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

hall Tuesday to make wreaths for dec
Grating the graves
Carl F. Cain has bought one of the
lots in Crowell's park on which several
local men will build bungalows this
summer, as told in The Phoenix two
weeks ago.
Rev. S. G. Barnes, d. D., of SPRING
field, Mass, will preach in the Centre
church next Sunday morning. Rev. II.
A. Goodhue will lead the devotional SER
vice this evening.
Fred Walter Mast of New York city
and Miss Barbara Kirke, also of New
York and who has been staying with
relatives in Chesterfield. were married
Friday morning by Rev' Father M. ].
The Industrial art exhibit which was
scheduled to be on exhibition in grade
8 of the Main street school building did
not arrive The exhibit is loaned from
the Philadelphia School of Design and
has been shown in many New England
towns and cities, A.,
Abnormaly cold weather Monday
caused the few farmers who have begun
planting to fear a frost as the thermo
meter was very low. About 1O.15 o'clock
a thunder shower passed over the town,
but no damage was reported. The cold
inch fall of snow in Burlington and
towns in that locality
In the meeting of the board of select
men Monday evening Road Commission
er II. c. Squires was authorized to do
the state work on the highways this
year About $500 probably will be avail
able for this work, and it will be eX-
pended on Improvements on the West
River road and If possible about 1000
feet will be added to the 400 feet of
construction which d. T. Perry made
| last year.
In the netting of the n f. o. p.
! Wednesday evening Mrs. w. F. Mixer
| gave report of the supreme lodge
meeting in Boston May IA. This was
| followed by literary entertainment
which consisted of the reading of the n.
| f. o. p. Journal, edited by Mrs. NJ. j.
Larrabee and E d. Wilson, which
caused many good laughs. The local
| lodge never has been in a better con-
dition, and at present has about 10
| members.
Memorial day services will be held in
| Brattleboro next Thursday, when the
| program published last week will be
carried out The service of decoration
will be performed in the forenoon by a
delegation from Sedgwick post, in the
| cemetery in West Brattleboro and at
| o'clock services will be begun in the
| Auditorium. Hon f. w. Gibson will be
| the speaker and music will be furnished
| by the First Regiment band and the
| Brattleboro male quartet. The usual line
| of march will then be formed and graves
| in the cemeteries in this village will be
decorated.
| Although not actively engaged in rail-
| road work the old Bratteboro e. White
hall Railroad company maintains its or
| ganization by virtue of an agreement,
| with annual stipend, entered into with
| the Central Vermont road when the
Rrattleboro e Whitehall narrow gauge
road was changed into the West River
standard gauge line. The stockholders
| will hold their annual meeting in the
Brooks House at 1870 o'clock tomorrow,
| followed by dinner. On exhibiting their
| certificates of stock to the conductors
| the stockholders will be transported to
| and from the meeting free.
County Fish and Game Commissioners
| NJ. ]. Howard of South Londonderry
| completed Saturday a weeks trip, prn-
cipally in the northern part of the state
in which he distributed $4,000 brook
trout fry from the government hatchery
| in St, Johnsbury, taken in exchange fol-
fish furnished to the government by the
state hatchery in Roxbury. A small pro-
| portion of them were placed in streams
in Windham county. Mr.. Howard
| brought 81 steel-head trout from Cas-
| plan lake to the hatchery in Roxbury
to be used in propagating. They weighed
| from two to three pounds each.
Rev. E. o. Hedberg of Boston has
| come to Brattleboro to serve as pastor
of the Swedish Congregational church
two months The church has been with
| out pastor since Rev. Julius Dahlstrom
finished his pastorate here. Rev. Mr.
Hedberg was pastor in Providence six
years and in Hartford two years, and fol
the past six years he has been in
Sweden He recently returped to this
country and is supplying pulpits for the
present. He is living at Lindenhurst
He conducted two services last Sunday
and will preach at 1870 a. M, and 7.3t
p. m. next Sunday and each following
Sunday as long as he remains here.
A 55-horse- power Schacht auto truck
made by the Schacht Motor company
of Cincinnati has been received by the
Crystal Springs Ice company through
the j. w. Ryard agency of New Haven
Conn. 1t weighs 800 pounds and has a
capacity of several tons. For three OF
four days it has been used partly il
moving goods, some of them for Iona
distances, but the company bought il
more especially as a supply car in the
| ice business. Heretofore two teams have
been used through the summer, tire,
during the hottest weather, to carry
ice from the ice houses to the delivery
teams on the road The auto-truck will
take the place of all the supply teams
In speaking of the men chosen to &C
as delegates from Connecticut to tn,
supreme council of the knights of Co
lumbus in Colorado Springs this summe
the Waterbury Republican last Sunda,
said of a former citizen of Brattleboro
of the four chosen Patrick L. Shea o
Derby Is one of the best known in tn,
state. He is an alderman in Derby an,
one of the district deputies of Stat
Deputy w. ]. Mulligan's staff. He 4
past grand knight of Paugasset council
No. rs, of Derby He enjoys the unusua
distinction of being elected three time
consecutively to the national council ant
Is thought to be the first knight in tn,
state to be so honored. His knowledge
of the national convention rules and tn,
delegates in all parts of the country ar,
depended on to make him q strong rep
resentative in that body this year" 4
picture of Mr.. Shea also was shown.
a fun meeting of the state board o
health took place in the Brooks Hous
at p. m yesterday to consider the pc
tition of the committee of the Bette
Brattleboro league for permission Il
maintain a tuberculosis camp in town
DIR. c. s. Caverly of Rutland president
DIR. II. ID. Holton of Brattleboro, secre
tary, and DIR. F. 4. Kidder of Wood
stock were present, also members of tn