Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-01-14


bury college will occupy the pulpit in the
Congregational church Sunday morning.
Two new incandescent lights have been
placed ON South Main street. one near
Miss Sarah Burnham's and the other at
the entrance to James Austin's place
Temporary alimony Of IS week was
ordered by Judge r.. l.. Waterman Satur-
day to be paid every Saturday night
during the tendency Of the divorce
petition brought by Josephine Fecto
against Emory H. Fecto.
The fourth in the series of Grange
Dramatic club dances will be given We'd
nesday evening. I.eitsinger's orchestra
Of six pieces including drums, will fur
nish music. The usual concert will be
omitted. There will be dancing from =
to T..
The following item concerning a former
resident of Battleburo is from the Keenc
Sentinel: Mrs. O. II. Fowler of Centre
street met with a painful accident Tues
day evening by falling down long flight
of stairs and receiving a badly sprained
ankle, tearing the ligaments of her side
and sustaining other injuries She Is
confined to the bed. About year ago
she fell on the ice ana broke her wrist"
The Epworth league of the Methodist
church will 20 on "a sleighride TO Putney
Tuesday evening, leaving the church
promptly at $50 O'Clock. The women of
the Putney Methodist church will serve
supper in Putncy town hall 1t is eX-
pocted that large delegation from the
Bellows Fans Epwurth league will take
a slcighride to Putncy the same evening
and 1t win be merry union gathering OF
leagucrs at supper.
The Congregational Sunday school will
hold it's annual meeting sunday. The
school took up last Sunday the study of
new graded lessons in the Blakeslec
series the subject being "rhe heroes and
crises of early Hebrew history from the
creation to the death of Moses" The
author is Charles Foster Kent, Wuulsey
professor of Biblical literature in Yale
| university, who recently preached in the
Brattleburu church.
At Brrttleboro mills are all working
fun time The chair factory is planning
to increase its working force in order 10
take care OF demand. Labor at Bellows
Fails is well employed. Seasonable wea-
Their has tended TO increase general bust
ness. Wilmington reports lumber men in
that vicinity are getting out more timber
and the cut for this season will be larger
than that of last year The chair manu-
featuring plant at Readsboro expects to
have their new building ready for occu-
pancy and work by the beginning of the
coming quarter. Machine industries at
Springfield are all employed full time.
| The new plant for the automobile com
] pany ii is expected will be ready for Oc-
cupancy by the first of next month
| [Bradsreets weekly Vermont trade re
| port.
! Morans store received an unusual yisl-
| tor Monday morning. little screen owl
! How the little bird got into the store Is
/ not known. hut the only reasonable sup
| position was that it flew in at the open
tram al
| in the store over Sunday. The transom
| was closed late Saturday night but the
| bird was not discovered until Munda y
| morning when it was found trying vainlN
| to reach the open air through the plate
! glass window in the front Of the store.
! When the clerks entered the store the
| bird flew to 4 Slf" perch high up near
| the ceiling. and he spent the morning
! peering down at the clerks and visitors.
| on being disturbed in one location ne flew
| softly To another ana renewed his vigil.
| He was taken to II. X. Browns stable
and released in the expectation that be-
! would prove good mouser.
Graduation exercises were held in the
| grogatonal sunday school Sunday.
diplomas being presented to II members
of the beginners department. in charge
of Mrs. W. T. Haigh. and to L. members
of the primary department, in charge Of
Mrs. +. +. Perry. The diplomas were
presented by Superintendent George l.
Dunham following remarks by the pastor
Rev Roy NJ. Hougnton Those who
went from the beginners to the primary
department were Cuburu Gushing, EliZ-
abeth Crane. Cedric Emerson. Leora Bar
ker, Frances Shaw Dorothy Shaw. Ruth
Gay. Stanley Newton. Margaret Dunklee.
Jessie Guthrie and Helen LOngueil.
Those going from the primary to the
junior department, which Is in charge of
Mrs +. w KueCh. were Eleanor Clay.
Dorothy Schwenk Leila Barber Never
cite Hamilton. Maud Prouty. Raymond
Davis, Francis Nichols. Lawrence Barker.
Elwood Adams, Arthur Barrett, Webster
Gay ana Carl Haynes
Applications for appointment as CEN
Sus cnumeratoIs have been received by
Lynn VI. Hays of Burlington. supervisor
of the census. from persons in IL OF the
% towns in Wlndham county. They are
in the towns of Brattleboro. Dover. Graf
ton, Halifax. Marlboro Newfane. Putney
Rockingham, Townshend. Wardsboru
Westminster and Wilmington. Mr.. Hays
is DESTROYS of receiving applications from
the other towns lie urges an persons
in his district desiring to serve to obtain
their application forms at once and to
file them with him before January %
when me must stop considering new APP
pliCatiOns i'm order to prepare for the
test of the previous applicants on Feb.
.. After this ne will examine ana rate
the papers until about Feb, %. when he
will forward his list of designations as
enumora tors, with their test" papers. To
Census Director Durand. who will care
fully go over and rerate the papers of
the successful candidates before giving
his consent to the issue of commissions to
them by the supervisor. BY the middle
or latter part of March all the enumera-
tors will have been commissioned and in
receipt of detailed instructions concern
ing their work Any person having
common school education and practical
common sense win be able to pass the
test"