Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-07-27
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and was sick only short time.
Sewing meetings will be held in the
Unitarian parish house Monday afternoons
for the American Fund for French
Wounded and everyone is invited to at
tend. The parish house will not be open
mornings.
The children of the four Fairgrounds in
town went Saturday on a special troll
ley car to West Brattleboro, where they
enjoyed an all-day picnic in charge
of the playground supervisors and some of
the mothers of the youngsters.
b. C. Mundell has succeeded j. II.
Moynihan as manager of the Valley
Grain Co. s store on Flat street, Mr..
Moynihan having finished work there
last week. Mr.. Mundell has been en-
ployed by the company IL years.
A cablegram from Bordeaux France,
was received Saturday afternoon
by y. w. Kuech from his son, julius F..
Kuech, who sailed recently for service
in the American Field Ambulance. 1t
contained the message: "Sqfe. Well. -
Cards have been received in town an
nouncing the marriage of Kenneth Ed
ward Harper of Agawam, Mass, and
Miss Elizabeth Sarah Knight of West
Springfield Mass. Mr.. Harper, who
formerly lived in town, was at one time
manager of the drygoods store on the
corner of Main and High streets.
Work was begun Saturday by the
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Co., on placing additional ducts for under
ground cable on Main street between FL
hot and Flat streets and on Fiat street to-
the west side of the new Barber building,
in preparation for future growth
Underground Construction Foreman A. c.
Dugan of Boston is in charge of the
work.
John +. Gale, referee in bankruptcy,
issued an order Saturday on the pc
tition of Attorney o. B. Hughes, trus
tee of the Vermont Last Block com
pany, permitting the trustee to sell all
of the realty and personal property be-
longing to the company, either subject
to the encumbrances or free from them
as the trustee may deem most advan-
tageOus.
Twenty operators in the local tele-
phone exchange gave Miss Mary Book
er, also an operator, a complete sur
prise July 10 in her home on West
ern avenue, when she was given a mis-
cellaneous shower. She received gifts
of cut glass, linen and china. During
the evening music and refreshments
were enjoyed.
Prof. Samuel Chandler Earle, pioneer
in the instruction of technical English,
and professor of English at Tufts col
lege, died Friday at his home in
Sawyer avenue, Somerville. He was
born in Brattleboro July Z, 1870, and
graduated from Harvard in 1894, later
winning a degree of A. NJ. He married
in Quebec Lydia Gustin Knight in 1899
Spencer W. Knight, letter carrier,
has brought to The Phoenix office a
rarity in the line of freak vegetables.
1t is a red globe radish to the root of
which, half an inch below the red rad
ish, is attached an icicle radish, the
union between the two being perfect.
Mr.. Knight planted red radish seed this
year where he planted icicle radish seed
last year.
Mrs. Margaret Racine, 60, died Friday
morning at IL o'clock in her home at
Cross street. She was born in 1857 in
Canada and had lived in the United States
the greater part of her life. Mrs. Racine
was the mother of 10 children and lived
with a daughter, Mrs. John Duval. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock at st. Mchaels Roman Cath
ollie church and the burial took place
in the Roman Catholic cemetery.
Sidney w. Edgett has just received
news of the death of another cousin
Lieut.. Louis Stanley Edgett, son of the
late Capt. Judson II. Edgett of Hills
boro New Brunswick. The young mar
was killed in battle in France May 10
He was member of the S7th Canadian
battalion. A brother of Lieut.. Edgett
was killed earlier at the battle of Vimy
Ridge, in which Lieut.. Edgett also wa'
engaged.
REQ Charland, 3, son of II. Charland
who is manager of the French DR.,
Cleaning company on High street, wa
taken Saturday to the Memorial hos
pital with a fractured leg. The had
who at one time had infantile paralysi
and whose left leg was crippled, fel
Monday in the bathroom in his home
fracturing the crippled leg, but the ex
tent of the injury was not determine,
until Saturday morning.
A competitive examination under tn
niles of the United States Civil Servc
commission for the position of first grad
clerk in the various branches of the COY
eminent service in New England will b
held in Rrattleboro Aug. 4. A large nun
bier Of clerks are needed. Application
blanks may be obtained from the lOci
secretary at the postofiice. The govern
ment also is in urgent need OF stenol
Iuphers and typewriters
a. II. DnsmOre of st. JOhnsbury, 81
perintendent of the federal fish hatcf
cry there, was here Friday. Fish an
Game Commissioner Linus Leavens ha
been here two days on business connecte
with his department and the two official
inspected the trout hatchery at Sout
Vernon, While here Mr.. Leavens wen
with County Warden f. II. Metcalf
the large orchards in Westminster, ais
conferred with Mr.. Metcalf and Count
Agricultural Agent A. w. Sweeton
get their ideas relative to establishin
a uniform basis for appraising the dan
age done by deer to crops, vegetable
ana fruit trees.
Miss Mildred Dutton, canning eXpe
who had been in Windham county stint
Monday, went Saturday to BurlingtO
the headquarters of the Vermont agricu
tural extension service by which she
employed. She demonstrated Fridi
night in the Fitch school district, w