Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-11-02

Mrs. Charles E. Howard was with Mr.
Howard in Montpelier last week, ENJOYING
the festivities of ladies' week.
John w. Flint aud family leave about
the first of December for Thomasville, Ga.
where they will spend the winter.
The marriage engagement of Frederick
W. Burbank of Brooklne, Mass, and Miss
Bertha Capron of this place is announced.
The Mount Kilburn Junior auxiliary will
hold a missionary tea and thank offering
meeting at the home of Mrs. II. F. King
Monday evening.
Herbert II. Fassett and family have
moved into the tenement in Henry Bacon
house on Atkinson street, recently vacated
by w. A. Truax.
The W. @. 7. U. will serve dinner in
banquet hall election day, where all who
come from out of the village can get cup
of coffee and good dinner.
A Hallowe'e EN- party was held in the par
Tors of the Baptist church Wednesday even
ing, where games suited to the night were
INDUCED in with ''lots of fun"
The senior class of the High school have
indefinitely postponed the entertainment
which they had expected to give next Mon
day evening. They felt obliged to do this
as so many other entertainments were &C.
curing this week and next.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Parker expect to
begin housekeeping in the tenement recent
ly vacated by George S. Grout at the cor
ner of Henry and Hadley streets In the
two or three years Mr.. and Mrs Parker
have been in Bellows Falls they have al
ways boarded.
Henry Robbins, former employee of
Bodine & Davis, who lately had a plumb
ing establishment Of his own in the block
formerly owned by the late Calvin Barber,
on Atkinson street, has bought plumbing
business in Charlestown, N. H., and has
moved his family there this week.
Mrs. w. j. Conant, Miss Kate Williams
and Mrs. George L. Burnside have been
elected delegates from the Woman's aux
iliary of Emmanuel church to the annual
convention of the state organization to be
held in Bennington Nov. 10 and a. Miss
Alice Frost and Miss Helen Sanford will
represent the junior auxiliary of the church
at this convention.
Rev. ]. E. Farrow lectured in the main
room of the High school building Monday
evening upon Beauty in Art and Nature, ]"
illustrated by the stereopticon before a
large and enthusiastic audience. The
lecture was under the auspices of the
sophomore class, which shares in the pro-
ceeds. They are beginning thus early to
gather their fund for graduating expenses,
realizing $40 from this entertainment.
NJ. ]. Barrett and Miss Dora Murphy,
two well known and popular young people
of our village, were married at St. Charles
church Tuesday morning. An extremely
pleasant and pretty ceremony was supple
tah hu IF
merit. The attendance was large and hun
dreds of friends accompanied the couple to
the station and started them off with their
good wishes at $50 for Boston. They are
to have rooms at II. G. Chandler's on
School ST. eet upon their return.
l. H. Blakley and DR.. Morrison went to
Plymouth last week on a two days deer
hunting trip. AS a result, Mr.. Blakley
brought home young buck which weigh
ed 1lS pounds before it was dressed. Dur
ing the past IL days a number of hunters
have spent considerable time in the near
by part of Westminster looking for two
deer, which have been often seen there
during the past year. They had hoped to
get them during the 10 days the law was
off, but were unsuccessful.
Theatre-goers will have treat next
thursday evening III OhO PiOuuOpiOh VI
"Quo Vads" by the Whitney d Knowles
company. The papers in Chicago, Detroit,
Philadelphia and New York, where it was
presented by the same company last sea-
son, tell wonderful stories of its hold on the
public. 1t is brought here under the local
management of John E. Brosnahan, and
an agent of the company is in town this
week arranging for a large number of local
supernumeraries to assist in the mob scene.
There are so regular actors who come with
the company and it takes over 100 in some
of the scenes. All who have read the pop
ular book, and certainly those who have
not, will want to see this production
next week.
To say that the large audience who greet
ed DR.. Lyman Beecher Sperry of Oberlin,
| Ohio, at the Congregational church FRI
day evening, were pleased would be to state
the case too mildly. Everyone was more
than pleased, they were delighted. His
subject was "Superstitions, Decisions and
Fads," and it was handled in mastery
manner Such expressions as Didn't you
enjoy the lecture Friday night" Wasn't
Il fine, Better than anything we had in
the lecture course last winter" ETC., have
been heard often in the past week.
Through his friend, Principal Downing, he
was obtained by the Young Mems club for
a nominal price, 80 that they could make it
a free lecture, and the thanks of all who en-