Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-02

Brattlcboro will conduct the service
at the Home for the Aged Sunday af-
ternoon at clock.
Mrs. Jerry E. Higley, in memory of
her father Capt. +. f. Gleason, placed
a pot of geraniums on each soldier s
grave in Meeting house Hill cemetery,
where her father was buried.
The standpipe from which north
bound trains are to take water at the
railroad station was put in place yes
terday. This is located under the over
pass on the east side of the tracks.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of
Missions of the Episcopal church will
be held today at p. m. in the home
of Mrs. F. w. Childs of Terrace street.
The Guilford Ice Co. has bought a
one.ton Koehler truck to bring ice
from the ice house in Guilford to the
carts that distribute it in Brattleboro.
1t is the first truck of the kind to be
used locally.
Two cases of measles have been re-
ported to DIR. Henry Tucker, health Of
ficer. One is in a Wojick family at
305 South Main street and the second
in the family of Mr.. Trahan at 307
South Main street.
Announcements have been received
i'll Brattleboro of the marriage of Miss
Janet Allen Davenport to Earl Clifton
Monroe, in Albany, n. Y, May %. Mr..
and Mrs. Monroe will live at 1919 Gin
ton avenue, Albany. The bride is a
daughter of Charles II. Davenport of
Albany, formerly of Brattleboro.
Troop No. of the Boy Scouts met
in the Unvcrsalist church Wednesday
and organized baseball team with
Hugh Stowell captain and Stanley
Clapp manager. A game has been ar
ranged with troop No. !, the Congrega-
tional Boy Scouts, to be played a week
from Saturday in the forenoon. Games
with other troops will be arranged.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
horo Home for the Aged and Disabled
was held Tuesday afternoon in the
home of DR.. Henry d. Holton and the
old board of officers was reelected.
They are as follows: President, DIR.
Henry d. Holton; vice president, Judge
James NJ. Tyler; secretary and treas
urer, George c. Averill; auditors, Ed
ward C. Crosby and Hiram +. Wealth
erhead.
w. H. Haywood, recently appointed
a member of the police force by the
village commissioners, was on duty
Tuesday as the day patrolman, his
tour of duty being from 9 O'Clock in
the morning until relieved by the chief
about o clock in the afternoon. Of
ficer Haywood is not yet in uniform,
but wears a badge and will don uni
form as soon as the one ordered ar
rives.
Arthur l.. Rohde of the firm of Mo
ran & Rohde undertakers, has been
notified by Irving Watson, secretary
of the New Hampshire state board of
health, that he has successfully passed
the examinations, taken May 9, for Ii
cense to practice embalming in New
Hampshire. A certificate was enclosed.
Mr.. Rohde already held license to
practice in Vermont. His assistant
Carl A. Mitchell, is a licensed embalm-
er in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Rev. George Z. Tomkinson s stereop-
ticon lecture in the First Baptist
church last evening for the ben
eft of the socia! committee of the
Christian Endeavor society included
over 100 slides. 1t showed Pike s
Peak New Mexico, the Hopi Indians,
petrifed forests, the Grand Canyon of
Arizona, Los Angeles, the Catalina is
lands, fruit groves, San Diego, San
Joaquin valley, Yosemite national park,
Mariposa grove, San Francisco and 9th
er subjects.
Rain interfered somewhat with the
NJ 81 IL +rx,
club, but about 40 were there for
luncheon and IS men started in the
kickers' handicap tournament which
took place in the afternoon. Frank
b. Putnam was the winner with a net
score of 10, while Dennison Cowles was
second with a net score of 80. During
the evening a buffet luncheon was
served on the veranda and between %
and 30 couples enjoyed dancing to mu
sic by Leitsinger's orchestra.
The body of Bryan W. Gale was re
moved from the mausoleum in Morn
ingside cemetery Monday at 10 o clock
II. m, and interment took place in
the family mausoleum in the Roman
Catholic cemetery. Rev. Father j. p.
Rand ofiiciated. Mr.. and Mrs. F. c..
Gale of New York, parents of the
young man, were here and were accom-
panid to the cemetery by relatives
and intimate friends and several mem
bers of the high school class of 1916,
of which Bryan was member.
Invitations have been received by
Brattleboro friends to the marriage of
Miss Dorothy Day of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
to Holton Davenport, Worcester. Mass.
The marriage will take place i'll Cal
vary cathedral Sioux Falls, Tuesday
evening, June 6, at o'clock, and will
be followed by reception in the Guild
room. They will be at home in Wor-
ester after Oct. l. Miss Day is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Manley Day of Sioux Falls. Her
mother before her marriage was Miss
Annie Davenport of Brattleboro. Hol-
ton Davenport is a lawyer in Worces-
ter. He is a son of Charles II. Daven'
port of Albany, n. Y, who for years
was proprietor of the former Windham
County Reformer Of this town.
George j. Kingsley Of Brattleboro
son of Otis Kingsley of Heath, Mass.
and Miss Josephine Farr, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. o. d. Farr of Brattle
horo were married in Wilmington Sat