Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-02-09

Two candidates were initiated Tues
day evening in the meeting of Bingham
chapter, o. e. s.
The Knights of Columbus will tender
a reception in their rooms Monday even
ing Feb. ~, to the women who assisted
them in their recent bazaar.
wantastiquet lodge of odd Fellows
conferred the inltatory degree on three
candidates Monday evening. The same
degree will be conferred next Monday
evening.
Wednesday evening included piano solos
by Miss Tracy Cushman and a very in
| teresting and instructive talk on "Es-
peranto" by John c. Pellet Mr.. Pei
lett illustrated his talk with charts
Members of sedgwick woman's Relief
corps will go to Newfane on a sleigh
ride next Wednesday. All desiring to
Georgia Stone or Mrs. Georginna
Converse. They will meet in @. A. r.
hall at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
Silas A. Hosmer 81, an attendant at
the Retreat died lin. the Memorial hos
pital Saturday evening. He formerly was
| a bookkeeper, but for several months
| had been employed at the Retreat. He
was born in Concord, Mass, and was a
! son of Silas and Sarah Bailey Hosmer.
The body was taken to Concord for
| burial.
Cards announcing the marriage in
| Wheeling, West Virginia, Wednesday of
| Dr. Zeno b. Babbitt, formerly of South
| Londonderry and Miss Annie Clark Parks
| of Wheeling, were received in town this
week. They will be al home after March
1, in the Keneson, Washington, D. C.
| Dr. Rabbit is a brother of Miss Louise
A. Rabbit of this town.
The second in the series of evangelis-
tic services in the Congregational church
will be held Sunday evening at o'clock.
The chorus will sing and there will be
special music by a male quartet The
| selection sweet Sabbath Eve" which
was sung In the Auditorium when Frank
| Dyer of Chicago was conducting the Bet
ter Brattleboro campaign, will be rem
| dered.
The Brattleboro Retreat farm of reg
| istered Holstein cattle has made a rec
ord which appears to A. w. Roel, the
farm manager to be unusual. Within 1G
months five pairs of twin calves have
been born on the farm, in a herd OF
about 40 cows. All the calves were
fully developed and normal in physica
condition, and all are doing well and are
being raised on the Retreat farm The
last pair was born last Saturday The
dates of birth and the sexes are as fol
lows: Sept 81, 1910, male and female
Nov. 30, 1910, two females; March 5
1911, male and female; Dec. ~, 1911, two
females; Feb. 8, 1912, male and female
II anybody knows of record beatnt
this Mr.. Roel would like to hear abou
it,
Abraham Lincoln will be the subjec
of the stereopticon lecture in the Uni
versalist church Sunday at I p m. Ont
hundred colored views will picture thu
events and deeds of that noble and re
markable man, who safely piloted thu
ship of state through the storms of tn
Civil war and who is deservedly calle'
the saviour of his country" Everyon
is always interested in this great char
acter. so well named Honest Abe" ant
his life of sacrifice and service. Thi
lecture promises to be very interestin
and profitable. Sedgwick post, c. A R.
and the Woman's Relief corps will at
tend in a body and seats will be reserv
ed There will be special music by
chorus of young women. The public |
, welcome.
over 100 persons attended the Suppe
and annual roll call in the vestry of tn
Methodist church Tuesday evening.
fine supper was served at Z O'Clock b
the ladies' aid society, which Shove
= pleasing program was rendered, consist
ing of piano duet by Miss Marion Bart
l lett and Miss Doris Smith, cornet solo
by Richard Bolster, a reading by Mr.:
l Cola C. G. Morse, and piano solo b
l Miss Ethel Streeter. A report was give
by Mrs Emma F. Bartlett, treasurer {
the ladies' aid sicety, which Shove
that $500 was raised the past year an
expended in repairs on the parsonage an
in other ways Reports were given by
!, A. Shaw, trea surer of the Sunday schot
and president of the Epworth League
and then came the roll call by the re
cording steward, DR.. c. c. Wheele
d many responses by letter being rea'
:. besides the verbal responses from thos
n present DR.. Wheeler also gave a repol
d of the church work and the occasio
10 closed with a talk by Rev. F. A. Wells O
o What the church means to me an
: what 1 mean to my church"
a AS will be seen by an advertisement
: this paper the receivers of the Hare
a ware & Woodenware Manufacture
a company, Addison K. Cudworth and Ere
e w. Crandall. will sell by public auctic
= all of the property of the company, whiC
IT includes the S. A. Smith company plai
e, in Brattleboro, at the court house
l. Worcester, Mass. Feb. 81, at p. m. tt
n sale will be made pursuant to a decr'
N of the circuit court of the United Stat
'e for the southern district of New Yor
1t and it will take place in Worcester b.
ID cause more of the property Is in Wo
cester county than in any other count
1 The Brattleboro property consists of Il
e plant and about 10 acres of land on Fro
- street. about 20 acres of land in Guilfor
8 known as the Spear lot, which Is spro
- land, and the leasehold rights of Il
company in the Hildreth building on FL
e street. The auction is step in clearil
the path for a reorganization of the cor
4 | pany and taking the business out Of r
:. ceivers' hands. 1t Is expected that Il
:: plants owned by the company will co
= tinue under one ownership and that mo
D business will be done in each.
le A temperance address by broa
10 minded and practical man will be d
lie livered in the First Baptist church ne
J. Sunday morning in place of the usu
d sermon. Rev. Clifford II. Smith, 70
e. merly of West Brattleboro, superinten
lie ent of the Vermont AntiSaloon aeagl
"a will speak on "A Better Vermont" Re
is Mr.. Smith spoke in Burlington Sund
lie and on Tuesday the Burlington FIR
Is Press published an editorial a CO
Is umn in length on the temperan
re question, beginning as follows:
" number of people on Sunday hea
y the temperance question discuss
Is in a manner that was modera
Is and sane One thing particularly e
ID couraging and pleasing to Vermonte
m about this talk lay in the fact that {
lie speaker was the new superintendent
lie the Anti Saloon league. It'is to
l. gathered from this fact that the opp
ly sition to the intemperance evil in We
mont has a rational and practical lead'
ship. Quiet. unobtrusive methods,
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