services Saturday
evening and at all of the Sunday meet
ings, in memory of Commander Booth,
who died this week.
Francis j. Morse Of Putney has filed
petition in the county clerks office
for a divorce from Gertrude Reed Morse
on statutory grounds. Emma A. Wood of
Brattleboro has filed petition for a
divorce from Frank II. Wood, now of
Greenfield, Mass, also on statutory
grounds.
A rummage sale is being arranged for
by the Salvation Army, to take place In
September to raise funds for the sup
port of the work here. Old clothing,
shoes, furniture, papers and magazines
will be received thankfully. Capt. NJ. Ar
mold has sent out about 500 cards tails
week calling attention to the sale.
The Atlanta university male quartet
sang in the Baptist church Sunday
morning and at s in the afternoon. The
afternoon concert was scheduled for the
common, but was held in the church on
account of rain. Prof. A. G. Dill, who
accompanied the quartet, gave an inter-
esting account of the work of the uni
versity. but the singing was not up to
the standard of former years.
The train which is scheduled to leave
here at $50 a. M, did not go to South
Londonderry yesterday morning and
persons who had intended to go on that
train had to wait until 2.15 o'clock. A
federal law limits the number of hours
that, train crews may work and 1t was
found yesterday that IL the train was
sent up the West River branch the crew
within the limit, having spent so much
time on other work, so the trip was not
made.
To observe the completion of the dec
Grating of the interior of st. Michaeis
Roman Catholic church solemn high
mass will be celebrated at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning. A large amount of work
has been done on the interior and 1t Is
now practically a new church on the
inside. Rev Father NJ. j. Carmody will
be ceebrant, Rev. R. ]. Cahill, DID,, of
St. Johnsbury will be deacon, Rev.
Father B. W. Mcmahon will be sub
deacon and Rev William Mcmahon of
the Montreal academy will be master of
ceremonies. Rev. William Mcmahon is
brother of the curate of st. Michael s
church. The vestments for the solemn
high mass will be brought from Boston
especially for the occasion.
The championship of the Greenfield
shop league will be decided at Island
park Saturday afternoon, Aug. 81, when
the two leading teams, Wiley & Russell
and Wells Brothers, will line up for the
final game of the season. These two
teams played against each other here
the early part of this month and the
score was tied at the end of the ninth
inning, when they had to call the game
in order to connect with their train for
Greenfield The little league in the Mas
sachusetts town has been playing good
ball this summer and with a tie for
the championship of the shops the local
grounds were chosen for the final game
special train will be run from Green
field and large crowd is expected.
There are about 70 local veterans Of
the Civil war who will be benefited by
the pension bill which was passed last
May and for which President Taft sign
ed Dill Saturday appropriating $16O, 900, =
OOo. The average increase in the veter-
ans pensions will be about $40 a month
and this will mean that $3.50 more will
be coming to Brattleboro every year
than formerly. Practically all the vet
Grams nave filed applications for in
creases in their pensions and six have
received the additional money The last
quarterly pension was paid July 4, but
as the appropriation bill had not been
passed by Congress the soldiers did not
get the increase, but they will get 1t in
october for this quarter and orders have
peen sent to the various agencies to
forward the money for the last quarter
to the pensioned men.
Workmen began Monday to cut down
the grade on Maple street, near Fairview
street when the survey for the new
sidewalk on this street was made il was
decided to have the walk a foot lower
than formerly, and this made it neces-
sary TO cut down the grade of the street
mere was a bad hump in the road and
the conditions have been improved by
the change. On Fairview street the
laying out of the sidewalk has widened
the street several feet at the west end
and a bank which extended along one
side has been cut into, the material thus
obtained being used for sub grading in
other localities. Farview street was in
very poor condition, especially during the
spring months, and the work of making
1t wider and cutting away the bank has
added materially to property values in
that locality.
Albert N Bliss, so, a native of Brat
tleboro, died at Akron, O., Sunday. He
was born Nov %, 1851, on the place
widely known for many years as the
Bliss farm, now owned by F. q. Dickin-
son. He was son of the late Lyman
q. and Susan H. Bliss and grandson of
the late capt. nathaniel Bliss of Brat
tleboro and the late Judge Asa Knight of
Dummerston. For % years the Bliss
FAMILY, in its successive generations,
was closely identified with the interests
OF this town. AT the age of 20 years Mr.
Bliss went west and for IL years was
engaged in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness, travelling widely through the West
anu living in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1895
ne moved to Akron and opened a COM
mission business in which he continued
until compelled by i'll health to retire
SIX years ago. In 1881 he married Gym
una n. French of western New York.
VINO died in 1910. Mr.. Bliss leaves two
sisters and one brother, Mrs. John Co.'S
grove of Boonville, Mo, and Miss Caro-
line r. Bliss and John r. Bliss of AK
ron. He became a Mason in Des Nfojnes
anu never resigned from the lodge there.
IN in laith ne was a Unitarian and In poll
tues lifelong Democrat He was
life. VI
wedding which about so relatives
and friends attended took place in the
home of Mr. and Mrs T. r. Edwards
on Western avenue Wednesday after
noon, when their eldest daughter. Miss
Maude Helen Edwards, and Owen Tee
of Worcester, Mass. were married nv
Rev. DR.. j. r. Cow, pastor of the First
Baptist church, The home was decorated
with goldenrod and ferns and the bridal
party stood beneath an arch of these
natives of the fields and woods Miss
Doris Smith played the bridal march