Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-23

Next Friday will be observed as visit
ing day by the public schools, and a large
number of the teachers will visit schools
in Boston and other places.
Brattleboro lodge, No. 102. f Il \. NJ,
worked the third degree at a special COM
munication last evening. After the WORK
refreshments were served.
The International Sunshine society.
Brattleboro branch /, will meet with Mrs.
c. A. Harris on North street, Friday
afternoon, oct. 80, at o'clock.
The big minstrel parade which is aa-
vertsed to appear at noon next Wednes-
day will be delayed until the arrival of
the 227 train from the north, that being
the earliest hour at which the company
can arrive in Brattleboro.
Peter < Chase and Mrs julia T. Bel
lSnap were married by Rev. Mr. Lawson
at his residence Wednesday afternoon,
oct 81 Mi. and Mis- Chase will he ut
home at No Chcstnrt street alteration
day, oct. 20.
Tho Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will serve a chicken pie supper in
the dining room OF the BAPTIST church
Thursday evening Nov. ;, at O'Clock.
Everyone is invited to attend. The pro-
cecds will he used for patriotic work.
J.. w Shipman will run an Uncle Toms
Cabin show this winter and will omen at
Winchester n. H., on Thursday oct. -.
He will carry % or more persons with
him. They are arriving i'm Winchester
nearly every day from all parts of the
country.
4 l35-po,nd buck has been on exhibit
ton In 6. O. Abbotts meat market this
week 1t was shipped t. Hrattleboro from
Moosehead Lake. Maine. by Charles clark
of Brattlcboro and p. b. Moore of Spring
field, Mass. who have returned from
hunting trip I'm that locality.
r. f. Emerson of Bellows Fails. hanging
a few feet from the tor of the 50-foot
smoke stack over the electric light sta
ton while quietly working with his paint
brush, was a sight that caused many
people to stop for few moments to watch
his operations early In the week.
Karl kron. New York bicyclist, was
at the Brooks House over sunday. lie
clings to the old-fashioned high wheel hi
cycle and rides around the country for
pleasure He has ridden over 5000 miles.
He went from Brattlcboro to Bellows
Falls In 1887 Mr.. Kron published 900
page volume entitled Ten Thousand
Miles on Bicycle
The sales of liquor in Windham county
under the firth class license or druggists
license under which liquor Is sold only
on physicians prescription are few, aver
aging from 40 to 80 a month, or less than
Two day under each license. There are
but three such licenses in the county
and they are held 10y +. H. Holden ~ Co.
and George f.. Greene of BrattlebOro and
G. H. Parmelee of Wilmington.
The troupe of monkeys. dogs ponies,
lions and leopards advertised ON the bills
to appear with Cleveand's MINISTRIES will
not be seen here. The managers of many
theatres refused to allow the animals to
appear on the stage and this made SO
much difficulty in booking the show that
frs.
tiuns have been added to take the place Of
the animals The Phoenix has been re-
uucsted by Manager Fox to make this cN-
PLANTATION.
The Colgate University foot ball team
on which Melvin Thurher is right tackle
in proving one of the hard propositions
for the so-called big aggregations this
year. Colgate started the season 10y
playing the West Point cadets to a tie.
90. defeated St. Lawrence University 400
was beaten in the next game by Cornell,
1910. after a hard struggle. Last Satur-
day Colgate downed the formidable SYRIA
cuse eleven lis. The dispatches to the
New York papers mention Thurber $
plunges as feature in ground gaining
/ An unusually select shipment of hogs
was made from Brlttleboro depot Monday.
There were - in the lot and they were
sent to Robert Burnett Of Southboro
Mass proprietor of the Dccrfout Farm.
where the celebrated Decrfout Farm slu-
suges are made. Mr.. Burnett is well
known in Bruttlebpro. his wife being Mar
garet Hail, formerly Of this town. The
hogs came from Dummerstou. Guilfnrd
and Brattlehoro and We're principally Of
the Chester white breed, with few
Berkshires They were bought by G.
Smith of the Deerfoot Farm. assisted 10y
II. J. Richmond of Guilford Centre, and
the price paid was six cents pound. The
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pounds. an average of pa pounds each.
The principa! shippers We're George Thorn
as. 10. Charles Wheeler, 10. y. Il. Clapp
:, +. II. Miller, u, r. II. Briggs, &.
Mrs. Louisa ,Barber) Doane. who died
AT her home in Charlestown. Mass, Sept.
20, was a native of Brattlcboro. having
been born there April IS, 1925 When
young woman she went to Maryland as
governess and teacher, in place near
where her brother the late Rev. Theo-
dore Barber, was rector. She became an
earnest, d"Vout Epis ,opalian, and remain
ed loyal to the close of her life. Return
ing to Brattleboro. she opened a young
ladies' boarding and day school called
"Laneside,' at the pleasant home on
/ North street where Miss Sawyer =
school aftcrward was She was greatly
beloved by her pupils, especially by those
who lived in her home. In 1870 she was
married to the well known engineer,
[ lnomaS DOdne, VINO died SIX years ago.
Mr. Doane will be remembered for his
great work of founding and sustaining
DOane college in Crete. Nebraska. Since
Mr. Doanes death. his children have ten
derby cared for Mrs Doane. She will be
remembered in West Townshend as the
the sister of the late Augustus Barber.
The presentation of the dramatic YER
sion of Westcotts David Harum" i'm the
. Auditorium Friday evening will not soon
fade from the memory of those who wit
messed it. 1t was one of those rural com
edies. replete with human nature. that
people ike to remember. and while it
briStlcd with fun there was enough of
the serious side of life to arouse ones
sympathies The principal incidents in
the book We're faithfully reproduced. hut
numerous changes were made in the mi
/ nor parts. While distinctly rural there
was little about it that bore any resem-
| blance to the ordinary type of rural
plays The first act introduced the ia
nous horse trade between Deacon Per-
khs and David Harum. The second
concluded with an amusing tabeau show-
ing the deacon and the balky horse in "A
shower and the third centered around
DSfNid's generous gift to the Widow Col
lum. The large audience was responsive
throughout the play William II. Turner
acted the part of David Hardm' in an
irresistible way and the entire cast was
remarkably strong.
Miss Susan Elizabeth Herrclt, 81, died
at>her home al SO Western avenue about
II o'clock Tuesday night. She had been
an invalid since Feb. 81, 1901 when she
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