Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-12-13

WIFI MISS btIlId ItlltIln w thlltSudg
night.
The Spaulding brothers will hold an
other dance in Grange hall next Friday
evening with music by L~eitsinger's or
chestra.
The last half of e. Wales's dancing
school for children will begin tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock in Grange hall.
The advance class will meet this evening
in Grange hall.
A concert and ball will be held under
the direction of f.. Wales In Grange hall
Christmas evening. Wednesday, Dec. 25
The concert and music for dancing will
be furnished by Leitsinger's seven-piece
orchestra.
The Blues passed the Reds in the
Wheel club railroad pitch tournament
this week. When play closed last even
ing the score was 81 for Capt Lawrence
BARRIERS men to 75 for Capt August
Wilson'S cohorts. Last week the score
was $3.50, with the Blues leading.
Thirty three games remain to be played.
This afternoon at $3.50 o'clock the sixth
and seventh grades of the Main street
building will meet in their final soccer
football game. Each team has won four
games. The interest in soccer football
among the boys is growing and they
are improving in their ability to play
the lively style of football.
That there is a divergence of opinion
among poultry Judges is shown in the
case of a Plymouth Rock cock and hen
owned by Charles II. Welcome. In the
Connecticut Valley Poultry association
show, held in Bellows Falls last week, the
cock was disqualified and the hen took
second. The same birds were shown
in the Springfield Poultry clubs show
in Springfield, Mass, Dec. 10 to IL, and
each won first.
About 35 women of the Congregational
parish met with Mrs. N. l. Hawley We'd
nesday afternoon for a sewing meeting.
1t was voted to hold sewing meetings
at regular intervals in the homes this
winter, and it was voted to send fur
nishings to the Centre church room in
the international college in Springfield,
Mass. Miss Z. Eliza Sessions, solicitor
for the Kurn Hatun homes, spoke and
the women decided to send a box to the
homes. Refreshments were served.
BY grasping a rope and sliding 80
feet to the ground, John C. Pellet, con-
tractor, saved himself from possible
death yesterday forenoon. He was at
work about II o'clock three stories from
the ground, on the Crosby grain ele-
vator which is being erected on Vernon
street, when the car of a derrick swung
against him and knocked him over a pile
of lumber into midair. In front of him
hung a rope which is used for swinging
the derrick. Reaching quickly for it he
was able to break the force of his fall,
but the rope burned his hands and he
was bruised in several places.
A larger audience thar usually attends
the Friday evening meeting was present
at the stereopticon lecture by DR.. Har-
riet E.. Parker of Madura, India, in the
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showed. a large number of views illus
trating her work, also pictures including
a cousin of DR.. Henry d. Holton of this
town and members of the Herrick fam
lily of West Brattleboro engaged in mis-
sionary work in India. One of the
views showed DR.. Parker performing a
surgical operation. DR.. Parker, former
ly of East Putney, has charge of the
Woman's Board hospital in Madura. She
was listened to with great interest.
In a hearing in st. Johnsbury Tuesday
Chancellor E. l., Waterman of Brattle-
borO denied the petition of the Bellows
Falls Canal company for a dissolution
of the injunction restraining the COM
pany from proceeding in New Hamp-
shire with its petition to nave certain
taxes payable to the town of Walpole
assessed against the mill owners in Bel
lows Falls instead of the Canal COM
panty. LIE taxes amount TO ABOUT SZU,-
900. The mill owners charge that the
Canal ompany is trying to take the
matter out of the Vermont Jurisdiction.
Attorneys c. c. Fits of Brattleboro and
Judge Remick of Concord appeared for
the mill owners and Attorneys ]. G. Sar-
gent of Ludlow and Demond of Concord
represented the Canal company.
Five cases of diphtheria have been re-
ported to Health Officer Henry Tucker
this week. They are in the homes of
j. l.. Stockwell of West Brattleboro,
Christopher Babb of l Pine street,
Don Wilder in the Ullery build
street and DR.. L. S. Edwards of ~ Pros
pect street. Mumps have been reported
in the homes of w. E.. Chase, A. e.
knight. II. F. Weatherhead and E. e.
Mather in West Brattleboro, and in the
homes of George Martell of Elliot street,
Don Wilder of Ullery building annex and
c. F. Bingham of Crosby street. Whodp-
ing cough has been reported in the
homes of Emery Miller in West Brat
tleboro, f. S. Britton of West street,
Don l.. Hewitt of 1G Brook street and
j. f. Bushnell of A High street. The
first case of scarlet fever reported in
several months is Harold Gibbs, son of
Mr.. and Mrs C. L. Gibbs, who live in
The Abbott.
The usual business was transacted in
the annual meeting of the Brattleboro
East society, the ecclesiastical society of
the Congregational parish, Wednesday
evening. The meeting followed the
Brotherhood meeting in the chapel and
Chairman F. w. Kuech presided. Walter
A. Gilbert was elected clerk and the
treasurer, George C. Averill, read his re-
port, which was accepted and adopted.
These officers were elected: Trustees, F.
w. Kuech, George H. Clapp, j. Gilbert
Stafford, Henry e. Bond and Frederic
C. Adams; treasurer, George C. Averill;
auditor, Louis A.. Whitney. The matter
of appropriations for the coming year
was left with the trustees. Miss Flor
ence M. Hemenway. who has done eff
icient work the past year, was re-en-
gagged for the year 1913. The meeting
also reelected the nance committee
consisting of George l.. Durham, Clarke
C. Fits, George NJ. Clay, Fred c.. Ad-
ans, Miss Florence NJ. Hemenway, Mrs.
Fremont Hamilton and Mrs. Howard c..
Rice.
Attorneys for Isadore Groper, who was
arrested in Pittsfield. Mass, three weeks
ago for the Windham county authori-
ties as a fugitive from justice, fought
for two hours at a hearing held before
Assistant Attorney Marshall in the state
house in Boston Wednesday morning to
prevent eXtradition papers being grant
ed. Groper was indicted on five counts