Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-17

Irah D.. Spaulding and Alcide Marion
will hold a waltzing party in Grange hall
Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 30. Leitsinger's
four-piece orchestra will play.
The next regular meeting of the Sun
shine society, branch /, will be held with
Miss Ruth Childs on Terrace street Fri
day afternoon, Nov. "a, at $3.50 O'Clock.
The Island company opened the Star
bowling alleys over the Stellman ma
chine shop Saturday night. A large
crowd visited the place during the even
ing.
Mrs. Charles r. Spencer pleasantly en-
tertained Is of her women friends at a
500 party in her home on Chase street
Tuesday evening. Refreshments were
served.
The Biliken club, a newly formed or
ganization of young women, held its Sec
ond meeting Friday evening in the home
of Mrs. c.. L. Lockwood, where they
were entertained by Miss Nettie Bowie.
Stories were told, the members sewed
and refreshments were served.
Miss Alice Liscom was surprised
pleasantly by several of her friends
Tuesday evening in honor of her birth
day anniversary in the home of Mrs.
Bolliger. She was presented two beau
tiful pictures. A social evening was
spent with a Program of games and mu-
SIC, lOllONtu ny Il Ntly NlJOy dplt uilC
con served by Mrs. Bolliger.
The women of the Congregational
church will send a Christmas box to Par
ker W.. Fisher for his mountain people of
Kentucky. Mr.. Fisher and his wife
are doing a fine missionary work
among the mountain whites, which was
outlined in a stereopticon lecture in the
Congregational church Friday night. The
lecture was very interesting and instruc-
tive.
Roger F. Etz, secretary of the Young
Peoples Union of the Universalist
church., lectured before a good-sized
audience in the Universalist church
Sunday evening. In an interesting talk
he told of the opportunities offered the
present day church toward being a bene-
fit to humanity. Miss Katharine Martin
lead the congregational singing and sang
two solos.
Thirty-one deeds are being recorded at
the Hillsboro county registry in Nashua,
H., transferring to Dennison Cowles of
Brattleboro options in the right of way
for electrical transmission lines coming
into Hillshoro county, in Goffstown and
extending through the towns of Bedford,
Merrimac, Litchfeld and Hudson. Mr..
Cowles represents the Central New
Hampshire Power company of Brattle-
boro.
Doubtless the storm just before the
hour for the Sunday night service in the
Congregational church kept many away
from the s~tereopticon lecture, but a fair
sized audience was present. Rev. r. Nj.
Houghton read Gray's "Elegy written in
a country Churchyard," each stanza be-
ing illustrated by a beautifully colored
lantern slide. Fred c. Adams sang
Gales Thou thus, o Master" and
Jerusalem"
In a meeting of the directors of the
board of trade Tuesday evening the res
i~gnation of George E. Fox as a director
was accepted and Howard C. Rice was
appointed in his place. Mr.. Rice will be
chairman of the printing and publicity
committee. 1t was voted to donate $25
to the day nursery conducted in the
building occupied by the Brattleboro Mu-
tual Aid association. Plans for the an
nual banquet were discussed and owing
to the difficulty in securing a good
speaker it was decided not to have ii
the week of Nov. 20, but to wait unit
the first full week in December, wher
it will be served if suitable arrangement.
can be made to have a good speaker a
that time.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Emil A. Err
ickson at Ill Elliot street was the scene
of a pretty wedding Tuesday afternoon
at 2.3O when their daughter, Miss Emily
H., was married TO Nllllam u. SCnOTllng
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Schorling OF
North Hinsdale. Rev. d. E. Trout, pas
tor of the Universalist church, performed
the ceremony, a single ring service being
used. The couple were attended by Mis-:
Hilma Erickson, sister of the bride, anC
Charles SchOrling. brother of the bride
groom. Only immediate relatives were
present. The bride was dressed in white
serge trimmed with lace and fringe an
carried a bouquet of chrysanthemums. Th,
house was trimmed p%rettily with ferns
palms and cut lowers. Following a re
ception in the home the couple left fr
a wedding trip in New York and othel
places, the bride being attired in a blu,
travelling suit and a blue beaver hat will
willow plumes. Upon their return the!
will live at 100 Elliot street. Mr., Schor
ling is employed by the Twin State Gal
* Electric company, but has worked TO
Horton D.. Walker until recently. Mrs
Scnorling is well known through her con
n~ection with the Mrs. w. F.. Neal MILL
merry store as trimmer five years. Thos,
from out of town who attended the wed
ding were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Arens, MI
and Mrs. Charles Arens, Mrs. Carl Arens
Miss Minnie Arens, Miss Barbara Hut
ton, Miss Katherine Hutton and Mrs. Ru
dolpn Bauer of Springfield, Mass. Mr.
and Mrs. Schorling received many gift
including a piano, $50 in gold. silver
china, cut glass and linen.
To peddle goods in Vermont one mus
ave a license. II. Rosenberg of Mont
real and Rutland learned this fact Wed
nesday morning. Mr.. Rosenberg sell
rugs, that is, he makes a speciality o
rugs, but will sell anything one wishe
to buy, so he told the states attorney
He arrived in town this week and begal
to canvass with a view to selling sill
rugs at what he termed great sacrifc
bargains and so cheap ii makes m
weep" He sold several, at what h
called low prices. On Wednesday morn
ing he strolled into County Clerk F. ID. +
Stoves office and asked States Attorne.
+. f. Barber if something fine in rug
would interest him. Mr.. Barber like
the suggestion in the word fine" bu
looked innocent. Rosenberg showed tw,
rugs at $65 for the pair. In reply to
question by Mr.. Barber, Rosenberg sal,
he was not a peddler and he undertook t
prove 1t. No sale was made there, bu
shortly afterwards the rugs were sold 70
S25 to a business man with office In eros
by block. The evidence seemed suin Il IN
and Rosenberg was taken back to tn
county clerks office and told the price o
a peddler's license-$30. The states at
torney was obdurate and argument wa
t futile. The man from Montreal dug int
his clothes and produced SIG. To tina
he added a diamond ring, which h
: afterwards took back. He said he woul
? go out after the balance and he left, bu
he has not returned. The SIG is in tn