Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-10-06

| have drill in G.. A. r. hall Satur-
day evening at $50 o clock. A full at
tendance is desired as it is for inspcc-
! ton.
Fifteen of the shopmatcs and friends
of MIR. and Mrs. George IL. Harris met
Saturday and helped them to move
from 20 Main street to the Odd Eel
lows building across the street.
The Masonic bowling alleys were
rcoponcd for the season Tuesday night.
All three alleys have been planed and
! polished and they are now in perfect
condition and faster than ever before.
| Flaming Rampa, marble setter in
the employ of f. j. Walker of Pitts
burg, Pa, who has the contract for
setting marble in the interior of the
now federal building, arrived here
Monday to carry out that contract
Mrs. M. II. Eddy received news Mon
day from her brother, Walter Under
wood, that his youngest son, one of
three children, who was Is months old,
died Sunday night in their home in
liolyokc, Mass, of infantile paralysis.
The proposed trip of members of the
l'rattleboro board of trade to Montpelier
Oct. was abandoned, and in its
place the entertainment committee is ar
ranging for a one-day trip to the National
dairy show in Springfield. Mass, sometime
between October T. and 81
Thomas Barre, laborer, pleaded
guilty to intoxication in the municipai
court Tuesday morning. In default of
1910, of which So was fine and the bal
ance costs, he was taken to Newfane
| co. +In+ oil iof
George Wilson.
Peter Walalenski, while riding a hi
! 'ycle near the corner of Canal and
| Pine streets, was struck by w. NJ
! Irish S automobile Sunday afternoon
about ! o'clock and one ankle was in
iured. lie had some abrasions on his
face. He was taken to the Memorial
hospital, where he was attended by
DIR. A. !. Miller. An Xray photo
graph of his ankle was taken to de
termine the nature of the injury.
As Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Booth and
baby of Walpole, n H., were driving
near Westminster Station Saturday af-
ternoon about O'Clock New York
automobile of the racing type passed
them, frightening their horse, which
throw them out on the ground. All were
shaken up and bruised, and a bunch
was raised ON Mr.. Booth S head. The
car came towards Brattleboro.
A Ford ear in which were four peo-
pie from Bellows Falls met with an
accident on Canal street Monday night
about II o'clock whom the steering
gear broke. Two women in the party
were shaken up and were taken to
the Brooks House, where a physician
dressed their slight injuries. The party
was taken to Bellows Falls by *. Il.
Mosher in whose garage the ear was
left for repairs.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Christian Endeavor union was held in
Bethany church, Montpelier, from Mon
Florence NJ Hemenway- Wells and Miss
Emily r. Clapp left Monday to rep
resent the Centre Congregational society.
d. w. Felch was the representative
from the First Baptist society. Miss
Wells had a part in the program Tues
day forenoon in the missionary confer
cnce, showing how to conduct mis-
sion study class.
Many Brattleboro people witnessed
the second brilliant aurora borealis of
! the fall Saturday night The colors of
the northern sky began as soon as dark
ness fell, arching the heavens from
northwest to northeast with a bow of
light and strealling the northern half
of the black sky-dome with red and
yellow and green strcamcrs occasion
ally. Country people, unblinded by the
glare of street lights, and automobilists
travelling through the country got the
fullest effect OF the spectacle.
AS w. j. Pentland, jr., swung out of
High street on Tuesday and turned
to 90 north on Main street the two
horses on the stage from jacksonville
which had been left standing near the
postoflice, started down the street. MI
Pentland stopped his automobile and {
chorus of yels of Whoa" caused The
horses to stop at about the time the
: off horse hit fender on the Pentlant
machine n. II. Jones, the stage driv
err, made satisfactory arrangement!
= with Mr.. Pentland for what little dam
; age there was and the incident wa'
closed
Attorney General Herbert G. Barbe
went to Rutland on Tuesday to at
tend this afternoon the opening of tn
United States district court. ne VIII
arrange date for the hearing of thu
case of Guy w. Bailey, secretary o
state and Walter Scott, state treasurer
creamery commissioners of Vermont
against the New England Casualty Go
This is a suit to collect bonds given b,
this company in behalf of the Bostol
Condensed Milk Co., the bonds beini
conditioned to pay to patrons of tn
! condensed milk company amounts du
from that company. There are tw
bonds of $25 900 each.
' Arthur Wilson of Brattleboro ant
l. Leroy Wilder of West Brattlcboro mar
!. rowly escaped serious injury Septembe
e % about $50 O'Clock while driving
1 in Mr.. Wilson s Ford runabOut toward
p Brattleboro from West Dummerston
They had only gone a. short distanc
when a fallen telephone wire caugh
Mr.. Wilson under the chin, lifting hir
out of the back end of the car TIL
- machine continued with Mr.. Wilder IN
a til it reached a telephone pole lynn
:. across the road, which stopped it. Nh
E Wilder was uniniured, but Mr.. Wilso