Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-05-18

Bingham chapter, q. u. s., has voted
| to hold n military whist party in the
near future, the proceeds of which will
he for the benefit of Company |, V. n.
IG.
The 800 club met with Mrs. Herbert
Shaw Tuesday night. Mrs. George IIol-
land won first prize and Mrs. Arthur
l.. Rohde won the BOBBY prize. Re
frcslmcnts were served.
News was received here Tuesday
of the safe arrival in France of Stanley
| G.. Fits, son of the late Clarke c..
Fits. He is a member of hospital
unit that sailed from New York May
Is.
The postponed game with Keene high
school which it had been expected at
Brattlcboro high school would be
played this week, has been set forward
to June g. Brattlcboro high expects to
play the All-Stars again Saturday.
The regular meeting of the Junior
Christian Endcavor society of the Cen
tire Congregational church has been
postponed from this afternoon to Sun
day afternoon at clock, when n
Union meeting will be held with the
Senior society.
A number of the members of Company
!, V. n. g., who have been at Fort
Ethan Allen, arrived Wednesday and
will be put on guard duty in this vi
cinity. Several of the members of the
company who have been on guard duty
near Bellows Falls are i'll with light
attacks of measles.
The annual meeting of the Mary Ged-
| H.. al bo1 i,o in
the home of Mrs. Dora Perry. These
officers were elected: President, Mrs.
f. f. Covey; vicc-prcsidcnt, Mrs. G.. w.
Boom; sec-trcas., Mrs. T.. w. Sharp.
After the business meeting refresh
ments were served and a social time
was enjoyed
The mixed train on the West River
branch of the Central Vermont railroad
spilled three cars Off the rails between
Ncwfane and Townshend Tuesday aft
crnoon. AS result the evening pas
senger train did not reach South London
derry until ) Wednesday morning.
There was no passenger train down that
morning, but another train was made up
here and went up at the usual hour of
$50 o'clock.
Mrs. Mary f. Howard of Is Cedar
street was thrown when she alighted
from the southbound owl train vcstcr-
day at the railroad station and in
| iurcd one hip. She was taken to the
Memorial hospital and attended by DIR.
Harry =. Greene. She had gone to the
station to speak to friend and was
on the train when it started. 1t was
not possible yesterday to state the full
extent of her injuries.
Mrs. Mary c. Clough, wife of David
j. Clough, died Saturday afternoon at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Jacobs after being i'll 10 weeks The
funeral was held Monday afternoon at
. clock at the home, Rev. f. Q. S.
Osgood officiating. Besides her husband
she leaves two daughters, Mrs. Hattie
jacobs and Mrs. Daisy Buzbv, and two
grandchildren, also two sisters, Mrs
Matilda Altar and Mrs. Minnie Oui-
mcttc.
Principal f.. b. Smith of the high
school announced yesterday that
a man from outside Brattcboro had
offered Il silver cup a. a prize for relay
race at The school track meet To be held
htrc May 2G. The offer has been ac-
cepted and it is probable that the race
will be Il mile race with each runner
travelling one-Quarter of tliF entire dis
lance There is steadily increasing in
torc-t in the coming meet, in which mauy
of The high schools OF the state are eN-
Ipected to have teams
Four more high school students will
leave school this week to work on
farms. They are Ernest Morse, q
sophomore in the commercial course
who will 90 to the Scott farm; David
llannum, Il Junior i'll the Latin-Scicntif
ic course, who goes to the farm OF j
b. llannum in Putney; Floyd Franklin
a sophomore taking the general course
who goes TO the l.. ID. Franklin farm il
Guilf0rd; and Miss Helen Gould.
junior in the commercial course, WHIT
will go to the f. l.. Gould farm in Eas
l.. Dover.
In a regular meeting of Protcctiv,
Grange Wednesday the first and see
ond degrees were conferred on two can
didates by special degree teams. JOIN
/ Mckay was master of the first degre
s team and Warner Hopkins of the team
c that worked the second degree. 1t wa
e voted to change the date of the mex
j. meeting from May 80 to May 81, whcI
1; the third and fourth degrees will b
i worked. Refreshments will be serve
IS and the women are asked to bring cal;
without further solicitation.
:, Next Sunday is the 28th annivcl
saly day of the Epworth league, and tn
r local Epworth league will observe tn
:. anniversary at its evening meeting n
e 7.3O o clock. There will be an installg
f ton of officers as one of the feature.
$ The national society has mapped on
o Il program for The Big Drive for 1871!
It seeking to obtain 30O,0 900 new members
# The apportionment for the local lcapu
l. is about 30 new members. and as tn
g local branch is an active organzatio
c it is believed that it will do its pal
k toward reaching the desired goal.
ls Something over 100 meusDers of tn
- Vermont Wheel club en- joycd an ever
(. ing Of informal fun at the club room
: Tuesday, the occasion being the IN
D. nual sale of magazines. Music was fu
- niShcd by an orchestra composed
club members and the sale was conduc
ID ed by G. l.. Stickney, d. Frank She
Al and r. {. Bacon whose ways were ,
trt ,,t,t agi x., l,pt p. 4 l.