Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-17
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band next Wednesday evening will be
given from Prospect Hill point
Wednesday being the Feast Of the AS
sumption, mass was celebrated at o'clock
in st. Mlchael's Roman Catholicc hurch.
The tile for the sewer on Central, South
Main, Pine and Highland streets has ar
rived, and work of laying 1t will probably
begin next week
Miss Pauline JENNIE entertained about
80 of her girl friends last Saturday after
noon in honor of her cousin, Miss Edith
Bartlett of Meriden, Conn. A shor tmusical
program was rendered.
Wardsboro Republicans have nominated
l.. NJ. Newell for town representative, and
Dover Republicans have voted TO support
w. c. Halliday. Both men favor VIM.
p. Dillingham; for United States senator.
The Democratic caucus to nominate a
candidate for town representative will be
held at the town hall tomorrow, Saturday
evening, at o'clock. 1t is expected that
NJ. j. Moran will receive the nomination.
Mrs. John G. Leavitt has issued cards
announcing the marriage of her daughter,
Elizabeth Van Nostrand, to DR.. Daniel
Hamer Calder, in New York on Saturday,
Aug. II, DR.. and Mrs. Calder are expected
to return to Brattleboro in a few days.
People wishing a days outing will do
well to join the Pilgrim Fathers Saturday,
when they leave here on the 11:10
train for basket picnic at Gould's Mills,
near Springfield, this state. If the wealth
er is stormy the gathering will be held
in the hall.
Bert Allen has this week received from
his brother, William Allen, who is in
Southern California, a crate of peaches
which are peaches. The crate contained
SO specimens of the fruit, each weighing
nearly three quarters of pound and about
the size of a small musk melon.
Col. Albert Clarke, at last weeks meet
ing o. the Washington county veterans
association, gave some interesting figures,
not new, but only lately published, show
ing the number of soldiers furnished by
the counties of Vermont during the war OF
the rebellion to be as follows: Addison,
1892; Bennington, 1895; Caledonia, 1911 |;
Chittenden, 1869; Essex, 1923; Franklin,
1892; Grand Isle, 29S; Lamoile, $50;
Orange, 2209; Orleans, 1927; Rutland,
! 2996; Washington, 1866; Windham, 1884;
Windsor, 1894.
Road Commissioner Perry is making i'm
provements this week, which have been
needed for some time, on the road from
n. l. Hawley's house, half way TO the top
of West river hill. In the spring this
road has been very muddy, as there was
no way of draining off the water. Mr.
Perry proposes to grade down the road so
that the surplus water will be drained off
without the use of tile, as the expense for
| tile would be very heavy. Macadam will
be used in the road in front of Arthur
| WAITS house, as a gravel road would last
hardly year in that place. Mr.. Perry
| will use half of the money which the state
| allots him to be expended in making per-
manent Improvements in the highway, for
| this work, and the other half for fixing the
iron bridge this side of West Brattleboro
A Publication meeting in Harmony hall
| Tuesday night gave an evening of merrl-
| ment and good fellowship TO 90 or more
| young men who were invited there by Dr.
| q. +. Barber. The doctor had been en-
ticed into trap by party of practical
| jokers but he responded by inviting the
jokers and others to a spread which all APP
| preciated. The doctor presided, and in a
five minutes speech polished the foibles of
some of those who had been connected
| with the plot. The Refreshments were
then served, and later several persons were
called on for impromptu remarks. The
singing was feature of the entertainment,
| including everything from solos to cho-
ruses in which everybody Joined. The
| doctor has established a precedent which,
it is hoped, the perpetrators of the joke
will follow when their time comes for be-
ing easy marks.
The weather has not been favorable to
good attendance at Brookside park this
week, but Ogarita and Hatfield have proved
all and more than was promised. There
is degree of quality about their work that
is seldom seen outside the ranks of the
highest class actors. In many of their
plays they appear in four or five entirely
distinct characters, doing a lightning
change of costumes. So satisfactory is
their work that the managers have re-en-
gagged them for another week. This will
allow those who have been looking for a
higher class of entertainments at the park
to show their appreciation of the present
attraction. The same high class work
will be presented all of next week and
there will be an entire change of bill Mon
day and Thursday evenings. One of the
hits of the week has been Litz's educated
japanese Spaniels. These little fellows
do their part of the program without a
word of command and call for almost con-
tinuous applause from the ladies and chill
dren with whom their have been great
favorites. There will be a special matinee
Saturday at 3 p. NJ. and the usual evening
performance. One of the largest crowds
of the season witnessed last evening the
presentation of an act in three scenes from
Leah, the Forsaken," which was given
in addition to the regular bill.