Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-29

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ternoon. Two new members were ad-
mitted.
Rev. Arthur w. Bailey, formerly a
pastor in Keene, N. H., but now Sunday
school superintendent for northern New
England, will speak in the Congrega-
tional church Sunday morning. The sew
raj departments of the school will meet
together for the opening exercises at the
Sunday school hour and Mr.. Bailey will
speak briefly.
Announcement has been made that
some of the Progressives are in favor of
starting a newspaper in Keene. Bellows
Falls or Brattleboro, but that none of
the details have been worked out. A
prominent Brattleboro Progressive has
stated that the paper would be a week
ly, but another leader says the plan is
to have a daily somewhere in this state
which shall be Statewide in character.
The women of the Congregational
church cleared about 1925 at their food
sale Tuesday afternoon and evening. II
was in charge of Mrs. T.. j. Waterman
and Mrs. A. L. Pettee The tables were
In charge of the following persons:
Candy, Mrs. II. c. Rice and Mrs. Clar-
ence Reed; cake and pie, Mrs. M. j.
Larrabee and Mrs. II. l.. Waterman;
flowers, Mrs. Harry Randall; japanese
articles, Miss Alice Waterman. Miss
am SldpH anu Wise 11edTlWtll. Cdn-
ned fruit, Mrs. w. F. Root and Mrs.
w. A. Gilbert.
Orlin Daniel Whitney. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Whitney of this town, and
Miss Ruth Emily Owen of Hinsdale
were married Saturday evening IN the
parsonage of the Universalist church by
Rev. ID. E. Trout. They were unattenl-
ed and a single ring service was used.
Immediately after the they left
fAp IA. 1AI, ~ t.
employed by the Granite State Moving
Machine company. Mr.. Whitney always
has lived in this town, and he attended
the public schools here. He is an adept
basketball player and for several sea-
sons played with teams here and in
White River Junction. Mrs. Whitney
has many friends among the younger
people in town.
Edgar A. Holmes of New York, a
summer resident of Brattleboro in 1911,
appeared before Assistant Judge E. l..
Hastings Monday afternoon in order
that he might be released from the
county Jail in Newfane on bail. Holmes
was arrested about a month ago and
brought to Vermont. charged with OBJ
tanning an automobile from the Brat
tleboro garage under false pretenses.
He was given an opportunity to be tried
before the September term of the Wind
ham county court, but he preferred to
wait until the April session. Since then
ne had been in the Jail. on Monday
afternoon his bail was fixed at $1,000
and Henry r. Brown of this town be-
came, surety for him. Holmes left i'm
mediately for the metropolis. His trial
is scheduled for the next term of court.
Clarence Joseph Briggs, assistant chef
at the Brooks House, and Miss Julia A.
Sexton, formerly an operator in the To-
cal telephone exchange ana until a week
ago an operator in the Pittsheld, Mass,
exchange, We're married Monday morn
ing at 8 o'clock in st. Michael's Roman
Catholic church by Rev. Father Bernard
w. Mcmahon. Mrs. Briggs is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James C. Sexton
of Brattleboro. Mr.. Briggs formerly
lived in Greenfield, coming here about
three years ago. They VIII live in this
town. Following the ceremony Mr.. and
Mrs. Briggs went by automobile to
Greenfield where a wedding breakfas
was served in the home of Mr.. Briggs's
parents, Mr.. a d Mrs. Frank Briggs, They
were the recipients of many gifts and
among them were a 800 gold piece from
the operators in the Pittsfield exchange
and a handsome cut-glass dish and sill,
YER tableware from the employees of thu
Brooks House.
The many Brattleboro friends of Rev
DIR. John II. Elliott of Chicago, the
evangelist, were fortunate in having al
opportunity to hear him Tuesday eve
ming. He stopped on his way from
Claremont, n. H., where he had jus
closed a two weeks campaign, to Wash
lngton, D.. c., and spoke in the FRS
Baptist church to a good sized audience
His sermon was based on the 116tl
Psalm. emphasizing particularly thu
statement, 81 will pay my VOWS" HI
was accompanied by his musical direc'
tor, A. S. Reitz, who conducted a praise
service and sang two solos very &C
ceptably, one being The Ninety ant
Nine DR.. Elliott spoke with his char
acteristic simplicity and ~directness, Civ
ing a straight-out business talk. On &C
count of the necessity OF leaving OF
the $50 train DR.. Elliot did not hav'
an opportunity to shake hands with hi!
friends. but the Congregation wen
through the motions of a hand-shakt
from the floor, which was an interesting
sight.
A classmate of Rev. Roy NJ. Hough'
ton in the Yale divinity school, Rev
John A. Scheuerle, secretary of the Ben
nington County improvement a%ssocia-
ton, gave a strong and practical SER
mon in the Congregational church
Sunday morning and at the close of
the sermon gave a very interesting talk
in the church to a large number who
remained. mentioning more In detail
the work of the association. The SER
mon was the closing feature of home
mission week. and it was shown that
the work of the Bennington association
is doing a home mission work of great
Importance, undertaking whatever its
means will permit in the way of i'm
proving conditions throughout the coun-
ty. Through organized effort and the
help of experts 1t improves roads, nurs-
es the sick, stimulates scientific agri-
culture, beauties surroundings, ele-
Yates school conditions and engages in
various other activities. About 10000
has been raised for the work and more
Is expected. In his talk after the SER
| mon Mr.. Scheuerle cited many specific
instances of the benefits of the move
ment and his audience was deeply in
terested. Such a work is bound to be
taken up in other counties of the state.
William Fleming and Ralph Grout
filed petitions in bankruptcy Friday
morning and were adjudged bankrupt
by Judge James l.. Martin. Damage
suits had previously been brought
and judgments awarded against them.
In the last session of the county court
a verdict of $4,000 was awarded against
Fleming in favor of Henry Goddard of
this town for damages sustained by the
plaintiff when a wagon which he was
driving was struck by the defendants