Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-01

wire across High street opposite l.. H.
BARRIERS store announcing that Taft,
Wilson and Roosevelt may be heard In
the store on Victor records on questions
of the campaign.
The Columbian Book club held its an
nuaf meeting Tuesday evening with Mrs.
NJ C. Houghton. These officers were
elected: Pres, Mrs. Maverette Fisher;
vice pres, Mrs. j. Il. Mellen sec and
treas, Mrs. Fred c. Greasy.
When the box Office at the Auditorium
opened yesterday morning for the ad-
vance sale of tickets for THE Bohemian
Girl a line had formed which extended
down the lobby and through the hall to
the cement walk ouside the building The
sale has been good.
A Progressive rally will be held in the
Auditorium this evening al o'clock. Mu
sic will be furnished by the theatre or
chestra and the speakers will be Judge
cambridge Colby of New York city, a
leader of the Progressive movement Rev.
Fraser Metzger of Randolph and Mrs.
George III. Rublee of Cornish, N. H.
A heavy blast was set off on the rail-
road job on the Hinsdale side of the
river Monday afternoon, opposite the
Hunt meadows. Such was the force of
the explosion of dynamite that "a piece
of stone as large as a mans hat was
thrown across theriver, across the rail-
road tracks and into the water that now
covers the Hunt farm.
A bridge party of "a was held in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. X. Sparks of
Wiliston street Monday evening, the
occasion being the third anniversary of
the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Sparks.
The first prizes were won by DR.. f. r.
Newell and Mrs. Helen Crosby Brasor
and the BOBBY prizes by Howard s.
Merrill and Mrs Frank E. Barber. In
behalf of the company Oscar F. Benson
presented Mr.. and Mrs Sparks a Their
mos bottle in a felictous speech. Re-
freshments were served, each table be-
ing provided with a chatting dish.
The officers of the Congregational
Brotherhood met in the pastors study at
Lindenhurst Sunday evening 1t was de-
cided to hold the annual meeting the
second Wednesday in November.
Amendments to the constitution will be
proposed at that time, one of which will
provide that every man in the parish
shall be considered member of the
Brotherhood and that instead of col
lecting the annual dues the organization
be supported by voluntary contributions
The Brotherhood voted to stand back of
the Sunday evening services which will
be begun next Sunday and continue I'M
til Easter.
Before his scheduled appearance next
week the Pied Piper of Hamelin may be
called upon to demonstrate his rat-clear
ing prowess, as rats have been perform
ing disturbing antics in town recently.
The Brattleboro street railway schedule
was suspended from $3.50 to $50 o'clock
Saturday afternoon because rats built a
nest in a rheostat in the power station.
The heat from the electricity or sponta-
neous combustion caused the nest to burn
and the insulation was burned off the
wires. The result was that Electrician
Leon White and a force of men had to
get busy and transfer some old appara-
tus from the car barns in Centrevile to
the power sta ton on Arch street and
rig up temporary rheostat until a new
one could come from New York. While
they were working the rats kept out of
sight and prospective passengers waited
or walked. One evening recently rats
spoiled an attractive display of carton
goods by knocking over a pyramid that
had been built carefully in the Grange
store window and Tuesday night they
became risky with a galley of type in
The Phoenix composing room and tipped
it bottom side up. Where is the Pied
Piper?
Freight cars off the track a few
hundred feet north of the West Dunn
merston station resulted in a weird
schedule of trains on the West River
railroad Monday Persons who expected
to reach Brattleboro at $50 did not ar
rive until about II o'clock and those
who planned to come at $50 o'clock ar
rived at $40. A special freight came
down Sunday afternoon and near the
culvert north of West Dummerston
three cars jumped the rails. The road
bed was torn up and ties were cut and
broken. A work train was sent up, but
it was after 10 o'clock when the track
was cleared. The mixed train due to
leave here at 7 o'clock, which had been
waiting at the station was sent up the
line without a passenger coach. The
work train passed the mixed at the
quarry Then the mixed went to West
Dummerston and the train due here at
$50 came down, arriving here about II,
and started back for South Londonder-
ry. where 1t arrived about $50, an hour
after it was due back in Brattleboro.
This ragged running caused many
people who had intended to come to
Brattleboro on the afternoon train to
change their plans and go home after
long waits at the various stations.
The announcement that the Aborn
Opera company will present it's modern
lied version of Balfe's grand old opera
THE Bohemian Girl at the Auditori-
UNI tomorrow night has been read with
genuine pleasure by all lovers of the
better class of music. After having been
ueiuBeu Win the SO-calleu popular songs
it will be real treat to again hear
THE Heart Bowed Down." Then
You'll Remember Me-" 81 Dreamt I
Dwelt in Marble Halls" and the numer-
Gus other ballads that have made and
kept this opera at the top round of
popularity. The cast to be heard here is
made up of singers all of whom have
metropolitan regulations. To those who
have seen the opera only as Ii was
presented previous to last season, It
would seem out of place to introduce a
troupe of acrobats, horses, monkeys,
geese, dogs, chickens. ETC., but those
that have seen both the old and the
Aborn version have wondered why these
seeming incongruities have not always
been parts of 1.-THE Bohemian Girl so
consistently do they fit. Great care has
to be exercised In the selection of the
one-night stands. as there are not
many Stages outside of big cities that
are sufficiently large to permit of the
employment of the entire scenic invest
iture. the company of upwards of 100
people, and the numerous special feat
ures.
Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, the pure food
expert, formerly chief of the govern
ment pure food bureau gave very in
teresting address in the Congregational
church Saturday evening under the
auspices, of the young people of the
Brattleboro churches. His subject was