Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-22

A profit of Sal was made at the food
sale In the Congregational church re-
Gently.
The special Christmas Offering in the
Congregational church Sunday morning
will be for the Sunday school.
The Woman's Exchange will hold no
special Christmas food sale this year,
but the usual Saturday sale of food and
candy will be conducted tomorrow.
The special Christmas sale of handl-
work at the Woman's Exchange Dec. 8
was the largest in the history of the or
ganlzation and the business since has far
exceeded that of any previous year.
Mrs. Mary Goodeu, whose death took
place in Keene Dec. IA, was the mother
of Raymond j. Goodell of 1 Washington
street, representative of the Alden
Brothers ompany of Boston.
The cooking class, which was an
nounced alst week as having the first
meeting the last Friday in January, will
meet the first Friday, Jan. s. For par
ticulars inquire of Mrs. F. w. GIBSON.
The postponed meeting of Protective
Grange, which was to have been held
Dec. 10, was held Wednesday night. Re-
ports of officers were given and the
Master, II. w. Sargent, gave a full re-
port of the state Grange meeting in
Montpelier last week.
Judge William r.. Daley, States At
torney F.. f. Barber, attorneys and wit
nesses went last evening to Townshend,
where George X. Tucker was placed on
trial this morning before a jury for the
alleged shooting of more than one buck
during the open season on deer.
Several persons with rooms to let
availed themselves of the opportunity Of
fered by the board of trade to have a
list of rooms on file in the office of the
secretary. This department of the
boards work was announced last week
and ~ persons have called on Secretary
c. S. Hopkins and reported that they
had rooms to rent.
Mosher & Cobb have bought of the
Dunklee brothers a 10O-acre timber lot
west of West Brattleboro and VIII cut
the timber this winter. The firm has
advertised to sell at auction all the prop
erty connected with their livery bust
ness tomorrow morning. They will re-
tain possession of the present quarters
and will make their office there.
William F. Sexton was ar%raigned Mon
day morning before Justice r. C. Bacon.
who was appointed acting municipal
court judge, as Judge w. r. Daley was
disqualified, on the charge of disturbing
the peace, brought by his former wife.
Judge Bacon admonished the respondent
in frank terms in regard to his future
conduct and the case was continued.
States Attorney Frank L. Barber appear
ed for the state and Charles S. Chase
for the respondent.
A blast was set off by C. f. Gilman e
Sons men who are working on the new
entrance to the town from the south
about u o'clock Wednesday and as the
blast was not covered a large number of
pieces of stone were thrown in the air.
Several struck trunk lines belonging to
the telephone company and communica-
tion south on all but one line was, inter-
rupted. A force of linemen from Green
field were working about three miles
south of the blast and they We're sent
to repair the break and at 1.2O all the
lines were reported to be in working or
der.
DR.. E~vangeline Young of Boston, who
will deliver an address on Social Hy-
giene," under the auspices of the Wo-
mans club on the afternoon of Jan. /,
has the interest of young people greatly
at heart and is closely in touch with
them in her work. The chief motive of
the lecture is to educate the general
public to a realization of the need for
training the young people on this sub
ject. Those who have heard her, char
a%cterize her treatment of the subject as
very skillful, %tactful, dignifed and neces-
sary. 1t is hoped hat every woman in
the community will avail herself of the
opportunity to hear DR.. Young.
The men of the Grange will give a
supper to the Grange Wednesday, Dec.
81, at $50 p. m, in compliance with the
requirements of a contest held last sum-
mer between the men and women, in
which the men We're defeated. This
supper will be followed at 7.30 by the
regular Grange meeting. when officers
for the coming year will be elected. The
men are planning to make the supper a
first-class affair, and they urge all mem
bers of this and other Oranges WHIT live
in Brattleboro to be there to enjoy their
hospitality. The men who can do so are
requested to meet in the banquet hall
Tuesday, Dec. 26, at $50 p, m. to make
final arrangements.
Windham County Pomona Grange met
with Protective Grange yesterday for the
annual business session. Reports of the
officers We're made in the forenoon and
dinner was served at 1890. The election
of officers took place in the afternoon
and resulted as follows: NJ, Fred Smith
of West Brattleboro; o., George d.
Aiken of Putney; L., Mrs. Mary Z.
Brown of East Dummerston; s., II. c.
Hazelton of Dummerston; A. s., Roy c.
Ingraham of Guilford chaplain, Mrs. w.
F. Mixer of Brattleboro; treas, c. l..
stacey or BrattleDOrO; Sec, Mrs. A. b.
Patch of East Dummerston; G. X,
Cortes E.. Farnum of Brattleboro
Ceres, Mrs. Mary c.. Smith of West
Br%attleboro; Pomona, Mrs. Augusta Ben
nett of East Dummerston; Flora, Mrs.
Lucy Stacey of B~attleboro; l.. A. s..
Mrs. Lena Barker of Brattleboro. The
officers were installed by Judge F. B.
Pier of this Z
The Christmas rush is on In earnest at
the post office and the letter carriers
and the men in the office are caring for
tons of mail. Postmaster kittredge Has
kin said last evening that yesterday
was one of the busiest days in the his
tory of the office. In two mails q bags
were sent to the railroad station and
one mail filled the wagon heaping full.
The rush was increased by the mailing
of the Holstein- Friesian herd book, which
is a large volume and costs 30 cents
postage. The postmaster says that the
Christmas post card is one of the causes
of the Christmas rush and cites as an
example the fact that in a batch of mail
taken from the letter box in the office
92 of the pieces were Christmas cards
and picture post cards. OF this number
80 were addressed to California. The let
the season to come today, tomorrow and
Monday. They are prepared to handle
a large amount of mail, but are hoping
that snow will not fall and make the
work of delivering 1t more difficult.
Festival hall did not sound with the
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