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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03

class. This, Friday, evening at 100
o'clock, devotional service in the chapel,
subject, THE peril of the empty heart"
Leader. George H. Clapp Everyone
welcome to all these services.
First Baptist church, Rev. John r.
Cow, d. D., minister Worship with SER
mon both morning and evening Morning
topic, "The child that did not faith
God" Evening topic, THE price of
Liberty" Bible school at u m. Young
peoples meeting Tuesday at Z. 30 p. m.
Meeting for conference and prayer, Fri
day at 73O p. m, topic for tonight
THE bread and water of life" All per-
sons not identified with any other con-
gregation are invited to attend these
I services.
| Methodist Episcopal church. Rev F.
! A. Wells pastor. Worship with sermon
every Sunday, both morning and even
| ing at 1890 a. m, and at 7.3O p. m.
| The subject of the morning sermon will
be 1.-THE church of the living God" and
in the evening THE patronizing man.
the third in the series How some
Brattleboro people regard the churches.
There will be special music. Sunday
school at 11.45. Epworth league at $50
| Class meeting every Tuesday at 7.30. Gen.
eral prayer meeting every Friday al
| 730. Everyone is welcome to the SER
/ vices of this church
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03
MINISTER.

Miss Eva Larlin is staying in SPRING
field a few days
Mrs. w. s. Boardman of West Wards
boro is a guest of Mrs. w. s. Fem.
Mrs. Kennedy of Needham Heights,
Mass. Is with her sister. Mrs. Ira Hol-
ton
Rev. f. d. Hayward attended the
ministers meeting in Brattleboro Mon
day.
Mrs Alfred Skinner of East Ryegate
Is visiting her daughter, Mrs Carl I'm
derwood.
Charles Winter cut one leg badly
while skiddng logs in the woods Fri
day.
Henry Read returned Monday from
Stowe. where he went to attend his
brothers funeral
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright of Bellows Falls
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Full
lum the first of the week.
Mrs. Hamilton of West Brattleboro
has returned home after visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Samuel Rideout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erastus George, who
spent the winter in Boston, have arrived
and have opened their house for the
| summer.
The two-year- son of Mr.. and Mrs
| Doray fell while playing with a clothes
| pin, cutting his tongue so badly that a
| surgeon took several stitches in closing
the wound.
I. c. Wyman passed his SGD birthday
| anniversary April 20. The day was made
| happy for him by the kindly ministra-
tions of friends in town and loving mes.
sages from those at greater distance
His great grandson, Carroll o. Pease OF
Chester, came Saturday and stayed un.
til Tuesday morning, bringing gifts from
the family at home. Although Mr.. wy
man Is in feeble health his natural &C.
| tivity has enabled him to saw, split ans
pile two cords of wood this spring
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03
Friday, the Third Day of May, 1912

at o'clock p m, to act on the follow
ing articles:
l. To see If the town will authorize
it's selectmen and railroad committee to
procure a change or modification of the
decree of the public service commission,
dated September 80, 1910, relating to the
abolition of the grade crossing on Bridge
street, in the village of Brattleboro, to
the end that the abolition of said cross
ing be accomplished by an over-pass,
substantially on the present course of
Bridge street.
2. To see If the town will vote an ap-
propra ton toward the expense of con-
structing an over-pass in place of the
grade crossing now existing on Bridge
street, and of constructing a new high
way westerly of Vernon street, and in
lieu of Vernon street. on a grade not
higher than that of Main street bridge,
and if so, what amount shall be appro-
priated.
g. To see If the town will vote to pur-
chase the land and buildings between
South Main street, Vernon street and
Hudson street. known as the Brattle-
boro House property, for public highway
and park purposes, except the part al
ready purchased by the Boston & Maine
and Central Vermont railroad companies
and If so, what amount shall be appro-
priated therefor.
4. If the town makes an appropriation
under articles and 8, or either of Them
then to see If the town will authorize
, the town treasurer to borrow on the
| credit of the town. sufficient funds to
pay the appropriation so named, and
| upon what terms, and for what length of
| time.
5. To see if the town will instruct its
| selectmen 10 take the necessary legal
steps toward altering or discontinuing
highways toward laying out new high
ways, as may be necessary in abolishing
said grade crossing and constructing said
proposed new highway.
G. If an appropriation is voted under
articles and hereof, or either Of
them, to see if the town will authorize
| and empower the selectmen as its agents
to make the necessary and lawful con.
tracts required to effectuate the same.
Z. To see If the town will appropria Il
sum of money for the repair Of the
Auditorium and II so, how much.
8. To transact any other business thai
may lawfully come before said meeting
]. G. STAFFORD,
]. EDGAR MELLEN,
A. E. MERRILL,
Selectmen of Brattleboro.
Dated at Brattleboro, the 18th day o
April, 1912
Town clerks office, Brattleboro, thu
Goth day of April, 1912, O. clock a. m.
received and recorded the foregoing war
rant in volue VII, town records on pag
207.
Attest, CARL S. HOPKINS,
Town Clerk.
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STATIONS RIVER.

Hazel Hunt is i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Charles Spaulding is Ill with
mumps.
Miss Flora Coleman is bookkeeper for
the Connecticut Valley Orchard company
of Westminster.
The body of Rollin p. Harris, for
mer resident of this place, was brought
here for burial from Grafton Monday
afternoon
Ed. Harry is here from the West to
see his mother, Mrs. Patrick Harty, who
is i'll and who does not gain as her
many friends wish she might.
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BrooksHo Pharmacy,
w. F. Root, and c. F,
Thomas Guarantee
to Relieve Your
Rheumatism

We are pleased to inform the resi-
dents of Brattleboro that we now have
in stock "Nurito." a physician's prescrip-
tion, free from Opiates and Narcotics.
from rheumatism. Sciatica and Neuritis,
or refund your money Investigate this
offer. Call to see us and let us explain
satisfied will Danish all rheumatic pains,
no matter how long you may have been
afflicted.
that they could not walk have been abb
soiutely freed from pain and the swollen
Joints brought back to their normal con-
Don't be skeptical. We can and want
to help you.- Get 81 box OF Nurito and
be convinced.
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WEST GUlLFORD.
Sudden Death Of Mrs. Sidney Coleman

Sudden Death Of Mrs. Sidney Coleman.
The community was saddened Monday
morning to learn of the death of Nellie
Quinn, wife of Sidney Coleman. Mrs.
Coleman died in her home at a. m.
Monday, following an operation for APP
pendicitis performed by DR.. Lynch of
Brattleboro Peritonitis developed after
the operation, causing her sudden death
Mrs Coleman was born in West Brat
tleboro Dec. 16, 1886, daughter of Cor
nelius and Fanny LazelD Quinn. She
was married to Sidney Coleman July
TO- 1904. She leaves her husband and
four children, Lorenzo 6, Charles 4, Cora
2, and a baby two months old, also a
sister, Mrs. Wallace Buffum of Col
rain, and two brothers, Herbert Quinn
of Brattleboro and Louis Quinn of Gull
ford Centre.
The funeral was largely attended
Wednesday at l p. m. in the Baptist
church, OF which she was member.
Rev. Mr.. Hatfield officiated and appro-
pirate selections were sung by r. B.
Thomas, Homer Thomas, Mrs. George
Allen and Mrs. Richmond Thomas. The
bearers were her two brothers, her
brother law, Wallace Buffum, and
Cyrus Merrifield. The casket was cover
ed with q collection of beautiful flowers,
including a pillow bearing the word
SISTER" Among those from out of town
who attended the funeral were Charles
Coleman of Gardner, Mass, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. NJ Wood, Herbert Quinn, Miss
Knight, II. w. Kinson and Mrs. Sumner
Coleman, all of Brattleboro, and Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Buffum of Colrain.
The sympathy of the entire community
goes out to the bereaved family.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03

When President Theodore N. Vail OF
the American Telephone and Telegraph
company announced that he intended to
spend s250.OOO in advertising. some OF
his directors objected. and said, why
everybody knows about the telephone"
To which Mr. Vail replied: Everybody
knows about 1t, yes; but everybody
doesn't think about It," He spent the
s250,O0O and the company's gross busi-
ness increased $75O.0O0 that year.
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Roswell Frost and Mrs Mary Harding
visited recently with Mrs. Hardings
brother, H. c. Merrifeld, and family.
People here were saddened Wednesday
to hear of the death of Warren Fessen-
dn, an old neighbor and a deacon of the
West Guilford Baptist church for years
Mr. AMI Mrs. H. L. Nichols visited a
few days last week with their daughter,
Mrs. Henry Carpenter Mrs. Nichols was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Emma
Caldwell, in Athol, over Sunday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03

In Germany the death rate among
children under one year is 17.6 per 100,
the highest of all the countries of Eu-
rope, and much higher than that of the
United States.-[New York Press
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Col Edward d. Bennett. 6s. station
agent, In Bennington, died April rs. He
had been engaged in railroad work near
ly so years and was superintendent OF
the Bennington & Rutind road from 1885
to 1900. He leaves a wife, daughter and
two sons. One son. Edward ID. Bennett,
is Judge of probate in Bennington, and
the other son, Charles III. Bennett, is a
member OF the faculty Of the conserv-
atory OF music in Boston.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03
BONE MEAL

Is acknowledged the only lasting lawn
fertilizer, the use Of which means a
beautiful lawn throughout the summer.
We make a special price, for car
we have Just received, Of 2.25 a hun
bred, delivered at your residence.
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WARRANT FOR A
Special
Town Meeting

The legal voters of the town of Brat
tleboro, Vermont, are hereby notified and
warned to meet at the town hall, in SAID
town. on
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WARRANT

The legal voters of the Village of
are hereby notified to meet
at the town hall on
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Saturday, May 4

at 7.30 p. m. to make any needed
changes in the check list to be used at
the annual village meeting to be held
Tuesday, May Z, 1912.
w. H. PERRY, Clerk.
Brattleboro. VT, April 19, 1912.
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E. CROSBY & co.
NOTICE

Since my wife. Johanna Wood, has
left my bed and board without just
cause, I forbid all persons trusting her
on my account, as i shall pay no bills
OF her contracting.
1918 GEORGE WOOD.
Jamaica, April IS.
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Revision of Check List

The Board of Bailiffs and Board OF
Civil Authority will meet at the office
of H. E. Taylor & Son,
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Getting even is an expensive luxury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
Education and Grace Suicide"
cts all off with college now"

cts all off with college now"
Young Mr.. Strawn, twenty (20) years old, said
this to young Mrs. Strawn, 10, few minutes after
she had ceased to be Miss Zoe Anderson.
The young people had eloped from Washington,
using Frederick, Md, as their Gretna Green. They
were just out of high school, Meeting in summer
camp, they had fallen in love sat first sight
Young Strawn was about to enter Harvard when he
met Zoe.
Four years! So short a time to a president OF the
United States! Such eternity to this boy and grill
They were afraid to part They knew the love
risks of four years. They COULD not part---so
they eloped
Young Strawn went into business.
Zoe entered upon wfehOod at 19, instead OF %
Probably marriage would have been delayed beyond
49, One or the other or both, would have been
vorable to marriage. 1t is perhaps churlish to say
So but the cold fact is that it might have been four
years and it might have been forevera sort of
Kathleen Mavourneen parting.
This public comment on two young people and
their private affairs requires some explanation.
The explanation is that the opposition, the con-
flict between marriage and college is not private
question. 1t is public question 1t throws pow
erful light the problem of Grace suicide"
Women who brides at 10 are much more likely
to become mothers than those who marry at %, 81
30. Those who wait are far apt to stay sim
gle and therefore enrich society with offspring
T. Roosevelt is the greatest living advocate of both
colleges and babies
1t will, no doubt, be charged by his enemies that
he is Enthusiastically inconsistent in falling to
that college is the frost which yearly nps the crop
Of early babies
Young Strawn up great public question in
five words:
cts ALL OFF WITH COLLEGE,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
A CHAMPION IN ORDERS.
BY Stuart ID. Stone.

The big revival at the Grow
Center African Union church was
in full and glorious swing. The
visiting elder from Ham City was
an eloquent exhorter; Brother JO-
nadab Augustus Caesar Jones, the
'ocal shepherd, sat behind the pull
pit and rolled sonorous "Amens;
Sister Carolina Angelica jenkins,
who had taken a music course
from a Chicago mail-order house,
played increasingly ON the little
imitation pipe organ; and the
choir, shading from shining
ebony to delicate lemon, put their
hearts into their singing.
''Now," shouted Elder Flavius
Josephus Pottlocks, the evaugeI-
list, now all you wicked and am
fibyus sinners dat feels de sword
of Gideon stickin' in yoh brack
hearts, come a-trottin' hyah to de
affairs of Zion!" The elder whack-
ed the pulpit so that a tumbler OF
water jumped off.
Roll, Jordan, roll!" chanted
Elder Pottlocks.
Sister Eliza Belle Coleman be-
gan to clap her washing-powder-
worn palms. The choir sang lusti-
ly "Fohteen Mob Times Round de
Walls of Jericho!"
The lamentations of the mourn
ers rose and fell in one beautiful
minor chant. Then 1t was that a
long, lank, muscular, mahogany
colored gentleman arose in the
middle of the congregation and
howled at the top of his leather
lined voice.
h "Whoopee! Wow-wow! Amt
jes de worst coon dat ever
was!"
Elder Pottlocks contracted his
maple-sugar-tinted brows at the
interrupter, but Deacon George
Washington Jackson tugged al
the evangelist's coattails. "Doan
yoh pay no 'tention to dat triflin
coon." he admonished. "He's a
old prize fighter and carries on
fit to kill every big meetin'
Maybe some day de rod o. Moses
swat him mighty hard"
! But the visiting elder frowned
yet more impressively.
"Whoo-wee! Whoo-pee!" yell
ed Mr.. Smoky Moke. Lick any
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2.-Judge
Albert Barnes Anderson, who is
trying the alleged dynamiters in
the big structural iornwOrIers'
conspiracy" case, is the hardest
proposition to interview in this
neck of the woods.
You see," a waiting lawyer ex-
planned, ''all judges are independ-
ent, but Judge Anderson shows IL
more than the rest of 'em. The
more you ask him the less he will
answer"
Just then the judge flashed by.
He swings through the outer
room and rushes to his desk as II
he thought it was on fire and he
was the fire department.
Judge Anderson isn't fussy, like
some other judges, about folks
coming into his private office. And
being more than tolerably shrewd,
the Judge gets between his caller
and the window. That throws the
light on the other fellows face
and the judges scowling counte-
nance-he wears a panied and
worried facets in the shade.
$50 you are newspaper
man ?" he observed, with quick.
searching look, piling few letters
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here, scratching around his desk
there, opening other letters and
scribbling notes.
81 don't intend to talk about
myself, and l am not going to.
II was born in louisville, Boone
county, this state, SIS years ago
last February. grew up, went
to school, studied law, and have
ben judge 10 years."
Yes, the judge has a peculiar
judicial temperament all his own.
Some folks here in Indianapolis
say he's cranky Others think
he stoo "grouchy." Still others
believe he's pretty we'll satisfied
with himself"
But, at that, most people like
him. They think he Is fair and
honest. and decides questions of
law on their merits.
Judge Anderson was admitted
to the bar 81 years ago, and prac-
ticed law at Charlottesville
where he was prosecuting attor-
ney several years. President
Roosevelt made him federal dis
trict judge In 1902.
Judge Anderson Is graduate
of Wabash college,. He is mar
ried. His law library. provided
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
The House In Order

George Meredith was great novelist and great
poet and great man. After the fashion Of poets,
he was something of He ahead of his
time. He saw the needs of the world and gave
preston to them, long before the multitude caught
up with him. He is often accused of obscurity, but
this criticism certainly not be applied to these
lines
keep the young generations in hail
And bequeath them no tumbled house."
Long before the battle cry of ''human rights
against property rights was heard in America and
England, this English poet was preaching the doc
trine that have to cultivate the present
at the expense of the futre that have right to
indulge sweet fances and let posterity foot
the bill
On the contrary, he babe always remember the
young generations to Gomez he babe put the house
in order; he besought us to try to make the world
just little better place than we found it.
And that is the essence and the soul of the great
altrustic movement which is sweeping the world to-
day and which for want of better term we call
"progressivism.'
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cul1ed gemman livin'!"
The elder from Ham City walk.
ed solemnly down into the arena
before the pulpit. Then bran.
dishing his brown fists at the
disturber, he challenged:
"Cleah a way, sistering. Cease
fer to mohn till l chastises dis
hyah Ammonite from Ammon-
ville!"
The elder put forth his hands
in true square-ring style, and
none too soon. Mr.. Smoky Moke
was upon him like a whirlwind.
The Moke attempted knockout
blow at the outset, but Elder
Pottlocks had skill, and landed
stunningly on Smoky's nose.
ooh, glory! Sound de loud
timbrel!" shouted Deacon George
Washington Jackson.
The Smoky Moke came again
with more caution, but the elder
tented, then dealt an awful up
percut on the chin.
"Hosanna!" shouted Sister Ann
Sanders, in uncontrolled glee.
Then Elder Pottlocks, with one
wild swing, administered the solar
plexus, knocking the Smoky Moke
backwards over Deacon Jackson,
spilling the contents of the contri-
button box. 1t was enough for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
The Times Daily Short Story

the Moke. With an air of deep
humility he disappeared out the
back door, leaving three razors,
a pair of Clones" and a rabbit
foot upon the floor.
Amid the widest excitement
and avoiding the flood of con-
gratulations, Elder Pottlocks ne
turned to the pulpit. BREEDER
ing and sistering," he announced,
in tones of excusable satisfaction,
81 spect l done owes dis hyah
flock axumpology. Yoh see, I
was onse de bantamweight cham
peen of Ham City myself. Let de
edificationings perceed."
And the choir sang "Riz Up
and Smite de Debbil wiz de All
mob of de Lawd!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
NEEDS 1T BADLY

Madam, this story will
fairly take your breath
away"
81 don't need it, but you'd
better call on my husband
and show it to him."
You think he will pur-
chase? A dollar down
and"
81 am quite sure he will
look upon it as a long-felt
want. He has tried cloves
and coffee and orange peel
and he has yet to find some
thing that will take his
breath so far away that he
can fool me when he comes
in after having had to work
alte at the office. Houston
Post.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02

There is Just one way to get
even with an enthusiastic motor
list, and that is to learn almost as
much as he doesn't know about
gasoline engines and spring it on
him some time when he is not
prepared for it.
The distinct advantage of six
cylinders over four in a gasoline
engine is that the power produced
Is more even, and there is abso-
lutely no lost motion. In other
words, there is no time when the
piston of at least two of the CYL
inders is not delivering some pow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02

er to the propelling force of the
automobile or boat.
On the other hand, the four CYL
inder motor runs 20 per cent of
each revolution when it is deliv-
ering no power at all. The dia-
gram of the stroke of each piston
explains this.
AT the same time, the four cyl
inder motor is run with slightly
less gasoline than the six of the
same horsepower, and it's stroke
has a somewhat greater pressure
than the six. So it is really a
stand-off between the two.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02

world occupying rooms on ID st.
the police department denying
this. One shack, at least, was
for several months occupied by
women of the underworld.
A little investigation on your
part will disclose whether 1t is
still SO occupied, but this condi-
tion existed for several months,
up to June of this year at least.
The shack I'm question is on ID ST.,
just below 18th.
Yours for a model city.
ID. w. GALLAGHER.
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For the Show.

"John, am l all right for
the theater?"
"My dear, I hardly know
what you consider all right.
You have a dab of powder on
each ear, but none on the
tip of your nose. kansas
City Journal.
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Tacoma, Sept. 80, 1912.

The Tacoma Times:
Being a constant reader OF
your paper, and feeling that your
desire Is to assist by every means
to make of Tacoma clean city,
am giving you below a little In
formation which may be of some
use to you.
l have just returned from the
east, where / have been for sew
eral weeks, and learn that there
has been good deal Of agitation
relative to people Of the under
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-02
AN ASSURANCE

"Sir, I am talking about
what you owe me. Will
you please pay me some at
tention?"
Certainly, II you do not
want me to pay you any
thing else"
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Foolish Execution.

FOOIISh EACtptfOH.
do they have any special
corporal punishment in the
army"
"Of course not. Why
should they single out the
corporal?"-Baltimore Am
erican.
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by the government in the federal
building, has a ceiling of gold
which cost $4,000, but he spends
more time looking up cases in
his little, time-worn library out
at his home on North Penn st.
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DY DEPTQN R3DRALEY

GNEttN@N~1L
Leaves turning sere,
Nights getting chill.
Apple times here
Frost's on the sill!
Air has a thrill;
Pulpit and pen
Formally trill
Autumn again"
Goals gettin' dear
(Think of the bill)
Fall toys appear
Frost's on the sill!
Colleges fill,
Footballers then
Slaughter and kill.
Autumn again!
Crisp days and clear,
Good time to "grill"-
Work like a steer
Frost's on the sill!
Who could make i'll
Prophesies, when
Nature brings still
Autumn again?
ENVOY.
Whoop! Jack and Jill,
Frost's on the sill!
Autumn again!