Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-19

Rev. E. q. s., Osgood will lead the.
devotional service this evening at 736
in the Congregational chapel.
Contractor w. e. Cushman began work
this week on three-room cottage which
G. p. Spencer will have erected at Echo
park, which he bought recently.
Leslie Hudson of Chesterfield, while
visiting his mother at the Cutler farm
on Western avenue, last week, lost a
horse valued at 5000, the barn floor Civ
ing way ana letting the animal fall
Through. T.
! Contrary to the general belief the
trout season FOR brooks will close
at midnight July 81, and not July
Is. The season for ponds ends August
81. The season has not been a good one
as the early fishing was spoiled by high
water and since JUNE the lack of rain
has made conditions unfavorable.
! A cold storage plant for Brattleboro
Is under consideration. Such a plant
would be of great value to farmers and
others having produce to sell, as 1t
would, enoble them to realize on their
products at times when the markets
were dull. The subject will be investi-
gated by board of trade committee.
George o. Abbott proprietor of the
Grange store. bought the Winfield w.
Saturday for $1,000. He will occupy it
for a summer home. The farm contains
about 200 acres of moving, pasture and
woodland and the house and barns are
In excellent repair. The property Is IL
miles from this town and about two and
half miles from West Halifax and
Halifax Centre. Some household goods
also were disposed of at good prices.
A. ". j. Wilkins was the auctioneer.
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held on the common Saturday afternoon
and Ii seemed as though about every
child in town under FIVE years of age
was. present, besides many older chill
dren. Group pictures of the children
were taken by Floyd E. johnson and the
First Regiment band gave a concert, be-
ginning at o'clock There were 1875
children under five years of age in the
parade around the common. The first
meet was arranged for seven years ago
by Mrs. G. G. Fits and Mrs. H. c.
Rice, and one has been held each year
since.
The annual report of the insurance
commissioners of Vermont gives the
total fire loss for the year in Windham
county as $56,7l9.S6, the number of fires
and the amount, of damage in the sew
eral towns being as follows Brattleboro
20, $61S5.69; Brookline, 3, $3.50; Dummers-
:,
ford. 8, s7437.5O;. Jamaica, 8, $24.26; Lon
donderry 8, $114.25; Marlboro, /, $15.25;
Newfane, l, 1855; Putney, 5, $2S51. 70;
Rockingham, IS, $21,674S1; Townshend, 3,
$452; Vernon, 2, s45; Wardsboro l. 1925;
Westminster, 6, s29lO36; Nottingham, 8,
$9S66; Wilmington, Z, sS343.75.
Musical Seeley," who was advertised
to appear at Island park for four nights
this week, beginning Sunday night, came
here Sunday morning on the "owl train
He registered at the Brooks House and
during the morning went to the park to
| look 1t over. He was displeased at the
| idea of doing his act on an open stage
! but after talk with Superintendent John
| Birch 1t Is said he promised to fulfill his
contract. In the afternoon Mr. Birch
| went to the hotel to confer with the mu-
| sician and was told that Musical See
| ley had left for Boston on the Az
| train. Another act had to be obtained
| to fill Seeley's engagement
Manager William Carpenter Hazelton
of the Brattleboro baseball team is now
benedict Mrs. Hazelton was formerly
Miss Emma Louise Beach, and the nup-
| tial knot was tied Sunday evening in
the home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Cora E. Beach, Of Bay View street,
| Burlington, Rev. George Y. Bliss offici-
ating. Mr.. and Mrs. Hazelton came to
Brooks House during the summer and
in the early fall they will return to
| Burlington. Mr.. Hazelton has business
interests in that city and during a part
OF the year is engaged in coaching the
University of Vermont baseball team
The list of episodes has been COM
pleted for the historical pageant at Sara
toga Springs, N. Y, to be given Aug. 10
to "a, inclusive, under the direction of
MISS Margaret MacLaren Eager, who di-
| rected the Brattleboro pageant this sum-
mer. Few sections of New York sta
possess the wealth of historical and leg
endary lore that Saratoga does, and the
| pageant will be a feature of the sum-
mer's festivities there. ]. Willard Cobb
OF this town. who made such good i'm
preston as Gen. Ethan Allen, will i'm
personate Gen. Schuyler in the Sara
| toga pageant. Mrs. c. b. Crowell is
designing some costumes to be used in
the production. The cast will include
| 1000 persons. There will be six per-
formances of the episodes, also five pro-
grams of English and French dances
under the direction of Miss Elsa Eager
Miss Jessie L. Hawley, who is spend l.
/ ing the month at the Hawley cottage at
York Beach, Me-, intends to spend the
next year in Brattleboro. She has been
studying and teaching continuously 10
| ),
and more at the New England Conserv-
atory of Music Boston, under the cele-
brated teacher and piano virtuoso. Carl
Stasny, taking also harmony, compost
ton, sight playing and technique with
the most competent instructors, includ-
ing course in normal work. In her
last engagement at Mount Pleasant, Pa,
Miss Hawley taught over so piano pu-
pills, mostly advanced, each week and
naturally found the life rather too siren
uous to follow continuously. Miss Mary
Bane of Lewiston, Me-, close friend of
Miss Hawley, will make her home with
i Mr.. and Mrs L. w. Hawley, IL Chaplin
street in the fall, Miss Bane is a voice
teacher of marked ability and success.
In her period of teaching at Mount
Pleasant her class increa sed from 10 to
about so. She is an especially gifted
soprano singer and has had the rare ad-
vantage of voal study at the New Eng
land Conserva tory and later at the cele-
brated Whitney school, Miss Bane
teaches the Whitney method. There is
some talk of recital by these two
| young women in September.