Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-01


spending some days with Mrs Underwood's
sister in Worcester, Mass.
A number from Bellows Falls are expect
ing to 90 to Brattleboro to hear Booker I.
Washington when he comes there to lee
ture.
Union Thanksgiving services were held
last evening in the Universallst church, the
sermon being delivered by Rev. John IL.
Reid.
Mrs Mary L. Bowers and Mrs. John
Robertson leave early next week for Pasa-
dena, Calf, where they will spend the
winter.
The families of Charles II. Robb and
Frank G. Flint moved to Towns hotel last
week, where they will make their homes
this winter.
Union Hall is to be occupied every even
ing next week by Henry Walsh's Quincu-
plexal Glass Blowers, they being brought
here by the Foresters.
Miss Frances Osgood returned Monday
night from a visit of some weeks on Cape
Cod, and in the vicinity of Boston. She
was accompanied by Miss Addie Osgood of
Lexington, Mass.
The price of turkeys this week has been
held strong at 20 cents pound by both deal
ers, and farmers who brought them in, al
though most places around us report the
price as varying from 16 tn IS cents.
P. 81. Hadley moved into his new resi-
dence on the South Terrace last Thursday
and j. E. Keefe has this week moved into
the old residence of Mr.. Hadley on Akin
son street, which he bought last summer.
A brother Of G. A. Prouty, of Newport,
a candidate for the national Senate, was in
town Monday in the interests of Mr..
Prouty's candidacy. He was accompanied
by F. G. Williams of Newport, who is Wis
iting the principal cities and towns of the
state.
Senator e. NJ. Bartlett and Col. Porter
II. Dale of Island Pond, were in Bellows
Falls Tuesday and announced the fact that
Mr.. Dale had decided to enter the Con-
gressional race in this district, and solicit
ed the support of our citizens.
The remodeled Towns hotel is doing an
excellent business, much larger than was
expected thus early in its occupancy. A
number of days during the past week they
have served rs or more dinners, two-thirds
of which were transient, and they have
about 25 regular boarders.
A game of foot ball was played yesterday
forenoon on Drislanes field, the contestants
and a scrub team made up by the town play
ers. The attendance was good and the
game fair one, resulting in a score of
5 to 0 in favor of the town team.
The fire department was called out about
5 o'clock Sunday morning, by an alarm
from box % located near the old Green
street mill, in which a small blaze was in
progress, but not large enough to require
the assistance of the department. The old
building is now being torn down.
A supper for the benefit of the Hattie
Goodridge home atWestminster is to be Civ
en- at Odd Fellows hall Wednesday evening,
Dec. 10, at which the girls of the Home are
to be present and furnish an entertainment
in connection with sale of fancy articles
and mounted pictures, the proceeds of the
whole to be devoted to the Home funds.
Albert G.. Moore, of the Moore & Thomp-
son Paper company, has been seriously i'll
again the past week but is much better at
the present time. For two or three days it
was feared that his illness would take the
same alarming turn as that of two years
ago. His many friends congratulate him
upon his escape from it.
The Choral union, which did such ex-
cellent work last year, has been reorganized
and is holding its rehearsals each evening
at @. L. BarbeT's hall with an attendance
averaging 80. Considerable interest is
manifest in the organization and the out
look for the winter seems bright They
have secured Nelson p. Coffin of Newport
for director and Clarence Mooney of the
same place for accompanist.
The petition to the post-office department,
which was sent this week, asking for the
extension of free delivery to Gageville and
the Webb Terraces, bore about 200 names
of citizens living or doing business in those
localities. A completed list of the families
resident in each locality shows SO families
in Gageville and II on the Webb Terraces,
who would come under, and be benefited
by, the extension of the system, by mount
cd carriers.
Rolfe Cobleigh, a young attorney of st.
Johnsbury, was in town Saturday and ar
ranged with the officers of the Young Mems
club to have Wendall P. Stafford of st.
Johnsbury deliver an address in the opera
house tomorrow night, upon the subject
The Relation of the United States to the
Philippines" Because of Mr.. Staffords an
nounced candidacy as congressman for this
district there is considerable interest among
our people to see and hear him.
General Thanksgiving exercises were
held Wednesday morning by all the schools
in No. building and primaries in No. 2.
Each of these schools had gathered Thanks
giving supplies for the poorer families of
the village, and after the close of the solid
session of the schools, the scholars, teach
ers and janitor united in delivering them to
the families for whom they were intended
There were no sessions in any of the
schools in the afternoon, to accommodate
those who were going out of town to spend
Thanksgiving day. The Thanksgiving
vacation is only from Wednesday noon un-
til Monday morning.
At the Congregational church Sunday
evening Rev. John H. Reid took as the
basis Of his sermon, classified replies that
he had received to queries which he had
sent to large number of men, asking
their judgment of the reasons why young
men hold themselves aloof from the church,
and its services. The inquiries had been
sent to all classes of citizens, and the re-
plies were naturally of a varied nature.
The church was well filed, and Mr.. Reid
had an interesting discourse, handling the
matter in a forceful manner, criticising
both the churches and people for what
seemed to him most coRent reasons