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

Rev. Il. Q. s. Osgood will conduct the
chapel service at the Retreat Sunday af-
ternoon at o'clock.
large variety of railroad folders and |
vacation guides have been secured by |
Miss Mary r. Stakeholder, the librarian, |
and have been placed on the table in the |
reading room.
Lena Burdett, 16 months, daughter of
L. r. Burdett, cut off the middle fin
ger of her right hand Saturday after
noon while playing with an axe. Dr.
G. b. Hunter was called and dressed
the wound.
The annual meeting of the board OF
directors of the Home for Aged and Dis
abled was held Wednesday afternoon in
the rooms of the Vermont National
bank. The home is in a good financial
condition. The board of directors and
officers were reelected
Playing with a water soaked ball on
muddy field Brattleboro high lost to
Windsor high on the Island park dia-
mond yesterday morning, 5-3 Because
of the threatening weather 1t was gen.
orally believed that there would be no
game and only 55 spectators were pre-
sent. The game was slow and owing to
the conditions brilliant playing was out
of the question
Albert Smith received Monday from
the national fish hatchery in Swanton
a consignment of 10000 wall-eyed pike
which were placed in the Connecticut
river at various points around the is
land. The fish were brought here in
10 gallon cans In charge of keeper
ana all arrived in good condition Mr..
Smith expects to receive in the fall a
consignment of channel catfish which
VIII also be planted in the river.
The Boston News Bureau, in an IN
teresting article on railroad develop
ments In New England, estimates the
cost of building the Boston & Maine
railroad from South Vernon to Brattle-
| boro via Hinsdale at s2,00O,00O 1t says
| tAat petition has been filed with tie
pubic service commission in New Hamp-
| shire for another Boston & Maine branch
from Windsor to White River Junction,
| distance of II miles. The estimated
| cost of the road on that section is 81,
100000.
| While DR.. II. p. Greene was going Mt
| a slow rate of speed in his automobile
| down Main street yesterday two young
| women started to cross the street. Dr.
| Greene thought they were going to stop
| TO let him pass, but they continued
walking and he had to make a sudden
| front wheels struck the curbng of the
| bridge and was demolished. The mud
guard hit one of the young women, Miss
Gladys Burke, and swept her off hei
feet, but she was uninjured.
LaVerne Streeter, aged years. went
on an exploration expedition of his own
| yesterday and thereby was the cause OF
much anxiety to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H Streeter. The little fellow
20 mn n
started home about $50 a. m. His moth
er thought he was with his father AMI
was not concerned regarding his safety
until Mr.. Streeter returned home al
noon and reported that he had not seer
the boy for several hours. Search was
begun at once, the police were notified
and friends assisted in the hunt. Abou
O'Clock he was found in the cellar o.
house on Spring street, happy anC
unaware of the anxiety he had caused
| his parents
BY a change in the running of Tn,
freight train WHICH leaves here jus
after the owl train arrives each morn
ing, two crews, the members of which
make their homes here, will be able 4
be in this town only one night a week
The train formerly, ran to White Rive
Junction and return and the crew
spent alternate nights here BY an or
} train will run from Greenfield to Clare
| mont and the men will spend alter
nate nights in Greenfield and the New
Hampshire town, with one night OF
which allows them to come here. TIL
| members of the crews have been run
| ming on the train several years, an
, they do not like the new schedule.
The funeral of William Collier, VIII
: sustained fatal injuries in a runawa
l aAf
t held yesterday morning in the Adven
0 Christian church. Rev. II. S. Weeks of
floating. Charles Hescock of Sout
Newfane sang two selections and Rev
8 II. s. Weeks and Mrs. n. E. Doubleda
I sang a duet. The bearers were thre
brothers of Mrs. Collier, Albert Whita
ker of Willimantlc, Conn, Byron Whit
e aker of Worcester, Mass, and Juliu
Whitaker of South Newfane. and h.
nephew, Harry Whitaker of West Brat
i tleboro. The burial took place in Sout
" Newfane. Besides the bearers those frol
= out of town who attended the funeri
s were Mr.. Golfers niece, Mrs. Streetc
: and daughter, of Amherst, Mass
Mrs. Mary E. Chase, wife of Hem
n Rugg, died in Seattle. WASH, May l
70 after a very brief illness with bronchl
v lpneumonia. Mrs. Rugg was born
- Gulford so years ago. the daughter
| toPt' injury ADdSt. tohc was
70 to Mr.. Rugg in Brattleboro in 1873 al
If their home for many years was in tn
Of town. Mr. Rugg was associated wi
p j. T. Hildreth as partner and e1nplo.
of In carriage manufacturing. They we
,e to Greenfield in 1897 and Mr. Rugg ca
as ried on business as a carriage paint
r there until their removal to Seattle
ne 1876. Mrs. Rugg leaves husband al
- one son, Stuart, 10 years old, She al
Ill leaves three sisters, Mrs. j. j. Prever
he Of Brooklyn. N. Y, Mrs. A. r. Villa
a. of Greenfield and Mrs. d. A. Young
Seattle. The body was cremated.
IN The total population of the world
t. row estimated at LOO, 600. 900. This
lie based upon the most recent census
q which all civilized countries now tai
:, with a careful estimate of the numt
D. of inha bitants of uncivilzed lands. 7
OF PROPORTION of the sexes is known
OF 1,03S, 900, 900 of these, the ratio being l
III males to $50 females. The ratio var
III considerably in different places In +
e. rope there are 1000 men to 1927 womt
- in Africa, 1000 men to 1045 women;
OF America 1000 men to 964 women;
ne Asia, 1000 men to 961 women In Al
~ tralia, 1000 men to 937 women. I
"a highest proportion of women Is fou
:" in Uganda, where there are l467 to eve
- 1000 men. The lowest proportion is
oe Alaska and the Malay states, VIII,
.n there are, in the former, 39l. and
the latter $3.50 women to every 1000 m