Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-19

| party will be held In Armory hall tomor- |
| row night.
| The annual inspection of Beauseant |
commandery, No. Z, will be held Friday /
| evening, Feb. ..
s. w. Edgett & Co. report the sale
street owned by Ellen c. Hall to George |
| Wells, who buys for investment. Pos
| session will be given April l..
| The chemical engine answered a still |
| alarm for small blaze in the home OF |
Rexford Benson on Canal street Sunday
| afternoon which was caused by the ex-
plosion of an oil lamp. The damage to
property was slight
The stereoptcon lecture on "Jerusa-
lem" which Prof. l.. b. Patton of the
Hartford Theological seminary intended
to give in the Centre church tonight, has
been postponed to Feb. 16. The usual
prayer meeting will take place tonight,
the subject being David, king of Is
| rael."
The entire force of travelling statesmen
for the Durham Brothers company will
come to Brattleboro next week to at
end the annual school for statesmen,
which will begin Thursday and continue
three days. The usual reception will
take place in the Brooks House Friday
night.
1t had been planned to begin the work
| of manufacturing cotton cloth at the
Fort Dummer Mills this week, but ow
ing to the absence of e. c. Chace the
opening of the new mill was postponed a
few days. Mr.. Chace left Wednesday to
inspect the Deerfield river properties
with a party of New York and Boston
| capitalists.
The ladies' auxiliary of the n. f. o.
p. met Friday evening in the home
of Mrs. Fred Davis and elected these
| Pros Mrs Ida Stafford Vipp
pres, Mrs Ellen Herrick; treas, Miss
Susie Miner; Sec, Mrs. Annie Bracket.
The next meeting will be held in the
home of Mrs. Stafford Friday evening,
Jan. 20. All members are requested to
be present.
Employees of j. E. Mann's store, the
Attainers and knights of Wesley gave
Miss Ethel Streetr a surprise party in
her home on Pine street last evening.
the occasion being her birthday ami
versary. Games were played and re-
freshments were served. The employees
of the store gave Miss Streeter a hand
some cut glass dish and the two classes
presented her Gu glass sugar bowl and
creamer.
The board of selectmen received this
week a letter from a plumber in East
hampton who wants this town to pay
for the support of a former resident of
Brattleboro who is now in the almshouse
in that town. The Brattleboro man went
to Easthampton, Mass, last fall and
up to within a week or two ago had been
sleeping in stables and apparently was
not getting much to eat so the plumber
arranged to pay his board at the aims
house, SO week. He now wishes to
have this town assume the responsibility,
{ but as ,the man is now out of the state
the town will not have to do so.
Henry G. Clark of this town was in a
| in no HOuSe in ROStOn
when that once famous hosiery caught
fire about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning
The fire gained such Roadway that 1t
was with difficulty that the $50 guests
were awakened in time to escape. Mr.
Clark goes to the Brighton market every
Monday and always had stopped at the
Revere House. Early Tuesday morning
he was awakened and found his room
on the third floor filled with smoke. He
dressed quickly and escaped before the
flames reached that part of the hotel in
which his room was located. Early that
morning he telephoned to his son, Charles
II. Clark, that he was all right, as he
! knew that the newspapers would have
accounts of the fire. A man named Jo-
seph Clark, who occupied a room on the
third floor, was awakened by smoke in
his room and he aroused Henry G. Clark,
John O'Brien of Braintree and d. Knee
! land of Hardwck, this state, and S. E.
Winch of Shrewsbury, Mass, and they
assisted OtneT persons on the SAME HOOi
The funeral of Mrs. Bridget Heaphy
Ryan, who died Thursday night of last
, week in the home of her daughter. Mrs.
Joseph w. Lowry. in Gulford, was held
in st. Michaels Roman Catholic church
here Saturday at 10 o'clock, Rev. Father
E. c. Fountain celebrating high mass.
e Miss Katherine Calvin sang Nearer, my
God, to Thee" The burial took place
in the Roman Catholic cemetery, the
> bearers being friends from Greenfield,
A Mass, selected by her son, Nicholas T.
= Ryan Among those present from out of
-; town were Nicholas T. Ryan and chill
.. dren. Patrick, Nellie Anna, Catherine
Mary and Helen. DR.. Edgar Major,
Thomas Fleming, Mr.. and Mrs. C. F.
= Mcclellan John Woodlock, John Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Donovan, Frank
Lawlor and Nicholas Lawlor, all of
Greenfield, Nicholas. John, John ]. and
Thomas Heaphy. Mrs. Thomas Fleming
i all of Whately. Mass, Mr.. and Mrs.
: Michael Morrissy. John Callahan,
. Mrs. Michael Dwyer and Thomas
Conley. all of South Deerfield; Mr..
and Mrs James Piggott of Spring
field, Mass. William Piggott of Millers
- / Falls, John Hanrahan of Hatfield, Thorn =
as ]. Heaphy of Montpelier and DR.. Jo-
seph Heaphy of Holyoke.
S Mrs. Minnie Bundy Clapp, As. wife OF
4 Pearl T. Clapp Of Clark street. died in
y her home Saturday evening after a brief
. illness with grip and pneumonia. She
t had been in i'll health several years and
s had undergone several operations in re-
- cent years, but her last illness was OF
Y only three days duration. She was born
( in Stockbridge, this state, June Is, 1856
e and was the oldest of II children OF
: Lewis S. and Lucy (Coyer) Bundy. She
v spent the early part of her life in her
n native town and in Bethel, where she at
= tended school. After leaving school she
e lived in Hudson, Mass, and Lebanon,
s N II. She was married to Mr.. Clapp,
=, who had previously lived here, July A.
: 1897. and IA years ago they came to this
i; town to live. Mr.. Clapp being employ
:, ed by A. V. Cox in the plumbing bust
; ness. She was devoted to her home and
had a large circle of friends. and she
e performed many acts of kindness un-
4; known to people generally. Besides her
:. husband she leaves two children, Mabel
:, l. and Stanley W.. her father. Lewis
e s. Bundy, four brothers. George L. Bun
'. dy of Taunton, Mass, Frank l.. Bundy
of Nooseneck, r. l.. Fred l.. Bundy OF
=. New Haven, Conn. and Henry L. Bundy
II of Leominster, Mass. and two sisters
e Mrs. Stephen Williams of Shelburne
+ Falls Mass, and Mrs Ernest A. Pack
y | ard of Randolph. The funeral was held