Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-12-21

Miss Sadie Taylor expects to spend her
Christmas vacation in Springfield
Mrs. E. s. Corse OF Northield, Mass,
visited at Frank Mann's this week.
Mrs. E. NJ. GOodenough will so to Bel
lows Falls Monday to spend Christmas
c. II. Copeland OF Wilmington is NOV
ing into the Boynton house on Glen
street.
The schools unite for Christmas tree
and entertainment In Academy hall this
afternoon.
Mrs. l. s. Bartlett and Miss Florence
Fisher returned Tuesday after a short
visit in Springfield.
The schools In the Academy building
will be closed all next week for the
Christmas vacation.
The Congregational Sunday school will
hold its Christmas festival in Academy
hall Tuesday evening
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barber returned
to their home in Wilmington Tuesday
after spending few days here.
DR.. w. A. Dawson OF Burlington will
preach at the Baptist church Sunday
morning and will also address the Baraca
class.
Miss Helen F. Barnard, who has been
at the Brattleboro Memorial hospital sew
eral weeks, is much improved in health
and Is now with her sister, Mrs. Z. II.
Davenport.
Some needed improvements will be
made soon in the heating facilities OF the
Congregational church. A new pipe will
conduct heat to the choir loft and an
other will extend TO the front Of the
building making more even distribution
OF heat
Rev. ]. S. Clark, who has been supply
Ing the church at Wadham's Mills, n Y.
the past two weeks, has received a call
from the Beechwood Congregational
church Of Cohasset. Mass. which he has
accepted Mr.. Clark will leave today and
VIII begin his work with this church
Sunday.
Among the school teachers and college
students who are expected home today
or tomorrow for their Christmas vacation
are John Helyar and Louise Thayer of
University of Vermont, Miss Daisy Mil
Ter OF Simmons college. Boston. Miss
Olive Weatherhead from the school of
domestic science, Worcester. and Miss
Sadie Hamilton and Miss Susie L. Clark
from Westminster.
The Young Peoples club held a regular
meeting Monday evening with a literary
and musical program followed by a social.
The program was as follows: Music,
Hugh Thayer; reading. Maud Brown;
SOLO, Delmar Hawkins; reading, Ethel
Smith; reading, May Thayer; current
events, edited by Shelton Keneston and
Ray Adams; music, Ethel Blodgett. The
next meeting will be on New Years eve
and the participants are expected to be
prepared to watch the old year out and
the new year in. The young ladies are
requested to bring candy and the young
men TO furnish pop corn.
About 200 attended the annual reunion
OF the First Congregational church Fri
day evening. A bountiful chicken-pie
supper was served by the ladies' 10 ali
members of the church and congregation
present. Eight young men from the Sem
mar class acted as walters. They were
George Hawkins. Delmar Hawkins
Harold Perry, Harold Putnam Hugh
Dunlles. Albert Dunklee, Paul Jones and
Clarence Barney. After supper a ham
mered-brass finger bowl, made in India
by lS-year-old famine orphan, was sold
at auction for IS. This sum will go
toward the education of this boy, who
has been supported by the church some
time. After a short devotional service
the roll call was observed. There were
1913 responses out OF a total membership
of 1856