Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-02-10

The Ladies' Enterprise society will
meet with Mrs. 1enkel on Estey street
Wednesday afternoon.
The pupils of the Chase street school
| were dismissed Monday morning, the
school room being too cold for safety
During the month of February the
| vices in the Home for the Aged on Wes-
| tern avenue Sundays at o'clock will be
conducted by d. +. Trout of the Univer-
| saist church.
The final hearing in the suit of the
| Hooker, Corser 4 Mitchell company
| against James f. Hooker, W. II. Corser
| and C.. D. Whitaker of Schenectady, n.
v. will take place before Special Master
NJ. c. Webber of Rutland in C. c. Fitts's
office Tuesday and Wednesday
A gang of laborers has been at work all
| this week on the ledge opposite the rail-
| road station. Although the dirt Is frozen
solidly much has been loaded into large
| buckets and transferred to wagons by
| the use of a derrick The dirt is being
emptied along the bank of the river back
| of the coal sheds.
A petition has been brought by leila
| NJ LEcuyer of this town for a divorce
| from Amedie LEcuYer of Marlboro,
| Mass, formerly a Brattleboro barber.
! The petition sets up that the defendant
/
| neglected and refused to support her
| She asks to be given the custody of her
| child, Irene Oracle L'Ecuyer four years
! old.
Miss Charlotte Macleod. nurse. gave a
talk in the mothers meeting in the Con-
| gregational vestry yesterday on 1.-THE
| feeding of young children" 1t was a very
helpful and sensible talk taking up the
subject from the point of view of SAM
| tation and showing that many of the d.
gestive disturbances and cases of illness
among young children are wholly pre-
ventable and are due to improper feeding
or unsanitary conditions.
Miss Addie NJ. Fay has been engaged
by the board of managers of the rest
room as ma iron to succeed Miss Emma
F. Heath Miss Fay Is thoroughly equip
ped for this position as she has been the
regular helper and substitute for Miss
Heath during vacations and emergencies.
She was naturally the first choice of the
board and has consented to accept the
position. She will ably fill the place made
vacant by one who had endeared herself
| TO so many and who has answered to
the larger call of service.
Some annoyance has been caused re-
Gently by boys removing the keys from,
the fire alarm boxes, necessitating Fl e.
quent inspection of the boxes by Supt.
Joseph Il. Brockington. While the boys
| may not realize the gravity of the offense
the village authorities feel that prompt
| measures must be adopted and If any
| more trouble arises they will set all the
machinery of the law in motion to bring
| the Offenders into court. The inability to
find the key to a fire alarm box in case of
| fire might result in serious loss.
Arrangements have been made to have,
the address by Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Bovn
ton OF Brooklyn. moderator of the ma
llohal Congrega tional council, on Thurs
DAY evening of next week instead of
| tuesday evening as first scheduled This
change was necessitated on account of
1he special town meeting coming on
tuesday night. The Congregations
Brotherhood will give a supper and DR.
Boynton will speak at the informal exer-
clses. He will also speak in the auditori-
um of the church at o'clock. Through
MS position as moderator Dr. Bovnton
stands as the first man in the Congrega-
tional denomination. He is a speaker of
exceptional force. The public is invited
to hear him.
In the consideration of the temperance
question before the Brotherhood ella &C
sunday morning Representative ]. G.
stanford gave an interesting talk on some
phases OF the question as ii came before
the last session of the legislature. The
various measures introduced relative to
the liquor traffic. including a proposition
10 grant women the right to vote on a
proposed referendum, also a bill to ex
empt hotel property from taxation. which
was amended so that the property will
not be exempt If a bar is maintained
were outlined and other details were pre-
sehted. Next Sunday the economic side
or the temperance question will be made
tne subject of Rev. r. NJ. Houghton's
sermon, which will leave the time in the
brotherhood class for discussion
one man is in bed another in taIl and
thlrd under bonds of $500 as a witness
as result of fight in South Newfane
sunday. Arthur Harvey and William
tlynn went to the home of Leonard ace,
ana AFTER tanking up on cider the men
engaged in a general mix-up Constable
Luke Morse of Williamsville and an as
slstant arrested Harvey and Flynn Mon
uay ana TOOK them to N3,vfane iail and
on wednesday they were arraigned he
municipal Judge w. r. Daley of Bra tile
poro' who went to Newfane to hold court
Lee was unable to be present, being so
padly knocked out that he was i'll in bed
anu unable to see The case against
flyhn was continued to March in order
that the extent of Lees injuries could he
ascertalned, and he was committed to
jail Harvey, who took a less prominent
part IN the affair, was fined s. and costs
TOT lhtoNication and was put under bonds
vi %'oo 10 appear as "A witness at Flvnn's
trlaL lie was released on his own recop-
hlzance' Attorney A. +. Schwenl, an
peared for him.
Sitting in a basket suspended in the ai,
Win waves tossing a boat beneath YOU Is
the experience promised those who travel
win Lyman H. Howe In his moving
picture exhibition i'm the Auditorium To-
morrow, matinee and night. One feature
~ entitled Landing Passengers at
uHls, The passengers are being trans
lerreu from a great ocean steamer to
sI'ldh boats' in which they are to be
IoWeu 10 the city. At the time the scenes
were obtained a storm was raging. The
women and children passengers became
frightened by the method of transfer 70
lhe small boats, and their cries, the
roush assurance of the sailors. tho hattlo
pet"een the men at the oars and tho
sreat waves, give an opportunity for
IealSn mat is thrilling A ride on n
uiilslble balloon over Switzerland. an
other on the swlftest motor boat in tho
"oIlu,-the ursula,-are presented with
uesfee or realism that amounts To n
real experience. Then there are iournevs
through lndo-China and the Gorpes no
LArdeche In France. Both are shown in
an tne glorious coors OF nature on per
rect DAYS. Still other features COMPRISE
rainple through London: launching the
white star liner "Olympic"-the largest
snip ahoat; dissolving portraits OF promi.
nent Americans; danperouS tbo,,oh