Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-24

chapel service at the Retreat Sunday
afternoon at o'clock.
William Cushman has completed an
addition to Frank Larrow's livery stable
on Flat street. The addition is on the
front of the old stable ana SIX new
stalls have been added.
The May meeting of class No. 10 In
the Baptist Bible school was held with
Mrs. A. w. j. wilkins on May Is.
good number attended and a pleasant
time was enjoyed The June meeting
win be held with Mrs. A. F. Boynton,
Grove street.
County Highway Commissioner David
II. Perry has larger volume of state
road work on hand in this county than
ever before. He expects to build this
season in Windham county Is miles of
permanent road, which is about % per
cent more than usual.
In the meeting of the mission circle
of the Universalist church Thursday ev-
ening, May 16, Rev. d. f. Trout gave an
address on social purity, among other
things dealing with school children,
which aroused much interest. The an
nual basket supper was served at $50
and AZ persons partook of 1t.
The funeral of Mrs. Hannah Stark
Powers, who died May 16, was held in
the home of her son, Frank A. Powers,
Saturday morning at $50 o'clock. Rev.
DR.. ]. r. Cow officiated. The bearers
were John Davis, E. S. Hall, Frank A.
Powers and NJ. p. Davis. The body was
taken to East Corinth for burial. Mr..
and Mrs. F. A. Powers accompanied the
body to that town.
Fred Albert Jones, &c. who was born
in this town and lived with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Jones, in the
Weeks house on Pearl street died in
Winchendon Mass, Thursday night fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis. The
funeral was held Sunday. Mr.. Jones
went to Winchendon when child,
studied law in the Boston university law
school and for the past two years had
been travelling for a Boston law firm
His father formerly was barber here.
Two small does were seen in Prospect
Hill cemetery about 6.15 o'clock Tuesday
morning by residents of South Main
street. Tracks indicated that they cross
ed South Main street from Prospect
street near Asa Fields house. They were
tracked the length of Prospect Hill GEM
etery and to the bank at the lower end
where they went down into Mornngside
cemetery, day or two before that an
automobile party came upon a deer in
the road leading from the Memorial
hospital to West Brattleboro.
Among the petit jurors summoned
from the office of United States Marshal
Horace w. Bailey to serve at the May
term of the United States court which
opened in Windsor Tuesday were the
following from Windham county: Ar
thur l.. Billings and c. B. Lamson OF
Brattleboro, A. j. Aver of Putney, Fred
S. Clark and Harold Hatch of Bellows
Falls, e. w. Melendy of South London
derry, George p. Miller of Guilford, S
H. Morse of Newfane, II. S. Sherwin OF
Jamaica, T. E. StoclSwell of Vernon, w
W. Van Ness of West Townshend
George III Walker Of Westminster
Clifford S. Walton, 81, an international
lawyer, author and soldier, consul gen.
eral for Paraguay in this country sew
eral years and a graduate of West
Point. died in Washington, d. c., May
Is, after a short illness with bronchial
pneumonia. He was the husband of An
ME Gettysburg Veazey, who Is well
known in Brattleboro Mrs. Walton and
her mother are frequent summer Wis
itors there. Mrs. Walton, who was ar
only daughter, was born on the day that
her father the late Col. wheelock G.
Veazey, of the 10th Vermont regiment
made the famous attack upon Pickett's
division at the battle of Gettysburg
which has always been considered the
decisive stroke of the battle. Col
Veazey was member of the interstate
commerce commission and prominent In
Vermont for many years.
The Attaners of the Methodist church
gave an entertainment Wednesday even.
ing, entitled "Our Church Fair" which
was well attended and created mucf
amusement. The cast of character:
was as follows: Mrs. Roberts, who wants
to be president, Miss Minnie Bell; Mrs
Henry, young, giddy, fond of novels
Miss Lucy Wyman; Mrs. Jackson, pres
ident of the society, Miss Glenna L
Blaisdell; Mrs. Brett, on the dinner com
mittee Miss Ethel Streeter; Mrs. Lew
is, the minister's wife, Miss Corina Bell
Mrs. Lawson, plump, Miss Ada Jamie
son; Mrs. Brown, anxious to get new
church attendants, Miss Alma Hutchins
Mrs. Addison, very inquisitive, Mrs. F
A. Shaw; Mrs Ridgley, sensitive, Mis-!
Julia e. Mike; Mrs. Otis, on the dinner
committee, Miss H. Gertrude Nichols
Mrs. Thompson, decidedly close, Mis-.
Bessie Wyman; Mrs. Drew, who is jus
married, Mrs E. P. Smith. Music fol
the evening was furnished by Miss Doris
Smith and Miss Marion Bartlett, piano
and Richard Bolster, cornet. Old fash.
Toned costumes were worn and some 10.
cal hits added to the interest of the pro.
gram.
An injunction order issued by Chan.
cellor %. l.. Waterman was served or
George L. Townsend of Dummerston ant
Deputy Sheriff G. E. Mann of Brattle
boro by Deputy Sheriff A. w. ], VIII
kins Wednesday. restraining TOWNSEND
and Mann from selling or disposing o
certain hemlock, maple, birch, ash, oal
and Eastwood lumber and timber claim
ed to be owned by Bert M. Reed o
Putney or from interfering with Mr.
Reeds possession of it, In the bill II
chancery brought by Mr. Reed through
H. G. e. F. E. Barber's Office Mr.. Rec,
AYERS that on Jan. IA, 1911, CALVIN H
Reed of Putney decided to Byron c
Clemens of that town all the standing
wood and timber on a lot between tn
the Herbert Blood and Adams Bloo'
lands near the Westminster line; tina
later Mr.. Reed bought of Clemens al
the timber of the kinds herein men
toned that Clemens delivered a par
of 1t about rs, 900 feet. to Mr.. Reed
mill and that about Feb 8, 1912, Mr.
Reed advanced $500 to Clemens on ac
count. He says that about 10000 fee
was cut and piled beside the highwa.
near the lot and that on February L
Clemens gave to George l.. TOWNSEND
a chattel mortgage covering "all thu
timber and logs now cut and hereafte
to be cut on the Calvin Reed woodlot.
He AYERS that Townsend, knowing thu
orators rights in the premises, delivere'
the mortgage to Deputy Sheriff Nam
with instructions to foreclose, by virtu
of which the officer took possession o
the property, including the timber AM
lopa niIad IN Mr. Raed's mill yard AM