Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-01-27

A meeting of the mission circle of the
Unlversalst church was held in the ves-
try Wednesday afternoon and the mem
bers sewed quilts
A picture of Herbert A. Woods motor
boat, "Swastika," is one of several in
the current number of Motor Facts"
the organ of the Fox Motor company,
for whom he is agent
A horse belonging to the American
Express company backed over bank
with an express wagon near Morning
side cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Ropes
were secured and with the aid of sew
eral men the horse and wagon were
drawn up to -level ground.
Building operations in town have begun
well for 1911 Rev. f. w Sharp is build
ing two and a half story house of Is
rooms on Prospect street for his own
occupancy John O'Connor is building
four apartment house on Canal street near
the one he built few years ago.
Donald Wood, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Herbert A. Wood, entertained IL of his
| friends In his home on Chaplin street
Saturday afternoon, the occasion being
| the fifth anniversary of his birth. Games
| were played, stories were told to the
children and refreshments were served.
| The new store of the Cloverdale COM
| pany at "a Elliot street had its opening
day Saturday. Many persons visited the
| store and we're pleased with the attrac-
| tive surroundings. Each customer was
| presented a souvenir of some useful piece
| of crockery, several hundred being car
| ried away
G.. O. Abbott & Son invite the public
! to call at the former Grange store quar-
| ters on Elliot street Wednesday to in
| spect the new ammonia refrigerating
| plant. which has just been installed. a
| demonstration of coffee will be made by
| a Boston firm of importers, and every
woman calling on that date will be pre-
scented a sample of the coffee.
While Alvah e. Thomas was driving
his coupe along Birge street Monday
afternoon he turned his horses to one
side of the road to pass another team
! one of the animals slipped on a piece of
ice and fell, fracturing her hip. When
| Mr.. Thomas found out how badly she
was injured he decided to have her shot
and Walter O. Cooley ended her life
with his rifle
The stereopticon lecture given Sun
day night in the Unversalist church
brought out the largest audience of the
season, every pew being filled and
many chairs being brought into the
| ases. All were enthusiastic over the
lecture which was very pleasing and
| Instructive The subject was 'The won
derland of the West" and the views,
which were pronounced wonderfully true
to nature by those who had visited the
sections depicted, included Yellowstone
park, Yosemite valley, Garden of the
Gods, canyon of the Colorado, etc.
Grange hail was decorated prettily with
green streamers, college banners and
spruce trees last evening, when the sixth
dancing party, a moonlight hop, of the
HrattlebOro hose team was held Cosy
corners beneath the trees afforded places
for those present to rest between the
dances. Leitsinger's orchestra provided
the usual excellent quality of music ant
Alison Dugan sang several new songs
About rs couples attended The hose
team will hold another dancing party
Thursday evening, Feb. 9, and Leitsin.
gers orchestra will play.
The annual gentlemen's night of tn,
Woman's club comes Wednesday, Feb
ruary l, when the Criterion club of Bos
ton, which appeared in plays in Bratte
boro a few years ago. will present tn,
three-act comedy, Jane" in the Audi
forum. The plot of Jane" centres
around a gay bachelor who has inherite,
money on condition that he marries, and
learning that the trustee of his propert,
, intends paying him visit, he is put a
: his wits end to produce a wife, pr
tempore. and in desperation prevails upoi
! his housemaid to assume that character
on promise of a generous reward. Rid
culous complications arise from jane
efforts to play the lady. Members o
the Womans club will use their members
tickets. Several women of the club hav
tickets to sell, and they may be bough
also at the box Office Wednesday evening
No seats will be reserved.
) A plan of the management of thu
Empire theatre to give a moving pictur
show of the Johnson effries fight a
Reno, New, in the Auditorium has beel
upset by Chairman L. j. Waterman o
the board of bailiffs. AS outlined to tn
bailiffs, the plan was to start here an,
} make tour, to include North Walpol
and White River Junction. Some mem
bers of the board were not particular on
way or the other and the question fnall
was left to the judgment of Mayor
waterman, The chairman put his foo
= down by virtue of "A statute giving tn
: bailins authority to regulate the natur
: of public shows. whereupon it was sug
gested that the film might be ordere
and exhibited, the promoters running tn
= risk of having the exhibition interfere
> with. To that Mr.. Waterman state
y that if an attempt was made to put o
! the fight picture he would try to hay
n enough officers on hand to cope with tn
!, stua ton.
= Work on the Masonic temple has pro
e pressed rapidly during the past fe,
. weeks ana the interior is now such tina
= an observer may tell what the generi
' appearance Will be when completed
= the basement a Richardson boiler IN
- been installed, the heating pipes an
. radiators are working and the plumbin
Is being put in. This part of the wor
is being done by w. j. Pentland, jr. Con
; tractor Cushman is laying two inches {
- cement along the celler, which will b
) used as a support for the bowling alley.
ana that work is more than half done. o
1 the first floor the fathers have finishe
= their work and Frank Morse's men ar
= plastering the banquet hall. The lodg
e room up stairs is plastered, as are tn
= smaller adjoining rooms, and the balloon
y has been constructed. Part of the oil
= house is now in the hands of the carpen
d tiers, fathers and plasterers Partition
= have been removed and larger room
= made so that the appearance in severe
+ respects has been entirely changed. Con
. | tractor Cushman expects to finish nj
t work well within the time specified /
I | the contract
o Unltarianism in America, outside G
: New England. and in foreign lands wa
d the subject of an address presented [
e a small but earnest audience in the Uni
+ tartan church last evening, Rev. Mino
e Simons of Cleveland, o.. told Of tn
e congress of liberal thinkers held in Der
u, lin last summer, which he attended as
V delegate. The American delegates ex
pected to be a rather large factor /
r the congress and they We're much sur
n prised to find that they constituted onl
: very small proportion of the liberf
o. thinkers from all parts of the world an
g speaking all languages. Mr. Simons tol
V OF the beginnings of the Unltaria