Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26

The membership contest between the
Reds and Blues of Brattleboro lodge. N
e. o. p, will close Wednesday evening.
The losers will provide a supper for the
winners.
A party of Ia girls chaperoned by Miss
Mary Cox went to Newfane on a straw
ride Saturday and had supper at the
Newfane Inn, returning in the evening.
The supper was furnished by Mrs. j.
Harry Estey.
Saturday was the first anniversary of
the opening of the Cloverdale store on
Elliot street, in charge of George w.
Brooks. The volume of business done at
the store the first year greatly exceeded
expectations.
Stark company, Red Mems league,
will hold a masquerade ball in Grange
hall Wednesday evening. Members of
the company are planning several inno-
vations for the affair. Leitsinger's or
chestra will furnish music.
The annual meeting of the members
of the Universahst church mot the par
sh) will be held in the church parlor
Thursday, Feb. 1, at p. m. All mem
bers are urged to be present as there is
important business to be transacted
The annual meeting of the Society for
the Protection of Dumb Animals will
be held Tuesday evening at 7.30 in the
north room of the Brooks library. Re-
ports will be given by the agent of the
society, the secretary and treasurer, and
it is hoped that large representation
of members may be present.
In the regular meeting of Protective
Grange Wednesday evening the lecturer
had charge of the program, which in
cluded a recitation by Clarence E.
Johnson of Pistareen Grange, a paper on
m n hxy s.
cussion on the same subject by Judge F.
B. Pier and Mrs. Bessie Knowlton.
Owing to the continued illness of J.
Leslie Elmer and the necessity for his
mother to be with him, Mrs. Elmers
classes in the high school have been as
signed temporarily to other teachers, two
being outside the regular teaching force.
Beginning this week, Miss Florence NJ
Hemenway began teaching the two d.
visions of first year Latin and Mrs. F. 1.
Swift began teaching arithmetic and
geography Miss Florence c. Allen OF
the high school faculty is teaching second
year Latin in addition to her regular
work.
1.-THE Revolutionary war" will be the
subject of the stereopticon lecture in the
Universalist church Sunday at p. m.
Many colored views will picture the
causes of the conflict, and the war with
it's battles and exciting scenes. which
made the colonies an independent ma
ton. The names of Washington, Frank
lin, Lee, Greene, Lafayette, Wayne,
Stark and the battles of Lexington, Con-
cord, Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton
Bennington and Yorktown awaken one s
interest in his native land. No comment
is necessary, because all the patriots of
our beloved country are interested in
this great struggle for independence
There will be special music.
The representatives of the various re-
| ligious denominations in this state, con-
shutting the federation council met in
Burlington last week and completed the
organization of the state fedora ton as
a subsidiary of the National Federal
council. This meeting of the Inter-
Church Federation of the state of Ver-
mont was the final step in the affiila-
ton of the Vermont churches with the
nation wide movement for increased CO.
operation and unity among Christian
churches Among the officers elected
were C. C. Fits (CongregationaD as a
vice president: Henry Bond (Baptist), as
member of the finance committee, and
| DR. H. d. Holton Baptist. as member
| of the social purity committee.
Preparations are being made for the pro-
| duction in the Auditorium of the PA.
geant of Missions which was presented
| in Montpelier last September at the an.
nual meeting of the Vermont branch
| Woman's Board of Missions, under tn,
direction of Miss Florence NJ. Hemenwa,
of this town 1t will be given under tn,
| auspices of the women's foreign mission
airy societies of the several churches anC
a large chorus will take part. The date
is Feb. %. There are eight scenes, a.
| follows: Pilgrims of the night; Chris
tianity in India; outside the Chimes,
hospital; Japanese kindergarten; Bud
hism and Christianity in Burma thu
new woman of the Turkish empire; gu
of darkest Africa; occasional
Oscar F. Benson received notice from
City Marshal Coughlin of Bay View
Me-, Friday that the cottage owned b,
| Mr.. Benson had been entered by thieve
and small amount of property stolen
| Five cottages were broken into an,
about SIS worth of lead pipe, paddock
and junk carried away In breaking ii
the thieves damaged the cottages t.
the amount of several hundred dollars
According to the report the cottages o
Howard Smith and Frank Buzzel O
Fall River, DR.. A. c. Parker of Dover
N. H., r. Fl. Morrow of Saco, Me-, an
o. F. Benson were entered. most of tn
loot being taken from the Morrow cot
tage. Frank Tibbetts, II, and Roy Per
kins, 25, were arrested and Tibbetts, it /
said. confessed to the breaks. while Per
kins refused to talk Bay View is nea
Old Orchard.
Ernest H. Harris and Fred L. MIN
took their iceoplane out on the rive
Sunday morning in order to have a try
out of the new machine, which is
combination iceboat and monoplane, blu
because of a broken water cooler tn
engine was not working we'll and n
flight was attempted. A large crowd O
youngsters and men watched the ma
chine and helped the owners by gettin
In their way as much as they could con
veniently. By generous use of gaso
line, power enough was generated in tn
engine to get the propeller going and
twirled at tremendous speed, the sue
ton being strong enough to remove
PERSONS hat from his head The youn
men expect to have the engine repaire
this week and will attempt a tryou
sunday. although they are not MAXIM
any boasts about what the machine viii
DO. The iceoplane was described In TIL
Ph9nix several weeks ago Charlie
Oakes's iceboat which he had last yea
was out Sunday for the first time. Ex
cept for slight trouble with the engine
worked all right and probab bly, this yea
VIII develop more than the 80 miles al
hour that the boat made on the ice las
winter.
In his entirely new program in tn,
Auditorium tomorrow afternoon ant
evening Lyman II. Howe will present 8