Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-07-12

Is dean OF Middlebury college.
After next Sunday there will be two
low masses, at and 9 O'clock in St.
Mchael's Roman Catholic church until
September. The 1915 high mass will be
discontinued during the hot wea,ner.
The July number of the American
Hay, Flour and Feed Journal contains a
halftone picture of E. Crosby & Co.'S
grain elevator, together with state
ment as to the capacity of the plant
and plans for a ne welevator.
In the meeting of the young womens
association Tuesday evening in the Con-
gregational chapel these officers were
elected; Pres, Miss Florence NJ. Hemen-
way; vice pres, Miss Bessie L. Farnum
sec, Miss Emily r. Clapp; treas, Miss
Gertrude A. Bailey. Refreshments were
served. Another meeting will be held
next Tuesday evening at 7.30.
L. II. Barber has bought a Ford run
about. F. b. Putnam has exchanged
his Hudson touring car for the new
est model Hudson runabout. c. o. Rob-
bins has received his new Cadillac tour
ing car. Charles W. Richardson has re-
ceived this week a Ford touring car.
II. M. wheelock, who has had charge
of the carriage painting for Howard &
Yearly the past seven years, has opened
Stuart has built on Elm street.. near
Canal street Mr.. Wheelock will make
specially of carriage and automobile
painting.
Tree Warden George r. Bishop has
finished work on the plot of land owned
by the town at the junction of Elm and
Canal streets. AS he had only $1S with
which to clean up the place there is
more or less work that might be done,
but what has been done has added much
to the appearance of the plot.
The employees of the Wells Brothers
and Wiley & Russell factories in
Greenfield will come to Island park for
an outing Aug. 8. A baseball game be-
tween two teams of the Greenfield in
dustral league will be played during the
day and the evenings entertainment will
be in the form Of a minstrel show.
Work was begun Monday in the Miner
building on Elliot street on the con-
struction of the inclined floor for the
moving picture theatre which will be
managed by Mrs. Emma Harrington of
Littleton, N II. Mrs. Harrington has
been here and has been making ar
engagements for fitting up the theatre
and carpenters from Lttleton are build
ing the floor. 1t is expected the theatre
will be opened about Sept. /.
Helen Plante 2, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Plante of Williams street,
fell from the second story of her home
Sunday morning and sustained a frac-
ture of one leg, deep cut in her
head and minor injuries. She was taken
to the Memorial hospital. The little
girl was playing in a bedroom and
leaned too far out the window. She
landed on dirt walk DR.. A. l. Miller
attended her at the hospital and the
fracture was reduced by DR.. F. H..
O'Connor.
This is the tonic drinking season and
in order to keep up with their orders
c. H. Eddy & Co. have INSTALLED a new
automatic bottle filling machine and an
automatic bottle labelling machine The
filling machine fills automati cally two
dozen half-pint bottles every minute
and keeps a man busy feeding bottles to
be filled, and the labelling machine la
bells two dozen bottles every minute.
More than 10000 bottles are filled, la :
beled and shipped from the Flat street
plant of the company every day.
The fifth annual convention of the
| Vermont State optical society was held
| in Montpelier Friday. II. F. Jordan OF
| this town read paper on the subjec-
tive method of fitting glasses and gave
| an analysis of the optometry bill which
was passed by the legislature of 1908
| Mr.. Jordan was elected chairman of the
| executive committee and was appointed
a member of the legislative committee
F. r. Vaughan was appointed a men,
Der of the membership committee, al
! though he was not present The con-
vention next year will be held in Brat
tleboro Aug. 6.
John Fenton, who formerly had {
blacksmith shop at the corner of Soutl
| Main and Canal streets has moved int
the new building recently constructe,
by w. r. Stuart on Elm street, nea
Canal. He occupies the lower floor, II
NJ. Wheelock carriage painter, occupie
the second floor and Paul d. Cobb is il
| the third story and will conduct
machine and automobile repair shop
They all moved into the building thi
week. The building is so CONSTRUCTED
that there is an entrance from the leve
of the street to each floor.
Rev. w. L. Hughes was in town Tues
day in the interest of the fresh al
work of the New York Tribune. Owe
| 1900 children of the crowded tenemen
life of New York are saying to the man
ager of the fresh air fund mister, c.
We go to the country?' The children
are needy and thoroughly clean an
come into the country free from al
communicable diseases. Leslie M. Comfy
manager of the fund, would be very gla
to receive invitations for the childre
from this section of the countryside an
time convenient to the people durin
July and August. Five dollars will pa
for the outing of a child for two week
| in the country.
AS Sunday was the last Sunday befor
the summer vacation in the Universal
list Sunday school a surprise program
took the place of the regular exercises
There was a good attendance in spit
of the high temperature. The program
was as follows: Piano voluntary, Mis-
Evelyn Staples; greeting by the super
intendent, Mrs. l. d. Bailey; song by tn
school; salute of the flag; scripture read
ing, Mrs. l. d. Bailey; song, Doroth
Hubbard and Malva Roberts; prayer b.
Rev. ID. E. Trout; plano solo, Malv
Roberts; recitation, Dorothy Hubbard
song by the school; recitation, Doroth
Hubbard song, Dorothy Hubbard an
Malva Roberts, announcements and re
ports; closing song by the school, bene
diction by the pastor.
No rain has fallen in Brattleboro Il
| five weeks. Last Friday afternoon
thunderstorm gave temporary relief Il
Bellows Falls and as far south as Dunn
merston, and on Saturday rain fell
short time In Vernon and as far mort
as Broad Brook bridge. Crops are with
ering, pastures are parched lawns ar
getting brown and bare and the road
| are cut up into a fine powder whicl
makes travelling very disagreeable. Co
pious rains at the present time woul