Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-21
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The West Brattleboro and Methodist
foot ball teams will line up on the is
land grounds Monday afternoon at
$50.
There will be a souvenir for every
lady attending the matinee presenta-
ton of jerome, a Poor Man." next
Thursday, Thanksgiving day.
The annual meeting of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
Nov. %, at the Brooks Free Library,
north room, at 7.30 o'clock.
The next attraction in the Y. M. c..
A. star course will be a lecture next
Tuesday evening at the Auditorium
by John Temple Graves on "The
Reign of the Demagogue."
The Brattleboro Gas Light company
is installing 100-kilowatt mono-cyclic
generator at an expense of about
$1,000 preparatory to bringing power
from the dam across West river to
the local plant on Arch street. The
dam is nearing completion.
In our legislative report mention is
made of the passage of a bill incor-
porating the Brattleboro Manufactur-
ing company, with the names of the
corporators appended. 1t is under
stood that this charter has reference
to. a prospective enlargement of the
business of the Brattleboro Hosiery
company.
Jerome, a Poor Man" will be pre-
scented at the Auditorium next Thurs
day evening on a scale worthy of the
famous author, Mary E. Wilkins. and
her greatest book. The mill scene in
the third act will constitute one of the
best and most powerful and elaborate
effects ever presented in connection
with thoroughly high class dramatic
offering.
The Brattleboro private school
closed today for a weeks vacation. 1t
will reopen for the winter term Mon,
day, Dec. 1. The evening shorthand
class, which anyone DESTROYS of TAX.
ing stenography may join, begins on
the evening of the same day This
class offers good opportunity to any
one wishing to prepare for business
or business college in the shorthand
department.
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gational Christian Endeavor society
will hold, at next Tuesday even
ing, a Thanksgiving sociable and en-
tertainment for the purpose of pro-
viding Thanksgiving dinners for those
who, otherwise, would get along with
out them. The admission fee will be
anything in the line of vegetables or
anything that can be used in preparing
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will be distributed under the direction
of Mrs. Wells. That the object is
worthy is plain, and while the sociable
is given by the Christian Endeavor so
ciety the invitation to assist in the
good cause is extended to everyone.
The hour is set at o'clock in order
that those wishing to attend the Y. NJ
C. A. entertainment will have an op-
portunity to leave their contributions.
Leland T. Powers. Americas
greatest dramatic reader, gives the
following commentator to John
Temple Graves, who will speak on
The Reign of the Demagogue" in the
Y. M. G. A. star course, at the Audi
forum next Tuesday evening" IF you
wish to give the people of Boston an
opportunity to hear eloquence unsur-
and Phillips, you place on your Star
Course in fremont Temple the name
of John Temple Graves, of Georgia.
] have heard him in The Reign of the
Demagogue,' and he is wonderful.
had never before in all my life heard
such beautiful and forcible English,
+or had seen the influence of such an
electric personality 1t was power
hU xuh l.
ence was bowed and swayed like a
field of grain before a strong wind"
The lecture on "The Ancient Cliff
Dwellers of the Southwest" given by
Mrs. Grace Hyde Urine before the
Womans Club, at the Brooks House
Wednesday afternoon was very in
structive, and Mrs Trine's charming
and interesting personality took her
hearers by storm. The lecturers de-
scriptlon of her three days ride be
hind Indian ponies through the arid
regions, covered with sagebrush and
stones, and her dangerous climb tc
the abode of the, cliff jewellers was
vivid and humorous. The members
of her party dug into mounds and dis
covered skeletons and. specimens o.
the pottery of the ancient race. The
discovery of these people who bull
their houses in clusters on the plains
as we'll as on the tops of the cliffs, IL
comparatively recent Mrs. Trim
described particularly her visit to thu
Cliff Palace and the Pine Tree house
and she brought with her pieces o
pottery and pictures of the wilderness
scenes. About 125 members AM
guests were present, including 2
members of the Bellows Falls Woman
club, who came by special invitation
as guests of the Brattleboro club.