Source, Rutland Daily Herald--Fri. Nov. 10, 1916. Page 12. NEWS OF THE CITY. Rutland Briefs. The firemen with the automobile truck from station No. 1 were summoned to No. 241 State street yesterday afternoon at 12:15 o'clock where they extinguished a small grass fire in the rear of the house. The fire threatened to destroy a hen coop. There was no damage. Trinity mission will hold its regular meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of the president, Mrs. E.P. Gilson of Court street. The funeral of Harry G. Clark, proprietor of the Cambridge house in Cambridge, N.Y., who was found dead in bed Wednesday morning will be held this afternoon at his late home. Mr. Clark is well known in this vicinity and besides his immediate family is survived by several nieces and nephews among them being Mrs. George N. Harman of Elm street and Richard and Stetson Harman of Chicago. A card party will be given by the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception of St.Peter's parish this evening in St.Peter's hall on Meadow street for the gymnasium building fund. The Mary Noe circle, King's Daughters, of the Methodist church will meet in the church parlors this afternoon for work. About 25 members of the Parent-Teacher association of the Park street school enjoyed a ten-ten party yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mark Porter on Park street. Those present worked on articles for a Christmas sale and a social hour followed. Refreshments were served. Tickets for the luncheon to be held at the Bardwell hotel next Monday at 12:30 o'clock are in great demand and members are advised to have their tickets reserved before 9 o'clock Monday morning. After that hour the remaining seats will be sold to the public. Pres. John M. Thomas of Middlebury college will be the speaker, and it is expected that he will give an outline of the life at Eagle Pass, Tex., while he was chaplain of the First Vermont regiment. Guy Pitts of Shrewsbury, who was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Pascal Ricci, will be arraigned in City court tomorrow morning on a charge of petit larceny. Hiram Mattot of Barre, a painter, filed a petition in bankruptcy with the clerk of the United States court, F. S. Platt yesterday. He has liabilities of $342 and assets of $200, all of which is claimed exempt. Transcribed by, Joan H. Bixby