Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-29

into the basement Of Whitney's grocery
store.
A tally-ho load of young ladies will
spend the day tomorrow at Emerson's cot
tage at the lake,
The annual meeting of the Western
Aqueduct association will be held at the
office of G. F. Thompson Tuesday even
ing, June 2, at 1880.
The pension of the late Otis Park has
been restored and increased. Mr.. Parks
application for an increase was put in some
time ago, but his death occurred before the
application was acted upon.
Cards are out for the marriage of Charles
II. Thompson of the Vermont National
bank, and Miss Ruth Helen Noyes, daugh-
ter of Charles d. NOyes. The event will be
celebrated in the Congregational church
the evening of June o.
The boot and shoe, clothing, dry goods,
hardware, and millinery stores will be
closed tomorrow afternoon and evening.
The grocery stores will close during the
services and the banks and jewelry stores
will be closed all day.
The bailiffs have appointed jerome Cor
bett and Charles Endlich special policemen
for Prospect Hill, E. r. Thayer and Mr..
Worden for Esteyvllle, David Carey for the
railroad station grounds, and Mr.. Ransom
for the BrattleboIo Retreat.
The rooms in the Wheeler building on
Flat street, formerly occupied by G. b.
Kirwan, are being fitted into a tenement
by A. F. Wilder. The tenement will be
occupied by c. P. Huntley, the proprietor
of the laundry.
The annual convocation of the grand
chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star
will be held at Windsor next week, begin
ming on Wednesday. Round trip tickets
from Brattleboro will be sold at $3.50 and
board may be had at 81 and S1.2j a day.
Maj. F. c. Beck's summer hotel in West
Halifax, with all its furniture and fixtures,
was sold Wednesday to G. f. Thompson,
Maj. Beck taking Mr.. Thompson's Forest
street house in exchange. The transfer
was made through the Bailey & Miner real
estate agency.
The program for Memorial day as an
nounced last week will be carried out.
The exercises at the Auditorium will begin
at o'clock. Exercises at the High school
grounds were held this morning, delega-
ton of Grand Army men marching to the
grounds at 10 oclock.
Richard Golden was welcomed by a we'll
filled house last Saturday evening, and the
audience found full measure of enjoyment
in his portrayal of the inimitable character
istics of Old Jed Prouty. Tie work of the
supporting company was good. The i'm
perfect work of the orchestra marred the
success of the musical specialtes. but 9TH
erwise the presentation brought the first
amusement season in the new auditorium
to a satisfactory conclusion.
The Grand Army men and many others
are highly indignant, and with good rea-
son, at the action of a Chesterfield man
who ordered several Sons of Veterans off
his premises, where they were gathering
laurel to be used in the decorations for Ne
mortal day in BrattlebOrO A full eXplana-
ton of the intended use of the laurel was
made, but the individual was so warped
that he would not permit the laurel to be
taken to be used in memory of the boys
who wore the blue.
Bradley Newell has sold his blacksmith
shop at Jacksonville and will devote his
whole time to healing. He will attend the
25Sth anniversary Of the Ancient and Hon
orable Artillery in Boston next Monday,
and will sail for Europe with that organ
ization June rs. On his return from Eu-
rope he will go to Raponda in Wilmington
to spend the month Of August. The own
ers of Raponda have given him six build
ing lots, and on one of them are building
handsome cottage which will be present
ed to him without charge.
The commencement exercises of the
Brattleboro High school will begin Sun
day, June I, when the baccalaureate ser
mon will be preached by Rev. +. b. Leav-
lit at the Baptist church. The regular
commencement exercises will be held in
the auditorium Thursday evening, June IL.
The principal feature of the evening will
be the address by President w. j. Tucker
of Dartmouth college, after which the con-
ferring of diplomas will take place. The
reception and ball of the graduating class
will be held in the festival hall Friday
evening, June y.
There was a feeling of surprise in the
vicinity of West River bridge last Wednes-
day, May 90, when it was rumored about
noon that there had been a wedding that
morning and Miss Emma McQuade had
become Mrs. Guy Taylor. The happy
pair left on the 1925 train for weeks
stay in Providence, but not without plen-
ty of rice, for the little sister of the bride,
Miss Oracle, with friend, arrived at the
station just in season to empty two pounds
over their heads. Although Mr.. and Mrs.
Taylor outwitted their neighbors and
friends, they have their best wishes for
the future. They will go to housekeeping
at No. 40 High street.
Irwin Coombss injuries at Fitchburg,
Mass, last week will probably prevent him
from racing this season. He was training
on the state road and was riding at a 2:10
clip, when he collided head on with Cham
bers, green rider. Coombs remained by
the roadside two hours before he was
found and taken to his boarding place. He
did not fully recover consciousness until
the following day. Chamberss injuries
were even more severe and his condition is
still critical. Both wheels were wrecked.
DIR. G.. f. Barber, who called on Coombs
at Fitchburg last Sunday, found him with
front teeth gone and face that was a
mass of bruises and discolorations. Coombs
was training for road race in June and
had ridden mile recently in 2:11.
Andrew Jackson, who has been solicit
ing aid for his people in the South, has
recently sent barrels of old clothing, one
barrel of meat, two wagons, a horse which
was given him at Longmeadow, Mass, and
some spades, shovels and hoes ''to teach his
people how to work. he says. "While
going backward and forward" he saws, 81
find my people worse sinners today than
when they were slaves under the whip and
lash; but don't want them to 90 back in
to slavery. l want them to return from
their wicked ways, as the Ninevtes did
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