Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-25

sing soprano in the UniversaliSt church
quartet Sunday morning and will rem
der a solo.
About 20 couples attended the dancing
party in Knights of Columbus as
sembly hall Wednesday evening. The
party was the second in the series
which is being conducted by Leo coun-
ell.
The receipts of the ummag sale con-
Quoted by the women of the Congrega-
tional church, which closed Saturday
night, were over 800. The money will
be turned in to the fund for providing
more room for the Sunday school
The public is invited to attend the
autumn festival to be given by the young
people of the Universalist church Fri
day evening, Nov. 1, in Grange hall.
Various articles will be on sale and
there will be an entertainment and
dancing.
An interesting collar display is being
shown In the south window of G. A.
McRae's store. 1t advertises a brand of
collar that has been made so years and
there are shown several old-time stocks
of the styles wore by gentlemen of the
period of the Civil war.
NJ. ]. Moran has had men at work
at his house on Highland avenue this
week raising 1t about 40 inches. The
front of the house was built over a
ledge and Mr.. Moran has had the
building raised in order to make the
cellar deeper and to change the pitch of
the furnace pipes.
The First Baptist Bible school will
meet Wednesday evening for the first
social In the winter series. Older classes
will gather In the church parlors, dif-
ferent features of the evenings enter
tainment being in the hands of the
Baraca, Philathea, Mr.. Bonds and Mr..
Halls classes. The younger classes will
have a Halloween program in the chapel.
The teachers of the grades of the
public schools were entertained by the
members of the high school faculty
Saturday evening in the main room of
the high school. New teachers have
been added to both the high and graded
school STATS, and opportunities were
given them to become better acquaint-
ed. tn evening was spent socially and
light refreshments were served.
The football game scheduled for yes
terday between the high school team
and the Bellows Falls high school team
was postponed. The rains of Wednes-
day brought the river up and the Is
lane was flooded so that il was i'm
possible to play. Northampton United
is scheduled to play the local aggrega-
ton tomorrow. Brattleboro won from
the United team in Northampton the first
game of the season by a score of 14-O.
Both teams have been playing good
football and an interesting contest is
anticipated.
DR.. c. F. Dalton of Burlington. who
Will succeed DR.. Henry ID. Holton as sec
rotary of the state board of health, has
been in town this week to become ac-
customed to the work. Miss Gertrude
Stockwell, who has been DR.. Holton's
stenographer about four years, will en-
ter other employment when DIR. Dalton
takes the position Dec. /. H. B. Cham
berlain, who has had charge of filing the
vital statistics in the office, will continue
that work until the returns for 1912 are
all in, which will be some time in Feb
ruary.
John Scott of Cambridge, Mass, was
fined S. and costs, the costs amounting
to 1884, by Judge w. r. Daley Wednes-
day morning for drunkenness. Scott ex-
planned to the court that he had come
here with a pal to sell $50 ba of
peaches and did not have money to pay
the fine. Judge Daley sentenced him to
10 lays at the county Jail and he sud-
denly remembered that perhaps his
friend with whom he came from the Uni
versity city might have some money. He
and Chief-of-Police George Wilson found
the other man after a little gum-shoe
work and the fine was paid.
In this age of frivolous musical come
dy, patter songs and rag-time, the mu-
sicianly ella will welcome with zest,
the big spectacular revival of Balfe's
masterpiece, THE Bohemian Girl" in
English, which the Aborn opera company
will offer at the Auditorium Saturday
evening, Nov. 2. The Messrs. Aborn
have made a special and elaborate pro-
duction of this grand old opera, that is
said to rival the most important Metro
pohtan productions in point of massive
and magnificent stage investiture. Con-
sistently introducing therein many novel
and sensational features, yet Balfe's de-
lightful score with IT'S wealth of heart
stirring, beautiful melodies has not been
sighted. The music will be sung by an
important cast of ~ell-know singers.
w. C. Jones, alias Clement Bevan, of
England. who was arrested in the Toy
Town tavern in Winchendon, Mass,
sept. 10 on the charge of stealing an
automobile owned by Manley Brothers
of this town, and who was held in $500
for his appearance before the Worces-
ter county grand jury, pleaded guilty in
the superior court in Worcester We'd
nesday and was sentenced to the Mas
sachusetts ~reformatory at Concord
Junction. He was given an indeterminate
sentence and will remain behind the
bars until the Massachusetts officials
think. he. can go out into the world and
cSsa, a9o " tdI
eer in August and September, when he
stole an automobile in New York and
enjoyed the hospitality of various hotel
proprietors in New York state and in
m and left a badly damaged au-
tomobile here. taking a local chauffeur
to Fitchburg and stealing Manley
Brothers car in which they made the
trip.
Tommy" Hopkins, who has won
local renown as a little fellow with a
big appetite. John Mcdonald, who is a
dark horse in gastronomic feats, and a
youth from Claremont, who is said to
be some" eater, will take part In an
eating contest in a local theatre next
Wednesday evening. Hopkins is training
for the event and is taking a four mile
walk out into the country each day and
Tor dinner yesterday he consumed three
pounds of boiled dinner. The menu
Wednesday evening when the three
young men will eat for the champion
ship of New England will consist of
four pounds of roast beef, four pounds
of roast pork, is scrambled eggs, a loaf
or bread, "a doughnuts, one gallon of
coffee. five apple pies ana two gallons
of cider, A portion of the food for the
contestants will be on exhibition in the
Twin State Gas & Electric company's
window during the afternoon. The man
of the theatre will have a first
class chef In a nearby cafe in order to
have mora aatahlao OF had ie Al. $500.