Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-08
BRATTLEB ORO.

Inc MeTOSe on Llnuen street.
All bills against the woman's club for
THE Pied Piper" should be presented at
once to Mrs. G. F.. Barber of High street.
The ladies of the Universalist church
are holding a rummage sale in the
Emerson building which will continue
through tomorrow.
Orrin b. Hughes has been appointed
correspondent of the Boston Globe from
the Brattleboro district succeeding
Harry C. Shaw who is now on the
staff of the Rutland Herald.
The next regular meeting of the W.
c. 7. U. will be held in the home of
the president Mrs Henry Tucker
Grove street, Monday afternoon at
O'Clock. A special program will be given
Sedgwick Woman's Relief corps will
hold a sewing meeting Thursday after
noon, Nov. "A, followed by the regular
meeting in the evening. Members are
requested to go early as there is much
sewing to be done.
The ladies' circle of the Universalist
church will give a reception to all the
abies of the parish and their mothers
Thursday afternoon from $50 to $50. All
members of the circle and friends of
the babies are urged to be present.
The ninth grade of the Main street
building and the parochial school foot
ball teams played an 90 game on the
island Wednesday afternoon. Manley and
Gallup excelled for the ninth grade boys
and the Fleming brothers and Fitzgib-
bons for the parochial school.
Election day also was tag day for the
local Salvation Army corps. During the
morning members of the corps sold tags
about tie town and shortly after ~
n 1nnlr ha prNlx of lnl
received from the New York headquarters
of the army had been sold, netting $40
toward the memorial to the late General
Booth, founder of the Army.
Manager Michael Dunn of the basket
ball team said last evening that practice
would begin next week in Festival hall
1t Is probable the first game will be held
in a few weeks with the White River
Junction, Greenfield or Northampton
team. Mr.. Dunn has nothing new to re-
port on the proposed league. Local boys
with basketball ability are invited by
Manager Dunn to report for practice next
week or give their names to him or Frank
Dunlevy.
F. r. Vaughan's meteorological record,
taken at 16 High street. shows the fol-
lowing figures for October: Maximum
temperature, II. the 18th; minimum tenn
perature, 20, the 18th; mean tempera-
ture, 50.7; maximum barometer BOAT:
21st; minimum barometer, 29.70, oath;
mean barometer, 5000; clear days, p;
prevailing wind, south; precipitation, 1888
inches; precipitation this month last year,
IA; precipitation for the year 1872 81. 20
inches; precipitation to Nov. l, 1911 1898;
excess of precipitation this year, 4.93
inches.
Health officer Tucker has quarantined
n ri
all of those i'll being students in the high
school. The epidemic started three weeks
ago and until this week only a few scat
tered cases had been reported. Seven
houses have been quarantined because
of dphtheria. They are the homes of
Thomas Guiheen, 81 Frost street, Henry
Grover. Maple street, r. L. Coane, Gull
ford road, S. A. Richmond, Oak Grove
avenue, Thomas Connors, 80 Elliot
street, j. T. Austin, 121 Elliot, Thomas
Griffin, "a Frost street. The cases re-
ported are said to be mild forms of the
disease
The open season on deer will begin
Friday morning. Nov. Is, and continue to
Nov. %, both dates inclusive, Sundays
excepted Only deer with horns not less
than three inches in length may be
taken and none may be taken between
the hours of 8 p. m and a. m. At the
suing hunters licenses has been duh and
to date about 225 less than last year at
this time have been given out. This in
dicates that there will be a rush for Ii
censes next week and Town Clerk C. S.
Hopkins will have his Office open next
Thursday evening until 9 o'clock to
oblige the late-comers.
Although Edgar Holmes, who was
brought here from New York Saturday by
States Attorney F.. E. Barber, Sheriff c.
E. Mann and Deputy Sheriff F. L. Well
man on requisition papers, has been in
Newfane Jail nearly a week he has not
been able to furnish bail, although he
says he will do so soon. He has engaged
counsel in New York. He says he win
not have his defense ready so the case
can be tried before the next term. He
was brought here to answer to an indict-
ment found by the grand jury charging
him with obtaining a $4,000 Matheson car
of the Brattleboro garage in 1910 and OBJ
false pretense.
The high school football team will not
play tomorrow. as the game scheduled by
the local manager with the Bellows Falls
high school was cancelled by the latter
team, which will play against Keene.
The Brattleboro boys are now claiming
the championship of the state and are
anxious to arrange games with teams
with similar aspiratio The local team
claims the championship on the grounds
that 1t has not been defeated by any
team in the state and because 1t has four
victories to its credit. Local followers of
the game would like to see a champion
ship contest between the home boys and
team from high school in the north
ern part of the state.
A petty bit of bunco work was per-
formed by a man about As or so years
ola at the home of Rev Dr. j. r. Cow
Monday evening. Rev. and Mrs. Cow
We're out ana the maid answered a ring
at the door. man asked her If the
place was the home of the Baptist min
lister and upon being told that IL was
asked to see the minister He was told
that he was out and then he asked for
the lady of the house The maid told
him she also was out and then he said
that DR.. Cow had sent him to the house
for lightweight coat. The maid
thought that Rev. DR.. Cow had done
this and gave the man an old coat that
the minister had worn doing work about
the yard. AS matters turned out the
minister never had seen the stranger
The affair was only a petty theft hut
householders should beware, especially
at this season of the year, of profession
al mendicants who are liable to steal
something more valuable than an old
coat IL given an opportunity