Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-31

ing at the home of Miss Winnie Til
den. Miss Sewall was presented by the
club with a very handsome coffee per-
colator.
A farewell party was given to John
Conley at the home of Samuel Under
wood last week Thursday evening. Mr..
Conley was presented with a slight to-
ken of regard and a pleasant evening
was enjoyed.
The Twin State Gas e. Electric Co.
is making numerous Improvements in
the lighting of our streets. The ten
lights on Main street have been changed
from 40 to so candlepower. The com.
pany will rebuild the whole System,
using only one line of poles instead Oh
two, and relocating some lights.
The service in the Baptist church will
be at the usual hour next Sunday morn
ing. What it means to be Chris
tan" is the subject In the evening at
7.30 service will be held in
which Mrs. George Abbott will sing a
few selections. All are invited to attend
the regular mid-week service this even
ing at 7.30.
A correspondent in Alstead sent the
following paragraph concerning former
well known residents of this town: Mr..
and Mrs. Henry II. Dole were in Schen-
ectady, N. Y, a few days last week
Mr.. Dole's mother, Mrs. f. H. Hubbard
of Arlington, Mass, has been their
guest for over week. Mr.. Dole is i'm
proving his newly purchased farm by
having a large number of trees grated
and has set $50 apple trees and 100
peach trees, while Mrs. Dole is inter-
ested in a large strawberry bed, a lot
of raspberry bushes, asparagus and
other good things"
Thomas Harmon, 81, of this place. who
was taken to the Brattleboro Memorial
hospital last week Tuesday, died there
on Thursday. Mr.. Harmon had been i'll
only few days He was born in Bris-
tol, VT, and came to this town % years
ago. Four years later he married Mary
Cookery, who survives. He leaves also
an aged mother, Mrs. Ellen Harmon of
Burlington, VT, two brothers. Michael
of Bristol, VT, and John of Springfield,
Mass, and two sisters in Burlington.
The funeral was held in Brattleboro
Friday and the burial took place there.
His mother, a sister, Miss Alice, of Bur-
lington. and his two brothers attended
the funeral.
The veterans memorial service was
| held at the Methodist church Sunday
morning. The church was beautifully
| decorated for the occasion with flags
! and flowers. Four organizations were
present. the Grand Army, Womans
Relief corps, Sons of Veterans and
LADIES Auxiliary. They marched into
| the church, bearing their respective BAN
ners, and sat in military order in the
body of the church Special music was
| rendered by a chorus choir and a sole
was rendered by Mrs n. l.. Porter The
address was delivered by the pastor
Rev. n. l.. Porter. who is himself a
veteran, and who took for his subject
The Civil War and what it accom-.
| plished for the country"
The graded schools held their Memoria
exercises in the town hall Friday after
noon. The attendance was not as larg,
| as usual as many of our townspeopl,
did not know that tile exercises were t,
be held that day. The program opened
with tho singing of star spangled ban
ner" by all the schools Rev. n. L. Por
ter offered prayer. The boys and girl
of the sixth, seventh, eighth and nintl
grades then sang the flag song, whicl
like all the music in the program, wa
in charge of Miss Cummings, the musi
teacher, and was of especial merit. TIL
Gettysburg address was then given b.
Hans Leahy, after which the girls of tn
four grammar grades sang. piano du
ct followed by Miss Ethel Bell and Car
rie Booth. The cantata Carnival of tn
Flowers" was then very attractively rem
dered by the first five grades. The sol
parts were as follows: THE magnoli
blossom" Gertrude Sprague; THE jas
mine flower" Lillian Deyo; "The Florid
song" Mildred Merritt, THE strawberr
blossom Mildred Booth, The program
closed with the singing of America,
The whole program showed thoroug
preparation, reflected credit upon tn
teachers and merited larger audience