Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-02

Mr. and Mrs G. w. Osgood went to Bos-
ton Tuesday. for a few days stay.
Mrs. BODICE and her sons have moved
from Cherry street to Laurel court.
All coasting within the corporation linn
it's has been forbidden by the bailiffs
Mrs Edward G.. Osgood has an exhibition
of water colors in the studio of Mr.: Shaw
this week.
An enjoyable chicken pie supper open
to the public was held at the parish house
of the Emmanuel church last evening.
D. F. Pollard stepped on a nail recently,
injuring the bottom of one foot, and he
has been kept away from his store this
week.
Mrs Edward Arms, Miss Arms and Miss
Osgood went to Boston Tuesday to hear
Parsfal. Miss Osgood will spend a week
there.
The annual meeting of the Sunday
school board of the Methodist church will
be held in the church parlor next Wed
nesday evening.
The last of the International Paper
company's logs were drawn out of the
river last week, some of them requir-
ing chopping from the ice.
The parents and brothers of Mrs. Jay T.
Stocking, Mr. and Mrs, Porter and sons
of New Haven, Conn, spent Thanksgiv-
ing at the Congregational parsonage.
Inc lauleS alu society OF lne MelnOulSI
church will hold their annual sale of fancy
articles and serve a chicken pie supper in
Banquet hall Wednesday evening, Dec. Z.
The work upon the Connecticut river
bridge is now being delayed little owing
to the non-receipt of the steel, only two
or three carloads having as yet reached
here.
Inquiry made during the past week upon
the live topic of capital punishment de-
velops the fact that of the ministers of
Bellows Falls four are in favor of and
two against the retaining of the law upon
the statute books.
Miss Ida Waters visited schools in
Castleton Monday and Miss Marion Will
son in Fitchburg. Miss Waters and Miss
Wilson are teachers in the third and
fourth grades in building No 8.
Alpha chapter. Eastern Star, had a sale
of home made candy, rolls ice cream and
cake Tuesday afternoon and evening with
a dance in the evening. A good sum of
money was realized for the treasury
The annual Thanksgiving service was
held at the Universalist church, with the
sermon by Rev. c. w. Jackson, pastor of
the Baptist church The SERVICES were in
charge of Rev. Mr. Leavitt. Rev. l.. o,
Sherburne of the Methodist church and
Rev. j. n. Stocking of the Congregational
church also took part in the service.
William d. Hayes, who has been in the
employ of the experimental department
of the United States bureau of forestry
the past three months, has been trans
feTed this week to the industrial depart
ment, with the title of assistant forest
expert" and has gone to Washington, d,
c., where he will make his headquarters
for the winter.
The ladies of the Universalist church
will serve their annual turkey supper
next Tuesday evening in Union hall, and
an entertainment entitled "A Carnival of
Butterflies" will be given. A sale OF
useful articles, candies and ice cream
also will be held during the evening, and
a farce entitled six Cups Of Chocolate
will be followed by dancing.
The water in the Connecticut river is
so low here az to interfere with the mills
necessitating the shutting down of a por-
ton of the pulp mills which use the great
est amount of power, Flash boards have
been put on the dam and closely calked
to save all the water possible. The water
in Minard's pond continues to drop and
all are looking anXiously for rain.
The local athletic club will try titles for
supremacy in basket ball with the Spring
field Y. NJ. c. A. club tomorrow evening
in Union hall. Monday evening the local
Young Mems association team will go to
SaXtons River to play the Vermont acad-
envy team there the special car leaving
the square at 7.15. These are the first
games of the season In this vicinity.
This evening the .subject of the high
school debate will be Resolved that rail.
ways have done more toward the devel-
opment of the United States that the
waterways" Those assigned to the af.
firmative are Percival Dodge and William
Farrell, and the negative Raymond Par.
sons and William Cray. Much interest In