Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-09-25
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LOCAL OVERFLOW.

The free kindergarten will be closed
next week on the days when the public
schools are not in session.
The marriage of Dana Hamilton stat
ford and Florence May knight will take
place Thursday. Oct S, at / o clock at the
home of Miss knights parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. S. w. Knight, Pearl street,
The post office, by order of the depart
ment at Washington, will be closed We'd
nesday and Thursday, from u to 6. The
carriers will make the regular forenoon
deliveries both days and the office will
be open from to in the evening.
Brattleboro people who attended the
basket picnic given by Arlington Grange
in Spragues park in Winchester yester-
day were Mr.. and Mrs. p. S. Games, Mr..
and Mrs. W. f. Mixer, Mrs. Mellen
Goodenough. Capt II. c. Streeter Mrs.
H. s. Dearborn and Mrs. II. w. Sargent.
They We're accompanied by state Master
Bell
X daughter OF NJ. Howard, formerly
Kipling's coachman. is i'll with scarlet
| lever of High street. and an Anderson
/ girl on the Brook road is also suffering
| from the disease. 3. l.. Herrick OF Elliot
street has been Ill with diphtheria, but
mas recovered and the quarantine was re-
moved Monday. Three Of Thomas Foleys
/ children on Clark street have the whoop-
/ ing cough.
! The question of whether the new steel
| bridge will be open in time for the VAL
/ ley Fair depends entirely on whether the
! Hinsdale people are able to get men and
teams enough to fill in the roadway on
! the east end Of the bridge. The Brattle-
| boro seectmen will make the fill on the
west end and the bridge men will have
| the planking in place on one side Of the
roadway crossing the bridge.
Rally day will be observed by the Bap-
| list Bible school next Sunday. Miss Ella
J ID. MacLaurn of Boston will speak at
the morning service She Is wonderful
ly interesting speaker and no one should
| fail to be present \ marshallng OF
forces at the usual hour Of the Bible
school session will take place and orders
/ are out that every one who isn't sick
shall be on duty. Rally for the Endeavor
society is postponed until Oct c.
Edward Phillips was arrested Friday
/ by Chief-of-Poice Hall on a complaint
I charging him with furnishing LIQUOR to
/ Daniel Manning. who was fined last week
for ntoXication. Phillips was taken be
fore Justice Newton and was put under
bonds in the sum OF 500 to appear at a
hearing this morning. Bail was FUR
nished by ". II. Ninton. on account OF
the hearing before the board of license
commissioners today the case was con-
tinued to next Monday morning.
Prince Alert. the pacing hero of hum
dred races and the champion of a score
of half mile tracks, went against the
worlds pacing record of l59 held by Dan
Patch, and beat it most decisively on the
Empire city track ut Yonkers, y. y.
Wednesday. going the mile in 1.57 fiat.
Prince Alert is u years old. and has an
uncertain pedigree. only n few years
ago j. \. Taylor and Charles Minor had
an opportunity to buy this horse for 5000,
but did not consider him worth that
price.
The annual meeting of the Woman
Foreign Missionary society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church was held yester-
day at the parsonage, when the follow
ing officers were elected: President, Mrs.
f. f. Beeman; first vice president Mrs.
f. w. Lewis; second vice president, Mrs,
Ella Hildreth; recording secretary, Mrs.
w. r. Geddis corresponding secretary,
Mrs. f. w. Lewis; treasurer, Mrs. A. c..
Allen: directors, Mrs. Fred Houghton.
Mrs Ella Hildreth, Mrs. Fred Gleas
Mrs. Flora Young, Mrs. Georgia Haskell.
Warren Bennett has moved from G
Spruce street, to No. l Bratle street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter S. Pratt of Athol