Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-20
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The annual Valley Fair dance will
of the fair.
The electric cars will run to the
fair ground Sunday, and the fare for
an ordinary trip will carry a passen-
ger there.
The Brattleboro Hosiery company
base ball team will go to Bellows
Falls tomorrow to meet the Bellows
Falls Locals.
The band concert which was to have
been given in Melrose House Tuesday
evening by the First Regiment band
was postponed indefinitely on account
of President McKinley's death.
The semi-annual election of officers
of the Congregational Christian En-
deavor society was postponed Sunday
to next Sunday. Five new members
were voted in at the last meeting.
Mrs. ]. j. Estey, state regent of Ver-
mont, Daughters of the American Rev.
olution, has requested each Vermont
daughter, in token of her grief at the
nations loss, to wear a small badge of
The annual reunion of the surviving
members of company K, 9th regiment,
Vermont Volunteers, will be held at
the selectmen's room in the town hall
building, Brattleboro, Tuesday, Sept.
"a, at 10 a. m.
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, dean of Tonga
loo university, Mississippi. spoke to a
large audience at the last Friday even
ing meeting of the Centre church. The
address was largely upon the various
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university and it was full of interest.
The regular meeting Of the Brattle-
boro chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, which was to have
been held in the Brooks House Monday
night. with a paper by Mrs. Abbie
Estey Fuller, was indefinitely postpon-
ed on account of the death of President
Mckinley. ....--.
Fort Drummer Royal Arch chapter
No. II, will work all the degrees con
ferred by the chapter at special meet
ings to be held at Masonic hall this
afternoon and evening. Banquet will
be served at o'clock. Three candi-
dates will come here from Wilmington
to take degrees.
The village bailfs held a special
meeting Saturday night and voted to
construct a stone dam across Whet-
stone brook on the brook road in order
that there may be a pond from which
the steamers may take water in the
event of a fire in the Swedish settle
ment. They also voted to provide
special policemen and detectives for
the Valley Fair.
The annual reunion of company B.
10th regiment, Vermont Volunteers,
will be held in Brattleboro Tuesday,
Sept. "a, in Grand Army hall. Roll
cal at IL o'clock will be followed by a
trolley ride to West Brattleboro
where dinner will be served at l at
the Melrose House. The business and
social meetings will be held in Melrose
hall. Two years ago the ladies were
made auxiliary members, and it is ex-
pected that the wives and widows of
members of the company will be pre-
sent. o.
N. |. Hawley was called to Homer,
N. Y, Wednesday by the death of his
brother-in-law, the Rev. DR.. Edward
Hitchcock. DR.. Hitchcock was for a
long term of years the pastor of the
American Chapel in Paris, and since
his return to this country about Is
years ago had lived in Philadelphia,
and had held high place in the coun-
ellis of the Presbyterian church. His
wife, who died several years ago, was
the only sister of Mr.. Hawley. His
death took place in Saratoga Springs,
N. Y, and the burial was in the family
lot of the Hawley family at Homer.