Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-03-01


York courts for divorce on the ground
of non.support. She asks for the Gus
tody of the children, Horace, TO- Alan
6, and Leslie, 2.
The Red Cross branch has received
letters acknowledging the receipt OF
KNITTED articles, from Private Louis
Rate, who is at a training camp IN
Texas, and Privates George s. Willard
fantry in France. .
A linen shower was given Miss Min
ME Bowie in Mrs. Kavanaugh's rooms
Feb. 81. The party was given IN
honor of Miss Bowie IS coming marriage
to Henry Lind. A buffet luncheon was
served and the rooms were prettily
decorated in patriotic colors.
John Henry Bell n farmer of Hal
flax, and Bertha May Knight Of Gull
ford were married in the Brattleborc
town clerk s office by Carl s. Hopkins
Justice of the peace, Friday evening
After short wedding trip in Vernon
they will make their home in Halifax
Mrs. Verne H. Winchester enter
tanned Is members of the Thimbleonian
club in her home on Maple street Fri.
day afternoon and evening at Martha
Washington party. Each guest came
dressed in appropriate costume. The
hostess served a covered dish supper,
after which the evening was spent So
cially
Mrs. Albert w. Rockwell entertained
l6 friends Friday night in her home on
Canal street at Washington party,
the occasion being Mr. Rockwell Is
birthday anniversary. Each year Mrs.
Rockwell has given q birthday supper
to the Canal street auction bridge club
on this day. In the evening the guests
had music on the victrola and dancing.
Charles +. Burnham, a merchant of
Hoboken, n. j., and Mrs. Ida A. Mayo
of Worcester, Mass, were married Fri
day morning at 1l.30 in the home
of DR.. George Lane of AZ Elliot street
by Justice of the Peace Carl s. Hop
kins. The bride wore a gown of light
gray silk and q corsage bouquet of
pale pink Ophelia roses. They were at
tended by DR.. and Mrs Lane. Mr.. and
Mrs. Burnham went Saturday to
| Worcester.
Lester and Lawrence Barber of this
town were bearers Friday at the
funeral of their uncle, Alexander Thorn
son, in Fitchburg, Mass. Mr.. Thomson
was for 30 years manufacturer of
steel horse collars, his plant in Fitch
burg making all the collars used in the
United States army during that time.
His wife, whom he married in Novem-
Der, 1891, was Miss Sara j. Barber of
Vernon, sister of Dr. George F.. Bar
Der of this town.
Chase & Chase attorneys, have leased
three rooms in the Barber building on
Main street and will move their law
business there as soon as alterations in
one of them are completed, continuing
to pay rent in Crosby block until March
|. Two of the rooms in the Barber
building are on tho front side, on the
second floor, next north to H. f. e. F. f.
Barber's law offices, and the third is
across the hall and will be used for
storage.
The date for the annual interscholas-
tic track meet in Brattleboro has been
decided upon. 1t is Saturday, May 25,
and will be held at the Valley fair
grounds as usual All the high schools
in Vermont will be invited to send
teams. Windsor, which heretofore has
not been represented, expects to com
pete this year. Stewart Stearns is cap
| tain of the Brattleboro track team, and
| Coach Diedrich Stolte says that he eX-
| poets Brattleboro high to be represent
ed by as good team as it has been in
the past.
Charles r. Crosby. who recently was
elected a member of the local price in
lterpretation board, it being desired that
one of the members be a wholesaler, has
declined to serve and Food Admins
traitor j. j. Vanderveer has asked Hol-
land j. Wilson of the Dewitt Grocery
Co. to serve in his place. The latter
has signifed his willingness to do so.
Mr.. Crosby will give the board any
assistance he can, but he felt that
while he might have the necessary in
formation about flour and grain prod
ucts it would be better to have on the
committee wholesale grocer more ia
miliar with general staple articles of
food.
The funeral of Mrs. Abbie NJ. Harlow
was held Sunday afternoon at 2.3C
o'clock in the home of her nephew, H
+. Jordan of "a Gpeen street. Rev
Richard H. Clapp, pastor of the Centre
Congregational church, of which Mrs
Harlow was a member, officiated at the
service. The funeral was largely at
tended by relatives and friends and q
delegation of teachers in the schools at
tended in body. The bearers were hei
three nephews, H. F. Jordan of Brat
tleboro, Franklin C. Lewis of Leonia
n. j., and Alfred c. Lewis of Taunton
Mass, and her granddaughter, Alfred B
Jordan. The body was placed in the
receiving vault at Prospect Hill GENE
terry.
John Wrubel, -, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Michael Wrubel of Valley street met
with q serious accident Saturday aft
ernoon while at play with three othel
boys i'll the Prospect Hill cemetery
; He is thought to be injured inter
nally. The lad slipped and slid down
an embankment to the Vernon stree
retaining wall, went over the wall anC
dropped 40 feet to the ground. His face
nose and forehead were badly bruised
but he was able to walk with the hell
of his brother TO the Clarity home oil