Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04

st. Cecelias Altar society netted
S40.72 at their recent lawn party
Hooker, Corsef G. Mitchell's factory
will be closed Friday and Saturday,
opening again on Monday.
Rev. Harry S. Mabie, son of DR..
Hamilton Mabie, will preach in the
Baptist church next Sunday.
The next concert by the First Regi-
ment band will be given on the COM
mon Wednesday evening, July 8.
An interesting article on the pro-
posed Continental hall of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution is
printed on the third page of this paper.
Glass No. 10 of the Baptist Bible
school was entertained last Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. l. o. p.
Smith The afternoon was spent
very pleasantly.
The Crosby house at the end of the
electric railroad in West Brattleboro
was sold by auction this week to John
l.. Barney for S2725. The sale was
made by C. p Gibson, auctioneer.
The Hemlocks is being put in order
to be opened as a nurses home. A
few beneficiaries of the Thompson
fund, who require special care which
they could receive in no other way,
will be taken there.
The postofice will be open July
from Z to IL o'clock only. The car
riers will make one delivery in the
morning. The. rural carriers will be
given a holiday for the first time since
their routes were established.
Miss Carolyn L. Clark has been re-
elected first assistant in the Guilford,
Conn, Institute and High school for
another year. She is now visiting col
iege mates and friends in Boston and
vicinity, but is expected home on Sat
urday.
The members of the primary depart
ment of the Baptist Bible school, &C
companied by the teachers, had a
pleasant picnic in Brookside park
Wednesday afternoon, followed by a
car ride. Two cars were filled with
the merry little folk.
A granite mill stone which was in
use at the Goodenough mill in West
Brattleboro many years has been pol
ished and inscribed and next week it
will be placed as a monument on the
lot of the late j. P. Goodenough
in the West Brattleboro cemetery. 1t
makes a handsome monument of uni
que design.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton will begin it's usual series of
outdoor meetings next Sunday after
noon on the common in this village
The speaker next Sunday will be
Rev. Harry S. Mabie, son of DR.. Ham
ilton Mabie. Harry Smith, '03, lead
er of the Wesleyan Glee Club, will
sing a solo. 1t is hoped there may
be large number present.
At the close of the regular business
of the special town meeting Saturday
afternoon an invitation will be extend
ed to the citizens of Brattleboro to
assist the Young Mems Republican
club in preparing for the coming of
President Roosevelt, Aug. 3d. by APP
pointing a committee of citizens to act
in conjunction with the clubs COM
mite of arrangements. The Presi-
dents visit will have no political as
pect whatever and the plans for his en-
tertainment will not be characterized
in any degree by partisanship of fac
tional feeling. There ought to be a
good attendance at the town meeting
in order that the sentiment of the COM
munity may be represented ade-
quately.
E. E. Fisher, whose good work in
improving the old Meeting House Hill
cemetery and in placing markers
there, has been noted, deserves COM
mendation again for setting substan-
tial markers where the old roads led to
the cemetery-the old Guilford road,
the road to Marlboro which ran
through to Albany, N. Y, and the
North road which ran to the West
River above the Retreat The spot
where the stocks and sign posts were
placed in 1881 has also been marked.
The inscriptions on the markers are
cast in gun metal set firmly into the
granite, which stands on firm founda-
ton. All of the work has been done
thoroughly and permanently at Mr..
Fishers expense.
f. w. Haskell returned home last
week from the Philippine Islands,
where he has been serving in the
United States army about two years.
Mr.. Haskell is in excellent health and
although on the water continuously for
four weeks was not seasick a moment.
He is enthusiastic about the Philip
pines. The finest grazing land and the
most picturesque scenery he ever saw
was there. Mr.. Haskell began his eX-
perience as a soldier with company |
of the First Vermont regiment at
Chickamauga. He then enlisted for
three years service in the hospital
corps of the regular army. During
the first part of his enlistment he was
assigned TO duty in Cuba, and
was then transferred to the Philip
pines. He was in no regular battles,
but took part in several small scout
ing expeditions. He has brought home
many curios and relies, some of which
are rare and costly. He declares he
has had enough of army life and is
willing to settle down at his old trade
as a carpenter but he has not one
word of fault to find about the way
Uncle Sam has used him during his
entire service.
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