Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-22
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BRAT TCEBOHO.
The women of the Baptist church will
serve their annual chicken-pie supper
and hold their sale of home made can
jy, useful and fancy articles Dec. 3.
The equipment for the Montessori
system recently put into use in the free
kindergarten, was bought Jointly by the
Thompson Trust fund and the Brattle-
boro Womans club.
George E. Croll began work this week
on the cellar of an eight-room, two
tenement house that he will build on |
Blakeslee street on Prospect hill. The
house probably will be finished next |
spring.
Members of the choir of ST. MichaePs
Roman Catholic church gave Miss Nellie
Brown a surprise party Friday evening
in the home of Mrs. Ralph Cakes on
Reed street. The party took the form
of a linen shower Refreshments were
served and the evening was spent pleas
antly with cards and music.
The gymnastic class for the girls of
the high school began its season Monday
afternoon in Festival hall under the d.
rection of Miss Mary Fletcher cox The
girls of the grades began their classes
yesterday afternoon. The boys classes
under the direction of Diedrich Stolte
will begin at the conclusion of the foot
ball season.
Many Brattleboro people will be inter-
ested to know that NJ. j. Tetreault the
ell-known dealer in horses in Green
field has bought of Roger Rourke the
entire livery and stock of the Mansion
House livery stables in that town. He
will sell by auction Monday, Dec. 2,
125 horses and large number of We
hicles Particulars are given in his ad-
vertsement in this paper
A midnight alteration in one of the
Main street restaurants Wednesday night
resulted in one young mans scalp being
split open with chair Two men be-
came involved in an argument and in
few minutes the dispute had assumed
the proportions of a violent quarrel.
Fists were used and suddenly one of
the disputants lifted a chair from the
floor and, swinging it about his head,
brought it down on the other mans
Uranium. A doctor was summoned and
the wound was dressed. The police were
not notified of the affair
Joseph Leroy, who works for John
| Larrow, the barber, and sleeps in
| room connected with the barber shop
| in the Miner building a the corner of
| Elliot and Church streets, had an un-
pleasant experience with smoke from an
oil-heater yesterday morning. About 8
o'clock he lighted the heater and then
| went to sleep. He awoke with a feeling
| of suffocation and for a moment was
| unable to rise, but finally carried out
| the heater, which was throwing off
| great volumes of smoke A passer-by
saw smoke coming through the window
and started for the fire alarm box but
| was called back by Mr.. Leroy. The
| room and contents were covered with
thick coating of lampblack.
\ Thanksgiving program was given in
| the meeting of Protective Grange We'd
| nesday evening. Quotations from the
| Bible were given in response to the roll
call. Judge f. Is. Pier read the Govern
or's proclamation and gave an interest
ing talk on Thanksgiving day. Piano
| solos We're given by Miss Tracy Cush-
man and Mrs. Mary Wilson, Mrs. May
Edwards and Mrs. H. w. Sargent gave
| readings appropriate to Thanksgiving.
| Leonard Pierce sang a solo and Mrs.
| Bessie Knowlton and Leonard Pierce
sang a duet Several members told of
Thanksgivngs they remembered The
annual roll call will be held Dec. and
it was voted to have a chicken-pie sup
| per at $50, to which all members are
invited. An entertainment will be given
in the evening.
Columbian lodge, No. SO, f. G. A. NJ,
under the leadership of Sanford A.
Danields, w. NJ, conferred the Master
| Mason degree practically letter perfect
in the eighth Masonic district meeting
in Bellows Falls Monday The grand
lectufer and other present and past
grand officers complmented the officers
| of the lodge in enthusiastic terms on
the correctness and impressiveness of
| the work. Four lodges in the district
were not represented in the meeting
those in Londonderry, South London
derry, Wilmington and Jacksonville
About 40 members of the Masonic fra
ternity went from Bratteboro to Bel
lows Falls and they had rather trying
and tedious experience in returning
They fastened to the Bellows Falls
railroad station at 1890, expecting tc
return promptly, but their special cal
attached to a freight train did not APP
pear until 19O and the "a mile trip &C.
cuped two hours, so that they did not
arrive home until $3.50 Tuesday morning
The bridgemen in the employ of the
American Bridge company have laid the
steel spans this week so that they now
extend from the west abutment of the
new railroad bridge across the Connec'
ticut river to pier No. 3, and the false
work is being put in between piers
and g. Work on pier No. is nearly
done and the workmen are laying thu
last layer of granite. When this II
completed the bridgemen will lay thu
steel Orders to that pier The distance
between piers and is about 80 fee
and the work of laying the spans will
take longer than it did to put them il
between the other piers. The Difficult
engineering problem of leveling off tn
ledge under water for pier No. is pro
crossing slowly A blast was set of
under water to break up the ston
Tuesday and the water was thrown
nearly 100 feet in the air, but no ston
was thrown above the surface OF tn
river Since the blast a steam dredg
/ has been taking the broken stone from
| under the water and dumping it along
II side the site of the proposed pier. TIL
II distance from pier No. l to pier No.
Y Will be about 80 feet.