Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-09-29
BRATTLEBORO

RATTLEBORO
The first meeting of the Woman's club
will be held Wednesday afternoon in the
Congregational chapel.
The Ladies Enterprise society Will
meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Charles Evans on Maple street.
The brotherhood of the Centre church
will resume their studies in The Gospel
of the Kingdom next Sunday morning
at 11.45; subject. Wealth and capital
Island park and the Empire theatre
have catered to large crowds TINS week.
McEnelly's singing orchestra gave a Sc
ries of three dances in Grange nail
which were not largely attended.
Wilfred Melvin and Mrs. Nellie A. Sill
loway of Lowell, Mass, were married in
the town clerks Office Saturday by Jus
tice of the Peace Carl S. Hopkins. They
went to Keene, where they spent Il few
days with relatives before going to Low
ell to live.
Stark Continentals, No. 2, Red Mems
lea que. will meet in their hall Tuesday
morning at s o'clock and will march from
there to the railroad station and board
the train for Bellows Falls, where they
will join the Bellows Falls Red Men in
the street fair.
When the postal savings department
of the postoffice opened Saturday morn
ing there was no insistent demand Tor
extra clerks to care for the rush. Dur
ing the day one depositor was the sum
total for the Brattleboro office, and none
AVE appeared since then.
The Arcade. Brattleboro's newest
amusement enterprise, opened Saturday
evening in the American building and
the place was filled until a late hour.
1t is brilliantly lighted outside and in
side and a large variety of penny-in-
the-slot machines are operated by cleo
tricity.
Rally day will be observed in the
Methodist church Sunday morning with
appropriate exercises and sermon by the
pastor, Rev. f. A. Wells. Everybody is
cordially invited to attend. Monday
evening a Sunday school social will be
held in the church parlors to which ev-
eryone is invited.
C. H.. Thompson and Roger Bracket
went to Charlestown, N. H., Saturday to
compete against Brooks and Perry, the
well known tennis players of that town.
In singles Bracket won from Perry 6-3,
As, 6-3. Brooks defeated Thompson 60,
Ga. In doubles the Brattleboro pair
won handily Go, 6-1.
A hole five feet in diameter was torn
in the surface of Green street at the
junction of Church street Saturday morn
The. water was forced up through the
Brattleboro Water Works company burst.
The water was forced up through the
ground and into the air to a height of
about five feet. A new pipe was put in
service late Saturday afternoon.
Although there is no age limit at
which youngsters may secure hunters Ii
censes, Town Clerk c. S. Hopkins re-
quires that boys under Is years of age
present the written consent of their par
ents or guardians before he will issue
fhnTn innnGnG Hn dnna hiG 1thntIn
the law does not require it, as a safe
guard for the boys whose parents might
object to their having licenses.
Hon. j. Wilder Fairbanks of Boston
will lecture on Dickens in the Congrega-
tional church tomorrow, Saturday even
ingg at 8 o'clock. Mr.. Fairbanks knew
Dickens personally, and he has made
a special study of his works for this
centennial lecture. He also spent the
summer of 1910 visiting the home and
haunts of the great novelist. The lee
ture will be beautifully illustrated with
14 colorgraph lantern slides.
The closing feature of the annual
meeting of the Vermont Branch of the
Woman's Board of Missions in Mont
pelier Wednesday was a pageant of mis-
sions illustrating the influence of Chris
tianity upon the women and children of
the East. The Montpelier Journal says:
THE pageant was under the direction
of Miss Florence Hemenway of Brattle-
boro and to her should be given great
credit for its entire success"
Harold Shaffner, who was arrested last
week on charges of reckless drivingg and
assault, will appear before Judge w. X.
Daley Monday morning to answer to the
charges. his case having been continued
from last Saturday. Henry w. Goddard,
whose wagon was struck by the auto
mobile which Shaffner was driving, is
in the Memorial hospital in a comfort
able condition. He has made a quick re-
covery from the operation which he
underwent Thursday of last week, but
as his spleen was removed his ply
stefan is doubtful as to the ultimate
result. William Fleming is still con-
fined to his home with the injuries which
he received while riding in the auto
mobile.
Frank Eldridge Hapgood of Newport,
this state, and Miss Sarah a. Turner,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. j. Turner of
80 Elliot street, were married by Rev.
Father NJ. j. Carmody in the Roman
Catholic parsonage Monday morning at
8 o'clock. The bride wore a blue trav-
cling gown of imported cloth with hat to
match. The bridal couple were attended
by Mr.. and Mrs. McGillicuddy of Turner'S
Falls. Only immediate relatives were
present, Immediately after the
"A wedding breakfast was served in the
home of the brides parents. Later Mr..
and Mrs. Hapgood went by automobile to
Greenfield, leaving from there by train
or a wedding journey of several days.
Mr.. .HapgOod is proprietor of the New
oprt House. one of the widely known
hotels of the state, The bride has many
friends in Brattleboro and elsewhere
who remembered her with gifts of china.
cut glass, silverware and gold coins. MIR.
and Mrs. Hapgood will be at home at the
Newport House after Nov. l..