Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Osgood were in
Boston Wednesday.
By request "Zephra" was repeated last
evening at reduced prices.
The senior class of the High school are
h aving class photographs made by D. Z.
Webster.
Chas. Il. Robb was in Wilmington
Tuesday and Wednesday prosecuting VIC
lators of the prohibitoIy law.
The friends of Conductor Dennis Hol-
land will regret to learn that he is soon to
remove his family to Rutland.
F. E. Clark, clerk in the grocery store of
c. E. Whitman, spent last week with his
parents in Westminster West.
1t is expected that at least % new build
ings will be put up in this village this sea-
son. This shows healthy growth.
The teachers and pupils of the public
schools are preparing for Memorial day
exercises to be given next week Friday.
Carl Bidwell has left the employ of w.
S. Durham in the city market, and takes
aposition with Swift IL Co. in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Goodhart, Familiarity known by
Bellows Falls women, will be in Bellows
Falls after May "a, with her usual stock of
dainty glass and china.
Levi d. Isham of this place was married
last Thursday at East Lempster to Miss
Pearletta Griffith of that place. Mr. and
Mrs. Isham will live on Atkinson street.
Mrs S. w. Wilder jr., is to assist at an
entertainment to be given by the girls of
the Harriet Goodrich Home of West
minister, May rs, in the town hall of that
village.
Mrs. H. II. Davis had the misfortune
to lose a valuable diamond earring in the
square Wednesday evening. 1t was one of
a pair valued at $500, and luckily was
found next morning.
Martin A. Ross, one of the oldest loco
motive engineers of the Rutland road, has
left the service of the road and moved to
Proctorsvile He has been a familiar fig
ure between here and Rutland for over 80
years.
Large parties from Chester, Springfield,
Westminster, Walpole, Ludlow, Saxtons
River, Brattleboro, and other neighboring
towns attended "ZephTa" last week and
this. At the latter place, it is soon to be
given.
c. c. A. Ames of White River Junction
was in town Wednesday and called on
many of his old friends. Mrs. Ames is to
go to her old home in Lawrence, Mass,
within few days, and will spend a por-
ton of the summer there, accompanied by
her son.
A visit to the hothouses of G. W. But
terfield would repay one for the trouble,
Mr.. Butterfield says his plants have never
been in as good condition. The stock is
entirely new and fresh, and in every way
satisfactory. Both vegetable and bloom
ing plants for bedding are special feature.
The Woman's auxiliary of the Y. NJ.
c. A. gave a strawberry supper in the
rooms Wednesday evening. Owing to
other suppers occurring at the same time,
and lack of previous advertising, only a
small number partook of the dainties pro-
vided Those who did, however, were
amply repaid.
Three slight fires Monday caused a little
excitement. The first was a little blaze
on the roof of the creamery on Rocking
ham street. The second, in the porch of
the f. NJ. p. company stOrehouse on Bridge
street, was extinguished without an alarm,
as was also that which occurred in the af-
ternoon in a pile of rubbish in the Boston
& Maine railroad yard.
Bellows Falls sends an athletic team to
Claremont today for the annual C. V. T.
A. A. meet, composed of the following:
Ambrose Busby, A. d. Finlayson, Dan
Campbell, Lowell B. Wilder, j. McGreen,
D. McKinnon, Harry Martin, Frank Up
ham, j. Diggins, Guy Woodfall, F. H.
Burr, John Howard, Harry McKinnon,
Selah Hartman, Kendall Banning, A. E.
Beebe.
A man from the New England Calcium
Light company did very creditable piece
of work Wednesday evening, advertising
the performance of Zephra to be given
last evening. A large screen was placed
on the upper portion of Union block, and
from the balcony of the opera house threw
upon it the seven photographs of the lead
ing scenes and leading actors in Zephra,
interspersed with scenes of local advertise
ments and travel. The exhibition continued
for the entire evening.
Wednesdays Times publishes an ac-
count of a reception given by DIR. H. M.
Willard at Quincy Mansion school in