Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-14
BRATTL. EBORO.

Vermont Last Block company's factory
on the HINT farm
The social workers committee of the
Mutual Aid association will hold sub
scription ball in the Island park pavilion
next Friday evening for the benefit of
the day nursery.
The banns of Albert LePlante and Miss
Cora Brouillette and of Henry Bavis and
Miss Helen Prouty were proclaimed in
st. Michaers Roman Catholic church
Sunday morning.
The silver tea given by Mrs. Julia Nc
Carthy Tuesday evening was very sue
cessful. The next tea will be given by
Mrs. Michael Moylan Thursday evening
in her home on Oak Grove avenue. All
are invited to attend.
william d. Cudworth, So, oldest son
of the late T. j. B. Cudworth, died in
Billings, Mont, Tuesday. He left Brat
tleboro about 80 years ago and enlisted
in the army from California He leaves
family of five children.
c. L. Coane and son, Gerald, and W.
Ash caught 10 fish in Marlboro South
pond the first of the week which weigh
ed 10 pounds Eight were trout and two
were land locked salmon. Two of the
trout weighed a pound and a half each
and were 1917 inches long.
A caucus of the Republican voters of
the town will be held in Festival hall
next Tuesday evening at 7.30 to elect II
delegates and ~ alternates to the Sec
ond district convention in White River
Junction June %; to elect seven dele
gates and seven alternates to the state
convention in Burlington June 81; to
elect 90 delegates and the same number
of alternates to the county convention
in Newfane July .; to elect town COM
mittee for two years.
The calcium light of publicity was
thrown on the moving picture industry
| in town in a hearing before the board
of bailiffs Wednesday evening to consd-
| err the petition of Mrs. Emma c. Far
rigton of Littleton, n. H., for a license
| to operate a moving picture and vaude-
| vile theatre in Charles Miners new
| building on Elliot street. R. c. Bacor
| represented Mrs. harrington, A. F
| Schwenk appeared for Mr.. Miner, E. w
| Gibson was attorney for DR.. H. L. Wat
! erman, whose property abuts on that OF
| which the new building is located, an,
| A. p. Carpenter was there in the inter
est of the town. The hearing brough
out the fact that the opposition t.
| granting a license was based on a prob
able increase in insurance rates in tn
neighborhood of the theatre, the objection
next door to his house, the loss of rev
enue to the town by competition wit
| the Auditorium, which would mean a de
| crease in receipts from travelling show.
and the danger of the building as a fir
hazard because of its construction. TIL
baiiffs probably will decide the matte
| tonight.
Commencement exercises for the hig
school will begin in the Centre churc
Sunday evening at 8, when Rev. D.
John R. Cow will preach the baccalau
reate sermon. Glass day exercises wi
take place on the school lawn Monda
at 4, the graduation exercises in the Au
ditorium Tuesday at s and the alum
reunion in the high school building Wed
nesday at 7.30 The class-day progral
will include music by the high scho'
orchestra; presidents address, julius
Kuech; grafton, THE Panama canal
Everett L. Wentworth; poem, Cecilia
Johnson history, Rosabel Miller an
Marion F.. Bartlett; prophecy, Adelaid
B. Warren; ivy grafton, Charles v
Hopkins; ivy ode. Cariotta E, Hopkins
planting ivy; singing ivy ode On Tues
day evening President Guy Potter Der
ton of the University of Vermont wi
give the address, DR.. A. I. Miller wi
confer the diplomas, Principal E.
Smith will announce the honors an
| unere VIII De music by the Dogs al
girls glee clubs and Leitsinger's orche:
ira. In the alumni reunion the class
1887 will observe its 25th anniversary
presenting the Harvard male quartz
who will give a concert Refreshmen
will be served.
Earl Putnam of Winhall was arreste
in Holyoke Friday morning by Deput
Sheriff c. e. Mann and brought to Bra
tleboro for trial on the charge of blu
glary. 1t is claimed that Putnam ente
ed the Winhall station on the We
River railroad and stole eight milea.
books, which were found in his posse
sion when he was arrested in Holyol
charged with drunkenness. His ca!
was continued to June "a and he VIZ
held in $1,000 bail which he was unab
to furnish. He is in the Newfane ia
waiting trial. Putnam was arrested la
winter charged with burglary and aft
trial in the spring term of the coun
court such a plea was entered for hi
on the ground of his previous good col
duct that Judge Frank L. Fish place
him on probation instead of sending hi
to Jail. Within a few days the state
| at Winhall was entered and eight mil
| age books stolen. Putnam was arrest
| in an intoxicated condition in Holyo
= Thursday and the books were found
Z | his possession. Railroad detectives we
notified and they called up States A
/ torney F. F. Barber, who sent Depu
Sheriff Mann to Holyoke. The char
| of drunkenness was placed on file. Pu
nam did not insist on requisition pape
| and was brought here by the depu
i sheriff.