Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-05-03

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The directors of the Red Cross will
meet this afternoon at 3 o CLOCK at the
Headquarters in the federal building. 1t
is expected that the delegates who at
tended the Red Cross conference i'll Bos-
ton recently will give reports.
Chairman Horton d. Walker of the
Windham County Liberty Loan com
mittee and Clearance l.. Stickney went
to Halifax Sunday soliciting subscrip.
tions for Liberty bonds. They secured
a subscription at every house at which
they stopped, the total aggregating
$4,000, which was more than half the
total quota of the town, $4,000.
The creditors of John Mcdonald the
contractor who built the Manley Brothers
garage and who was adiudged bankrupt
| in Boston April 10, will hold their first
meeting this morning at $50 o'cloc k
before Referee Henry f. Warner in the
court room of the registry building in
East Cambridge, Mass, for the purpose OF
proving claims and selecting trustee.
An auction of curios, old fashioned
! furniture and china belonging to Harry
| X. Lawrence, was held Saturday at the
Lawrence home on South Main street.
A. w. J. wilkins was the auctioncer.
| People attended from Springfield,
Northampton, Worcester and Claremont.
The auction was success and good
prices on articles disposed Of were OBJ
tanned.
Sergeant Harry F. Douglas of Brattle.
boro, sergeant in Company A, 3O2d field
artillery, is one of 60 men at Camp Dew
ems, Aver Mass, who have been chosen
as candidates for the training camp for
engineer officers which will be opened
May at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Mr.,
Douglas formerly was employed as civil
engineer on the construction of the Con-
necticut river dam at Vernon and after
wards went to Springfield (Nt.).
County Fish and Game Warden Z. II.
Mctcalf was in Brookline Tuesday to
pass on the shooting of deer on Mon
day for A. G. Wellman by an employee.
The deer, which was a small buck, was
shot while eating clover. A medium
sized doe recently was killed in Brook
line for Albert A. Austin by an en-
ploye, the doe being caught in the act
of eating clover. Mr.. Metcalf issued a
certificate in each instance showing
that the shooting was legal and award
ing the carcasses to the owners of the
property.
Frank Kozloski, a Polander, was ar
rested Sunday by County Fish and
Game Warden T. II. Metcalf on the
Hunt meadows for fishing without a
license. He is an employee at the cot
ton mill. Before Judge Cudworth in
the municipal court Monday morning.
State s Attorney w. R. Daley prosecut-
ing, Kozloski pleaded guilty and was
fined 1925 and costs of $6.05, which
friends paid for him. He is man of
property, owning real estate in Adams,
Mass, and came from there to Brattle-
boro a short time ago.
Edward, Is months, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Sottak of Palmer, Mass,
died Monday night of hcmorrhage of
the brain. The body was brought
Wednesday to Brattleboro and funeral
! services were held at 1l.30 in Moran &
/ Rohde 3 undertaking rooms Rev. D
place in the West Brattleboro GENE
terry. Those who accompanied the body
here were Mrs. Ada Niles of Palmer
Mass, Mrs. Highland Niles and SON
Ralph, of Greenfield, Mass, and Mrs
Sidney Graves of Greenfield.
A despatch from Franklin, Mass, dated
April 25. to the Boston Post concerns a
former pastor of the Brattleboro Univer-
salst church and reads as follows "The
Rev. Reignold X. Marvin, pastor of the
Grace Universalist church here, who was
given years leave of absence so that he
might 60 to France in the y. NJ. c. A
work, is seriously i'll in hospital neal
Brest, France, according to information
received this week by relatives in
Franklin His condition is 80 serious
that it is impossible to move him at
present, but as soon as he can stand
trip arrangements will be made for his
return home.
The drawing of the water in the
Connecticut river at this time of yeal
by the power company is deprecated
by fishermen on account of the mil
lions of perch spawn that are destroyed
On the meadows that were drained
Saturday when the gates of the dan
at Vernon were opened huge quantities
of the spawn were noted, and the fac
that it spoils in very short exposure
to the air means a serious damage t.
the future fish supply of the stream
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drawn from the meadow during thu
perch spawning season.
Director r. G. Reynolds of the Val
agricultural school at Lyndon spok'
Tuesday to the high school pupils
boys particularly, in regard to the cam
to be held there preparing boys for sum
mer work on farms. Each group of boy
stays at the camp two weeks. Mr.. Rey
nolds announced that the first two camp
for May are already full, but that ther'
is room for good delegation of Brattle
boro boys in the third camp. The idei
Of these camps is to give the boys expert
encc, provide good speakers for them ant
try to arouse enthusiasm for the farm
work and fit them to go on farms to as
est and really be worth something to tn
farmers.
A loss Of 100000 was caused by
fire of suspicious origin in the Tuft
medical school, 10 Huntington avenu
and Forsyth street, Boston, early Sun
day morning. The buildings wa
damaged to such an extent that it ma.
be a year before it can be used agai
by the classes. The Boston Globe i
its account of the fire says: CDR. /