Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-01-21

The Daughters Of Pocahontas will hold
a dance In Red Mems hall Saturday even
ing.
Beauseant commandery, X. r.. con
ferred the Red Cross degree upon three
candidates Wednesday night
Brattleboro lodge, No. 1O2. f. x A. NJ.
will confer the Entered Apprentice degree
in special communication this evening
The high school seniors will not con
duct a spelling match the latter part Of
the month, as planned, but will devote
all of their energies toward making their
fair on Feb. 81 great success.
The teachers training class of the Con
gregational church will meet Monday
evening at rs with Miss Florence Hem
enway ON High street The subject will
be Growth" Any one Interested may
join the class.
In the election of the directors of the
First Church Of Christ, Scientist. IN Buff
falo, N. Y, Tuesday. the adhcrents Of
Mrs. Annie $. G. Leavitt, who has been
at the head of the church, did not vote
and a new board was chosen. for whom
35i ballots were cast
\ pedestrian on Elm street was amused
at the conversation of two little girls
which he overheard one day this week.
There are two kinds of measles" said
one, Win an air OF superior KNOWLEDGE,
German measles and real measles" and
the other responded demurely. 81 have
noticed from the signs that they are all
having Caution Measles this year"
Miss Catharine f. Wiley u. died
Monday in the Memorial hospital Of eX-
haustion following second operation
She was the daughter of George f. and
Mary (Burns) Wiley ana came here from
Massachusetts some time ago. She had
zf41 &c Ia, . l..
borO and Vernon. She underwent an up-
GRAFTON in the Memorial hospital last fail
and a second one last week. She leaves
one sister, Miss Elizabeth T. Wiley of
Enfield, Mass, who came here to be with
her last week. The funeral was held
Tuesday at NJ. J. Monn's undertaking
parlors. The burial was in the West
Brattleboro cemetery.
No special master has been appointed
yet to hear the case of W. II. Proctor
against the former members of the Hook
err, Corser & Mitchell company When
the case was brought up recently before
Judge \. \. Hall it was left that the
orator should submit list of men, any
one Of whom would be satisfactory to
him. This list was to be submitted to
the defendants in the suit and If any
one was satisfactory to them Judge Han
would appoint him a special master to
hear the case. If none were satisfactory
the defendants were to submit a similar
list to the orator If no master salts
factory to both sides can be selected In
this way Judge Hall will select one him
self The orator has submitted his list
but the defendants have not said whether
any of them is satisfactory
By defeating Paterson. y. J. the TROY.
basketball team regained first place sat
urday night in the Hudson River league.
Eighteen hundred persons saw Troy beat
the Crescents % to Il at Troy Ed"
Wachter was absent and Socks" Dayev.
the old Brattleboro star. took his place in
tossing for Troy from the foul line. The
Troy Record of Saturday said: Jimmy
Davey gave great exhibition of basket
tossing from free throws. out Of ten
chances, DayeY scored six points and also
added six points to Troy's total on goals
from the field Blonde Hardman gave
Davey close run for honors, responding
to the call of duty with three baskets.
two scored in a manner that called forth
applause both long and hearty" In its
notes of the game the Record said: Jim
my DNey shone in a new role last night
casting baskets from the foul line"
Loren r. Pierce Of South Londonderry.
district deputy grand master of the Sth
Masonic district Of Vermont. which in
cludes all Of the lodges in Windham
county, will conduct a school for the
instruction of officers of the lodges in
Masonic han in Brattleboro: beginning at
l this afternoon. The date of the annual
district meeting. when grand lodge Off
GERS VIII be present was set for Jan. ~
IN Brattleboro, but owing TO the Univer-
saIist societys fair and the public dedl-
cation of the Grange hall in Dummerston.
both scheduled for the evening Of the
2Ith. an effort is being made to have
the district meeting postponed. 1t is ex-
peCted that this effort will he snccassful