Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-09

| The BrattlcbOrO savings bank ue
clarcd its regular semi-annual dividend
Of two per cent June l.
The village commissioners in q
special meeting Tuesday night appoint
ed John l.. johnson building inspec
tor. Mr. johnson has been serving in
| that capacity several years.
About 80 Brattleboro persons, large
ly members of the Philathea class anc
their husbands, of the Baptist church
attended the Chapman Alexander ser
vices in Kecne Tuesday evening.
All officers of the Vermont Nation
al Guard have been ordered to attend
/ the service school at Northfield the
| first 10 days of July. Three enlisted
men of Company | also will attend.
One new case of measles has been
reported to DR.. Henry Tucker, health
officer. This is in the home of a fami-
ly named Lapine at $40 South Main
street. 1t is the third case to be re-
ported in n week, all in the Fort
Dummer district
The committee in charge of financing
the rest room has decided to postpone
the annual tag day until September, as
it is hard to get 80 solicitors among
the young people to canvass the town
in June. Some donations to the rest
room treasury have made it possible
to postpone tag day.
Two entries were made Tuesday
in county court. Dr. f. S. Bowen sues
Thomas r. Britain to recover a balance
of $104.1 alleged to be due for medl-
cal services and medicine furnished in
1902, 1903 and 1910. Manley Bros.
bring suit against Catherine and Thorn
as Doyle to recover on a note or $0oo'
Special excursion rates on the
Central Vermont will be in force
June % for those who wish to attend
the boat races between Harvard and
Yale at New London on that day.
The trip to New London will be on the
regular train and the return will be
on an excursion train leaving after
the last race.
A well dressed young man called at
the home of Henry Pellerin on South
Main street and said he was soliciting
funds for the aid of people in war md
den countries. When contribution
was declined he became critical and
abusive, it is said among other things
saving that people in Boston poorer
than they are here were glad to con
tribute. He showed no credentials at
the Pellerin home.
In a hearing Monday before John f..
Gale, referee in bankruptcy, regarding
the bankruptcy case of Robert f.
Coombs of Guilford, a number of proofs
of claims were filed by creditors. me
bankrupt makes an offer to pay ou
pcr cent of the total claims. Owing to
the storm that morning the hearing was
ad iourncd to afternoon at the once
of Mr.. Gale in Guilford, where more
claims were proved.
Wallace $. Allen of Jacksonville, a
well known and successful farmer OF
that town, and Miss Sadie G. Heiyar,
daughter of Mrs. A. NJ. Ilclyar of
Spruce street were married saturday
evening at o clock in the Universal
list parsonage by Rev. Delmar f. Trout.
They were unattended. A single ring
service was used. Mr." and Mrs. Allen
will make their home in jacksonville,
where Mrs. Hciyar has many friends as
she taught school there last winter.
At a regular meeting of Sedgwick
post No. s, G. A. r., held Saturday,
June >. it was voted that a vote of
thanks be extended to the BrattlebOro
board of trade. to Company | of the
National Guard Boy Scouts, the Wo-
man Relief corps and all others who
in any way rendered their aid AMI
assistance to help them in the obscr-
vance of Memorial day. Frank Stock
| II
adiutant.
Company |. V. n. G., will have an
all day practice Saturday. The com
pany will assemble in the Armory at
9 o'clock in the morning and march
to the range, about two and one-half
miles north of Brattlcboro on the Put
nev road, on the Miller farm. There
company drill will be held and target
practice under the direction of Capt.
w. p. Springer, assistant inspector of
rifle practice for the Vermont Nation
al Guard. Dinner will be cooked and
served in the field and all former
members of the company arc invited
to be present
Miss Mary Bane left here yester
day for har home in Lewiston, Me.
where she will remain with her father
and sister until late in the summer
when her marriage to Elmer Smith OF
Auburn, Me-, will take place. Miss
Bane who lived in the home of J.. W
lIawley the past four years, has had
classes in vocal instruction i'll tow
and at the Leland & Gray seminary
in Townshend. She has sung in tn,
First Baptist church during this time
and has been prominent i'll the musica
circles in town.
Rev. William Shaw of Montpelier
and Sanford A. Daniels of Blattle
boro have returned home from Sara
toga Springs, n. Y, where they hav
been attending the general conferenc
of Methodist Episcopal churches. Al
though not candidate for election a
bishop Mr.. Shaw received sevei
votes which were from outside tn
Vermont delegation and which wer
complimentary of Mr.. Shaw's ability
Mr.. Daniels was member of the con
mittee Of 60 and the only man frol
the New England states on the con
, mttee relative to the effort to con
, bnc this conference with that of tn
Methodist Conference South.
Under recent order of the sccon