Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-12
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the rest room Monday at $50. The gov
erning board will meet at 3 o'clock.
Members of Bingham chapter, o. E. s.,
will enjoy supper in their banquet hall
Tuesday evening al $50. The degree
will be conferred in the evening.
General Deputy H. W. Sargent will in
stall the officers of Protective Grange
Wednesday evening Jan. II. Refresh
ments will be served. The women are
requested to furnish cake and sand
witches.
The funeral of Miss Alice M. Holland
was held Saturday afternoon in the
Doolittle home on Western avenue, Rev.
ID. e. Trout officiating. The burial took
place in Meeting House Hill cemetery
and the bearers were Henry Gardner of
Bellows Falls, ]. r. Vancor, Fred Hol-
land and G. H. Kent.
Justice E. M. Butler announced Tues
day his decision in the case of William
r. Sparks, constable and tax collector
for the town of Townshend. against
George Rogers, A. r. Marsh, trustee.
which was to recover three years taxes
amounting to about $l4. Justice Butler
decided in favor of Jones, who was rep
resented by o. B. Hughes of this town.
In the series of basketball games be-
tween the classes of the high school
Tuesday evening the juniors defeated the
seniors % to 9, the Junior second team
defeated the sophomores 9 to 8 and the
freshmen won from the sophomore sec
on team, 10 to 4. On Wednesday even
ing the sophomores won from the fresh
men, to 8, junior second team won from
the freshmen second team, % to I, and
the juniors won from the sophomore
second to T.
With the thermometer registering from
eight to IA degrees below at Z o'clock
do
ter thus far. Plumbers were busy all
day and the only way to keep houses
warm was to pile on fuel. A cold north
wind blew all day and added to the dis
comfort. Monday the weather moder-
ated and during the night snow fell to
depth of about four inches, followed by
slight rain. This formed a crust and
made shoveling difficult The snow
plows were out as early as 4 o'clock
tuesday morning and by 10 o'clock
practically all the sidewalks had been
cleared
The funeral of Mrs. John Henkel was
held in her late home at IS Estey street
at 2 o'clock Saturday and was largely
attended. Rev. Luther M. Keneston of
Preston. Conn, formerly her pastor in
West Brattlebero, officiated and the
burial took place in the family lot in
Prospect Hill cemetery. Many beauti-
1ul flowers bore testimony to the esteem
IN which Mrs. Henkel was held The
bearers were Hervey Harris, L. H
Stellman, Carl Hollender and August
Rhode. Mr. and Mrs. Henkels daughter
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. James p
Smith of Springfield, Mass, and Miss
harkle of Greenfield were present.
Joseph Lindon Smith, the Boston ar
fist. will lecture in the Congrega tional
church Sunday evening at o'clock, on
the discovery of an Egyptian tomb. Mr.
0nnif hna
lie was born in Pawtucket, R. L. studied
In the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
and the Academic Julienne in Paris. and
since 1888 has travelled extensively in
Europe and the East. He has painted
principally in Italy, Turkey. Palestine
ana Egypt, also in Japan. and recently
returned from a trip around the world
painting in Manchuria China, Cambo
dia and Java. Mr. Smith was present
AZ some of the most famous discoyerie:
oil recent times in Egypt, and took an
active part in the finding and enterine
OF the famous Tomb of the parents o.
Queen Tiy." at the valley of the tomb,
of the kings at Luxor six years ago
The tomb had not been entered for $50
years and was one of the richest tomb,
ever found.
birth, marriage and death records I,
the number of $685. compiled from oil,
church ana town records. have been re
turned to the secretary of state by Tow,
Cierk Carl s. Hopkins in compliance will
ACT NO lo4 of the Acts of 1910 Mr.. Hon
kins began the work in August an,
hnished 1t last Friday, with the assist
ance OF his daughter, Miss Helen Hon
klns' The statute required that all ex
Sting church and town records not al
ready to be found in the state arcbiva
De compiled by the town clerks VIII
were to receive from their respectiv
towns five cents for each record Th
hist compiled by Mr.. Hopkins include
everything previous to 1857 and for IN
year 1866. 1t embraces 1853 town record
and 800 church records In the tow
records there are 5O36 marriages 15
deaths and 1888 births. In the churc
records are 536 marriages, 1O4 deaths an
z6o births. OF the church records thos
from the Unitarian church in Brattl,
boro village and the West Brattlebo,
congregational church predominant
The Brattleboro letter in the Sprinl
held Sunday Republican expressed a
idea to the effect that the various plac,
IN this locality frequented by the your
people for skating be inspected and tn,
some of the largest places be furnishe
with police protection and life saving al
paratus. Suggestions along this line
the letter said, ARE the outcome of Sc,
erai marrow escapes from drowning
previous years and the narrow escape ,
last Saturday. 1t has been suggested r
leading citizens of the town that some
'he leading organizations ought to tai
some definite action to protect the your
people from being drowned before mo,
Iatiiues result. The plan as tentative
outlined would be to have one or tu
men on duty at the principal places {,
skatng during the early part of the Sc,
son with boat on runners so that
could be run quickly to the place of a
accident slight expense would ecu
sucn boat with ropes, poles with hook
graphing irons and para phernalla usef
~ rescuing drowning people. The san
,oe could thoroughly inspect the ice ;
ene various points about the village ar
sn bulletins which would be a val
aoie source of information to the pa
ents in permitting their vo,nestars 20 20 =
dulge In skating" " -
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