Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-27
delegates from the local Congregational

Sunday school.
A successful bazaar was held last even
ing in the vestry of the Universalist
church at which a large display of nee
dlework was shown. A musical enter
tainment was given and one of the sup
pers, for which the women of the
church are noted, was enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Allbee, who were
married 66 years ago, recently enjoyed
a pleasant trip of several weeks in Bos-
ton an vicinity. Mr.. Allbee was admitted
to the bar in 1912 and practiced law
many years in Windsor county, retiring
and coming here about six years ago.
st. Charles council, knights of Column
bus, worked the first degree on one
candidate and the second degree on four
candidates Sunday afternoon. OF those
taking the second degree two were from
Brattleboro. Several knights were pres
ent from there and took part in the in
teresting services.
Rev. A. T. Pratt of the Congregation
al church went Wednesday morning to
Worcester, Mass, where he attended the
meeting of the New England Congrega-
tional congress. From there he went to
Boston to stay a day or two. Mrs. Pratt
had been with her parents in Winchester,
Mass, a week. They will return to-
day.
Friday night Howe's moving pictures
drew an audience to the opera house
which tested the capacity of that hall.
The exhibits and lecture were enter
tanning and instructive. Wednesday
night the Madam X" company drew a
fair house to the same hall. The
Goose Girl is booked for next Thursday
evening.
Seventeen or eighteen members of
Prospect lodge No. PSI, New England
order of Protection, went to Brattle-
boro Monday evening and exemplihed
the degree upon a class of candidates.
The party returned on the ii o'clock
train, expressing the enthusiastic judg-
ment that Brattleboro people were royal
entertainers.
A paper extensively circulated among
the local grocers this week has been
signed by nearly all of them agreeing
to do away with the practice of giving
treats to credit customers when they
pay their bills. This practice has be-
come a feature here and has resulted in
a feeling of wrong against the persons
or families who pay cash for every
thing.
Clarence NJ. Pettingill, formerly clerk
of the f. b. F. Grocery company, and
Alice May Thompson, housekeeper for
E. C. Fairbank several years, were mar
ried in the Fairbank home on Centre
street Tuesday evening. The occasion
called together a large number of in
innate friends and relatives. The young
people will live in Athol, Mass, where
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TIL daily press greatly exaggerated
the effect of the high water last week
at this point. The contractors for the
Boston & Maine railroad bridge over the
Connecticut were Inconvenience a lit
tie by the taking away of a small sec
ton of a tramway used for running gran
lite out to a middle pier which they were
pulldlng, and a derrick was toppled over,
put the loss was small The work was
delayed only a rev days.
notice upon the owners of 80 different
buildings in Bellows Falls that they must
equip them with reliable and trustworthy
fire escapes at once. Hotel Windham,
Hotel Rockingham, Central House, Cor
poration building, Union hall and various
other buildings are included. A meeting
of the board will be held next week Fri.
day at 8 a. m, in Hotel Windham tC
hear any protests from those interested
or to further explain the necessities ant
remedies.
The regular meeting of the Woman's