Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-01-25

Pocahontas council initiated two can
| didates last night using for the first time
/ the new degree arranged by Degree Mas
| ter Herbert Harris
! Brattleboro lodge. No 1902, A. f. & A.
/ NJ. conferred the Fellow Craft degree
| upon four candidates ut a special com
| muncation Tuesday evening.
| l.. II. Barber is in Boston this week
/ buying a fun line of Victor talking ma
| chimes and increasing the Edison stock.
| He will carry the largest line Of talking
machines i'm Southern Vermont.
The date Of the high school fair has
! been changed to February Z, ana the fair
| will be held in Festival hall The doors
| will be open both afternoon and evening
and there will be dancing from 9 to u
| o'clock
Mrs Josie b. Locllrow has leased for
/ business purposes room i'm Emerson's
| Elliot street building, formerly occupied
! by the w. &. r. t. This room. as well
as room 6, the future headquarters of the
| w. G. Y. t.. is undergoing repairs and
| Mrs. Lockrow expects to he ready for
patrons next Wednesday
Eugene Lounsbury and Joseph Lee of
| Dover were tried before Justice Julian
| Snow of Dover Wednesday on a charge
of liquor selling. Lounsbury was bound
! over to the superior court and Lee fur
nished bonds for him. Lees case was
continued for three months. e. w. Glib
| son appeared for the defendants.
The Methodist church held its annual
/ roll call Wednesday evening after boun-
tifu supper served by the women of the
. church. More than 100 of the members
. responded to their names by quoting
| passage of scripture. The roll call was
broken now ana then by singing and ar
. forwards there was a brief social gath
. ering.
The ladies catholic benevolent asso-
citation gave a whist party i'm the school
| house hail ON Walnut street Tuesday
| evening. There were eight tables. Miss
| Margaret Movlan won the first ladies'
| prize. Rev Father O'DOnoghpe the first
mems prize. Next week a whist party
will be held Wednesday evening i'm Eagles
hall. Retting building, from until 10
o'clock. All are cordially invited to at
tend.
Papers were signed here Monday trans
ferring about 1900 acres of spruce timber
land in the towns of Stratton and Somer-
set to Livingston Gushing of Boston. The
purchase includes about 1000 acres owned
by John c. Tibbetts of Wardsboro and
AS acres in Stratton owned by Mass
achussets' men and occupied by l.. E
Reed. Mr.. Gushing is the owner Of large
tracts of timberland in Southern Yer
mont and will keep these lands for an in
Vestment and allow the timber to remain
standing for the present.
The following from the city news col
umns of the Manchester n. H., Union
Wednesday is of local interest as Mr. Kron
was formerly pastor in this town: The
synod of the district of Norway, Mich.
has sent to Rev. y. +. Kron pastor Of
the Swedish Lutheran church in this city,
communication stating that his name
has been presented for consideration in
the way Of pastor of the Swedish church
of that place. The salary at Norway is a
more comfortable one than that of Man
chester and, although the membership
of the church is not so large, a vast
amount of church WORK is to be done. Mr.
Kron has not as yet given his answer to
the offer. but will do so in a few days"
The Fessenden Helping Hand society
of the congregational church held a
pleasant chatting dish social in the church
parlors last evening. About 35 young
women We're present. Games were played
and a musical program, consisting of
songs by Miss Ethel Randall and piano
selections by Miss Emily Clapp and Mrs.
Arthur Carpenter. was much enjoyed.
For the last is years the society has paid
a scholarship at Hampton school, Hamp-
ton Va, besides several other scholar
ships. Recently the society paid for a
four years scholarship at the University
of Vermont for a young man from town.
John Pierce a missionary from South
Gently, was helped through Fisk univer-
sity by four years scholarship paid by
the society.
The Grange Dramatic club held a well
attended social last Friday evening i'm
Grange hall. 1t was a Foxy Grandpa
gathering, and prizes We're offered in an
amusing contest which was to put hat
on Foxy Grandpa's head while blind
! folded. Mrs. Austin Miller won the first
prize and Ernest Gnodenough won the
BOBBY prize. Another entertaining fra -
ture of the social was pantomine. i'm
which Miss Zetta Weld, James Harding,
| Ernest GoodenOugh. oscar Whitney. Fred
Spaulding and Austin Miller took part
The entertainment program also in
Guided pleasing piano selections by Miss
Gertrude Barker, a recitation by Mrs. +.
b. Wilson songs by Ernest GOOdenOugh
and Pauline Miller After the enter
tainment there was a dance Mrs. Fred
Weld was in charge of the entertainment
The Sunday school of the Centre Con-
gregational church held its annual meet
ing Sunday and elected officers as fol-
lows; President. f.. c. Crosby: superin-
tendent, Henry +. Jordan; assistant
superintendent, George NJ. Clay and Miss
Edith NJ. StOlre; secretary and treasurer
Ernest r. Bemis; librarian Fred c
Adams; assistant librarian, Crosby
Adams: superintendent of the Junior de-
dent of primary department, Mrs. f. +
Perry; supervisor of Junior and primary
departments Mrs. II r. Miles book com
. mittee, Miss Mary r. Cabot and Mrs. II
r. Miles; auditor, l.. a. Whitney. 1t was
! voted to establish a home department anG
, the selection of a superintendent for The
new department was left to the Sunday
/ school committee. +. r. Bems gave his
report as secretary and treasurer fo
the last year.
I News has been received of the dealt
p in st. Louis. on the 18th of January, o
Mrs. George b. Kellogg, formerly a well
known resident of Bratteboro. Mrs Kel
e | logg was the daughter of Uriel Skies
I who built the house on Main street, nov
| occupied by Mrs. c. F. Thompson and he
son Charles II. Thompson, and who's
20 home was there until his death in 1874
d | Her husband, George b. Kellogg, was on
o Of the prominent and influential men o
2 his day in Brattleboro. He was the Law
- partner of Jonathan Dorr Bradley. Whel
q the war for the Union broke our he was tn
n postmaster of BraTtleboro and resigne,
@ the office to enter the army, serving a
g lieut. colonel of the LIST Vermont cavalry
% For about 25 years past Mrs Kellogg
p. home had been with her daughter, Mrs
n Jane l.. Fisher in St Louis. but at in
N tcrVals she had spent some time i'm Brat
p tlebOro. She is survived by her daughter
$ Mrs, Fisher, and four grandchildren, Sh
y was the aunt of Mrs c. +. Thompson
n whose mother was Elizabeth (Sikes) CunC