Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-01-01
3 RATTLEBOR

There was q large attendance at the
Masonic social and dance Wednesday
evening.
A despatch from New York yesterday
morning announced the death of Miss
Mary c. Salisbury in Roosevelt hospital
Wednesday night. Miss Salisbury was a
niece of Miss Susan b. Salisbury, wno
died in Brattleboro Sunday, and of Miss
Mary c. Salisbury of Brattleboro, and
was known by many Brattleboro people
through her visits with her aunts.
Wantastiquet lodge of odd Fellows
elected these officers Monday evening:
Noble Grand. w. II. Haigh; vice grand,
w. p. Coombs; secretary, y. ]. Currier;
financial secretary, c. l.. Cobb; treasurer,
c. e. Sturges; %janitor, II. A. Reynolds;
trustee for five years. D.. w. Tenney.
These and the appointive officers will be
installed next Monday evening. The
lodge has this week paid the last $1,000
due on odd Fellows building, bought a
few years ago for $14. 600, and now owns
the building free of incumbrance.
The next meeting of the Congregational
club will be held in the Brooks House
next Thursday evening, beginning as US
ual with a banquet at 7.45 o'clock. The
club has engaged Walter Eccles of Bos-
ton, a humorist, character delineator and
dialect reader, to furnish entertainment
after the banquet. The Mansion, Wis,
Chronicle said of Mr.. Eccles recently:
He kept the audience in one continuous
roar of laughter with his witty and ex-
cruciatingly funny representations and
dialect studies" The meeting Will be
for members and male guests.
Syracuse, N. Y, Papers tell of the wide
swath Burton Ing Ills has taken and of
his collapse in thit city from the effects
of a long spree, which followed his loss of
500 by betting Harvard in the Yale
Harvard foot b.ll game this year. The
stories are to ne effect that his wander
ings took over a large part of New Eng
land ard into Canada before he came
TO Syracuse. ingalls, appeared about
Thanksgiving time in Montpelier, where
he left behind some checks on a Provi-
dence bank on which payment was re-
fused, Ingalls's wife is said to be living
in Providence.
The Christmas exercises in connection
with the Christmas tree at the Home
for the Aged were held Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Miss Stewart presided at the piano, rem
dering several solos. Miss Gregg sans
a number of songs and Mrs. T.. d. Whit
ney read several selections. After these
exercises the Christmas tree for the resi-
dents of the Home was admired, and in
its new surroundings it looked even more
beautiful than in preceding years. Many
thanks are due Mrs. Miner and Miss
NiNSS - iltll NdSltlul utCOIdllOhS anu
arrangements. The people of the Home
renewed their youth in the general jollity
which prevailed, and as good nights were
said all hoped next Christmas might find
all together again. A pleasant incident
of the afternoon was the presentation to
the Home by the society of furnishings
for the fireplace in the hall, andirons,
fire set and screen.
The annual Christmas entertainment
for the members of the Congregational
Sunday school took place Friday evening
and was largely attended. At 5 O'Clock
the members of the primary and junior
departments Joined in a grand march,
after which supper was served in their
rooms. Then came an entertainment
consisting of singing by some of the
younger members, a SOM by Fred c..
Adams. a violin solo by Miss Katherine
Ware, and readings by Miss Florence
Clark. closing with the distribution of box
es in the shape of stars filled with candy.
The part of Santa Claus was taken by
Crosby Adams who was drawn into the
vestry by a real goat, whose appearance
caused an outburst of laughter in the
ranks of the little people. Afterwards
refreshments were served to the older
ones, and a supply of food was distribut-
ed among the needy people in Brattlebo-
70. The Yestry was decorated with green
bOughs and a Christmas tree brightly
lighted. The entertainment was gotten
up by a committee of whom Miss Ellen
fare was chairman.