Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-08-15

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club Saturday request members to bear
in mind that reservations for dinner
must be with the steward by o'clock
tomorrow morning.
The specifications in the $4,000 lawsuit
of the W.. N. Flynt Granite Co. against
the George f. Lyons Granite Co. have
been filed in the county clerks Office by
Barber, Barber & Miller. They make a
document of 3S pages.
The Goth annual reunion of the Lar
rabec and Stacy families will be held
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f. Thurbcr
in Halifax Wednesday, Aug. 20. Din
ner will be served on the basket pie.
mic plan. Hot beans and coffee will
be furnished
A petition for divorce has been filed
in the county clerk g Office by Frank
[ w. Young of Putncy against Kathleen
/ l.. (Stewart) Young on the grounds OF
dcscrtion. The petition sets forth that
they were married in Brattlcboro by
Rev. Father NJ. j. Carmody Sept. IL,
and lived together until Jan. 20, 1914.
Russell Scott, teacher, of 1875 East
Forty-sixth street, New York, and
Miss Margaret d. WorthngtomScott
of 1874 Woodland avenue, New Rochelle,
n. Y, were married Tuesday at the
town clerk s office by Carl s. Hopkins,
Justice Of the peace. They were unat-
tended and left for honeymoon trip
to East Alstead, N. II.
A public reception to Lieut. and Mrs
Harold f. Washburn, who have just re-
turned from France, where they were
married recently, has been arranged by
Lieut. Washburn's mother, Mrs. Mary f.
Washburn, to. be held at the Washburn
farm in Putney Friday night of this week,
from to IL o'clock All friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Street car traffic on Main street was
held up half an hour Wednesday by n
breakdown of wagon carrying load
of wood and drawn by a pair of mules.
The left front wheel collapsed, letting
the hub down on the car track in front
of Lowell & Browns store. Policeman
W. +. Tyler finally cleared the way by
driving the team to one side with the
hub draggings
Workmcn in the employ of the Rand
MacNally Co. Tuesday began marking
an automobile trail from the corner of
Main and High streets in this town
through Marlboro. Wilmington and
Bennington to Hoosick Falls, n. Y This
route will be designated by red and
white bands, and is one of several
routes which the company is to mark
for the Automobile Club of Vermont.
Brattleboro will be included in at least
three routes, one extending north along
the Connecticut river and another fol-
loving ND the West River valley to
Manchester.
The cobblestonc house at the corner
of Canal and Clark streets, near the
Univcrsalst church, and the cottage
house next south Of it changed hands
Wednesday. They were sold by Miss
Margaret Brosnahan of Brattleboro and
Miss Johanna Brosnahan of Springfield,
Mass. to Letter Carrier John A. Lind
scy of Brook street, who bought for an
investment. The cobblcstone house,
which is one of Brattleboro' g land
marks, will be repaired. The sale was
made through John l.. Howard S real
estate agency.
Mrs. Lena NJ. Bacon of Brattleboro
has filed n petition for divorce from Al
bert Bacon, who is now living in Green
field, Mass, on the ground of dcscrtion,
intolerable severity and refusal TO sup
port. She says they were married in
Charlestown, ILL.,, Oct 81, 1903. and
lived together until July 6, 1912, liv-
ing in Brattlcboro last She asks for
the custody of two minor children.
Judge Harrie B. Chase has issued an
order restraining Mr.. Bacon from in
terfcring in any way with Mrs. Ba.
cons liberty and giving Mrs. Bacon
the privilege of visiting the children at
all reasonable times.
A very pleasing entertainment and lawn
focal was given Wednesday by the Lu
Their league of the Swedish Lutheran
| church. The entertainment consisted OF
piano solo by Cecilia johnson, voca
solos by Ruth Fredcrickson, recitations
by August and Emma johnson, piano due
by Olga and Cecilia johnson, speech b,
Bertil Lindberg and vocal and cornet
solos by f. G.. Gustafson. Refreshments
of ice cream, cake and coffee were served
on the church lawn, which was illuminate
cd by colored lanterns. The proceeds wer,
for the benefit of Upsala college Kenil
worth n j., the only institute OF learn
/ ing of the Swedish Lutheran church il
the eastern states.