Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-03-23

last week and attended the ensemble
recital at Sage chapel.
The Boys Brigade basketball team
played a team from Mount Hermon in
Skinner Gymnasium Friday night. The
Hermon team was victorious Is to 10.
AT meeting of the board of select
men last week Wednesday it was de-
cidod to buy a road scrapcr as the one
now owned by the town is out of serv
ice.
Miss Constance Moody and a friend
are here from Miss Masters school at
Dobbs Ferry and is at the home of
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. r.
Moody.
Mrs. c. L. Robbins and daughter,
Grace, and Fay Smith have returned
from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. 0. A.
Prince at the Kurn Hattin schools in
Vermont.
The Lyman-Howe motion pictures
were patroniaed by full audiences both
afternoon and evening OF Monday and
the pictures were of the usual enter
tanning order
Little Grace Rowena Randall was
able to be brought home from Green
field hospital by her mother Friday
and is recovering from an operation
on her ear.
The Mortified Brotherhood will meet
in the Congregational church Wednes-
day evening and will elect officers. A
special speaker has been engaged for
the evening.
A. p. Fit is here from New York
and Mrs. Fit will arrive soon to re.
main until May Miss Emma Fit
will come March 90 from Nassar col
lege to spend a month S vacation.
Mortified seminary closes Friday
afternoon for l0-days vacation,
Mount Hermon school closes Tuesday,
March % for one week s vacation. FL
nal examinations at Hcrmon begin
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Faulkner and two chill
dren of British Columbia arc guests of
Miss Lucy Brooks at Marqand hal.
Mrs. Faulkner formerly was teacher of
music at the ,eminary rs Miss Par
menter.
DR.. George Gordon, pastor of Old
South church, Boston, has been secured
to give the baccalaureate sermon and
address at Mortified seminary com
| mencement, which takes place from
June 3 to 6, inclusive.
Mortified Grange will offer money
| prizes this year as usual to school chill
ircn for the determination of cater
pillar nests. The committee in charge
IF this is Mrs. l.. o. 'Clapp, Miss Mary
| Dalton and w. A. Priest.
The Philomathcan society of Hermon
| was entertained by the Forum of the
seminary at Marquand hall Saturday
| at supper and for the evening. The
Tau ri of the seminary entertained the
| Pierian society of IIermon at Revell
| hall Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Davis of
Marlboro will make their home with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Davis.
! Mr.. Davis has been agricultural instruc-
| tor in the Marlboro high school two
years and will now undertake agricul-
| urc on his fathers farm.
A regular study meeting of the Fort
nightly next Monday will be in charge
If Miss Carolyn Rolfe, assisted by
| Mrs. L.. II. Lazelle and Mrs. j. A.
Stebbins. Mrs. G. N. Kidder will give
current events. The subject is Shake
| 'pearean Actors and Actresses.
A regular meeting of the w. c. II. T..
was held Wednesday afternoon in the
| parish house in charge of Mrs. +. NJ.
| Lazelle. Ii was decided to send the
usual crates of fresh eggs to the Bos-
ON flower mission at Easter time for
distribution among the poor and sick.
| The Sons of Veterans have secured
Rev. Alien A. Brondson, the division
commander. 20 address them the even
ng of April 3, This meeting will he
acid in Soas of Veterans hall and will
be open TO the public. 1t will be fol-
owed by reception to Rev. Mr..
| BrOndson
! The public school authorities were in
quandary as to giving the senior
class permission to start on its trip to
Washington Friday. Consent finally
vas given ON condition that they would
tart for home Tuesday, March 90. Or
recount of the strike conditions 1t was
feared they would have difficulty in
travelling.
The board of selcctmen and ofiici lis
" the Greenfield Electric Light &
'ower company held hearing in ne
own hall Saturday Afternoon. Poles
for electric lights to Mortified Farm
lre TO be set up and all those on whose
and the poles are to be placed were
lsked to be at this meeting to enter
my complaint.
The Sons of Veterans held regular
meeting in their hall Tuesday even
ng with Charles Slate, the president
IF the camp, il charge. Besides the
regular business transacted Harold
Bigelow was elected delegate to the
I division encampmeht in Boston April
Yl0 and II. Alfred Helton was named