Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1915-12-17

Following its custom the Methodist
Sunday school will have its annual
Christmas tree and supper Friday eve
ming, Dec. "a.
The five dollar gold piece which was
drawn at the st. Cecilia Altar society
meeting December Q was won by Mrs,
Patrick Kane of Pine street.
Valentine Morehouse with his wire.
less apparatus copied four messages
sent to the Ford peace ship the day af-
ter the ship sailed on its European
voyage.
The Witwinton Campfire girls with
Miss Eddy, Miss Wellman and Miss
Proctor, went on a hike on the noun
tain Saturday, cooking their dinner
there at noon. There were Is girls in
the party.
The next meeting of Protective
Grange will be held Wednesday even
ing, Dec. %, having been postponed
from Dec. Is. Reports of officers will
be given, also reports of the meeting
of the state Grange. Officers will be
elected.
Peter McGrail of Toms River, n. j.,
father of Miss Teresa McGrail, who
lives with Miss Mary r. Cabot, died
Dec. s. The funeral was held Satur-
day morning at $50 at Toms River
and the body was taken to Calvary
cemetery, Brooklyn, for burial.
Workmen are engaged in putting up
telltales both north and south of the
overpass at the railroad station. These
consist of poles on either side of the
tracks, with cross wires from which
hang ropes or wires to touch the heads
of trainmen and warn them of the low
bridge.
Arthur Adshad, who pleaded guilty
recently to a charged of assault and
who had since been in Newfane Jail
awaiting sentence, was brought here
Friday and sentenced by Judge Frank
E. Barber to not less than four
months nor more than five months in
the house of correction.
f. L. Ingalls,, state agent for boys and
girls club work, who Friday after
noon addressed Joint meeting of the Par
ent-Teachers association, gave an ilustrat-
ed lecture in the Unitarian parish house
Friday evening on club work. The
views shown were all more or less di-
rectly connected with the formation and
accomplishments of club work and his dis
cussion of the general problem of club
work, especially that for boys and girls,
was very interesting The lecture was I'M
der the auspices of the Mems club of the
church.
A young man who gave his name to
Police Chief George Wilson as Water
man and said he was student at
Mount Hermon, smashed badly a Har-
leg-Davidson motorcycle he was riding
December 9 when he ran against
crossing over the gutter on Church
street. According to persons who saw
the accident the young man rode. up
Elliot street at a speed of at least 30
miles an hour. He was unable to Ike
the turn at the Princess apartments
corner and the machine took the gutter
and continued until the front wheel hit
the slab of stone used as a crossing for
the gutter. Waterman was thrown over
the handlebars on to the sidewalk and
was considerably shaken up, but not
much injured.
In the annual meeting of Sedgwick
Woman s Relief corps December 9 in
Grand Army hall Mrs. Emogene White
declined reelection as president be-
cause of ill health, although her re-eec-
ton to that Office was unanimous. These
officers were elected: President, Mrs.
Mary Robinson; S. V. p, Mrs. Eva
Clark; j. V. p, Mrs. Laura Wash
burn treas, Mrs. Emily Allen; chap
lain, Mrs. Helen Miller; cond., Mrs. FL
len Herrick; Co. Mrs. Alice Moulthrop;
delegates to state convention, Mrs.
Helen Newman, Miss Sarah Winslow,
Mrs. Nellie Morse, Mrs. Emma Niles,
Mrs. Alice Moulthrop; alternates, Mrs.
Mary Wood, Mrs. Emma Richmond,
Mrs. Ellen Herrick, Mrs. Emily Allen,
Mrs. Lena Adams.
A meeting of the Parent Teachers
association was held in the Canal
street school Thursday, Dee. 9, at
3.45. The many parents who visited
the different grades before the meet
ing saw the fire drill when more than
200 children were out of the building
in 30 seconds. The association passed
a vote heartily endorsing the proposed
work of the School and Home Indus
trial league and favoring an effort to
trained worker to have charge of the
Oak Grove playground next summer.
After the short business session Miss
Anna l.. Davis of the Mutual Aid as
ISOLATION, gave . very interesting talk
on The Home, emphasizing the import
ance Of home training, and then out
lined briefly the work of the school
nurse. This was followed by discus
sion and social hour.
Mrs. Ellen f. Bruce, 60, widow of
George w. Bruce, died in the home of
her son, r. j. Bruce, 9S South Park
avenue, Longmeadow, Mass, Sunday
afternoon, after an illness of several
weeks. She was born in Brattleboro,
Feb. 90, 1850, II daughter of Joel Will
lard, who lived on Birge street. She was
an aunt Of Mrs. +. X. Bemis of this
town. Her early life was spent here.
For more than thirty years she was
resident of Springfield, Mass, but had
lived with her son in Longmeadow the
last three years. She was member of
the First Highland Baptist church in
Springfield, Mass, and took an active
interest in church work for many
years. She was obliged to give up her
work several years ago because of ill
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