Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-03

The Salvation Army will hold a rum
mage sale in Emerson building, Elliot
street, May 9. 10 and IL for the benefit
OF the local work.
The annual meeting of the Womans
Alliance connected with the Unitarian
church, will be held Thursday evening,
May 9, at 7.3O o'clock, in the home of
Mrs. John ID. Barrows.
Memorial day falls on Thursday this
year, therefore all the schools of the
Incorporated district No. 2 will be in
session tomorrow and there will be no
sessions Friday, May 81
Next Sunday night at 1880 Rev. F. A.
Wells will give the third address of the
series How some Bratteboro people
regard the churches" namely THE pat
ronizing man" There will be special
music. Everyone is invited.
Frank Larrow has sold the pair of
black horses which were tried out for
the village to the Bellows Falls fire de-
partment. They were driven there Sun
day. The pair which they will replace
were bought by Mr.. Larrow and he
sold them to the Holbrook, Cabot &
Rollins company and they will be used
in the railroad operations on the New
Hampshire side of the river.
Eleven persons united with the Con-
gregational church in the morning SER
vice Sunday, four by letter and seven
on confession of faith. This makes the
total additions for the month so of
which is were by letter and 30 on con-
fession of faith. Since Rev. r. NJ.
IIoughton became pastor Jan. l, 1909,
three and a third years ago, there have
been ia additions to the church men,
bership.
The following are the chairmen of
committees for the County Sunday
| School convention to be held in the First
| Baptist church next Wednesday: Enter
| tainment, j. f. Hall; exhibit Mrs. L.
| w. Hawey; meals, Mrs. w. H. Proc
| tor publicity, Miss Florence NJ. Hemen-
| way. Dinner and supper will be served
| to the delegates in the chapel of the
| Centre Congregational church. The pub
| lie is cordially invited to all the ses-
| SION
The bailiffs this week sold the pair
| of bay horses that have been used by
| the fire department to haul the new
| combination wagon to Howard &c Yearly,
| liverymen, and they sold the animals to
Herbert Stewart of Chester One of the
| horses was bought about IL years ago
| and had been in use ever since and
| the other one was bought last June.
| They probably will be shipped to Ches-
| ter the first of next week. The bailiffs
| have not secured horses to take their
places, but have looked at several pairs,
including a pair of iron grays owned
| by Frank Larrow
Selectman A. E. Merrill, who is the
bridge expert of the board of selectmen,
| ordered planks with which to replanl1
the Connecticut river bridge this spring,
| but because of the uncertainty as to
how the railroad improvements will af-
! feet the bridge he has decided not to
| make any large repairs at present. Many
of the planks are in poor condition and
he is making regular inspections and
| where they are needed he Is patching
with boards in order to save the ex-
pense of laying an entire covering OF
new boards only to have them removed
when opera lions begin on the bridge by
the railroads.
The committee elected to have charge
of the expenditure of the appropriation
for cement sidewalks have been asked
by several persons to lay walks in par
ticular places, but it Is their intention
to wait until the permanent grades and
boundaries of all the streets have been
made before beginning the work. 1t car
be done more cneaply and uniformly by
one contractor than IL 1T is done little
at a time by several persons. Town
Clerk C. S. Hopkins is looking up the
| records of the streets as fast as he car
in addition to his other work, and these
records will be used by the surveyors
| in making new surveys and speclhca-
tons.
The annual village meeting will be
held in Festival hall next Tuesday even
ing at 7.30 o'clock. If presidents are
maintained there will not be very
large attendance as there is little In
sight in the way of controversy. Besides
an article to hear the report OF the
committee appointed to draft new
village charer the only article of new
I H. h. ArnVt
shall be paid by the hour or under the
present system, $50 a year with deduc-
tons for absence from roll call. 1t has
been suggested that they be paid 81
an hour for actual service. The cniei
engineer and fremen favor continuing
| the present plan.
President Major C. Houghton of the
board of trade appointed the chairmen
of the board of trade committees Mon
| day. They are as follows: House and
entertainment, Dennison Cowles; insur-
| ance and taxation, Arthur L. Maynard
| legislation, Walter Il. Hubbard; Local
trade, Michael j. Moran; manufacture
ing and new industries, j. Edgar Mel
LEM membership, William j. Pentland
jr. mercantile affairs, Arthur F.. Rob-
erts: postal, telephone and telegraph
Charles G. Staples; printing and pub
licity, Howard C. Rice; public improve
ment, Clarence L. Stickney; transporta-
ton, Lyman e. Holden; ways and means
william A. Shumway.
Vermont forward movement meet
ing will be held in Brattleboro Monday
May 10, under the direction of State Su
perintendent of Education Mason
Stone. One of the speakers will be Al
bert E. Roberts of New York city, {
specialist in country life, who has beei
, heard in Vermont several times ant
who Is regarded as one OF IN
finest platform speakers ever in
troduced In the state James B. Estee
mayor of Montpelier will also address
the meeting. Mr.. Estee, who was for
merly vice president of the National Lif
Insurance company and who has bee
engaged in business affairs many years
will discuss the possibilities of the state
The Newplay Stock company will opel
a weeks engagement in the Auditorium
Monday, May g. This company is com
posed of first class artists, all engages
for their respective parts, and they pre-
sent "a line of plays new to stock AM
repertoire, the plays never having beei
| produced outside the larger cities Ii
conjunction with this line of plays ar
offered several up-to-date vaudevill
acts. The following repertoire Will b
played opening Monday night: TN
unwritten law" THE silver dagger,
AT the risk of his life," "A man o
mystery" Whose baby are your o.
Monday night a limited number o
| tickets will be sold to the women at