Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-13

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be In charge of the Dramatic club.
Miss Lillian whitman of West Barns
table, Mass, will give a monologue and
pianologue in the Methodist church
Thursday evening, Oct. 26, under the
auspices of the Epworth league.
The Daughters of Pocahontas will hold
their opening dance in Red Mems hall
Saturday evening. Good music will be
furnished. The public is invited.
The women of the Methodist church
will hold a rummage sale in Emerson
building the first week in November
Any articles of clothing will be received
gladly.
Grand Warden Hill of the grand
lodge of Vermont, N. e. o.. p, has APP
pointed Warden Austin G.. Nichols of
Brattleboro lodge to the office of dis
trict deputy warden over Walloomsac
lodge of Bennington.
The Woman's Exchange will hold a
meeting Monday at $50 O'Clock. The
governing board will meet at 3 O'Clock.
1t Is hoped there will be a good attend
ance as important business is to be
considered.
Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r., will
meet in the home of Mrs. Charles
Akeley on Canal street next Tuesday
for a progressive thimble party. Mrs.
VI - Ddl DtT MIL Tetlu a paper on 'Iifp
100 years ago. The hostesses will be
Mrs. Akeley and Mrs. William Cush-
man.
The women of the Baptist church will
hold a rummage sale, including a sale of
secondhand c~rockery, in Emerson build
ing on Elliot street, Friday and Satur-
day, Oct. 20 and 81. All those having ar
ticles to contribute are requested to send
them to the room Thursday morning that
they may be f~umigated and arranged.
William Burby has bought out G. A.
Collins's interest in the milk business.
Mr.. Burby's sister, Mrs. Myrtle King, of
Dandy, moved here this week. She will
keep house for her brother. After Oct.
II the milk business will be conducted
at their home, 80 Prospect street, dis
continuing the present milk depot on
South Main street.
Quonektacat tribe of Red Men will
have a rehearsal of the warrior'se de-
gree this Friday sleep, after which corn
and venison will be served. Quonektcat
tribe expects to trail to the hunting
grounds of Squakeag tribe in Mortified,
Mass, next Thursday sleep for the pur-
pose of exemplifying the work of the
warriors degree on several candidates.
Miss Elfra NJ. Bemis, an employe in
the Holstein-F riesian office, was sur
prised Wednesday evening in her home on
Canal street when on going the the door
in answer to the bell, she found 2S young
women from the same office. The guests
gave Miss Bemis a shower in honor of
her coming marriage. Cake and choco-
late were served and games were en-
joyed.
f. w. Childs had a narrow escape
from a serious accident recently at Hill
crest. He climbed the top of a tele-
DnOne mole TO do coma rannirinu u,Io1
the guy rope broke and Mr.. Childs fell
and the telephone pole and ladder fell
upon him. Mr.. Childs was thoroughly
shaken up and received several bruises.
but is able to be out again and is maxi
ing a good recovery. He recalls vividly
the thoughts that came to him as he
was falling. He expected to be killed.
and was unconscious for some time.
In concurrence with the nation-wide
post jubilee work instituted by the CEN
trail on the united study of
missions, the women of the churches of
Brattle5oro will conduct a simultaneous
campaign during the week beginning
Oct. 20. This effort is to secure new
workers for the women's foreign mis-
sionary societies to gain new subscrib-
ers for the women's missionary maya
zines and to bring together the women
OF our churches on this great common
ground of all creeds. Further notice will
be given.
The biennia convention of the Univer-
salist churches will be held in Spring.
field, Mass, Oct. IS to %, inclusive. This
is the largest convention of that church
and this is the first year it has been held
in any state near Vermont. Rev. D.. E..
Trout, j. +. Shurtleff, Miss May Edwards
and Mrs. H. NJ. Wood will go as dele
gates from this town, having been APP
pointed by the state convention. The
state of Vermont is allowed to send As
lay delegates and nine clergymen as dele
gates, 1t is probable that several other
members of the church here will attend.
AS Rev. d. e. Trout will be away Sept.
% he will have another clergyman sup
ply his pulpit.
one of the largest audiences ever at
tending a stereopticon lecture in the
Congregational church was present sun
day evening, when the first in a series
Of lectures was given. The program for
the series was published last week.
Practically all the pews in both the body
of the church and the balconies were
filed. Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton showed
colored slides made from photographs of
scenes in the recent missionary confer
ence, The World in Boston," and read
a lecture descriptive of the scenes. The
choir assisted in the service. Next
Sunday evening the beautiful story of
Jonathan and David, The Shepherd
King" will be illustrated.
Mrs. Walter Stokes Irons of Provi-
dence, r. l., who will speak before the
Woman's club next Wednesday after
noon, is already favorably known to the
club members. Maeterlinck's drama,
The Blue Bird which will be her Sc
lection, was given in Washington, d. c.,
before the Woman's club and also be-
fore the Congressional club last spring.
Both organizations We're enthusi-
astic in their praise. The poem has
been cut and arranged so that the es-
s%entials of the story are given. Mrs.
Irons in her recital brings out the
rhythms and beauty of the drama, clearly
interpreting the great ethical lessons of
life taught by Maeterlinck. The meeting
should be one of the most interesting of
the year.
Those who attended the presentation
of THE Witching Hour in the Audi
forum last evening pronounce it one of
the best productions ever given in Brat
tleboro. 1t was different from the ordi-
nary run of plays, instituting a new era
in the stage treatment of mental phe-
order, ranging from the humorous to the
intensely dramatic. Royal Thayer as
Jack Brookield, who made his eX-
traordinary powers of mind reading count
for the benefit of mankind, was the
leading character and exceptionally
pleasing. Paul Pilkington as Justice