Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-08-16
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BRATTLEBORO.

The N. E. o. P. ladies' auxiliary will
meet with Mrs. Fred Davis on Canal
street this Friday, evening.
The prayer service in the Baptist
chapel Sunday evening will be led by
A, l.. Maynard Music will be furnished
by a male quartet
The Ladies' Enterprise society will
hold their meeting with Mrs. Frank w.
Strong Wednesday afternoon. The wom-
en- are requested to carry cake for the
band concert Monday evening.
Holden & Martin will begin work next
week on a house for John Strand on
Strand avenue. Mr.. Strand has not yet
decided whether 1t will be a two-tene-
ment or a one-tenemnt house.
A very successful supper was given
by the ladies' auxiliary of the n. f. o.
p in Red Mems hall Wednesday even
ing. The supper was in charge of Mrs.
NJ. ]. LARA bee. Lotus Stafford, violin,
and Mr.. Patch piano, furnished music
during the supper.
Those who were fortunate enough to
be able to attend the concert given re-
Gently by the Boston Quintet under the
auspices of the Woman's club Will be
pleased to know that the quintet will
appear here again Oct. 3, although I'M
der different auspices.
The Atlanta University quartet. which
has visited this town for several years
and sung negro songs to hundreds on
the common. will sing again in an open
air common service Sunday afternoon
at o'clock. Prof. Dill, the eloquent in
structor in sociology, will speak Of the
work at the university and collection
will be taken
Although the number of telephones
| listed under the local exchange is larger
| than that of any other town of it's size In
| the territory of the New England Tele-
phone & Telegraph company, the officials
| of the company anticipate increased
| growth and this week f. o. Boswortt
| and A. D. Flower jr.. of the plant de-
| partment began installing equipment tc
care for 100 additional lines.
Employees of the Keighley Metal Cell.
| ing & Roofing company began worl
| Wednesday in the Auditorium on the re.
pairs for which $500 was appropriated
at a special town meeting. They hav,
| built a staging of spruce lumber up t
within a few feet of the ceiling, an,
will put in a new metal ceiling in place
| of the one that was in such bad con
| dition that it was considered dangerous
| The picture representing Drama" which
| is on the sounding board, will be cover
\ ed by the new metal ceiling and a new
| picture will be placed on the board. Tit
new painting will be circular in SHAPE
and about eight feet in circumference
The vacation house for working wo
| men, which is conducted by the Nut
ual Aid association, is located at Man
! tic, Conn, a short distance from New
London which can be reached by boat
steam cars, or trolley. The house
named Breezy Point" is pleasantly sit
uated on a point of land surrounded
on three sides by water; it accommo
dates a visiting party of II. The amuse
| ments are salt water bathing, boating
and trips to Ocean Beach, Crescen
| Beach and New London, while music
croquet and other home pleasures ma,
be enjoyed at the cottage Women o
| girls who wish to go there for a tw
weeks vacation may apply at the Mu
tual Aid headquarters, No. 1 Cana
| street.
| Announcements have been received II
Brattleboro this week of the approaching
marriage of Miss Lola f. Waugh of For
Erie, Ontario, to Luther w Hawley o
| Washington, d. c., which will take plac
| Aug. %. Miss Waugh visited this tow
last winter as a guest of Mr. Hawley'
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Hawley o
| IL Chaplin street, and Mr.. Hawley l
| pleasantly remembered as gradual
|
| class of 1904 and later as science teache
in the high school during the enforce
absence of Miss Lucy NJ. Stevenson.
graduate of Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute in 1908, he is now in the Unite
States patent office as assistant exam
liner and in addition is pursuing a lay
| course in the George Washington uni
| versity.
An alarm from box 26 about lbs Wed
| nesday afternoon summoned the fire de
| partment to the rear of l.. E. Holden
| house on Park place. Mr.. Holdens dem
onstrating Buick car was in flames an
| before they could be checked the uppe
part of the car was badly burned an
the running gear and motive apparatu
was wet down with a chemical fire ex
tinguishing compound. Mr.. Holden an
his chauffeur had taken the gasolin
from the tank, as it had become mike
with water, the machine standing /
the garage door. The engine was started
and it ran all right about five minute!
when back fire, evidently from the car
bureter, gnited gasoline in the pan 1
the hood of the car. In moment tn
entire front of the car was blazing an
Mr.. Holden and the chauffeur ran
into the yard and then gave the fir
alarm The leather upholstery, top, wind
shild, body and other parts of the ca
| were damaged badly