Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-12-08


Wednesday with good attendance.
The annual rental of pews in the Con-
gregational church was held Wednesday
evening.
The ladies' Enterprise society will meet
next Wednesday, Dec. 49, at o'clock
p. m, with Mrs. f. a. Foster, Organ
street.
The Young Peoples union of the Bap-
list church will hold a social Tuesday
evening in the chapel All young peo-
pie are invited.
The Young Peoples union will serve
a griddle cake supper I'm the social rooms
of the Baptist church Thursday, Dec. Il,
at $50 o'clock
Today, Friday. is the Feast of the I'm
maculate Conception. Mass was cele-
brated at . o'clock in st. Michaers Roman
Catholic church
The New England order of Protection
will hold the next regular meeting i'm Red
Mems hail Dec. 13. 1t is hoped that every
member will be present.
Bridget Cavanaugh, who lived with the
late Madam Bradley on North street many
years. died recently in Canada. where she
made her home with her sister.
Frank l.. Hunt and Fred l.. Smith have
been I'm New York city this week to at
tend a meeting of the superintendent of
Miss Nellie NJ Goodrich of Brookline.
Mass, and brother, William b. Good
rich of New York, spent Thanksgiving
with their mother Mrs Ellen W. Good
rich.
During the remainder of this month.
Rev. f. l.. Masseck of the Universalist
church will conduct Sunday afternoon
services at the Home for the Aged and
Disabled.
Col. Thomas Harmon, superintendent
of the soldiers home i'm Bennington, has
been elected commander of G. \. Custer
Grand Army post of that town. He is a
past commander of Sedgwick post of
Bratteboro.
f. D. f. Stowe won Is prizes with 10
entries at the Springfield Poultry and Pet
Stock show this week. He was awarded
10 firsts, one second and two fourths. His
entries included game bantams. white
Plymouth rocks, bun leghorns and Rhode
Island reds.
Rev. Father Carmody stepped on a nail
while playing with his little niece Sat
urday. The nail went through his foot,
making a bad wound. He was unable to
hold church services Sunday. and al
though he is better now he is obliged to
remain quiet
Dan Darleigh. the great Yankee charac-
ter comedian, now I'm the ninth year of
his success will he seen at the Audito-
rum Saturday afternoon and evening
Dec 16, in the famous rural play, Isl
Stebbins". The acts viii be interspersed
with a complement Of vaudeville acts.
The w. c. T. U. will have another Thin
BILE bee at their rooms next Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock. Members are
urged to be prompt and to bring their
work and thimbles in preparation for the
apron and bag sale the week before
Christmas. The receipts from the recent
food sale were very gratifying.
County Clerk j. II. Merrifield received
from Judge George NJ Powers. of the
Vermont Supreme court, order deny
ing and overruling the motions in the
case of Mary Blakeslee Piggott against
DIR. II. ID. Holton to have the report of
Commissioner A. Z. Cudworth recon-
mitted for further findings. Motions for
a recommittal were made by both parties.
Mrs. Fremont Hamilton was elected
secretary of the Brattleboro Choral
Union Wednesday evening. The organ
ization has an unusually good start, the
membership already being about 100.
The attendance Wednesday evening in
cluded nearly the full membership be-
sides a good number of visitors. and the
rehearsal was very satisfactory. The
meeting next week will be in the Bap-
| fist chapel.
! in Grange hall this evening to those who
| participated in the recent production OF
| Chimes of Normandy" Members and
| friends of the club, as well as friends of
| the participants in the opera, are invited.
An admission will be charged for those
| who had no part in the opera. Lett
| singers orchestra will furnish music for
dancing and Miss Caroline Howe Of Hins-
| dale will give readings.
George NJ Holbrook. manager of the
American Writing Paper company of
| Holyoke. who has a summer home on
Ames hill. and Miss Daisy Gilbert Still
man, daughter of Secretary Benjamin r.
| Stillman of the National Fire Insurance
| company of Hartford, Conn, We're mar
ried at the home of the brides parents in
! that city Tuesday evening The affair
was very elaborate the guests including
! $50 of the Hartford society people and IS
friends of Mr.. Holbrook in Springfield and
! Hoyoke, who made the trip to and from
| Hartford on a special train.
The body of Mrs. Frances Brooks
| Lyman, 20, wife of Albert Lyman. was
brought to Mortified, Mass, Nov. 30 for
| burial in the family lot. She was n native
Of Bratteboro but spent most of her mar
ried life in Mortified, having moved from
! here to Somerville about IL years ago.
| She was a fine singer and for many years
was one of a quartet who furnished the
music at the Unitarian church at North
| field. The other members are still living
and are Mrs. Mary Alexander Case, Rufus
| Cowles and Joseph Calender. She had
| a large number of friends i'm Northfield
! who remember her as a valuable addition
| to the community and an esteemed
! friend She Is survived by her husband
who is very feeble one son, Bert, and two
| daughters, Fanny and Helen.
Jacob A. Rils. the most useful citizen
| in New York" according to President
| Roosevelt, who was in close touch with
| Riis when the latter was working as a
| reformer and Roosevelt as police COM
| missioner will give his illustrated lecture,
| THE Battle with the Slum," under the
| auspices of the Brattleboro WomanIs
| club at the Auditorium Wednesday even-
! ing, Dec. 49, Mr.. Riis has been in actual
! touch with the reform work i'm New York
| for years, and his story is illustrated by
! photographs taken in the tenements of
| the city. The Boston Transcript says
! of his lecture: "A remarkable story;
one that will not soon be forgotten" St.
! Georges Chronicle of New York says:
| The pictures on the sheet, the personal
! power of the speaker the pathos, the
| penury. the misery of the scenes depicted,
made up lecture by which every faculty
of mind and heart was touched"
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