Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-02-15

Mrs. Abbie Fish Morse of West Wards
boro spent the past week among old
| friends here
Miss Ethel Hall is at H. Smiths for the
present and her sister, Daisy. is at her
| fathers in Dummerston.
Pastor n. S. Moore observed Lincoln
anniversary by giving an address on Lin
| coin at Sundays evening service.
Charles Severance. who recently re-
| ceived surgical treatment at the Mary
Fletcher hospital, Burlington, is said TO
be doing well
Miss Hosford of Greenfield. instructor
in dancing will hold social dance at
Union han from to IL Friday evening.
Feb. %, with violin and piano music. All
are cordially invited.
The trustees of Moore Free library have
! chosen DIR. p. p, White of Williamsville
TO succeed the late John II. Mortified as
trustee, subject to approval of a Vermont
supreme court Judge
Mr.. Edison, who worked in the lumber
camp near Arthur Wlliams's in Brook
line was injured in the knee by the roll
ing of a log, and took the train on Tues
day for Brattleboro, to be treated In the
Memorial hospital.
a report of the Odd Fellows masquer-
ade ball was accidentally omitted last
week. 1t was largely attended. A cos
tuner from Springfield, Mass, was here
a bountiful supper. Parties of 10 from
Londonderry and Is from Dummerston
We're in attendance.
The newly established Rebekah lodge
will meet on Monday evening at odd
Fellows hail, which is in the upper story
Of the schoolhouse and has been made at
tractive. The Rebekahs' stated dates for
meeting are on the first and third monthly
Monday evenings, and the Odd Fellows
meet every Saturday evening.
Miss Fray Ballou, 10 next month, car
ried off the prize of S. offered by a New
London firm for the greatest number of
words made from letters i'm BOSS crack
err" Four hundred or whereabouts was
her number as announced in papers by
the firm, but owing to a misprint in the
winners name the reward was delayed
several weeks.
As to the mercury of bright, clear We'd
nesday morning the fact that a man
drove through the street at 9 a. m, so
covered with frost as to resemble a driver
and team out in a storm, graphically told
the story. Friday evening" brilliant dis
play of the aurora borealis in the zenith
was hearalded around by interested adj
mirers through the telephone. On Mon
day evening thre was quite a display in
the northern horizon.
The village school taught by Fred f.
Gilbert closed last week with rhetorical
exercises and gramophone entertain
ment Pupils who had no marks for
the year of three terms: Wnifred Ma
her, Marian White, DeWese Dewitt |
Pupils having no mark for the winter
term: Airline Gray, Ruth Gray Arthur |
Gray and Fray Ballou Lucy Davis was
absent but one-half day: Albert Johnson |
Oscar johnson, Marcus Wellman, Ethel |
Ingram came next with only days alb |
sence
The Woman's Christian Temperance |
Union will hold a public Willard memorial |
meeting at the Congregational church |
Sunday evening. Effort will be made to |
have an interesting program in which Rev. |
and Mrs. n. S. Moore, Mrs. G. e. David |
son, state secretary of the union and |
Mrs p. A. Kenyon, state superintendent |
of Loyal Temperance Legion work, and |
others are expected to take part. It is |
the custom for local unions to hold similar |
public meetings and devote the offerings |
to what is called the Willard fund for
temperance work.
The program of the Vermont state
board of agriculture. whose meeting will !
be held at Union hail. on Tuesday after
noon and evening, Feb 49, gives a list
of timely subjects in grass culture, tuber-
culoss, dairy foods plans of dairying
profitable for Vermont, sanitation as a
necessity Of health on every farm, the lat
ter by DIR. II. d. Holton, secretary of
state board of health, the other subjects
by L. r. Jones of Vermont experiment
station, DR.. j. l., Hills, director of the
same, F. L. Russell member of the
board Small fruits for home market"
by Arthur M. Vaughn, another member
and addresses by b. Walker McKeen
Fryeburg, Me, and E. p. Mayo, Water
Vile, Me. Discussion on every subject is
invited.