Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-05


hold sewing meeting in Grand Army
hall Thursday afternoon Jan. H.
The w. C. T. U. will hold regular
meeting in the rest room Monday after
noon at o'clock. Mrs A. j. Currier
will have charge of the meeting.
Prospects for good skating on the river
this winter are not very encouraging.
The ice has formed, but it is rough and
covered with snow. 1t is not thick
enough to be safe for skating
In the meeting of the Sunday school
board of the Methodist church Friday
evening the teachers of the classes for
the past year were chosen to continue
their duties the coming year
Eugene p. Duby, who lives in the
house at 30 Chestnut street owned by
Prucius Marley and Miss Susan Edna
Scranton of Green street were married
Tuesday by Rev. DIR. John II. Cow.
Brattleboro lodge, n. f. o. p. will
hold regular meeting in Red Mems hall
Wednesday evening. Members are re-
quested to be present to assist Degree
Master II. f. Harris in organizing de-
gree staff.
Several local fanciers will attend next
week the poultry show in Boston in
which poultry from this town has been
entered. James W. lizard had some
birds on exhibition at the Dalton show
this week and they probably will go to
Boston.
James Ryan and Jerry Curtin tied for
the prize given for the highest boxball
score at the Star bowling alley last
week. They rolled off the tie Wednes-
day evening and Ryan took first money
On the pinbal alley Carl Ellis won first
prize for the third consecutive time.
@ Rowland ,.itt a e.,r.o. -
resident of Brattleboro, has been APP
pointed superintendent of highways in
the borough of Queens, Manhattan, Mr..
l-eaVitt Is chairman of the good roads
committee of the Automobile club of
america, and was recently appointed by
mayor Gaynor to inspect the pavements
or the city of New York Mr.. Leavitt is
successful business man and fnancier.
VINO is possessed of large fortune
Chief-of-Police George Wilson has
warned several children this week that
they must stop sliding on the sidewalks
Complaints have reached him that chill
uren are endangering their own lives and
those OF others by coasting on streets
that are crossed by car tracks. The Elm
street hill near the Canal street school
building Is good coasting place, but the
chief Is determined that youngsters must
stop sliding there the car tracks run
at the foot of the hill
All day Wednesday the farmers in this
locality, who ship their milk to Bos-
ton, waited in the freight yard for the
car to come. in order that they might
snip their milk. 1t was a cold day and
they Kicked their toes against the frozen
ground and slapped their hands to keep
them warm About dusk the car was
loaded and the farmers went home to
late suppers. The delay, according to
ment of help on the Cheshire branch
During 1911 the following Windham
county corporations filed articles of as
ISOLATION In the secretary of states Of
flee: Brattleboro and Vernon railroad
company. $4,000 Vermont Brick com
pany, Putney, $4,000; Old Rockingham
Meeting House association; Fort Dummer
Realty company, Brattleboro, $3.50. 900;
Nacirema Chemical company, Brattle-
boro. 100000; Island Park company. Brat
tleboro. $4,000: Connecticut Valley Or
chard company, Westminster, 80 900
Perry Automobile company. Westminster,
$12.5OO
Louis Crone. who was arrested early
this month in Pittsdeld, Mass, on COM
plant of Bennington county officers
and who stuffed the Jail locks with wet
paper has been sentenced by Judge f.
l.. Waterman in Bennington county
court to serve a year and a half in the
state prison at Windsor, having pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary in
PoWnal. Crone was sent to the state
prison from Newfane Jail in 1901. He
was arrested by Chef-of- Police f. S.
Han of Brattleboro. having stolen a
horse and sleigh of E. A Kenney of
Guilford
News was received Wednesday that the
supreme court has affirmed the decision
of the Windham county court in the case
of Archibald Mellen against the United
States Health and Accident Insurance
company, which has been pending in the
county and supreme courts over seven
years. The judgment of the county
court last April was for the plaintiff to
recover S426 and costs for disability sus-
tanned by him while insured by the de-
PENDANT company. Gibson & Waterman
represented the plaintiff and Joseph Mad =
den of Keene and Arthur p. Carpenter of
Brattleboro the defendant.
Since Monday the trainmen in the en-
ploy of the Central Vermont railway
company have been working on the in
creased pay schedule agreed upon when
the strike of 1910 was settled All the
trainmen received an increase in wages
and are now on the same wage scale as
the employees of the Grand Trunk, Rut-
land and Boston & Maine In many
cases the increase will net the men
nearly 81 a day while in others 1t will
not be so large. The engineers will not
receive much more remunerat ton for
their days work as they already We're
on a schedule similar to that in force
on other railroads
The resignation of Laurence Mnot as
trustee of the Thompson trust has been
followed by the appointment of John F.
Moors of Boston, Mr.. Moors Is a finan-
cier and business man of high standing
as Is shown by his appointment to both
the first and second Boston finance com
missions In the field of social and edu-
cational movements. Mr.. Moors has long
been strong leader locally and has
countrywide reputation. He has been
president and prime mover in the Bos-
ton Public School association, a member
of the council of Radcliffe college. di-
rector in the Working Mems Loan as
ISOLATION and for many years closely al
lied with the detailed and general ad-
ministration of the Associated Charities
OF Boston. AT the time of the earth
quake in California Mr.. Moors went to
San Francisco in charge of the large re-
lief fund sent by Massachusetts. He is a
Harvard man of the class of 1888.