Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-15
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hall Saturday night.
The Bra ttleboro and Bellows Falls high
school football teams will meet at Is
land park Saturday afternoon, Nov. 49,
The mission circle of the Universalst
church will meet in the church parlors
next Thursday at 2.SO. Miss Matilda A.
Clifton will give a paper on THE work
of the nurse in Brattleboro."
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Henry Potter of
Manchester, ~ H., have issued cards an
nouncng the marriage on Saturday, Nov.
9. of their daughter, Edith Augusta, to
James Harold Fifed. Mr.. F'feld was
formerly a well-known newspaper re-
porter in Brattleboro. Since leaving this
town he has been connected with papers
in Manchester. Springfield, Mass, and
Elizabeth, N. j.
Arguments were made before Chan
cellor f. NJ. Butler in Montpelier Tues
day forenoon on the motion of the
Hooker, Corser & Mitchell company for
an injunction restraining the Mohawk
overall company from making garments
of certain patterns and from selling to
a certain list of customers c. c. Fits
and r. c. Bacon appeared for the ora
tors and H. G. & F. f. Barber for the
defendants. The chancellor asked the
parties to submit briefs and gave the
orators until next Monday and the de-
PENDANTS until the following Saturday
Every true American feels a glow of
pride in his countrymen when he hears
of the recognition of their great
achievements in foreign lands. 1t was
John Philip Sousa who took his famous
band around the world, giving concerts
in every musical centre before the most
critical audiences, beating down all pre-
JUDGES and winning the universal YER
dict for himself and his musicians of
being unequalled. Sousa and his band
will be here at the Auditorium Monday
evening, Nov. %, with the same SOLO
lists, Miss Virginia Root, soprano; Miss
| Nicotine Zedeler violinste and Her
| bert L. Clarke. cornetst, who went
| around the world. n
In the meeting of Protective Grange
| Wednesday evening it was voted to
| change the date of the next meeting
| from Nov. 81 to Wednesday, Nov. 20, on
account of Thanksgiving. After the bus
| mess meeting the program was in
| charge of Mrs. II. w. Sargent and in
| cluded readings by Mrs. Frank Pier
| vocal solos by Mrs. Cortes E. Farnum
an illustrated song, "Oh, where is my
wandering boy tonight?" illustrated
words, tableaux. songs by sextet COM
| posed of H. w. Sargent. Miss Bessie
| l.. Farnum, Mrs. Bessie Knowlton Mrs
Noyes White. Judge and Mrs. F. B
Pier, each singing a different tune, with
| Mrs. H. w. Sargent as accompanist: al
observation table and bean-bag game
The entertainment was followed by re-
| freshments of pumpkin pie, cheese, cot
fee and home made candy.
In the supreme court in Montpelier
| Tuesday afternoon the case of the stat,
against George Carruth of Halifax wa!
| disposed of in the states favor Car.
| r-1tfh fine! T,,ls
| w. r. Daley in the municipal court
Exceptions were taken by C. C. Fits
but the appeal was not perfected, anC
on motion of States Attorney F. E
Barber the supreme court dismissed tn,
appeal, which means that the respond
ent must pay the judgment of the mu
nicipal court A hearing was to hav,
been held in the case of the stat
against Herbert Grace who was sen
fenced to three years in the state prison
at the last spring term of county court
but on account of the illness of E. w
Gibson the respondents counsel tn,
case was continued to the January term
The exceptions are as to the admission
| of certain evidence.
When Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton of tn,
Congregational church was on his Eu
ropean trip last summer he went from
Bairut to Smyrna, to Constantinople ant
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the countries which have been engaged
in war the past few weeks. He mad
some photographs which he has mad
into stereoptcon lantern Slides an,
these with others he will show in hi
stereopticon lecture in the church mex
Sunday evening. He intended TO Civ
another lecture the coming Sunday, Blu
changed on account of the interest il
the war. The subject will be "Con
stantinople and Turkey" Last Sunda,
night the congregation was exception
ally large, practically filling the church
One of the pictures shown was that o
Rev Mr.. Houghton standing on Mar
hill and reading from the New Tesla
ment the words uttered by ST. Pau
while standing on the same spot.
Members of the fire department hav
been wondering this week why an alarm
was rung in from box As on Western
avenue at 12.40 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. If it was a joke they cannot Sc
the funny side of crawling out of be-
40 minutes after midnight, and if it wa
test to see in what time they coul
assemble at a box they are wondering
why the recall was sounded before tn
| apparatus had time to get to box A.
Shortly before the alarm was rung II
a resident of Western avenue saw tw
men approach the box and after strikinj
light they pulled in an alarm. AL
though the citizen is not member o
the department he turned from the win
dow and began to dress, but hardly ha
the alarm been sounded before the re
call came. He hurried to the windov
and saw the two men making a hast,
retreat. The combination and chemica
wagons were halfway up Church stree
when the recall sounded and they re
turned to the fire headquarters Will
the sleepy firemen who had been calle'
from their cots hurried home. There /
no doubt about the new gong bein,