Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-11


Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.. Rice. who recently |
closed their Main street iuncn room, |
have reopened 1t.
Rev e. c. S. osgood Will conduct the |
chapel service at the Retreat Sunday |
afternoon at 3 o'clock. |
Frederic C.. Adams will sing the role |
of the Piper in "The Pied Piper" to be |
presented for the Bratteboro womans
club in November.
The public library will be closed dur
ing the morning and afternoon tomor-
row, Columbus day. but will be open in
the evening from to o'clock
Next Sunday will be observed as Rail
ly day in the Universalist church and
Sunday school. Rev. ID. Il. Trout will
speak on Interest in the word of Cod"
and in the school a special program with
graduate of classes will be given.
Miss Elsa Eager, who will direct the
presentation in November of 1.-THE Pied
Piper" for the Brattleboro Womans
club, came from Deerfeld yesterday to
stay a month at Mrs. Frederick I. Swift's.
| She will assist in selecting the cast, and
rehearsals will be begun at once.
Brattleboro high school and Vermont
| academy have been rivals in football
| and track athletics several years, and
| tomorrow afternoon at Island park the
| football teams representing the two in
| situations will battle for supremacy
| Brattleboro has a strong, we'll balanced
| team and the boys are confident of a
| victory They deserve to be well-Sup-
| ported Come to see them in the new
| style football.
| So far as is known here, Brattleboro
is the only town of it's size in the Unit
| ed States that has received a VISIT this
year from the three principal presiden-
tial candidates, President Taft, express
dent Roosevelt and Governor Wilson.
Presidents who have visited the town
while in Office have been Hayes. Harri-
| son, Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft.
| President Grover Cleveland was here in
| a special car, which stopped a few
minutes at the railroad station, but he
did not leave the car.
The grand jury in session in Keene
last week brought in an indictment
against John Connell of Chesterfield for
keeping liquor for sale, subsequent Of
fence An Indictment for assault and
kidnapping and carrying away was
found against Fred c. Winnewisser,
Paul ID. Winnewisser and Harold DAN
ser of Bellows Falls. This is understood
to have been in connection with the
kidnapping of F. G. Winnewisser's little
son from Walpole, where the lad was
living in the care of his mother
| Inc conditions OF the award to be
given by Leo council. X. of c., have
been changed from those outlined in
The Phoenix last week. An award of g
, $40 gold piece will be given to the pu-
, pill in the high school who writes the
, best essay the subject THE discov-
cry of America by Columbus and it's re.
lation to the worlds progress" Anothe
award of $40 gold piece will be giver
to the pupil in the ninth grade of tn,
. parochial school who writes the hes
! essay on the same subject.
! THE Newlyweds and Their Baby
. made return visit to the Auditorium
Tuesday evening and repeated the hi
, they made last season Harold West a.
: Napolean Newlywed, the baby, and a.
: Major Knot Much was fine, as wer
Edwin Stanley as Ferdinand Newlywed
the father. and Lois Hall as Mrs. New
lywed. The chief laughmaker was Dan
el L. Murphy as Adolph Nichol a wait
e err, and he was forced to respond t,
y many encores. The chorus girls wer
y we'll costumed, young and fairly good
j looking
The classes of 1913, 1914 and 1915 O
the high school will entertain the elias
a of 1916 at Island park this evening fror
= 7.30 to II o'clock Leitsinger's orches
o ira will furnish music for dancing AM
g there will be games and other forms o
4 amusement for those who do not dance
o Each family represented by pupil in tn
high school is entitled to two ticket
and parents are invited to be presen
= this evening. There will be no expens
e to any member of the freshman class
special car will leave Bridge stree
for West Brattleboro a. Hos o'clock.
. Mrs. Clarence Fremont Reuben Jenn
t of Hartford Conn, formerly of Brat
e tleboro, has issued invitations to tn
r marriage of her daughter, Pauln
e Sherman JENNIE, to Henry Wheeler War
e rem. The wedding will take place in tn
e Asylum avenue Baptist church in Hart
r ford Monday evening Oct. 81, at
e O'Clock. They will be at home at 312 Sar
e gent street after Jan. 1. Miss Jenne /
f we'll known for her marked ability as
n pianist, She is a graduate of Noun
= Holyoke college and returned in 191
from years study with the note
French teacher. Philip, in Paris.
!. While running his automobile in Bald
winsville, Mass. Saturday. f. C. eros
by of this town collided with a deliver
II wagon occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Edwi
> l.. Bowker of Baldwinsville. Both oc
cupants of the wagon were bruised, bu
i not hurt seriously. They were take
home by woman who was riding in
buggy behind them. The accident hap
pened on a curve and Mr. Crosby sal
e his brakes would not hold. Mr. Bow
Ker s morse was cut ana the wagon wa
damaged. The headlights of the auto
3 mobile were broken, the mud guard wa
I bent and the radiator was jammed bu
Mr.. Crosby drove the machine home.
g While Christy McCourt was driving
: his Buick car up the Main street hill
about . 80 Sunday afternoon he met wit,
curious skidding accident. He wa
t riding at a moderate speed over tn
Q slippery pavements and was proceeding
v without any apparent difficulty until h
e arrived opposite the entrance to tn
. American building, when his car begal
4 to skid The machine turned nearl
a around and then headed for the Yves
4 sidewalk. crossed it and smashed int
D the bay windows of Emidio Mancini'
e shoe repairing shop in the Ray building
= one wheel rested on the bottom ste
, of the shop and the front or the ca
i poked into the shoes displayed in tn
. window. Mr.. McCourt backed the ca
: out and it evidently was not damaged
and he left word that he would pay 70
: the windows. Within a very few min
+ utes a National car crossed the Mai
: street bridge and 1t was the evident in
tention of the driver to go straight u
the hill, but opposite Flat street his ca
= skidded and headed straight for tina
= thoroughfare and persons expected t
B see the automobile smash into Mosher'
livery stable, but the owner regaine