Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-02-16

Plans are under. way for another rail-
road pitch tournament among members
of the Vermont Wheel club
Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r., will
meet with Mrs. II. e. Bond Of Linden
street at p. m.-next week Friday.
The Congregational Sunday school is
making plans to hold its annual chill
dren's fair in Festival hall Saturday af-
ternoon, March 8.
About 30 couples attended the ladies'
night meeting of st. Michaers court,
c. o. F., in Red Mems hall Tuesday
evening Cards and. dancing were en-
joyed and refreshments were served.
Several sleighing parties went to
Hinsdale yesterday afternoon and last
evening to attend the fair given by the
women OF the Universalist church and
several more parties have planned to go
this afternoon and evening The Billiken
club will go in a body.
District Deputy Mrs. Grace Richard
son OF .Willamsyllle and c. f. Howard
OF Bellows Falls will make an official
visit to Bingham chapter o. E. s.,
tuesday evening, Feb. 90 The women
will meet in the afternoon. Supper will
be served at $50 There will be inlti-
alton in the evening.
About so members of Sedgwick wo-
mans Relief corps went to Newfane
wednesday forenoon on a sleighrde and
had dinner at Union hall, served by the
members of Orchard Woman's Relief
corps. After dinner, which was greatly
enjoyed, the party had a social hour
before starting home.
valentine party in honor of Miss
Edith Adams was given by her mother,
Mrs. L. F. Adams, in her home on
ftau
Twenty of Miss Adams's young friends
attended and during the evening various
st. Valentines day games were played.
Osmer Fits tok the part of Cupid and
delivered valentine letters which were
deposited in miniature letter-box. Be-
sides the games there was music, and
refreshments were served.
Burdette s. whidden of Pittsfield,
Mass, and Miss Alice s. Arnold of North
Adams, Mass. were married in the
Methodist parsonage in Pittsfield Sat
urday by ReY j. A. Hamilton. Mr..
| Whidden is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
| B. Whidden of this town and previous
| to going to Pittsfed short time ago
was employed as plumber by w. j.
| Pentland, jr. Mrs. Whidden had a po-
| sition in Donnell & Daviss millinery
| store here until recently.
Orrin Brown of Vernon appeared be-
| fore Judge William r. Daley in the mu-
| nicipal court Tuesday afternoon
charged with the larceny from Eric
Johnson, also of Vernon, of a 80 calibre
| Winchester repeating rifle, a russell
| leather cartridge belt, a pair of shears
| and 30 cartridges of 80 calibre. 1t is al
| legged the property was stolen Nov. 20
States Attorney f. f. Barber appeared
for the state and Attorney A. P. Car
pener for Brown. The respondent de-
| nd p6 ri oh RI fri n "a mr.
| the case was continued to tomorrow
| morning, when it will be held in that
| town. Brown was released on $50 bail
The valentine party Tuesday evening
| in the Baptist church, given by the
| Philathea class to the Baraca class wa:
enjoyed by 60 persons. The rooms were
decorated with crepe paper and ar
abundance of hearts All kinds o.
| games, in which hearts figured, were
played. An amusing feature of the en-.
| tertanment was a valentine tree lader
with hearts-warm hearts made of felt
| small hearts, large hearts and frosty
| hearts. Each person, after being blind
| folded, searched the tree for a valen
tine. Cake and ping lemonade in boat:
| with heart-slaped sails were served
| The party was in charge of the socia
committee of which Mrs Leroy Grace!
is chairman.
Miss Blanche Duffy a senior nurse IL
the Memorial hospital, who received Sc
rous injuries TO both eyes Thursda,
| night of last week, has improved some
what this week. but it is thought prob
able that she will lose the sight of on,
eye and that the sight of the other will
be impaired temporarily. The ban
| dages were removed from both eyes thi!
week. The accident brought sorrow t.
Miss Duffy's friends and acquaintance
who feel deep sympathy for her. Sl'
had placed some sealed glass tubes con
tanning alcohol and catgut into re
| ceptacle and had boiled them. When tn,
water boiled low. she poured in som'
! more water and the tubes exploded. fill
ing her face and eyes with fragments o
glass.
fire was discovered in the house a
Chestnut street by Miss Flora Whita
ker Sunday evening, and but for he
timely arrival 1t might have caused
much damage. She was returning from
church and noticed a light through thu
window in the bathroom of the tene
ment occupied by Oscar Raymond
| Knowing that 1t was unlikely that any
body was in that part of the house sat
notified Mr.. Raymond. He went to thu
| bathroom and found that a lamp ha'
exploded and the entire upper part ha,
been thrown into a basket of dr.!
| clothes, which were in flames. He car
| ried the blazing clothes and basket t
| the door and threw them into the snow
/ returned to the bathroom and exiting
uished the blaze which was beginning
to eat into the woodwork. Miss Whita
ker lives upstairs In the house In whicl
the fire occurred.
In the regular meeting of the New
| England Order of Protection Wednesda.
evening the recent number contest wa
! declared closed. The blues. captained bl
Mrs. Grace Larrabee, were the wirher
| by several numbers. The reds will serv'
the blues in Banquet in the near future
| After the meeting the entertainment
committee held a peanut race, thu
members of the auxiliary Challenger,
the lodge members. The winner of thu
prize was Mrs. Larrabee, BOBBY Ralph
| Cudworth Another contest followed
the first prize being won by Mrs Still
| man Graves and Sthe BOBBY was award
| ed to Mrs. Ida Butler. In the next reg
| uar meeting, Feb. 2S, initiation VIII taxi
| place of all candidates voted on. or
| ficers from the supreme and gram
lodges are expected. BELLOWS Falls ant
| Ludlow lodges also have been invited
A supper will be served from go TO
o'clock. All members are urged TO d
present. .."
A suit for $4,000 da images was Droush'
by the village of Byattleboro against .ns
Connecticut River Power company Weo'
of the company