Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-10
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

s. w. Edgett has bought Flanders
'2O' car.
The women of the Universalist society
will serve "a dinner in the church vestry
Dec. I.
The Garment Workers union held
their regular monthly meeting Tuesday
evening in union hall Twelve were in
itiated.
The women of the Methodist church
will have their annual creamed fish
| supper and sale in Grange banquet hall
Thursday evening, Dec. T.
The women of Sedgwick Womans Re-
lief corps will hold a social Friday even
ing Nov. II, in Grand Army hall. All
members are invited.
Canton Palestine will hold a dance
Nov. II in odd Fellows hall. One-half
will be square dances and one-half round
dances. Everybody is invited.
The first meeting of the story tellers'
| league will be held in the parlors of the
| Congregational church Thursday evening
at 7.90. All interested are invited to be
| present.
Columbian book club held its annual
meeting Thursday evening in the home
of Mrs. NJ. C. Houghton. The old Of
ficers were re-elected Pres, Mrs Fred
] -
! Houghton.
About 80 members of Oasis encamp-
ment, |. O. o. F., went last evening on
a special train to attend the district
meeting in Bellows Falls. The meeting
was largely attended and the local men,
bers returned about 1890 o'clock.
The local employees of the Swift Beef
| company forgot such common things as
porterhouse, hams and frankfurters
/ .1nNr
game supper al The Palms Coon, veni-
son and all the 'iXings" of game sup
per were served and the hour was late
when they went home.
The selectmen will appoint within a
short time a board of appraisers, con-
| sisting of five or six men of good judg-
ment in real estate values, to go over the
land to be taken by the proposed Blakes-
| lee street extension and determine the
| amount of land damages to be awarded
| the property holders whose land will be
! taken by the new street.
A meeting of the Unitarian parish was
held Monday evening and the question
of obtaining a new hall to take the place
of Wells hall was discussed and the
! feasibility of building a hall was con-
! sidered, together with the ways and
means. A committee was chosen to in
vestigate the matter in detail. 1t con-
sists of Rev. f. O. S. Osgood. C. II.
Pratt, E. B. Smith, Mrs. E. B. Barrows
and Mrs. E. B. Smith.
Miss Helena Biagiotti gave a party to
IA of her little girl friends yesterday at
her Main street home from to 5 o'clock.
the occasion being her ninth birthday
| anniversary. Ice cream cake, candy
and soda water were served. A birthday
cake with nine lighted candles was one
of the features. a pleasant afternoon
| uToC rr-ith
Each little one received a bag of fruit
and confectionery to take home.
The open season for deer will begin
next Wednesday at 8 a. m. and con-
tinue until p m Nov. 25, Sundays ex-
cepted. Deer cannot be shot legally un-
! less they have horns at least three
! inches long. Hunters must hold IL
| censes to hunt, as provided by law, and
must not hunt or kill deer between
| p. m. and a. m or use dogs, traps,
salt licks or similar devices. No person
is allowed to take more than one deer
The fall meeting of the Montpelier
! District association will be held in the
| Methodist church here next Monday and
Tuesday Nov. 13 and IA. The meeting
will begin Monday evening at 7.30. when
! Rev George H. Sisson of South London
derry will preach. On Tuesday forenoon
| and afternoon there will be papers and
| discussions of special interest to church.
men. The sessions will close with a
/ mass meeting beginning a 73O in the
! interest of the men and religion move
/ ment when an address will be delivered
by Congressman Frank Plumley of
| Northfeld, who is a widely known Meth
| odist layman. Everybody is invited to
! come to hear strong man on a great
| theme.
News was received yesterday OF the
death of Charles f. Bishop, so, in a hos
pital in Worcester, Mass, yesterday
morning. Mr. Bishop was well known
here through his connection formerly as
superintendent of the Kurn Hattin Home
| in Westminster He was born in Ply
mouth, England, May %, 1885, and at
| tended the Friends school at Sidcot,
near Bristol. After serving an appren-
ticeshp to a manufacturer in Newport,
| Isle of Wight, he worked at his trade in
| London and other cities and came to
this country in June, 1888, locating in
| Lynn, Mass, where he lived Is years
! For eight years he worked as a shoe
cutter and foreman of a cutting room,
and for the next 10 years he was in busi-
ness as a manufacturer of shoe patterns
Mr.. Bishop left Lynn In 1901 to take
charge of the Kurh Hattin Home and
was there seven years. He went to
Worcester in 1908 In order that his son
might attend the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, buying home I'm Tatnuck
Since then he had been connected with
| the Central Massachusetts, general
agency of the Provident Life and Trust
company, Mr.. Bishop was a thoroughly
| earnest and conscientious man. kindly