Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-03-10

| Wantastiuuet lodge, l. o. o. F., will
confer the first degree Monday evening.
There will be no matinee Wednesday
of Seven Days" as had been announced.
The Ladies' Enterprise society will meet
| with Mrs. Albert Thomas on Horton place
| Wednesday afternoon.
Lenten devotions will be held every
Sunday and Friday evenings at 100 in
St Michaels Roman Catholic church dur
ing Lent.
Health Officer Tucker has had reported
this week two cases of mumps. No new
diphthera cases have been called to his
attention.
\ collection will be taken Sunday al
both masses i'm St Mchaels Roman
Catholic church. for the Indian and ne
gro missions.
Robert l.. S. Patton, II, a former resi-
dent of Brattleboro and in recent years
an owner of a summer home Ames
hill, died in Hartford, Conn, Tuesday.
w. H. Bems of IA Canal street has
10 months old White Wyandotte pullet
which has laid an egg that measures
| eight and one half inches by six inches.
c. w Gates, state highway commits
soner, will conduct a meeting for the
road commissioners and selectmen OF
Windham county in Brattleboro Thurs
day, March 23.
Emily c. Bailey has filed a petition for
divorce from Martin \. Bailey alleging
wilful desertion and Mr.. Bailey has
brought counter petition on the ground
of intolerable severity.
George L. Durham will give stere-
optcon lecture in the Congregational
church Sunday evening at O'Clock on
THE Passion Play at Oberamergau.
Some of the pictures which will be shown
tokaO Nv bprg of Mr. Dnpnam' &
family.
II. c. Rice and J. F. Ferriter will go
to Bellows Falls the first of the week to
meet representa- tives of Keene, Bellows
Fails and Chareston-S Springfield in a
meeting called for the purpose of COM
| pleting the arrangements for the four
club baseball league.
A masquerade ball will be held by Den
mis- Rebekah lodge Wednesday evening
March 30 Both halls will be open. Tick
cts may be secured at a. f. Roberts's
store or of the committee, Mrs. l. D.
| Bailey, Mrs. Luther Miller, Fred Spauld-
ing jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Arcand.
The members of the Methodist Broth
erhood met in the Vestry of the church
last evening and enjoyed an oyster sup
| per. DIR. w. II. Davenport of Bellows
Falls was the speaker of the evening
The tables were prettly decorated with
| potted plants and cut flowers. The fol-
lowing were elected members of the sup
per committee for the coming year, Wal
ter y Pugh, f. A. Shaw and Alva Cros-
by.
The new nurse in charge of the tuber-
culosis camp under the direction of Miss
Mary +. Schumacher, superintendent of
the Memorial hospital, is Miss Ada STAFF
ford of Boston, who came Monday to as
! sumo the duties of the position. She is a
| graduate of the New Haven General hos
pital the Wallingford tConn1 sanitarium
for tuberculosis and the Instructive Dis
trict Nursing association of Boston. For
some time she was connected with the
Lincoln Neighborhood nursing work in
Boston, and she also had charge of one
of the stations of the milk ana baby
hYgienic work in Boston.
Members of the Boyd family in jack
sonVille had a run together In the home
of Robert Boyd in that village Tuesday
night and as a result Winfield Boyd and
two sons, Charles and Luther, were ar
rested for assault and fined Wednesday
by Justice W. A. Brown, C. s. Chase of
Bratueboro appearing for the respondents
ana Attorney y. ~ Butterfield and Grand
Juror ii. G. Porter for the prosecution
Robert Boyd, who was roughly handled
by his brother, Winfield and his nephews
was not arrested Winfield and Charles
Boyd paid $50 each and costs and Luther
was fined s., but payment in his case
was suspended All three pleaded guilty
a large number of members of Quonck-
tacat tribe of Red Men trailed to the
wigwam of r. II. Baker Wednesday sleep
Tor the purpose of congratulatng him on
his 9th birthday anniversary. Mr.. Baker
was presented with beautiful picture
from the brothers, a book with auto
graphs of all present also he received a
shower of postal cards from the Pilgrim
FATHERS Speeches We're made by seV-
eral of the brothers songs were sung
ana refreshments served. The visit was a
complete surprise TO Mr.. Baker. and the
details Were skillfully planned and car
rled out by Mrs. Baker and her daughter,
Marion. Mr., Baker has been a member
OF the TRIBE 10 years and has taken
great interest In its affairs, has served as
sachem, also as a very efficient collector
Tor several great suns. and has repre-
scented the tribe in the great council
The cup for the winner of the Vermont
Wheel clubs pool tournament will be-
come trophy for Harris Cray or Or.
Greene. Cray, who had won all of his pre-
urinary games and four straight in the
lhals. struck stumbling block in Arthur
l5rasor. the score being Brasor 80. CRAY
49, DR.. Greene put Clifford Fox out of
the running. The score was Greene, So.
foX W, Greene winning on the handicap
d. II. Allen, who had lost only one game
was beaten by one point in his contest
AGAINST Fox, the score being Fox no.
Allen "a. Allen had but one to make
when he missed and Fox then poked II
palls INTO the pockets. In the game
which followed Greene IS, defeated Allen
90. cray and Green have each won four
games and Nst one and all the other
players have been eliminated Cray and
Greene will play some evening next week
Three suits against the directors of
the Grange store have been brought this
week through the law office of Chase &
Daley to recover for debts contracted
before the store was sold to Abbott 4
son, ana the property of the directors,
q. 7. Ware, w F, Goddard, c. s. Hop
klns ana j. III. Joy has been attached by
Deputy Sheriff c T.. Mann. c. T.. and
! +. r. Brown Of Springfield, Mass. seek
to recover balance of $2539S, Henry ].
Perkins of Springfield claims balance
! or $4,000 and the Dewitt Grocery COM
| panN of this town sues for n balance Of
SlO9111. In each suit it is alleged that
the directors violated a statute which
| prohibits the contraction of debts In eX-
cess of two-thlrds of the capital stock
paid in. 1t Is claimed by the plaintiffs
That payments on the debts were made I'm
installments and that the final checks,
which, brought the total up to a Go cent
basis. were marked as being in full set
tlement, whereupon suits We're brought
The comic opera success 1.-THE Red
MIL" by Henry Bl1ssom and Victor Her
bert made a decided hit in the Auditor
| ium last night. The presentation was
| one of the best comic onera nerformoncas