Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-15


~ yesterday afternoon. Light refresh
ments were served.
Contractor John C. Connors has been
here this week settling accounts for the
sidewalk work done this year. There are
a few bills that he owes to local con-
Germs and he requests that anybody with
bills against him send them to him at
1871 Jay street, Schenectady, N. Y
A new gravel sidewalk has been COM
pletej under the direction of Selectman
j. e. Mellen in the south part of the
town. 1t extends from the end of the
car line on South Main street to the
Vermont Last Block company's plant
ana it's grade is from eight to IL inches
above the grade of the street. The side
walk is about a mile long and was
constructed in six days.
An automobile with Massa chusetts
number collded with a wagon driven by
a woman on Main street in front of the
Crosby block Monday afternoon. The
shaft of the wagon went through the
glass windshield on the automobile and
was broken. After a short delay the au-
tomoblle proceeded and r. II. Amidon and
Frank Allen tied up the shaft for the
woman and she drove away.
The 10 p. m. car from Prospect hill that
has waited on Main street bridge until
1890 will hereafter make the trip without
uelay III VIII leaNe west BratueDOrO on
the return trip at 1890 and wait on the
bridge until 1850, or the arrival of the
express from New York unless it is more
than 80 minutes late, before going back
to West Brattleboro. car from Pros
pect hill will also wait on the bridge for
the arrival of the late train. This change
goes into effect tonight.
Miss Jennie Bushee has signed
| lease for the three upper stories in
Charles Miners new building on Elliot
street and will conduct lodging house
there. 1t is expected that the new
| building will be ready for her by Dec. l.
| She will close the Brattleboro House be-
| fore going to her new quarters. Mr.
| Miner has had the entire building, includ
| ing the new part and the old Methodist
church building, covered with galvanized
| iron. The clapboards have been removed
and between the boards of the building
and the galvanized iron covering heavy
| felt has been placed
The Boy Scouts of the Congregational
| Sunday school went on a hike to the
| pinnacle of Wantastiquet Saturday af-
| ternoon. Thirteen of the 16 scouts made
the ,seiu with Rev r. NJ Houghton. They
| lief chapel shortly after l o'clock,
| n 0kl\to the summit of Wantastiquet
~weSe back at their headquarters
Bout S}o'clock. making the trip in two
hours. a meeting was nelu III Inc
chapeH Tuesday evening and the scouts
were 3htfiusiastic about the future of the
local }camp. Tomorrow afternoon the
| boys Xviii meet at the chapel and leave
at l O'clock for trip to George l.. Dun
hams cottage on the Connecticut river.
The figures for the work done on the
construction of new cement sidewalks
were made this week and it was found
that 30,65S feet had been constructed in
the different sections of the town. This
is about SIS miles and leaves but few
unfinished portions to be completed next
spring. When Contractor j. c. Connors
returns next spring he will have new
walks to lay for a short distance al
Fort Dummer Heights, where the work
was not done this season because trees
must be cut down to widen part of the
road from South Main street to Gull
ford; some work has yet to be done or
Oak Grove avenue because the sidewalks
commission consisting of j. E. Mellen
C. A Harris and j. L. Stockwell, dill
not care to put in the sub grading in
the fall and at Chestnut Hill there will
be work to do if the new street in that
section is accepted by the town.
1.-The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' attracted
large audiences to the Auditorium Fri.
day evening and Saturday afternoon, the
matinee audience being as large as either
of the evening performances. An unfor
tunate accident prevented Mrs. A. p. 81
monds from appearing in the sabot dance
at the Saturday matinee and Miss Elsa
Eager, under whose direction the pro-
duction was presented, took her plac,
in the dance with H. C. Rice. Miss Ea
gers dancing was good and merited the
applause it received Following the Fri
day evening performance those who tool
part in the sabot dance went to thu
Brooks House for luncheon and Will,
Mrs. Simonds was crossing the dinins
room floor her ankle turned and inca
pactated her so that she was unable t.
step on the foot About $500 was nettet
the Brattleboro Woman's club by thu
three presentations of the musical spec
tacle.
The last speaker of the evening a
the meeting of the greater Vernon
! association held in Montpelier Nov.
was Clarke C. Fits of Bratteboro. HI
said that if the purpose of the associa
ton is merely to build up Vermont in
dustrially for the money there is in it
the proposition had better be dropped
but if it is to keep the young people II
the state instead of letting them leav,
for other parts of the country; if tn,
idea is to check the decadence of ou
small towns and to bring new industries
into these communities, then II Is
movement that VIII work for the mora
and intellectual uplift of the state
One great question is the proper con
servation and development of our waite
power resources. The water power de
velopment in Windsor county alone las
year takes the place of $4,000 tons of Goa
a year, while one plant at Vernon dis
placed in 1911, $4,000 tons. The problem
is to conserve the flood waters b,
means of storage reservoirs and fores
reserves in such a way that the waite
powers will be most benefited If thi
years Legislature should appropriate
s1,OOO,0sO for this purpose, it would in
sure the return to the state annual!
of enough to pay the interest on tn
investment and all operating charges
This benefit would accrue to the in
dustries at present established along tn
streams and would cause an enormous
increase to the value of present waite
powers. In closing he said: vermont 4
without peer in the opportunities sh
possesses to build for the future aloni
lines which will attract the strongest
the richest and the highest industrial
and intellectual life"