Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-29

tist church will be held "Wednesday at
p. m. Rev. DR.. Frank w. Paddleford of
Boston will speak.
The program for the next Grange
meeting Wednesday evening will include
music, Rotations, speeches, a farce and
the Grange Husbandman edited by Mrs
Mary e. Wilson and Carl S. Hopkins.
The committee elected in the special
village meeting to draft a new charter
for the village is making progress.
Chairman j. M. Tyler has been through
all the session laws since 1872 and has
compiled all the amendments to the
charter of that year.
The ladies' association of the Congre-
gational church will hold it's annual
thank offering meeting for home missions
in the chapel Friday, April 5, at $3.50
O'Clock Rev. r. NJ Houghton will give
an address on THE meaning of the
cross" This meeting will be of special
interest to every woman in the parish.
In the Masonic pool tournament Cap
tain j. E. Haynes's team leads Captain
w. r. Daleys team by the score of ISL
to HOO. Captain Daley's men took three
straight games from the opposing side
this week by the following sores: DR..
Thomas Rice so, c. f. GRAHAM AZ; Har-
ry Randall SO, w. d. ellison 49, F. r.
Vaughan so, @. NJ. Cay 26.
AbOub " iOoilS now Ill OptTdtlOn
at the Fort Dummer Mills cotton fac
! tory. New machines are being started
as fast as they can be gotten ready and
additional help is being hired every
week. Manager f. G.. Chace received
| an application this week from a man
with wife and IA children. In his let
| ter the man stated that II members of
| the family were workers
s. W. Edgett. real estate agent. says
| that not since he has been in the real
estate business has he received in any
| other year as many applications from
| outside persons for farms and homes in
Brattleboro as during the past year. He
| is looking for places now for several
| applicants This probably is a result of
the advertising the town has been get
ting because of it's industrial develop
ment.
| The gigh school pupils arrived in
| Washington Saturday evening two
| hours late and in a pouring rain. Be-
cause of the weather several plans in the
| original itinerary were changed although
the party have visited most of the places
of interest as they had planned Sun
| day morning rain fell and Monday a
small snowstorm interfered with their
| plans, Tuesday was pleasant and We'd
nesday the trip was made to Mount
| Vernon.
The bust of Larkin G. Mead, given by
the widow of the sculptor, has arrived
| at the Brooks library, with it's pedestal.
! The pedestal, which has been unpacked,
is of dark green marble. The bust and
pedestal will not be put in place until
the addition to the library is completed.
| Through the efforts of DR.. II. d. Hol-
ton of this town and William r. Mead,
| brother of Larkin G. Mead, of New York
the bust was admitted to this country
without the payment of customs duties.
boro can best help make permanent the
improved service on the West river rail-
road will be held in Grange banquet hall
at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Among the
speakers will be Clarke C. Fits. chair
man of the board of trade committee
appointed to take up the matter of i'm
proved service with the railroad officials.
An amendment to the bylaws will be
proposed, making the annual dues of
members living in other towns or states
81 A buffet luncheon will be served.
Patrons of the Valley fair are in a
fair way to some aeroplane work,
Notwithstanding the disappointment of
the past two years. NJ NJ. Sloss, sec
rotary of the Morok Aeroplane company
of New York, manufacturers and ex-
hibitors of aeroplAnes was in Brattle-
| boro Wednesday to see Secretary o. F..
| Benson, and if satisfactory arrangements
can be made Mr.. Morok will be engaged
to come here to fly during the next ex-
hibition. All who have seen him fly
speak very highly of his work He will
make flights this year at Rutland and
White River Junction and probably at
ST. Johnsbury, Woodstock and Brattle-
boro
Miss M. NJ Eager who will direct the
presentation of the historical pageant to
be given here during the first week in
June, is in town today in consultation
with the episode committee and they
are making plans for the affair. Mem
bers of the different committees have
been hard at work this week preparing
for the more strenuous work yet to
come. Although definite plans have not
been made, tentative plans have been
discussed and the general ideas of the
pageant are in mind. Between 400 and
800 persons will be in the cast. and it
is probable that the Edison Biograph
company will have moving picture ma
chimes and operators here to make pho
graphs of the several scenes,
A musical program of exceptional
merit was presented in Grange hall to
an audience that taxed the seating ca
pacity last evening. Prof. Joel Moss
berg of Chicago, baritone, and Pau
Huffman, pianist, rendered the nine
numbers on the program in such man.
ner as to bring forth outbursts of APP
plause at the end of each. Mr.. Moss
berg possesses a rich baritone voice OF
delightful intonation. He sang five
numbers in particularly acceptable
way. Mr.. HUFFMAN alternated with the
singer on the program and his playing
was equal to that of any pianist heard
here in long time. That he is mas
ter of technique was demonstrated by
his playing of difficult numbers BY
Beethoven, Mendessohn, Chopin ano
.-,szt. The entertainment was given I'M
der the auspices of the local branch OF
the Scandinavian Brotherhood of Amer
lea.
call for Republican caucus to be held
in Festival hall tomorrow evening was
posted Tuesday, signed by two members
of the Republican town committee, u. j.
Waterman and Harold r.. Whitney,
The caucus will be hed>at 7.3O o'clock to
elect ~ delegates and II alternates to
attend the Republican district conven-
ton in Montpelier April 9, when two
delegates and two alternates to the Re
publican national convention in Chicago
June Is will be elected. The caucus also
will elect ~ delegates and IL alternates
to the state convention in Montpelier
April 10 to elect four delegates at large
and four alternates to the Republican
national convention. While 1t is probably
true that a majority of the business men
of the town favor the reelection OF
President Taft 1t is also true that there
are many Roosevelt followers in Brat
tleboro, and doubtless opposing tickets