Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-02-03

man Catholic church at o'clock, and
the blessing of the candles took place
The annual sale of magazines will take
place this evening at the Vermont Wheel
club After the auction supper will be
served in Grange hall.
The Daughters of Pocahontas will give
dance in Red Mems hall tomorrow
Saturday evening. Music will he fur
nished by Hines and Dugan. Everybody
is invited.
The odd Fellows will hold waltzing
party in the large hall Wednesday even
ing. four-pece orchestra consisting
of Leitsinger, Alison Dugan, Harry Wales
and Sewall Morse, will furnish music.
Persons boarding the $50 p. m. train
for New York may secure Pullman ac-
commodations, as in the future one Sec
ton will be reserved for Brattleboro
patrons The tickets are on sale at the
ticket office.
About 20 of the friends of Miss Saran
Dimes gave her surprise party in her
home on Clark street last evening, the
occasion being her birthday anniversary
Miss Dimes was the recipient of many
gifts Games were played and refresh
ments of ice cream and cake were served.
The Brotherhood class of the Congre-
gational church took up the study of
temperance sunday morning and listened
to an address by Dr. Richard j. Eaton of
the Rrattleboro Retreat on The physio-
| logical affects of alcohol" Next Sunday
| Representative j. G. Stafford will take
| up the legal aspect of the question.
Mrs. Maria Burdette was burned badly
Wednesday morning in her home at the
| corner of Clark and E,sterbrook streets.
| She was raking a fire when a coal flew
| into her apron, setting it on fire. Her
dress also took fire and the results would
| have been serious but for the prompt
action of Miss Addie L. Morse who lives
| up stairs in the same house and to whom
| Mrs. Burdette called Miss Morse tore
off some of the clothing and put out the
| flames unaided and as soon possible a
| physician and nurse We're summoned
Mrs. Burdette was burned on one arm
and one side, but she is comfortable.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Allen entertained 10
members of Sedgwick Grand Army post
and Relief corps Wednesday evening in
| their home, 20 South Main street, it
being the i2d anniversary of their mar
riage Mr. and Mrs. Allen were married
| in Worcester Feb /, 1869. They have
| lived i'm Buttleboro the past 10 years.
Mr.. Allen is the officer for the local
humane society Their two sons, John
| and Dorr, who live in town. were pres
ent at the entertainments Their daugh-
ter, Mrs. c. NJ Deane. of West Towns
| bend, could not come on account of the
Illness of her son. \ very pleasant even
ing was spent playing 500. finch and
other games. Refreshments of sand
wiches, cake ana coffee were served. The
party was a surprise to Mr.. Allen.
John Lockwood Kiping, father of Rud-
yard kipling, the author, died in London,
| Eng, sunday. He was born at Pickering.
Eng. i'm 1881, and was a son of Rev. Joseph
| Kiplng. BY profession he was an architec-
| tural sculptor and served in the Bombay
School of Art 10 years. after 1865 He
was principal of the Mayo School of Art
and was curator of the Central Museum
at Lahore, lS75-93 He modelled clay
bas-reliefs from which Illustrations were
made for an edition of Rudyard Kiplins'
books. His wife, who was Miss Alice
Macdonald, sister of Lady Burne- Jones
and Lady Poynter. died a short time ago.
He visited this country a number of
times and usually stayed with Lockwood
de Forest in New York. but he came to
this town several times to visit in his
sons home, the Naulahka.
The trotting circuit of Vermont and
Eastern Canada held it's annual meeting
in the Brooks House yesterday after
noon and last evening, about 90 men be-
ing present, including a few invited
guests. Five came from out of town
Secretary II. e. Channel of the Sher-
brooke fair, Secretary +. l.. Davis of the
state fair at White River Junction, Sec
rotary j. NJ, Cady of St Johnsburv
Secretary o. NJ Waterman of Morris
Vile and DR.. j. T. Gaines of the Newport
stock farm. The Valley fair was renre.
sented by President f. II. O'Connor. Sec
rotary o. f. Benson and others At 90
a first class dinner was served in the
main parlor, which caused the visitors tc
express their appreciation of Brattleboro's
hospitality in unmistakable terms. Re.
marks were made after dinner by the
representatives of the various fairs and
| by several local men after which n bus.
mess session was held Mr. Channel be.
ing elected president of the circuit and
Dr. j. w. Ball of Stanstead, p. O., sec
rotary. There was discussion relative &c
attempting to induce NORTHAMPTON to toir
the circuit and the following stake races
We're decided upon, the purse TO he s5Oi
in each case; $50 trot, go pace, 22j pace
22O trot, 217 pace and 213 pace The
class races will be decided upon in a
meeting i'm st. Johnsbury June s. 1t was
voted to hold the next annual meeting In
White River Junction.
The public is indebted to the Brattle-
| boro Woman's club for the OnDOrtunitv
| to hear the Criterion club of Boston in
the Auditorium Wednesday evening. IT
| was gentlemen's night and for enter
| talnment the Criterion club was engaged
| to present the threc-act comedy Jane -
1t was real entertainment, too, and while
| the club is purely an amateur organiza .
| ton its work, on former visits here.
| was ahead of the standard of many pro-
fessional companies. a large audience
was present and If any member of the
cast had any doubt as to whether the
| performance was pleasing the enthusi-
| astlc reception ought to have been suf-
| nclently reassuring. Two members Mr.
| PiXton' and Mrs. Chadwick" did not
! know they Were to play until Saturday
and Mrs PiXton" learned her part on
| the train coming to Brattleboro all three
| substituting for members unable, through
| illness. to come. but they betrayed no
| evidence of unfamiiarity with the play.
Miss Twombly, who was assigned the
| part OF Jane" was remembered by
| many In the audience through her promi-
nence In previous performances here and
her graceful acting. which was wholly
| devoid of self consciousness was warmly
| applauded. There was no weak place in
the cast, every member giving complete
satisfaction and enjoyment. The parts
were taken as follows: Charles Shackle-
ton, Charles G. Smith: Mr.. Kershaw
Burton r. Miller; William, Samuel II
| Iuttle; Claude, William j. Pettis; Mr.
| PXton, Alphonso w. Pezet; Jane, Miss
Lena NJ. Twombly; Mrs. Chadwick, Mrs
| N. A. Iaselle; Lucy, Mrs. ]. p. Graham;
Mrs. PiXton Miss Barbara Miller.