Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-06-28
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BRAT TLEBORO.
No arrangements have been made for
holding services on the common Sunday
afternoons this summer.
Miss Sophie Johnson, who has worked
at the Pratt farm the last Is years. has
just bought the Frederick White house
on Western avenue. She will go there to
live.
w. A. Belden has bought of II. G.
Barber three building lots on the west
side of Maple street He intends to build
thereon.
Under the new train schedule the Bos-
ton daily papers arrive on the $50 train.
They formerly arrived at 10 o'clock. II
connections are missed so that they are
not put on the $50 train they do not
arrive until Hos o'clock.
Charles Miner began this week to re-
move the roof of the tenement house at
the corner of Church and Elliot streets
In order to make the building one story
higher His new building is four stories
high and another story will raise the
larger building to the same height.
The First Baptist Bible school voted
last Sunday to hold their annual picnic
at Island park July 10, but they now
find 1t impra cticable to hold 1t on that
date, and so have decided to change to
the surrounding towns have been invited
to join with them in making 1t an es-
pecially enjoyable occasion.
1t is probable that 1.-THE Pied Piper Of
Hameln" will be given in the Audito-
rum in November under the direction
of Miss Elsa Eager of Old Deerfield, who
had charge of the dances during the pa
geant. Miss Eager has presented the
piece in Springfield, Mass, and other
L.. III A1s .l..v
to see about producing it in this town.
The cast includes many children and is
very beautiful production.
Brattleboro camp, N. e. o. p, had as
| visitors Wednesday evening Supreme
| Warden Sherwood of Providence and
| Deputy Supreme Warden Peabody of
| Boston. A supper was served in the
| Red Mems banquet hall from $50 to s
o'clock, which was enjoyed by many per-
sons and when the regular meeting of
| the lodge was opened the two visiting
| officers were escorted to the chair by 10
| women members of the degree staff.
Worthy Master Mrs. Lucy Sargent pre-
| sented the following program in the
meeting of Protective Grange Wednesday
| evening: Piano solo, Mrs. Fred Spauld-
| ing, jr. How to make waste places
beautiful" Mrs. F. b. Pier; recitation,
| Mrs. Mary Smith; selection Mrs. Ma =
verette Fisher; paper, 'The famous gar
dens of the world" Mrs. Dora Winslow
Mrs. Lois Clark gave interesting de-
scrptons of several places which she
visited when in the South last winter.
Holden & Martins appeal from the
| listers appraisal of their new houses on
Fort Dummer Heights was heard by the
board of civil authority Saturday, Mr..
| Holden appearing for the appellants and
| Attorney a. =. Carpenter for the town
| The appraisal on three two-tenement
| houses was reduced from $500 and
| $1,000 to $780, as in the case of other
| property upon which the board of civil
| authority ruled two weeks ago, and one
one-tenement house was reduced from
| $1,000 to 5000.
About 20 persons from here took part
in the annual pilgrimage to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. II. Smith in North
| field Farms Wednesday. Those who &C
| each year call themselves the Smith
| sonians" and the last Wednesday OF
June is the day set for the visit to the
home of the former residents of this
town. This year the day fell on Mr.
Smiths SD birthday anniversary, ant
the occasion was the more pleasant fol
that reason. Feasting and dancing or
| the lawn were enjoyed and a very pleas.
ant day was spent. There were guest;
from this town, Greenfield, Walpole, n
H., and Melrose, Mass.
John Harwood Barden and Miss Althea
| Mae Bishop were married in the home
of the bridegroom's mother, Mrs. II. II
Barden, on South Main street Wednes.
day morning at 7.45 o'clock by Rev. d
| e. Trout, pastor of the Universalis
church, who, used the single ring ser
vice. They were unattended. The brid,
| wore a cadet blue whipcord gown anC
a straw colored hat trimmed to mattel
the gown. After the ceremony Mr.. anC
Mrs Barden started on a wedding tril
to New York city. on their return the.
| will live at 20 South Main street. Mrs
Barden is widely known through he
long service as clerk in o. j. Pratt
dry goods store, Mr.. Barden has livet
in town about eight years. He is EN-
ployed by E. Crosby & Co.
The Curtiss biplane which was bough
| about two months ago in New Yorl
city for the Clawson- Hamilton Aviation
company and which was used by Iral
d. Spaulding several times and smashe,
while he was in it at the Valley fai
grounds and in Athol, was badly dam
aged yesterday morning. Aviator An
drews of New York, who has been il
town a short time and who has beel
| working on the machine at the Petite
farm, was trying the biplane out abou
7.30 o'clock and was about 10 feet II
the air when the bow pointed towar,
the earth and the machine crashed t.
the ground. Andrews was not injured
although he was shaken up, but tn
machine will be under the care of tn
mechanicians several days before tn
broken parts are repaired
James Travers, GO, died in the Me
mortal hospital Monday afternoon of can
Ger, after a lingering illness. He wa
born In New York state and about eigh
years ago came to this town. He wa
employed by the White River Chat
company up to a short time ago whe
illness obliged him to give up work. A
one time he was well-to-do, but unfor
tunate copper investments and carin
Tor an invalid sister depleted his funds
He mad many friends who admired hin
Tor his quiet, gentlemanly ways. II
was member of the Centre Congrega
uonal church. The funeral was he'll
wednesday morning in Bond & Son
undertaking rooms, Rev. D. e. Trout of
nciating. A quartet composed of Mis-
Florence Hildreth, Miss Katharine Mar
tin, Dr. w. II. Lane and A. l.. Clan
sang In heavenly love abiding, an
Holy Ghost with light divine" TIL
burial took place in the West Brattle
boro cemetery.
The graduation exercises of st. Mich
ael's parochial school were held Tues
day evening. The program was publishe
In the Phoenix June IA and 1t was car
riad ont printed Rev FAITH,