Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-12-08

The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will hold their annual Christmas
sale and supper Thursday, Dec. II, IN
the Unitarian parish house.
The w. c. y. L. will hold a regular
meeting i'll the rest room Monday after.
noon at 3 o clock. There will be a re-
ception for the new members.
The Goodwill club gave Mrs. David
Meany of Canal street a surprise party
Wednesday evening, the occasion being
her birthday anniversary. The guests
brought refreshments and q social time
was spent
Mrs. Helen Howard Cooper has re.
Gently sent picture, entitled October
on the Connecticut, which she painted
in the fall, to Dewitt IS studio on Fifth
avenue, New York city, to be on ex.
hibition. Mrs. Cooper painted this
scene from Prospect hill, looking up
the Connecticut.
A meeting of the Oak Grove Parent
Teacher association will be held at the
school building this afternoon at
4 o clock. 1t is the first business meet
ing of the fall and a very important one
and all members of the association and
urged to attend.
AT meeting of the board of gov
errors Of the Vermont Wheel club
Tuesday evening these committees were
appointed: Ladies' nights, DR.. l.. S
Edwards, Fred Henry Harris and II. y
Webster; billiards and pool, Fred Hard
ing Harris, Luther II. Miller j. f. Tas
ker and w. II. Perry.
The steel window frames for the
IIolstein- Friesian building which were
shipped from Ohio Oct. % have not ar
rived and thus far it has proved impos
sible to trace them. This is another in
stance of the difficulty contractors are
having in getting materials, and ap
parentlv there is no good reason for tho
| delays. --.. ...
The Goodwill club met Tuesday at
ternoon with Mrs. NJ. j. Moran at hel
home on Chestnut hill, ostensiby to ii,
puff for Mrs. John Gum, one of tn,
| club members. When the puff was fin
ished it was presented to Mrs. Moran
greatly to her surprise. Tuesday
was Mrs. Moran's birthday anniver
sary. Refreshments were served
Friday, Dee. s, is the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, holy day of obligation
Masses in ST. Michael g Roman Catho
lie church, Walnut street, will tax,
place at a. m and s a. m. Benedic
ton of the Blessed Sacrament at 49,
p. M. Confessions Thursday at 3.3C
and $50 p. m.
Miss Natalie Benson entertained q
| Young friends at her home on Oal
street Saturday afternoon between
and in honor of her guest, Mis-
Miriam Adds of Wallingford, Conn.
| formerly of this town. Games were
played and the children enjoyed ;
| pleasant afternoon. Refreshments o.
fancy ices and waters were served.
The Brooks House was unable to car,
| for all who desired accommodation Their
Tuesday and between 80 and 60 would
be guests OF the house We're distribute,
Throughout the village wherever accommo
dations could be secured for them. A cal
riase was kept at the hotel all evening an,
guests were sent in that to such house
as could furnish the desired accommoda
tions. Much OF the patronage was due t.
the sale of cattle which was in progress
Mrs. Clara Hardy, so, wife of Her
bert Hardy of Dummcrston, died Wed
nesday at 1l.30 clock in the Mel
rose hospital where she had been sew
eral weeks following an operation 70
the removal of a goitre and a growt
from her breast. Mrs. Hardy under
went an operation in the Melrose hos
pital year ago, and previous to tina
time had been under the surgeon
knife. Besides her husband she leave
three children.
Edward Leo Fcnnelly, 10, son o
Frank +. and Florence (Crosicr) Fer
nelly, died Monday noon at the HON
of his grandmother i'll Guilford. Va
vular disease of the heart, with whic
he had suffered from birth. was tn
cause of death. The funeral wa
held Yesterday afternoon at ! 'cloc
at the house, Rev. +. S. Hewitt of tn
Advent Christian church of Brattl,
boro officiating.
On account of the illness of tn
mother of Miss f. Eliza Sessions, feel
agent of the Kurn Hattin Homes i
Westminster and the Warner Memoir;
Home in SaXtons River, Miss Session
was not able to give the advertise
stereopticon lecture in the Centre Con
gregational church Sunday night, an
Edward A. Mason of Bellows Falls, e,
ecutive secretary came in her plac
He showed large number of view
including the buildings, the boys ;
f work and play, the farms, pets, etc
and told of the aims and limitations {
the work, all of which was very int
9 estny. An Offering was received at II