Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1909-10-29

tional church are making preparations
for their annual Thanksgiving flower and
food sale Nov. %.
The annual meeting of the Canal Street
Book club will be held at the home Of
Mrs Ryder Monday evening at z o'clock.
Members are requested. to bring all bound
books.
Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton will speak at
the regular meeting OF the woman's
auxiliary of the Y. NJ. G. A. Tuesday
afternoon at $50 in the rest room. The
executive board will meet at o'clock.
Rev. DR.. c. II. spauldlng. New Eng
land secretary of the American Baptist
Publication society, occupied the pulpit
in the First Baptist church Sunday morn
ing. He spoke interestingly of the meet
ing of the Northern Baptist convention,
held In Portland. oregon this year. DR.
Spauldng preached in the Baptist church
in West Brattleboro in the evening.
The Warren. Ohio, Tribune said re-
Gently in reporting an entertainment by
Mrs. Jeanette Jewell Kellogg who VIII
give q program of readings before the
Girls club in Grange hall next Thursday
evenings Too much praise cannot be
spoken of Mrs. Kellogg. She possesses
charming personality resonant and
cultured voice. and an interpretive abil-
ity which gives her a ranking among
the very best readers in the country"
JOAN L. Howard of Brattleboro has
been engaged to supervise the penman-
ship in several of the grammar schools
of Boston, Dorchester district, during the
present school year. Mr.. Howard was
in Burlington last week, at the State
Teachers convention, exhibiting diplomas
! for F. w. Martin company of Boston.
Mr.. Howard is engaged to represent the
Martin company in New England in all of
the time that he can spare from his
school work.
One of this seasons new plays in the
repertoire of the Reconsideration COM
pany, which will be at the Auditorium all
next week, is THE Governors Wife"
This play sets forth i'm a striking way
the evils of our times where vast political
interests are concerned. it shows what
men will do to further their interests,
and that even the wives and families of
the political aspirant are not safe from
plot and intrigue. There are five COM
edy parts in the play, so one can see at
a glance that there must be something
doing in the line of laughter. Seats are
on sale at the box office.
The Brattleboro Sunday school union
held its annual meeting Thursday night
of last week. and more interest was mani
tested than ever before. Reports of Off
GERS for the past year were read, plans
for the coming year were talked over and
officers for the coming year were elected.
1t is expected that part of the meetings
for the next season will be addressed by
local workers and that part will be ad-
dressed by outside speakers who will talk
on educational subjects An effort will
be made to enlist the interest of all Bible
teachers in the work. The new officers
| are: President, George l.. Durham; vice
/ president. Rev e. Q. S. Osgood; secre-
tary, L. w. Hawley; treasurer Mrs. c. S.
Clark
DR.. Henry D. Holton, secretary of the
state board of health, has been in Bur
lington this week. A meeting of the Bur
| lington health board and aldermanic
committee on water was held Tuesday to
discuss the city water situation and the
prevalence of typhoid fever, but Dr.
Holton was not invited to the meeting,
and he has since declined to disucss the
situation. 1t is well known that the state
board of health did not advise the me-
chanical filter plant for Burlington, and
there has been some friction between the
city and the state board of health relative
to the water supply Mayor Burke re-
Gently reported to the aldermen that the
filter was not completed according to
contract and he recommended that steps
be taken to have the work done properly.
Principal f. B. Smith, who was elected
vice president of the Vermont State
Teachers association at the annual con-
ference in Burlington Saturday, gave an
address at the conference on English his
theme being Secondary school English,
what it is and what 1t ought to be from
the viewpoint both of the school and the
college," He advocated debate one of
the means of training in English and said
| that the mere drudgery of such training
should be avoided. The aim of the study
is not only to fit the pupil for college but
for life and it should, therefore, include
x1riHn a In
Miss Harriet r. Rallion, French and Ger
man instructor in the Brattleboro high
! school, gave an address on THE choice of
| texts" at the conference on modern Ian
guages. The main theme of her discourse
was that so far as possible, the language
| taught should be the language of the
classroom from the beginning.
Mrs. Charlotte Marsh Fletcher, 79,
widow of Henry Fletcher, died early
Sunday morning in her home where she
| lived many years, on Canal street. She
| had been in failing health about two
years and for the past two weeks had
been confined to her bed. Chronic neph-
rtis was the cause of death. She was
born in Chesterfield, n. H., Nov G. 1929,
daughter of Capt. Reuben and Mary
| Marsh. She lived on the farm as a girl
and attended the schools of the town.
| She was married to Mr.. Fletcher, a Ches-
terrified farmer, in 1849 and continued to
| live in Chesterfield until "a years
ago, when they moved to Brattleboro.
Her husband died Feb II, 1888. Mrs
Fletchers older brother Lloyd, and her
twin brother, Charles, were partners in
| the well known firm of Jordan, Marsh &
| Co. of Boston. She leaves a son, William
H. Fletcher of Brattleboro, and two sis
ters Mrs S. S. Clark of Keene and Mrs.
S. b. Howard of West Newton, Mass
| The funeral was held in the home We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. Rev. Roy
M. Houghton, pastor of the Centre Con-
gregational church. which she attended
offlciated, and Fred C. Adams sang. Her
granddaughter, Miss Marion Noyes came
| from Philadelphia, and her grandson,
| Marshall Noyes came from Arkansas,
and others from out of town who at
| tended the funeral were Mrs. S. s. Clark
and son, Charles, of Keene, Mr.. and Mrs
S. E. Howard and daughter, Pauline, of
| West Newton, and Mr.. and Mrs. g. d.
| Noyes of Colrain. Mrs. Fletcher win be
remembered for her two predominating
characteristics of loyalty and unselfsh-
ness. With never a thought for herself
she sought to please those about her,
and she will be greatly missed by the
many who found her neighbor in the
truest sense.