Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-29

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and 2 for repairs.
Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton will have
charge of the services at the Home for
the Aged during January.
An adjourned meeting of the Metho-
dist Sunday school board will be held at
the close of the prayer meeting tonight,
Friday.
Vogel's Big City Minstrels, coming to
the Auditorium Saturday, Jan. 9, will
appear in both matinee and evening per-
formances.
A New Years waltzing party will be
held in Grange hall Monday evening, Jan.
l.. L~eitslnger's four-piece orchestra will
furnish music.
The Estey Organ company's shops
will be closed, beginning today, until
Wednesday morning, while the annual
inventory is being taken.
S. II. Mixer, who for several years
drove a delivery wagon for G. f. Warner
x CO.. has hired the store formerly oc-
cupied by the Lyric theatre in the Emer-
son building and will open a bakery
there.
The post office will be open Monday,
New Years day, from I to IL. The car
riers will make the early morning de-
livery only. After Jan. 1 the carriers
window will be open from 7.3O to s
o'clock in the evening.
In the annual meeting of the Estey
organ Company Benefit association Sat
urday the old officers were reelected.
They are w. D.. Gibson, Carl Hollender
and G.. ~ Hines, committee, and H.. f.
c.. Toedt, secretary and treasurer.
In the special meeting of the Pilgrim
Fathers Tuesday evening candidates were
initiated. In the regular meeting, which
VIII be held Jan, ?, a program will be
given by Members and refreshments will
be served. 1t is hoped that every MEM
Der will be present.
George Washington Bailey, the local
strong man, and Sandy Macleod, who
gave Fritz Hanson a hard match a few
weeks ago, will be the principals in the
wrestling match in the Auditorium Mon
day night. Hanson will try to throw
Lavoie or Bolin every few minutes as a
curtain raising act.
In the funeral of John Calvin this
morning Mr.. Galvin's unselfish and
charitable disposition was referred to
in a peculiarly fitting eulogy by Rev.
Father Carmody, who said also that he
died rich in the qualities hat ennoble
true manhood and that his life was a
rebuke to all the lower instincts of hui
man nature.
The cooking classes which will be
conducted by the philanthropic and edu-
cational committees of the Woman's club
will begin Friday, Jan. 5, in the high
school laboratory. The afternoon class
will begin at 2.30 and the evening class
will open at : o'clock. Mrs. Olive Wealth
erhead Hawkins of Springfield, Mass,
who taught several classes in cooking for
the same committees two years ago, will
be the instructor.
Mrs. Mary CHarris) Doolittle, 20, of
South Wardsboro died Friday in the
home of her nephew, George w. Harris
of s Central street. She was a widow of
Albert Doolittle and since his death in
1907 had come here to stay winters with
her brother, John L. Harris. on ac-
count of Mrs. Harris's illness Mrs. Doo-
little went to the home of her nephew
a few weeks ago. A sketch of her life
is given in the South Wardsboro cor
respondence in this paper.
The Springfield Republican told this
story of Il man who was fined in the po-
lice court in Westfeld, Mass, Wednes
day.: He said he lived in Brattleboro.
but went to North Adams to have two
teeth extracted. He took ether and also
a few drinks of whiskey and the combi-
nation made him dead to the world.
He says he remembers having the teeth
pulled, but after that his mind was a
blank until he came to his senses in the
Westfield police station. He pleaded
guilty to drunkenness and complimented
the police officers for taking such good
care of him. He said he wished ia
thank them for looking after him so well
and he confded to an acouaintanc after
court that if it was allowable he would
like to present each member of the no
lice force with a 81 bill as n Christmas
present"
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way ihe alohg SCUM Main street to the
Junction OF tne ROADS TO Gullford and
vernon the residents OF south Main street
VINO use the complain that
CONDITIONS are very bad. When the street
was wldehed the walk on the east side
OF the street was done away with and
parts OF several front yards were taken.
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The volume of trade in the local stores
Saturday was larger than on anv ohter
day during the Christmas sea son and
eaualled that of any Saturday before
Christmas since this town became the