Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-01-25

The women of the Eastern Star are
, requested to carry all finished Red
Cross articles to the meeting at the
Masonic temple this evening.
| The February issue Of the Woman q
Home Companion contains an account
of the Brattleboro Yarn club, with il.
; Illustrations of the pledge cards used.
The Wilmington stage will leave the
! Brattleboro postoffice at 1890 o'clock
hereafter instead of l O'Clock, until
further notice, on account of the diff.
ficult travelling.
Charles DeAngelis has bought two
houses on South Main street, one known
as the Manning house at 43 South Main
street and the other formerly owned by
j. S. Flood. He buys for an investment.
The annual meeting Of the Woman IS
auxiliary of st. Michael S Episcopal
church will be held in the parish house
today at o'clock. Delegates to
the convention in Windsor will be
elected at this time.
Miss Hattie b. Newell of 33 Green
street fell Friday morning near the Prin-
cess theatre. She was taken immedi-
ately back to- her home and DR.. Grace
w. Burnett was called. Later she was
moved to the Memorial hospital where
an x-ray photograph of the hip will be
taken.
Dennis Rebekah lodge held q military
whist party Friday evening in Odd Eel
lows temple, with Is tables playing.
The first prizes were won by John
Washington, Miss Edith NJ. Washington,
Miss Alice Hall and Fred Cain. The
BOBBY prizes went to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fayette Miller and Mrs. w. E. Pellerin.
During the recess at the high school
Saturday the football team pre-
scented to Diedrich Stolte, coach, a
watch fob with a gold football attached
Presented to u. Stolte by State Cham
pions. Mr.. Stolte was very much
surprised but expressed his apprecia-
| ton.
The prudential committee of school
district No. 9 voted Friday morning to
have solid session for all grades for
the present. This action was taken on
account of the coal situation, grades
l through will be in session from $50
to 1890 and grades through the prep
aratory room will be in session from
$50 to l o clock. In this way only an
hour a day will be lost.
| There is one case of scarlet fever at
| the Austine Institution the patient be-
! ing one of the deaf children. 1t is not
n severe case. The child is isolated with
a nurse, and unless some of the other
children were exposed before the case
was quarantined it is not expected that
the disease will spread, but the children
will be kept off the streets for the pres
ent as matter of precaution.
The Fort Drummer Mills has bought
of Attorney Frank +. Barber some
standing lumber on his lot on his farm
on the Dummerston road and began
| Tuesday cutting the wood. The concern
plans to cut approximately $50 cords for
its own use at the cotton mills and in
this way is giving the employees a
the mill is closed by order of the fuel
administration.
The local fuel committee has in
structed coal dealers to require all APP
proaches to bins to be shoveled by the
owner of the bin before putting i'll any
coal. The unusual amount of snow and
the limited time of the drivers of coal
teams make it imperative that each
consumer should do his own snow shov
cling, thus releasing more time for the
driver to shovel coal.
Members of the Red Cross Yarn club
who have not made all their payments
are reminded that there il only one
more Saturday in January and that
the last payment should be made this
month. The rooms adjoining the
| nio tnln off will ha
: open to receive payments Saturday,
to 9 p. m. Members are urged to make
it point to come and make their pay
mcnts.
David Willard, who went to France
last fall writes from Rome of his ac-
tive life there in connection with the
National Surgical Dressings committee
of America His letter tells of the
strenuous times in Rome and of their
work, which requires long days and
short nights. Mr. willard, who is
Brattleboro boy, has already made sew
eral trips abroad, and while in town
last season organized several branches
of the Surgical Dressings committee in
and about Brattleboro.
nv 4"ioHlHS Iloln lHe New Ork
Sunday Times of Jan. %, is of local
interest as Stewart Flagg of New
York, brother of Mrs. r.. T. Britain
of Brattlcboro, is member of section
No. Of the Norton Harjes Field Am
bulance Service: "Section No. ) of the
Norton Harjes Field Ambulance Serv-
ice has been decorated with fourragere
of the CroiX de Guerrc. 1t is the only
American ambulance unit to receive
this honor and since all American see
tions are now officially a part of the
United States army and merely at
tached to the French army, there will
probably be no further such decora-
tons"
The upper grades in both the Canal
street school and high school buildings
listened Friday to talks on the Thrift
Stamp. Rev. Delmar T.. Trout was the
speaker at the Canal street building
that day and Postmaster NJ. j. Moran
and Rev. Clark Y. Browncll spoke in the
high school building that afternoon.
The exercises opened by the singing of
the Star Spangled Banner by the chill
drpn and i'm CLOSING thpv sano Annr;co