Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-02-27
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MISS l4ulu A.itSSN " All bt6ih H'Nt
week to sell tickets for the First Regi-
ment band minstrels.
The Womans Relief corps will
serve clam chowder supper at
Grand Army hall next Friday evening
r.. II. Tomb will sell the Charles
Squires farm in Guilford by auction
March T. c. p. ellison acting as auc-
tioneer.
A meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A. and
board of directors will be held in the
association rooms Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
B. S. Balester cut his left hand
badly while carving meat last Sunday.
Several stitches were taken in dress
ing the wound.
A party of young people went to
Ashuelot Monday evening to attend
an entertainment, given by the Catho-
lic society of that town.
bon society will be held next Monday
evening at 100 o'clock with Mrs. E,
b. Davenport at the home of Mrs. w.
r. Geddis on Green street.
The Alliance study class will meet
at the Unitarian parsonage Monday
evening, March ., at 100. The sub
ject will be Augustine and the Spirit
of Repentance"
At meeting of the trustees of the
Soldiers Home held in Rutland We'd
nesday, Col. H. E. Taylor was chosen
a member of the board to fill va
cancy caused by the death of Gen.
GreenleafA
One end of the steam chest of the
old Estey engine at the Centreville
power station was broken yesterday,
the cause of the break probably being
the bursting of a valve. The damage
is estimated at 5000 to $500.
Negotiations are in progress
through A. V. Mays real estate
agency for the sale of the American
House, several persons wanting to get
possession of the property 1t is prob
able that the hotel will be torn down
and business building erected on its
site.
Town meeting next Tuesday will
open in Festival hall at 8 o'clock, The
usual method of balloting will be used,
not the Australian ballot as many
have understood. The balloting on the
license question will stop at 3 o'clock,
but the meeting will continue until all
other legal business is finished.
St Michaels court. Catholic Order
of Foresters. held a ladies' night meet
ing in Red Mems hall Tuesday even
ing, which was attended by about 80
couples Dancing and card playing
We're enjoyed from to II o'clock,
Hines and Dugan furnishing music
for dancing, Orangeade and fancy
waters were served from a booth deco
rated in white.
Two of the diamond prizes have
been won in the Vermont Wheel club
tournament, that for three ball bill
lizards going to w. P. Jones (32), and
the one for four ball billiards to Geo.
e. Foster (55). Jones scored 80, to
81 for Williamson (65) in the final
contest. Last evening Foster won
from DR.. A. L. Pettee (55), the latter
has narrowed down to Bacon 600
Cray (40), and Dugan (95). Bacon
leads with four straight wins.
The lecture in the Y. NJ. C. A. course
March 10 will be one of the greatest
drawing cards ever offered in the Y.
NJ. G. A. course. Something of the
public attention which Fra Elbertus'
has attracted is indicated in the fol
t.
whether Ebert Hubbard is a great
orator or not is still debatable but the
fact remains that he has drawn big.
ger audiences. at bigger prices this
year, in New York and Chicago. than
any other lecturer you can name And
the public speaker who can attract
and hold 1000 people for two hours
without stereopticon pictures, must be
OF of n n q
to say that is worth while. Then as
to literary prowess, Hubbard's Mes
sage to Garcia wipes out all literary
records since the world began; it
has been translated into nine Ian
guages and reprinted over sixteen mil
lion times, all within the space of
three years"
The First Regiment band are pre-
pairing a neat and novel program for
all those attending their minstrel
show March 20 1t will give a brief
history of the band. names of its char
ter members and pictures of the band
in those days. 1t might be said this
same organization began rehearsals in
Lewis Putnam's livery barn on Pros
pect hill, using the old-fashioned bell
back horns. band with these in
ST. NIltllN tOulN not ne HtdIu dD-
preaching, that is, they had to pass
by before the sounds could be heard,
Many of the old members are still
playing today. In those days one
would never thinlt-ef the band filling
the many important engagements it
has in later years, and today is classed
among the best bands of New Eng
land Much credit of the bands sue
cess is due George II. Clapp. who for
many wears was manager All citi-
zens should be proud of the band and
show their appreciation by attending
their minstrel show in return for
which the boys promise an evening of
enjoyment The proceeds of this en-
tertainment will go for new music, of
which the public will have the benefit
later. The band has been kept in con.
slant organization since its beginning
and it has always tried in the past to
please the Brattleboro people, and ii
is its intention to do so in the future,