Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-05-03
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BHATTLEBORO.

HcN. I ". .. OSpOOu Will COHuuCJ lHt
Sunday afternoon services at the Home
for the Aged through the month of
May.
Sunshine society, branch l, will hold its
regular monthly meeting this after
noon at $50 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
w. II. Haywood of 3 Walnut street
Ralph Peltier, son of Mrs. Martha T..
Peltier of Putney Road, and Mrs. Grace
Barber, practical nurse in Brattle-
boro, were married April Is in Hoosick
Falls, N. Y.
Irah D. Spaulding, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. II. Spaulding of this town, who
has been an instructor at the aero
school in Pensacola, Fla, has been Or
dered to the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology for an advanced course
in engineering.
The women S auxiliary of st. Mi
chael IS Episcopal church will meet this
afternoon at O'Clock at the
parish house. Part of the time will be
devoted to repairing the cassocks and
cottas worn by the choir. All arc
asked to go prepared to work
The meeting of Brattleboro chapter,
d. A. r., which was necessarily post.
poned on account of arranging for
report from the Continental Congress
at Washington will be held at the
Unitarian parish house Tuesday after
noon at clock. Mrs. l.. A. Cook of
Greenfield will give q report of the CON
gress.
Justin Moran was the winner Friday
night of the $50 Liberty bond given
away at the performance of Here Goes
by the Jack Fairbanks Musical Com
edy Co. Nearly a capacity audience
was present. The company, which
gave good satisfaction and attracted
fair houses closed its engagement Sat
urday night.
The annual business meeting of
Brattleboro lodge, No. 1902, F. and A.
NJ, was held April %. The follow
ing officers were elected: w. NJ, r. j.
Eldridge; S. W., A. w. Montgomery;
j. W, Rev. D. f. Trout; treas, V. o.
Jones; sec, Jesse L. Haynes; trustee,
F. r. Vaughan; corporator of the
building association for three years,
w. B. Ninton.
The x-ray photograph of the skull
of Ernest l.. GLADDEN. or Northampton,
Mass, Boston & Maine division super
intendent of bridge building, who was
injured by falling brick at the South
Vernon fire April %, showed that the
skull was fractured. 1t is not a de-
pressed fracture, however, and will not
require an operation. Mr.. GLADDEN. is
improving and his physician, Dr. Harry
=. Greene, expects that he will recover.
Under the direction of Scout Commits
II -,
window display has been arranged in the
vacant store formerly occupied by Mrs.
G. H. Smith The display is Il camping
scene with miniature Khaki tent pitched
in a background of green branches and
in front of which is the camp fire. In the
foreground is a miniature imitation lake
and strewn on the ground are Scout
books. The display was arranged as an
attraction for Liberty day.
Secretary L. F. Ellis of the Windham
County Fish and Game club has received
notification from the federal bureau of
fisheries that consignments of rainbow
trout for West river, perch and channel
catfish for the Connecticut river, black
bass for Raponda, and horned pout for
the lily pond in Vernon will soon be sent
here for distribution. He also has been
notified by the state fish and game de-
partment of the early shipment of brook
trout fry for distribution in streams in
this locality.
The funeral of WHY'S Russell, who
died April q in the Franklin County
hospital in Greenfield, Mass, after an i'll
ness of two weeks with pneumonia and
complications, was held in the Baptist
church in Greenfield Saturday morning
at o'clock. The body was taken on
the 1925 train to Springfield, Mass
where a service was held at the Dick
inson & Streeter undertaking parlors
at l p. IN. Mr.. Russell had charge of
construction work on the Boston & Maine
railroad here for the Holbrook, Cabot &
Rollins corporation and lived at the
Brooks House, and Mrs. Russell was
heard in concert work, being a singer Of
ability.
Miss Helen Parmelce of Putney, who
is student in the High school and
lives at Mrs. j. l.. Martin s on Lin
den street, was given a party April
25 by Mrs Murray NJ. Tucker and
Mrs. katherine Ctley, the occasion be-
ing her birthday anniversary. Twelve
of her Young friends were given an
enjoyable straw ride about town in
the early evening, returning TO Mrs
Martin IS where birthday gifts for Miss
Parmelec had been hidden about the
house. Much fun was created in hunt
ing for thcm. Refreshments were served
and the guests were given another
straw ride to their homes.
Charles l.. Blandy, 70, prominent
New York lawyer who had been a sum
mer resident at Pine Grove Springs
Spof'ord lake, many years, died SUD
denly of heart disease in his home Tues
day. Mr.. Blandy's homo at Spot
ford lake was the attractive cottage
built and first occupied by Rev, Ia
ther Wilde when the latter was pastor
of the Roman Catholic church in Hins
dale. The Blandy family was very ac
tive in affairs among the summer col
ony at the lake, the young men taking
part in nearly all athletic events Mr.
Blandy leaves his wife, three sons anC
n daughter. One son, William, is a lieu
tenant at Camp Meade, and anothc
son, Harold f., is with the royal hyin.
corps in Canada.