Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-15
BRATTLEBORO.

The mission circle of the Universalist
church will meet in the church parlor
Thursday. The business meeting is call
ed for $3.50.
Rev. e. @. s. Osgood will give an ad-
dress on THE Pilgrim settlement at
Plymouth" before the pupils of Vermont
academy Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
The free kindergarten will have a
Christmas tree and exercises for the
children Thursday, Dec. 81 The school
will close then for 10 days vacation.
Jordan e. Son, optometrsts this week
have added two automatic tense
grinders to their apparatus for making
eye glasses by which the labor of maxi
ing lenses is greatly reduced. Jordan &
Sons store and workroom, with the sew
eral departments for examining the eyes,
is among the largest in New England
outside the wholesale houses
The annual Christmas party of the be-
ginners' and primary departments of the
Congrega tional Sunday school will be
held in the chapel next Wednesday after
noon at 4 o'clock The Christmas enter
tainment for the other departments will
be held in the chapel Thursday evening
at 100. Not only the members of the
school but also their friends are cor
daily invited.
Among the books which have lived and
welded might influence for good Ben
Hur. a Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wal
lace holds a high place. This thrilling
and beautiful story so appropriate to the
Christmas season, will form the subject
matter of the stereoptcon lecture in the
Congrega tional church next Sunday even
ing at o'clock. One hundred eXquis-
itely colored slides illustrate the lecture,
which has been prepared by Hon. j.
Wilder Fairbank and which will be read
by the pastor.
An appeal has been entered in the Of
flee of County Clerk f. d. E. Stowe in
the will of Densmore Blood, late of
Dummerston. The prepayment of the will
is Robert w. Blood of Dummerston, who
is the youngest son and the principal
beneficiary under the will. The appel
ant of record is II. d. Blood of Dunn
merston, who, with another son, E E.
Blood of Putney, and a sister are not
substantially remembered in their faith
ers will. Chase & Daley are attorneys
for the appellants.
Fred Kent, brother of Elroy Kent who
is to be hanged at Windsor next MONTH
ran away from the power house of the
state hospital for the insane in Water
bury Tuesday morning, while assisting
masons in resetting a boiler. An alarm
was given, $50 reward was offered for his
capture and every available man was
sent to search for him, but no trace oil
the fugitive could be found. In the
evening Kent, cold and wet, returned tc
the institution. He had been in hiding
nearby throughout the day. Kent was
sent to the hospital in 1905 and in the
fall of that year ran away while working
on the farm. His father was founc
dead under suspicious circumstances il
Townshend in 1909 and Kent was arrest
ed He was not tried, however, and afte
being in the Newfane Jail some week!
hack n Waterbury
The value of the sprinkler system il
Holden & Martins mill on Frost stree
was demonstrated shortly after mid
night this morning. Fire started from al
unknown cause and before anyone wa!
aware of it a good sized blaze was II
progress. The metal caps on th'
sprinkler system We're melted off anC
an alarm was rung automatically on
bell in front of the mill and in w. G
Rockwells house. Mr.. Rockwell run.
an alarm from box So at 12.15 o'clocl
and when the first piece of apparatu
arrived flames could be seen through
the windows on the first and secon'
floors. Three streams of water and tw
chemicals We're played on the fire AM
at 1890 the all out" signal was sound
ed. The fire started on the first foo
and worked its way up through bel
hole in the ceiling. This morning L. +
Holden said he did not know how tn
fire started and that the damage prob
ably would amount to between $500 an
$1,000, the greater part being caused b
water.
Despite repeated announcements tina
Christmas packages by mail to be de
livered before Christmas day should b
mailed early, the majority seem to de
lay their purchases until the last week
and the bulk of them comes in rus
during the last few days. The post
office clerks say that the reluctance t
sending packages ahead of time becaus
they might be opened before Christina
as really unfounded, as it is permitte
to mark such mail with words to the eff
feet: please do not open until Christ
mas" Yet they say, the desire t
make the gifts a surprise keeps man
from sending them until it taxes tn
postal service to its utmost capacity t
handle and distribute the tremendou
bulk of mail that pours in during tn
last. few days before Christmas. FC
the next 10 days the postoffice empoye
expect busy times for the whole force
but they hope that many of the send
ers will still accept the advice to ma
their gifts early, thus lessening the tas
that confronts them.
In a meeting of the directors of IL
board of trade Tuesday night one ne
member was voted in, making the tot
membership now 1875. Several matters
importance were considered, amor
which was better railroad connection
to New York for passengers who wis
TO go to that city and return the san
day. vote was passed instructing II
president to appoint a committee of fol-
to carry out the idea advanced by Ma
tin Austin at the board of trade bar
quet for a Brattleboro industrial eXhib
of all articles manufactured in town
The next Valley fair. The secretary W;
instructed to advertise for all availab
rooms in town that We're for rent, ar
keep a list of them with the price
each, either with or without board, T,
the free use of any who might care
avail themselves of the privilege.
seemed to be the general opinion thi
this would not only accommodate tho
who had rooms to rent, but would be
great service to those, especial
strangers, who might be seeking sue
accommodations.