Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-22

The election of officers of Quonektacut
tribe, I. o. r. NJ, will be held tonight.
The Carpenter company's organ factory
will be closed the first three days in
January while an inventory is being
taken. .
The free kindergarten had their Christ
mas celebration yesterday In the kim
dergarten room. Stanley Fits acted as
Santa Claus. There were the usual
gifts for the children.
Maude Moon, who was arrested Thurs
day of last week and held here until
Sheriff Kiniry arrived and took her to
Windsor, was sentenced to the. state
prison in Windsor Monday for a statu-
tory offense.
A special meeting of the Pilgrim Faith
ers will be held in Grand Army hall
Tuesday evening for the purpose of
initiating candidates., receiving applica-
lions or any other business than can
come before the colony.
The annual meeting of Stark company
Red Mems league was held Wednesday
night and these officers were elected:
Capt, William Thayer; LIST lieut., Fred F.
Clark; 2d. lieut.. John Tucker; adj,
George Twitcheli; O.. M. s., Charles r..
Simonds! = 80 l. TT
Samuel Zarr and other Russian Jews
in town are circulating a petition, which
SeNeTdl nave SiSItu, dShlnB C1ldls llt
treaty of 1882 with Russia be abrogated.
AS Congress already has abrogated the
treaty, which will terminate Jan. l, 1913.
the petition seems to be a trihe tardy,
Alcide Marion and Trah ID. Spaulding
will have a leap year waltzing party in
Grange hall Wednesday evening. Jan. 8.
Leitsinger's orchestra will furnish the
music and a novelty will be introduced
In the waltzes. AS Jan. l ushers In leap
year the young women will be supposed
to ask the men to dance.
AS compa red with last year the Christ
mas rush in the American Express COM
pany's office Is about the same. The
men have been working evenings in or
der to keep up with the work and Dana
H.. Stafford is assisting the regular force
in the office on High street. An extra
wagon has been put on to help care for
the extra work.
A manual of the public schools has
been published and is being circulated.
1t contains the names of the members
of the prudential committee, officers of
the school and their office hours, the
school calendar, holidays, signals, loca-
ton of the schools and a list of teachers,
special teachers and j%anitors. The in
formation is in compact form and will
be valuable to many persons for refer
ence.
The Sunday school board of the Meth
odish church held it's annual meeting
Monday evening in the Epworth league
rooms. The reports of the officers show
ed that the average attendance for the
past year had been nearly 100 and that
there was a good sized balance in the
treasury after paying all bills. These
officers were elected: Supt., Erwin p.
Smith: first asst. supt., Robert W..
Mitchell; second asst. supt., c.. d.
Smith; sec. Miss Minnie Rawson;
treas. f. A. Shaw; supt. of primary
department, Miss Eta Miner; supt of
home department, Mrs. Eliza Adams; IL
brarian, Miss Gertrude Nichols.
Victor H.. Pomfrey, formerly of this
town, known as Herb who went
to Mittineague about two months ago to
take charge of the printing department
of the Strathmore Paper company, with
in the past three weeks has directed two
variety shows in that town for the bene-
fit of the Y. NJ. c.. A. The first show
three weeks ago attracted 300 persons
and when it was repeated Friday even
ing 200 were present. The Springfield
Republican said in part Saturday: vic
tor II. Pomfrey in his bugling act made
a hit with his rendering of United States
army calls. in costume. The work of
his trained dog, Lady Queen. was clever"
Lady Queen will be remembered as the
fox terrier which was often seen with
Mr.. Pomfrey contentedly holding a pipe
in her mouth. Mr.. Pomfrey was the au-
thor of the sketch, "A disa ppointed IA
Their" and the Republican said of it.:
| THE comedy sketch made as much of a
I hit as it did last week and won more
laughs than it did on its first presenta-
ton
The car which left West Brattleboro
Tuesday morning at s o'clock was the
first to make the trip to the end of the
recently built extension along Washing
ton and South Main streets to the juno
tons of the roads to Guilford and Yer
non. 1t was in charge of Conductor c..
H. Prescott and Motorman w. Il. Went
worth, Since then the cars have been
regularly running to the end of the eX-
tension and the railway officials re-
port that within the past week they have
carried many residents of that section of
the town who formerly walked. The
waits at the terminals have been elimi-
mated because of the extension and the
cars now barely have time to make the
trips on schedule time. The work of
painting white stripes on the poles is
progressing fast and it is expected that
by tomorrow night or the first of the
week the entire line will be marked at
intervals with white posts at which the
cars will stop, No stops will be made
except at the designated posts. Superin-
tendent Trip reports that the new plan
is working well in the south part of the
town where the posts already have been
painted. A few persons have objected
to the cars stopping only at designated
places, but the majority appear to be
satisfied with the new ruling. The rule
is in force in other places and is the
only practical way where there is no
time to waste.
Attorney Herbert G.. Barber bought
the Judge property on Main street Mon
day, which gives him ownership of all
the real estate at the corner OF Main
and Flat streets back to the A. V. Cox
building on Main street. The Judge
property has a frontage of 80 feet on
Main street and is 70 feet deep. This
and the Ray building, occupied as a liv-
cry stable, make a frontage OF las feet
on Main street. The sale Monday was
made by Thomas A. Judge of Holyoke,
administrators of the Thomas Judge es-
tate. The tenants are Charles DeAngelis
cobbler, c. F. Richardson, fish market,
John Bessett, lunch room, and Adam
Thomas, cigar maker. 1t has been re-
ported that Mr., Barber intends to erect
a new building on the site of the livery
stable and Judge building, but he says
he has no intention of doing so at pres
ent because he thinks the present state
of business in town does not require
more stores. Mr., Barber says that If he
ever decides to tear down the present
buildings he naturally would not feel
like giving enough land to the town to