Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-02-24
BRATTLEB ORO,

BRATTlEBORO.
The Ladies' Enterprise society will
meet with Mrs. Fred Hopkinson on
Cherry street March 1.
shipment of 10 organs is being pre-
pared in the Carpenter organ factory to
be sent to a customer in South Aus
trala.
The cement floors In the basement of
the new Masonic temple are finished and
the electricians and plasterers have about
completed their work. Much of the vain
soothing has been finished and the interior
decorators are doing work in some of the
small rooms
The Boston G. Maine railroad has re-
stored the sleeping car service daily pc
tween White River Junction and New
York, which was discontinued a short
time. This service Is a great accomnlo-
datiOn to people leaving Connecticut river
valley towns on the train scheduled at
S.94 from Brattleboro in the evening.
Washingtons birthday was not gener-
ally observed in town, but there was no
sessions of the schools and the Estey
Organ company's shops were closed for
the day. a few flags were displayed oh
stores and private residences. The even
ing was a little more devoted to the
memory of the first President, with the
Martha Washington fair in Grange hall
and the ~. \. Il. gentlemen's night in
the vestry of the Congrega tional church
A regular meeting of the Bratteboro
Woman's club will be held in the Congre-
gational chapel Wednesday afternoon at
half-past three, when Byron G. Pratt of
Boston will give his lecture entitled
Beauty and the Beast" Mr. Pratt is
thoughtful, sincere and earnest speaker,
who has been listened to with great in
terest by many of the Woman's clubs of
New England. His lecture last season
for the Athol Mass, club proved so sue
cessful that he has place on the clubs
program this winter
In a meeting of the Womans EX-
change Monday afternoon it was voted
to hold a rummage sale during the latter
part of March or the first week in April.
The tag day last summer did not net the
exchange as much money as was eX
pected and the members will hold the
sale to add to the funds which are get
ting low. Miss Addle NJ Fay was elected
to the several positions which Miss En-
ma f. Heath held previous to her death.
1t was slso voted to make changes in
the bylaws so as to make the fiscal year
end the week previous to the annual
meeting in April.
The district nursing in Brattlcboro.
which has been done largely from the
Il
by the Mutual Aid association, has been
consolidated for the sake of economy, and
hereafter the work will he done under
the management of the Mutual Aid as
sociation, which has engaged Miss Eliza
beth Ross, a graduate of the Newton,
Mass, hospital, as district nurse The
Thompson fund will make up the def
cheney if the district nursing fails to
be self supporting. Miss Elizabeth
Hennessy, Miss Ross predecessor, re-
signed in order to devote her time to
private nursing.
Little Children the World over" will
be the subject of the stereopticon lecture
to be given by the pastor, Rev. ID. f.
Trout. in the Universaist church Sunday
at p. m. The lecture deals with the
children of many nations. The views
picture them at play, at school. at home
at worship All mankind loves the child,
and such a fascinating story of the
worlds childhood will be very interesting
and instructing. over 100 beautiful slides
will be used to reveal the various phases
of child life Of the many nations and races.
Miss Katherine Martin will sing the solo,
Consider the Lilies" by Topiff The
public will be welcome.
Since the winters first heavy fall of
snow two weeks ago lumber has been
coming into town in large quantities.
seen on Main street Wednesday noon.
The receipts of lumber at the local mills
and factories which use logs has been
about the same as last year, which shows
that within the past two weeks as much
lumber has been rushed into town as was
brought in last winter when there was
snow early in the season. Holden &
Martin. the S. A. Smith company and the
Estey Organ company have had delivered
to them between 100000 and 500 900 feet
each. During the winter of 190S-9 re-
ceipts were much larger than in either
of the following years, Holden e Martin
alone receiving about 100000 feet.
Rev Guy c. Lamson has resigned the |
pastorate of the First Baptist church i'm |
Hyde Park. Mass, to accept a call to the |
missionary secretaryship for the Amer- !
can Baptist Publishing society in New |
England The resignation, which was
announced at the morning service of the
church in Hyde Park Sunday, will take
effect April l. Mr.. Lamson is a son of
Mr.. and Mrs. C. b. Lamson of Brattle-
boro. He was born in Newfane June 90,
1875 and has a summer home in his
nat tive town. He is a graduate of the
North street private school in Brattleboro,
college, and the theological
seminary in Rochester, N Y. He was a
pastor in Vermont two years,
having charge of the churches in Panton,
Addison and West Cornwall From
February, 1902 to December 1905, he was
pastor of the Baptist church in NIontpe-
Ter, and since that time has been in
Hyde Park, where his work has been very
iuccessful.
Miss Lillian NJ. Phelps, who will lecture
n the First Baptist church Tuesday
evening, is graduate of the National
school of Oratory and has had a wide
experience before conventions, CHATEAU
uas. and Woman's clubs as well as in
he work of the w. c. r. T., Of which she
las for many years been national lee
urer and organizer. Her home is at st.
GATHERINGS, Canada, but her ancestry Is
f the best old New England stock, She
8 described as a "forceful, eloquent
peaker, and interesting from start to
nish." Anna II. Shaw of the National
suffrage association says of her; she
ghtens her discourses by frequent salles
4 wit and pointed sarcasm. which, while
hey arouse laughter and applause. never
ave a sting behind them" Miss Phelps
ONES at the invitation of the Young
Peoples union of the church and of the
Sra ttleboro w G. r. u. Her subject is
st George and the Dragon" There is
70 admission fee or collection. 1t Is the
ope that a large audience will hear her
Message which will be appropriate to the
pproaching town vote on the license
uestion
v. w. Davenport to Move to BrattIeboro.
w. w. Davenport plans to remove
bout the middle of March to Brattleboro,
lie has interests in manufacturing en-