Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-30
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BRATTLEBORO.

field, this state.
DunhGm Brothers company will move
this week Saturday to their new offices
in lhc Hooker building, recently va
Gated by the Odd Fellows.
Joseph Aher, son of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Timothy Ahcr of Brattleboro, has
enlisted in Company ID, LIST Connecticut
regiment, in Bristol Conn, where he
has been employed. Until short time
ago MIR. Ahcr had a position in II. p.
Wcllman & Co. S clothing store i'll this
town.
The r. j. Gibson Co. of Holyokc has
had force of men putting new gravel
roofs on the Elliot street and School
street buildings of w. G. Doolittle
This makes five gravel roofs they have
put on five apartment buildings for
Mr.. Doolittlc.
The yellow wood tree in Mrs. julius
j. Estey's yard is now in full bloom
and is Il sight worth seeing. This tree,
which fully blooms only once in four or
five years, is at this time a solid mass
of beautiful blossoms, which resemble
the locust blossoms.
f.. 7. Abbott, head of the f. T. Alb.
bolt Construction Co. of New York,
which firm is erecting the federal build
ing on Main street, after inspecting
the work says he has no question but
that the postOf1ice will be moved into
the new building by Dec. |. Good
progress is being made in the interior
construction.
Fred w. Hall has sold through the
!. l.. Howard agency 80 feet of land
that his barn stands on on his property
on the corner of School and Green
streets, to Warren G.. Doolittle. Mr.
Doolittle's land adioins that of Mr.
Hall and he buys for an Improvement
to his property and will remove the
barn and grade the land.
Beginning Sunday, the hours of
morning service in st. Michael S
Roman Catholic church will be as fol
lows: First mass at 730 O'Clock,
second mass at $50 o'clock, both low
masses, and the $50 mass will be fol
lowed by Bencdiction of the Blessed
Sacrament There will be no evening
services during the summer months.
The eight cylinder Cadillac touring
car owned by NJ. c. Houghton took fire
on the Putney road Saturday evening
about $50 clock. The ear was be-
ing driven by Mrs. Houghton, who had
party of women friends with her
They succeeded in eXtinguishing the
fire with dirt, but not until the car
was badly damaged. The cause is un'
known.
Workmen are engaged in laying new
track and changing the tracks in the
yard south of the railroad station in
preparation for the changes that are
to be made in handling traffic when
the new railroad station is opened. 1t
is expected that this will be used oc-
casionally, if not usually, for trains on
the Central Vermont that make up
here.
The Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt store
was closed Tuesday night to allow the
removal of the goods to the new store
in the American building, formerly the
f. j. Fenton & Co. store, and to per-
nit a Encouragement of the Fenton &
Co. stock, bought by GoodnOw, Pearson
& Hunt. The new store will be opened
this morning with a mark-down sale
of the Fenton goods.
About 12j members of the Red Cross
society have been secured in Brattle-
boro by Mrs. Julius J. Estey, the
membership fee of 81 securing not
only membership but also the Red
Cross magazine and the Red Cross pin
Mrs. Estey emphasizes the fact that
there is special need of the funds at
this time and that persons wishing to
join should notify her without delay.
Ethel l.. Strawser of Wilmington has
entered suit for divorce from Lewis e
Strawser, formerly editor of the Will
minCton Times and now of Boston
They were married Feb. "a, 1904, al
Wilmington and she alleges descrtior
on Dec. 6, 1912, and refusal and neglect
to support. She asks the custody OF
two minor daughters. The papers are
from the office of Attorney o. f. But
terfeld of Wilmington.
Eight teachers went Monday ia
the summer school at the Castleton
normal school, where they VII take
the three weeks course. Those who
went Monday, joining there Miss
Minnie Rawson. who went last week
were Miss Mary Crockcr, Miss ElOist
Sanders, Miss Gertrude Marston
Miss Nellie Prouty, Miss Lottic Dodge
Miss Edith Douglas, Miss Mary Dug
las and Miss Lillian Newton.
Mrs. Carrie r. Bassett of Pleasant
Vile, n. j., mother of Winfield S. Bas
sctt Of this town, died Friday in he
home. She had been in failing hcaltl
several years. She was native o
Monkton, England, widow of Gcorg
W. Bassett of Barre, who died in 1905
Winfield S. Bassett went to Barre Sat
urday to attend the funeral, which wa
held at o'clock today in the home o
daughter, Mrs. Flora l.. Beckley.
DR.. George Il. Anderson was calle'
to Bridgeport, Conn, Monday be
cause of an epidemic of acute plangu
lar fever, there being some 200 case
in the city. This is an acute infection
disease which effects all glands Of tn
body and is reported to have prove
fatal in several instances in Bridge
port DR.. Anderson received the ca
from the mayor of the city but sal
when taking the train that he di
not know why he should have bee
called in consultation unless it had be
come known that he had been success
full in the treatment of few sinilo
cases.
George w. Clapp, who started IL
movement to raise funds for 500