Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-12

Rev. Henry Lamb OF west Brattle-
boro will conduct the chapel service at
the Retreat Sunday afternoon at
o'clock.
The public library opened Friday af-
ternoon. Librarian Mary F. Stakeholder
requests that persons who took books
return them as soon as possible. No
fine is charged for the time the library
was closed.
Mrs. c. b. Crowell who designed some
of the costumes for the Brattleboro
pageant, Is designing costumes for the
Saratoga pageant, which Is being pre-
pared under the direction of Miss Mar
garet MacLaren Eager
The name of Miss Bessie Wood, teach
err in the commercial department of the
high school, was Internationally omit
ted from the list of teachers for the
coming year at the high school which
was published in last weeks issue of
The Phoenix
Health officer Henry Tucker has had
three cases of diphtheria reported to him
this week, one in the home OF A. p.
Carey on Williams street, one in the
home of II. r. Fish of West street and
one in the home of Fred Wilder in West
Brattleboro. Each patient has the dis
ease in a mild form.
Island park was the scene of the an
nual picnic of the Baptist Bible school
yesterday afternoon and evening. There
was a good attendance and the day was
spent in the many diversions available
at the park. A luncheon was served at
noon and all through the day the picnic
party appeared to be having a fine time.
Gilman & Helyar have been given the
contract to dig the bitches for the water,
sewer and gas pipes at Chestnut hill, the
new building plot in the Crowell park
north of Western avenue. II. c. Rice,
DR.. A. L. Pettee, II. r. Randall, G. A.
McRae and Carl Cain will begin to build
houses at once and c. b. Crowell will
build next fall.
Roy B. Miner sustained a fracture of
his leg just above the ankle and pulled
off two small bones in his ankle yester-
day afternoon while painting Lysander
Lords house in Esteyville. He was
working with his father, S. e. Miner, and
his brother, Harold Miner, when the
staging pulled out from the side of the
house and threw him to the ground, a
distance of about IL feet. He fell on
his left foot He was taken to his home
and DR.. Z. R. Lynch attended him, but
probably the bones will not be set for
! about a week as the ankle Is badly
swollen.
Children of school age in the incorpo-
rated district No. number 1043, accord
| ing to the enumeration taken the last
| 10 days in June for Clerk Will B. Smith
| by Mrs. Smith and Miss Mary Croker
| This is an increase of So over the pre-
vious year. The enumeration in the
| town district made for Clerk Carl S.
| Hopkins is 276, making the total for the
whole town 1919. This includes all chill
| dren between the ages of five and IS
years. In the incorporated district there
are SIS boys and SIS girls, and in the
| town district 1853 boys and III girls, be-
| tween those ages. In the Incorporated
| district they are grouped for record
according to ages, as follows: From five
| to eight years, 24S; from eight to 16
| years, 622; from 16 to Is years, 173.
| Janitor H. E. Harris of the town hall
| building has finished taking up the car
| pet that has covered the floors of the
Auditorium SO many many years. The carpet
| weighs about 1000 pounds and will be
sold for one cent a pound. George
Twitchell, the painter, has begun to
| wash the paint off the walls, and will
| remove it from the arch and other parts
of the theatre. The contract for re-
decorating the theatre has not been let,
| neither has the one for the carpentry
| work or that for putting in the steel
ceiling. The picture Of Music" and her
| companions, the four little Cupids, above
the proscenium arch, may be covered by
the steel ceiling although 1t would be ar
easy matter to remove 1t, as 1T is paint
ed on canvas, and put 1T on the stee
ceiling above the arch in the same po-
sition as 1t is now.
A disagreeable taste and odor have
been noticeable in the water from the
reservoir of the public water supply the
past week. 1t is caused by a vegetable
growth in the reservoir due to the Ions
period of dry, hot weather. c. B. Grow.
ell of the Brattleboro Water Works com.
pany thinks that as soon as rain fall:
the growth will disintegrate and tn,
trouble will disappear. Water supple!
in other towns and cities which are
stored in reservoirs of the same kind a!
the one in Pleasant valley, have tn,
same disagreeable features in prolonged
periods of dry weather. The supply IL
New Haven is an example Rumor!
were current Wednesday that the bod,
of COW had been found In the Pleas
ant valley reservoir and that this wal
responsible for the condition of tn,
water, but the report was without foun
dation in fact.
The girls of the ]. II. c. held thei
annual fair on the common Wednesda,
afternoon from to 6 o'clock and in tn,
evening from to o'clock and $125 wa
netted for the benefit of Sea Breeze,
the seashore home and hospital, wher,
hundreds of mothers and babies are sen
each year. The sum netted by the girl
of the ]. H. C. means that somewhere
in the tenement district of New Yorl
city are several mothers and children
who will spend a week at the seashore
In 1910 and 1911 the girls netted 500 a
the fair and this year is a record break
| er in the amount obtained for the goo,
| work. Last year 10 mothers and 80 chill
dren were given a week at the seashor
by the money furnished by the ]. II. C
and one child was enabled to stay al
summer. With $25 more than last yea
more mothers and children will enjoy
stay at Sea Breeze" The six table,
for the fair were located at the cas-
end of the common. All were well pat
roniZed in the afternoon and evening
but the ice cream and lemonade table,
were scenes of the greatest activity al
soon as the crowds came to listen to thu
band concert. The tables and those il
charge were: Ice cream, Miss Evelyi
Durham; candy. Miss Harriet Mellen an,
Miss Gretchen Goldsmith; fancy articles
Miss Evelyn Harris and Miss Lilial
Lawton flowers, Miss Gertrude Robbins
lemonade, Miss Allethaire Estey ant
Miss Clara Perry; grabs. Miss Margare
Mellen.
d. T. Perry has finished laying tn
four-foot cement sidewalks on the soutl
side of Elliot street from the corner o
Williams street to point opposite
School street The work of laying tn,
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