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

Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton will conduct
the chapel service at the Retreat Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
A large new furnace has been installed
In the Methodist church. With this and
the other furnace, which does excellent
work, II Is safe to prophesy warm
church next Sunday however low the
mercury may drop.
Irving G. Crosier has bought II. B.
Chamberlains house on Green street and
will move there next spring. The house
Is occupied upstairs by F. c. Leitsinger
and down stairs by II. l.. Osgood. The
sale was made by s. w. Edgett & Co.'S
agency.
An appeal to the county court has
been filed in the case of the state against
George r. Tucker, adjudged guilty by
the municipal court of killing a deer IL
legally. An appeal also has been filed in
| the case against George Carruth of Hall
fax. adjudged guilty of a similar Of
Tense.
The annual dinner and roll call of the
Methodist church will take place next
| Tuesday evening. Every member and
| attendant is cordially invited and urged
| to be present. Every member Is asked
| to respond to the roll call with a passage
| of scripture or other quotation, or with
| words of his or her own choosing. After
the supper, calling of the roll and the
reports of the various church activities
the pastor will speak briefly on what
my church means to me-" Supper will
be served by the ladies' aid society at Z
o'clock
In the annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro branch of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, held in
the Brooks library Tuesday evening,
Charles H. Pratt was chosen president
Coz l.
secretary and treasurer and Henry j.
Allen agent The reports read on this
| occasion showed the society to be in
| good condition, with a larger membership
| than for many years and with balance
in it's treasury. Many cases of neglect
| and cruelty have been investigated and
| righted during the year, and 1t is the
| hope of those interested in this good
work in behalf of Gods humber and
| more defenseless creation that others
may join the society in the near future,
| thus adding to its influence and useful
! ness
Plans have been completed for the Sc
ries of Sunday evangelistic services In
| the Congregational church which will be
begun next Sunday, and indications point
| to large and successful meetings. The
service will begin at o'clock and the
first half hour will be given up to sing
ing. The platform will be enlarged tC
| accommodate a choir of 40 voices, and be
sides the singing of hymns there will bt
violin solo by C. NJ. Dugan and a vo.
cal solo by Fred c. Adams. Rev. Mr.
Houghton will preach an evangelistit
sermon about 20 minutes in length. Tn,
attendance is sure to be large as 20
persons have signed cards pledginl
| themselves to come and a large number
of printed invitations have been dis
tributed The ladies' association i
| ,,Iri Of he artc and n.
young womens association and the Broth
| erhood are working along simila
lines, and pastoral letter has been sen
out this week.
An urgent appeal for funds for tn,
relief of the people in the famine dis
tricts in China Is made by the Red Gross
society, of which Dr. H. d. Holton o
this town is chairman for Vermont. Thu
society sent an engineer to the Anhui ant
| kiangsu regions, and his report show
conditions of starvation of the mos
terrible and appalling character. Recur
rent foundations by the Yangtze ant
other rivers have destroyed crops ant
prevented the cultivation of the land
Millions of human beings are now facinl
starvation. In a proclamation on tn
subject President Taft says: Unit
peace is restored in China and tn
functions of efficient government ar
established, these conditions must con
tinue, save as relieved by the charitable
efforts of other countries" An efficien
relief organization has been established
which will have the assistance of Chimes
merchants and missionaries and able
bodied natives will be employed in repair
ing dykes, canals, and roads and thus b.
enabled to support themselves until new
crops can be harvested The famine arei
covers 10000 square miles.
Leon Bushee was sentenced in the mu
nicipal court in Bennington Friday t
serve not more than seven years and no
less than five years in the state priso
at Windsor Judge E. H. Holden gave tn
boy. who is in his 18th year, more sever
sentence than he would have given hir
had he not known of Bushee's past life
Bushee confessed to the charge of hav
, ing broken into the general store G
Ralph Walker of Arlington the night c
Jan. 10, and of stealing articles value
at about $50. When he was Is years ole
according to a Bennington despatch
the Burlington Free Press, Bushee brok
into the store of Adams & Howard 1
SALISBURY and was convicted in tn
Bennington county court but sentenc
was suspended on promise of relative
that he would be kept out of mischie
On July 8, 1905 Leon Bushee, then en-
ployed by the White River Chair CON
pany of this town, was arrested b
. Deputy Sheriff c. |. Knapp at the VeI
Z mont National bank, where he presente
a check which he had raised from 81. 92
, S492, doing the work in such a bunglin
way that the bank officials quickly sa
I that it had been tempered with. In tn
municipal court that day before Judg
E. w. Gibson he was charged with fo
: gerry, but the charge was mol pressed b
I States Attorney r. c. Bacon and
, charge of petty larceny was brougf
against him, to which he pleaded guilt,
having stolen "a cents from a workman
2 overalls. For this he was sentenced
{ the state Industrial school in Vergennt
8 for the rest of his minority, or until Ma
E q, 1914, but later he was pardoned b
l the governor on account of illness.
, Universalist Fair Thursday, Feb. 8.