Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-08-04

| ne directors OF the BrattleDOrO Me-
mortal hospital have appointed William
A, Shumway treasurer to succeed the
late MILFORD II. Bracket lie will be-
gin his duties at once.
"A hearing was held yesterday in
Townshend on the petition of Frank
Davis, administrator of the estate of
Sim j. Cobb, for the allowance of his
final report. A. T.. Schwenk and A. p.
Carpenter represent the administrator
and w. r. Daley and w. ID. Smith the
estate.
So far there has been turned in from
the sale of the celluloid flags for the
benefit of the treasury of Company |,
V. N. g.. a total of $165. Several
young women who had flags for sale
have not made their returns yet, but
after the expense Of the flags is de-
Quoted it is expected that the sale will
net more than $3.50 for the boys. The
sale was conducted under the auspices
of the board of trade.
Z. C. Harrington, proprietor of the
Apopka News and West Orange Advo-
cate of Apopka, Fla, former resident
of Brattleboro, has leased the Wekiwa
Springs hotel, cottages, bathhouse,
springs and boat privileges and will con
duet this resort. The springs are bub-
bling sulphur springs and the resort
is very popular place.
The Home Economic club will meet
with Mrs. Walter Robbins this af
tcrnoon at 3 clock. After the bust
ness meeting n paper will be read ON
Canning Vegetables, followed by So
cial hour The club includes all mem
bers of the Grange, its object being to
present ideas for better home making
and to promote sociability. 1t is hoped
that every member will be present at
this meeting.
Rev. Richard II. Clapp, pastor of the
Congregational church, will have his
vacation through the month of August.
He has arranged for pulpit supply as
follows: Aug. 6, Rev. Henry NJ. God
dard, of North Reading, Mass; Aug. 10,
Rev. Percy C. Ladd, of Moline, ILL.,;
Aug. 20, Rev. Joseph II. Chandler, ID. D.,
of Chicago; Aug. %, Rev. Frank i.
Jenkins, ID. D., of Demorest, Ga.
The vacant O. j. Pratt store, conducted
as a drygoods store many years until the
building was sold recently to the f. w.
Wooworth Co., is to be opened agfin as
Il drygoods store 1t has been leased to
the lluntress-Wood company, the head of
which is Frank \. Huntress of Keene Y.
H., who is at the head of a chain of dry
goods stores, and the work of putting it in
readiness will be begun soon. Workmen
are getting the north store, formerly occu-
pied by Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt, ready
for occupancy by the Woolworth Co. as a
five and ten cent store.
There will be motion pictures at Is
land Park every Saturday and every
Sunday evening until further notice.
The Sunday program, which has been
running all summer, has proven popu-
lar, the attendance increasing each
week and taxing the seating capacity.
However, more and very desirable seats
have been added to the grand stand,
which now has room for 1000 patrons.
The offering Saturday night will be
perturbation of Owen johnson s novel,
The Salamander, and on Sunday night
Alice Brady will be seen in The Won
an in At.
Notifications of the primary election to
be held Tuesday, Sept. y, from u o'clock
noon to s o'clock p. m. in the town hall
have been posted by Town Clerk Carl S.
Hopkins. Candidates for the following of
fees at the November elections will be
voted for: United States senator, repre-
sentative to congress, governor, lieutenant
governor, state treasurer, secretary of
state, auditor of accounts, attorney gen
clal, senators in the general assembly,
Judges of probate, assistant Judges of the
county court, states attorneys, sheriiis,
high bailiiis and representatives to the
general assembly.
A young man who gave his name as
Frank Beals and claimed to be travel
ing salesman for pcrfumery, created a
disturbance in the Albany cafe Satur
day noon and was arrested by Chief
Of Police George Wilson and Officer
Charles Wood. In the afternoon he
pleaded guilty to charge of intoXica-
ton before Judge Frank f. Barber
in the municipal court and was fined
s. and costs. He lacked a few dollars
of the necessary amount to settle, and
after trying in vain to raise money on
extra clothing which he had went to
Newfane Jail to work out the alterna
tive sentence of Is days.
Residents of Belmont avenue were
startled Tuesday evening to hear the re
port of rifle and an instant later the
whine of rifle bullet as it passed
within few feet of a veranda on
which several people were seated. A
few minutes later this was repeated
and a bullet clipped through the leaves
of a tree near the front of another
house on the same avenue. Two more
shots were heard little later and the
flash of fire from a gun was seen. AS
it was dark at the time and the Texas
border is some miles away the reason
for the indiscrimnate shooting in n
neighborhood usually peaceful was not
revealed.
| Donald Dixie, who is well known in
Brattleboro by reason of his having
! been member two seasons of the Brat
| tlebOro team of the Twin State league,
has been appointed a member of the
Dean academy faculty at Franklin,
Mass, AID assistant coach of the base
ball, football and basketball teams of
that institution. The head coach is
Daniel Sullivan, manager two seasons
of the Keene team of the Twin state
league. Dixie captained the Melrose
high baseball team in 1910 and was
Il member of the Brown university
team in 1912, 1914 and 1915. This sum
mer he is playing the outfeld and
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