Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-18

LOCAL OVERFLOW.

will hold a rummage sale Friday and
Saturday in Emerson building.
The woman's Relief corps will hold
a sewing meeting in Grand Army hall
| Thursday afternoon, followed by q sup
per and regular meeting in the evening
The women of the Methodist church
VIII hold rummage sale in the Emer-
J son building on Elliot street. Oct 81,
Nov and 2. Any contributions will be
| thankfully received.
The public schools will be closed next
Thursday and Friday on account of the
state teachers meeting in Rutland Some
| of the teachers will attend the meeting
and others will visit schools in various
| cities
The losers in the Masonic billiard and
| pool tournament, Captain Daley's side,
| will entertain the winners, Captain
Hayness side, at the Masonic temple
this evening, beginning with a banquet at
$50 O'Clock.
Twenty-Five members of Sedgwick
| Woman's Relief corps attended the dis
trict meeting in Bellows Falls Wednes-
| day. The annual inspection was held
| with Sedgwick corps last evening Kate
d. Lee, department inspector was pre-
| sent.
A special train will leave Brattleboro
next Tuesday at 4.30 p. M for Wards
| Doro, where the annual meeting of dis
trict No. 10, l. o. o. F., will be held.
Wantastiquet lodge will exemplfy the
third degree. A Rebekah lodge will be
Instituted there in the afternoon,
The members and invited guests of
the ladies' circle of the Universalist
church will meet in the church parlors
| for sewing Thursday, Oct "a at 10 a. m
| Luncheon will be served at IL m. A
business meeting will be held at 2.3O.
All members are urged to be present at
the luncheon.
Columbus day passed without any spe-
cal observance in this town. A few
flags were displayed on stores and pri-
vate residences and on Friday evening
Leo council, X. of c., held dancing
party in their assembly hall with music
by Leitsinger's orchestra, which about
30 couples attended.
The committee of the Brattleboro Wom-
ans club in charge of the production of
The Pied Piper have invited the fol-
lowing persons to act as judges in the
| competition of the town schools for the
program design and the best story of
the poem On the program cover design
/ Miss Emma Houghton A. ID. Wyatt and
Miss Kate Selleck; on the story-Rev f.
Q. $. Osgood Rev. NJ. j. Carmody and
| III. c. Rice.
The local high school football team
was scheduled to play the Bellows Falls
hlgh school team in Bellows Falls yes
terday afternoon. but the game was post
poned to next Thursday, when there will
be no sessions of the schools because of
the teachers meeting in Rutland. The
local boys will go to Keene tomorrow to
play the Keene high school team The
New Hampshire aggregation has not
shown up strongly this year.
Lovers of Dickens will be interested to
know that Martin Chuzzlewit" will be
presented at the Princess on Elliot street
! Monday matinee and evening The story
is told by moving pictures and the de-
velopment of the story takes three reels
OF films. The comedy. tragedy and love
story or the great work by Dickens is
beautifully portrayed. The Musical Bus
Kinks will be the vaudeville attraction
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Martin Dunn of Oak Grove avenue
registered protest with the board of
seectmen this week against the sub
grading for the cement sidewalks in front
! of his property. He claimed that the
grading would cause damage to his gar
den, but Selectmen j. Il. Mellen and j
e. Stafford Investigated and told the
sidewalk commission to go ahead with
the work Now Mr.. Dunn threatens to
sue the town for damages
Deputy Sheriff {. l. Knapp sold by
auction Monday morning in front of the
! Judge building on Main street the few
goods that We're in Ora Muford's meat
market when he was arrested in August
for selling liquor The sale was the re-
suit of an attachment by Warren F.
Walker for money that milford owed
him for mileage books. The goods sold
consisted of scales, meat knives, a die
tionary and family law book, couch
and half a barrel of pickles
The suit of Jennie Robinson against
George II. Cogswell, both of Dummers-
ton, brought to recover wages for labor
performed, was tried in the town hall in
| Dummerston Monday before Justice of
| the Peace Lewis H. Lynde. The trial
was by court. Judgment was given for
the plaintiff to recover $3.50 damages
with costs of $6.14. E. w. Gibson of
| Brattleboro appeared for the plaintiff and
John f. Gale of Guilford for the defend
ant. An appeal was taken to the county
| court
a large audience, including a good
number of public school and Sunday
| school teachers, attended the lecture in
the Congregational church last night
| given by President Ellsworth G. Lancas-
ter of Olivet college, Olivet, Mich Dr.
Ellsworth spoke on child Psychology
| placing particular stress upon the period
of adolescence. 1t was a lecture of the
| highest order of merit and revealed new
fields in the possibilities of directing the
child life All present We're very much
impressed with the address.
Men have been at work this week lay
ing a surface drain Walnut street
from North Main street to a point oppo-
site the rectory of St. Michaels Roman
Catholic church. For many years owners
of property on Walnut street have pro-
tested against the condition of the gut
ters and the streets in wet weather and
the difficult proposition of getting into
the yards from the street because of the
steep pitch from the walk to the gutter.
1t was intended to lay the drainage pipes
the entire length of the street, but old
pipes were found which extended from a
point opposite the rectory down the rail-
road bank under the tracks to the bank
OF the river.
special train took 80 members of
| Leo council, X. of c., to Bellows Falls
| Sunday afternoon to assist st. Charles
council of that town to observe Column
bus day Fully $50 knights of Columbus
joined with the Bellows Falls members
of the order in the observance At 8
o'clock the second degree was exemplified
on 10 candidates by the degree team OF
Leo council and at o'clock the members
marched in a body to st. Charles church,
where vespers were sung by Rev. Father