Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-11


nesday afternoon.
The Vermont Savings bank and Brat
tleboro Savings bank will be closed all
day Saturday, Columbus day.
The literary program in the Grange
meeting Wednesday evening will be in
charge of Pomona and will include a
farce.
Harvest day at the Home for the
Aged will be observed soon, and all
friends of the home are urged to keep
the occasion in mind.
The installation of officers of the Pill
grim Fathers has been postponed from
Oct. Is to the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der on account of the illness of the dep
uty.
Misses Hawley and Bane are having
so many music pupils in Bellows Falls
that, beginning today they will be there
Fridays and Saturdays. They have
opened a music studio on School street
in that village.
Owing to an unexpected delay in the
arrival of much of the furnishings for
| the Austine Institution, no visitors will
| be admitted until further notice. Wis.,
| itng days will be announced when the
| equipment is complete
| The mission circle of the Universalist
| church will meet in the church parlor
| Thursday, Oct. II, at o'clock. There
| will be a quilting, followed by devotion
al meeting at o'clock with paper "A
glimpse of the Sunny SOUTH by Mrs.
Lois Clark.
Upwards of 100 people will be seen in
| revival of 1.-The Bohemian Girl when
it is presented in Brattleboro. This
number includes cast of principals,
chorus, ballet dancers, orchestra, expert
riders and hostlers.
Principal E. Burr Smith of the high
school has announced that the pupils of
the school are to hold an election
Thursday, Oct. 81, to vote on their
choice for president of the United States.
The pupils are interested in the three
candidates and each one will have sup
porters. Suffragettes will have vote
at this election
A car bound for West Brattleboro
crashed into a team belonging to Rich
ard Pollica Saturday afternoon in front
of George Eelss apartment house at the
junction of South Main and Canal streets
and badly damaged the vehicle. The
horses was thrown to the ground, but
sustained no injuries. The motormar
could not stop the car because of leaves
on the rails.
Wells hall, in the rear of the Unita
make room for a Unitarian parish house
will be removed by workmen from thu
Bratteboro Retreat, and the lumber will
go to the Retreat. 1t is expected tina
the work of razing the building will b
begun next week, and plans have beel
made to put in the foundation for tn
parish house this fall
The Wilcox G. White company o
, Meriden Conn., dedicated the fourtl
ol,1 tn Cal %
: the exercises being attended by owe
800 people, including only employees ant
! members of their families. A genera
musical program was rendered, one o
! the numbers being a song by Harry II
Smith, formerly of this town, who is
son-in-law of James H. White, presiden
of the company. The entertainment
closed with dancing and during the in
PERMISSION refreshments were served.
Yesterday was the date set for tn
, trial of Edward Varney, IA, on tn
charge of shooting Floyd Nicholas, /,
but the case was continued one week b
Judge w. R. Daley of the municips
! court. The object in continuing the cas-
was to have Safes Attorney F. E. Bar
Der file an information against Varne.
| who is in Newfane Jail, so that the cas-
could come before the county court ne,
week, thus saving the state the expens
of a hearing here, as the case wa
, bound to come before the county coui
/, later. The Nicholas boy, who is in tn
Memorial hospital, is able to sit up.
The street railway company is plan
r ming to straighten a curve in its lin
e on Canal street in front of George A
5 Eels's new apartment house at the cor
2 ner of Canal and South Main street!
e At present the rails curve at the ives
end of the property and continue clos
e to the sidewalk line and make anothe
: curve opposite South Main street TIL
e tracks will be moved nearer the centr
f ! of Canal street and both curves will b
Strengthened. This will allow a wide
sidewalk in front of The Abbott. Tn
G. town also probably will change tn
street and sidewalk grade in front {
the new building, thereby making a
n Improvement and adding to the appear
A | ance of the building.
r Edwin A. Waterhouse 60, who died /
: the Brattleboro Retreat Sunday, wa
/ terribly injured near his home in Mel
: rose, Mass, eight years ago, when a
. electric car in which he was riding wa
6 blown up with dynamite. Seven passen
gers were killed and 30 injured, severe
of whom have died. Both of Mr.. Water
9 houses feet were blown off and he sus
tanned other injuries. He had been /
g hospitals and sanatoriums ever s,nc
q and had submitted to two surgical op
erations. The dynamite dropped on tn
track from an express wagon which wa
e carrying the explosives in violation @
t | city ordinances. Mr. Waterhouse ha
s lived in Melrose % years and was for
e merly engaged in the produce bushes
y in Boston The body was taken to Mel
: rose for burial
u Mrs. Ernest Tudor sustained Sigh
o injuries while on automobile rid
with Mr.. Tudor in their machine Sunia
= afternoon. The accident happened at tn
= Harmonyville bridge near Townshent
= The machine was travelling at a goo
e rate when a forward wheel struck
= stone in the road, The impact turne
f the steering wheel in Mr.. Tudor's gras
a | and the car went careening down tn
a | eght-foot bank and into an apple or
e chard Mrs. Tudor was thrown throug
8 the windshield and sustained severe
. cuts, but no bones were broken and sh
= was brought to her home here. Mr.. Tu
( dor was not injured and the car wa
e not damaged as he threw on the emer
e gency brake. Mrs. Tudor was able to 81
e up Monday. and has practically recov
!, cred from the shock.
Recent improvements and the add
[ ton of new equipment make the cloth
Il ing store of H. p. Wellman
| axaI