Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-01
THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY MARC1

]. Edwin Lawrence has six pullets
Matched Sept. ~ which began laying Feb.
10.
Henry ]. Allen, who bought the build
ings on the Hunt farm, Is tearing them
down and taking the wood to his yard
on Vernon street
The women of the First Baptist church
will serve hot dinner in the chapel
town meeting day from IL to 2. The
menu will be found in the advertising
columns.
Gardner Ray Vaudeville and Miss Doris
Keene, both of Brockton, Mass, were
married Tuesday in the Methodist par
sonage by Rev. f. A. Wells. They were
unattended.
The Boston Sunday Globe contained an
article four columns long reviewing the
career of Col James Fisk. The story was
accompanied by a halftone picture of
Col and Mrs Fisk made from photo
graph taken in 1862.
A carload of Ford automobiles was re-
celved this week by Manley Brothers.
Another carload was sent to Mr.. Manley's
agent in Greenfield making 140 of the
1912 models that have been received by
the local dealer or his agents in the past
few months.
There will not be a stereopticon lecture
in the Universalist church Sunday even
ing on account of the temperance rally
in the Auditorium. On the following
Sunday, March 10, the subject of the
lecture will be THE Hudson river" IL
Illustrated with many colored slides.
The next meeting of the Woman's club
will -bs--held Wednesday afternoon, when
Miss Alice NJ. Wing of Springfield, Mass,
will speak on Erin Revisited" Miss
Wing is a teacher of Latin in the Cen
trail high school of Springfield and has
travelled much in Europe, having recently
returned from a six months trip, which
included Ireland.
Several members of Valley lodge. X.
P, attended the annual convention of
the eighth Pythian district in Bellows
Falls Monday evening. There are five
lodges in this district, Bellows Falls
lodge of Bellows Falls Ascutney lodge
of Springfield. Mystic lodge of White
River Junction, Valley lodge of Brat
tleboro and White Granite lodge of
Bethel.
Rehearsals for the dances, which will
be given at THE Children's Year" by
the children of the Congregational Sun
day school March 8. have been held
every day this week About IS children
will take part and those representing
the holidays will be dressed in appropri-
ate costumes. The children have prac-
tically completed soliciting for articles
to be sold.
The Epworth league of the Methodist
church held a regular monthly meeting
last evening in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. d. Smith on Cedar street. At
ter the business meeting an entertain
ment, in which different ones dressed to
represent advertisements, and a cornet
solo by Richard Bolster, accompanied
on the piano by Miss Doris Smith. was
enjoyed. Refreshments were served
In the Masonic bowling tournament
these scores have been rolled in the
semi finals of the candlepn classes: Glass
IL. C. White 81, "a, A. B. Jordan So, "a (;
H. II. Locke SO. IS, L. Stiff 6S, rs; w. II.
Buzby 81, SO, II. II. Locke 81. Sc. Glass
2-F. p Barber rs, S4 C. F. Bingham Ga,
II, "A, II. Tenpin scores have been made
as follows: C. b. Crowell 1872, 157, W. H.
Hunt 1872, 1872; F. Ficks 113, 147, 1854; Stiff
1856, 12S, ISL.
Columbian lodge, No. &c. f. & A. NJ,
conferred the third degree upon two can
didates in a special communication Tues
day night. Next Wednesday night Chris
tie B. Crowell. district deputy grand
master, will make an official inspection
of this, his home lodge. The third de-
gree will be conferred and after the
work refreshments will be served. On
Wednesday, March o. Columbian lodge
will hold a special celebration in recog-
milton of the Tooth anniversary of its or
ganization.
Seven games have been played in the
Masonic pool tournament this week and
Capt j f. Haynes's team leads Capt. W.
r. Daley's team 352 to 264 Following
are the scores for this weeks games
C. B. Crowell so, ]. L. Goldsmith 80; S.
A. Daniels "a, o. B. Hughes IA; A. F.
Roberts so, Carl Cain 40; H. S. Goode-
nough 26, r. w Taber so; H. w. Buzby
&c. A. c. Buzby so: Bert Slater Is, George
Bishop so; Charles McRae &c, F. Hall So
The first named of each pair Is mem
Der of Capt Daley's team. There are
now lis members entered in the tourna-
ment, or SO pairs
The new directors of the baseball as
ISOLATION are receiving applications from
players who wish to come here the COM
ing season. They have not chosen a
manager for the team and are holding
the letters from players until they have
a man to fill that position. The date for
the league meeting has not been an
nounced, although a few weeks ago the
directors of the other teams in the league
were calling upon Brattleboro to chose
it's officers as they wished to get to work
for the coming season. They have been
notified of the meeting here and the local
directors are waiting TOT some Woru
from them.
Plans are being made for a laymen's
meeting and banquet in the First Baptist
church Thursday night, March 81. when
Rev. w. T. Stackhouse, d. D.. of New
York will be the principal speaker. Dr.
Stackhouse, who is secretary of the lay
mems movement for northern and west
ern Raptists, is one of the strong
men of the denomination. DR.. III. d.
Holton of this town will preside and
other speakers will be John A. Green
wood of Chester. president of the Bap-
tist state convention, Henry Bond of
Brattleboro vice president, and Rev. DR.!
w. A. Dawson of Burlington. secretary.
Men will come from Windsor. Chester,
Bellows Falls, SaXtons River, Townshend
and other nearby towns.
Shortly after Z o'clock Saturday morn
ing fire was discovered in the home of
Henry J. Allen, who lives opposite the
coal chutes on Vernon street. An over
heated coal stove in the dining room
had set fire to the partition between the
room and the front hall and the flames
were eating their way into the partition
when discovered. The fire department
headquarters were notified by telephone
and an alarm from the bell was rung in.
Before the apparatus arrived at the
house the blaze had reached the roof and
was burning a hole through near the
chimney An alarm from box 33 was
rung in and In about 80 minutes the "all
out" signal was given. At $50 another
alarm was given and the bell