Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-02
BRATTLEBORO.

Tickets for Mrs. Pratts "Enoch Arden
may be procured from any member or the
Womans club.
The First Regiment band of 80 pieces
will give concert at the camp ground
this evening at o'clock.
st. Michaels Roman Catholic choir will
begin singing high mass Sunday after
vacation of two months
Next Wednesday, the opening day of
the county court, a special train will
leave Brattleboro for Newfane at $50
a. m.
w. G. Doolttle has sold the Moseley
farm in Vernon where he has been living
the past summer to George f.. Brooks of
Vernon
The cup that will be awarded the best
all-round athlete in the Wheel club sports
is on exhibition in Vaughan & Burnetts
window.
G. E. Gilman received Tuesday at his
Elliot street stable a carload of horses
which he bought from farmers in South
ern Michigan
There will be a service for men at the
Y. NJ. c. a. rooms next Sunday at 4
O'Clock p. m. President f. c. Crosby will
give the address.
The Y. NJ c. A. rooms are being re-
wired for electric lights, in order that the
wiring may conform to the rules of the
insurance companies.
The West Dummerston brass band will
celebrate its 10th anniversary Monday
Labor day, with vocal and instrumental
program. Ice cream and cake will be
served.
The ladies' aid society of the Methodist
church VIII meet at the home of Mrs
Q. d. Smith next Wednesday afternoon to
sew. All interested are asked to come
whether members or not.
The w. c. r. L. resumed their regular
meetings yesterday, and it was decided to
hold meetings the first and third Thurs
days in each month until further notice
instead of having meeting each week
A meeting of the Audubon society will
be held Monday evening. Sept s. at 7S0
o. clock at the home of Mrs. A ID. Wyatt
Some proposed changes in the bylaws
will be considered. "A fun attendance is
desired.
The September meeting of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution will be
held Tuesday afternoon Sept. g. Lafayette
day, from 3 to o'clock with Mrs. e A.
Starkey at her home on Oak street, in
stead of as the year book announces. The
paper for the afternoon will be prepared
and read by Miss Susan f. Clark 1t is
hoped there will be a good attendance.
The freemen's meeting will open at
Festival hall Tuesday promptly at 8
" Cloch Inc VOTERS III tne llSI from A TO
inclusive will vote on the south side
of the hall and those from l. to in
elusive on the north side The box for
town representative will be turned at
O'Clock, but the voting for state and
county officers will continue until 8. 1t
is important to have voters study the
directions for voting which will be dis
played conspicuously in the hall.
Last Sunday evening occurred the last
of the open-air meetings which have been
held on the common during July and Au-
gust Rev. A. c. Lawson of Newark N
j. was the speaker and there was sing
ing by the colored quartet from Atlanta
university. About $50 people were present
Nine meetings were held and the average
attendance was about 500. The smallest
attendance was at the first meeting when
there were but 400 present. The largest
crowd was brought out at the sacred con-
cert by the First Regiment band. That
night there We're over 400 people on the
common. The collections taken have
more than paid all expenses connected
with them, and there is balance of about
$25 in the hands of the treasurer These
meetings Will undoubtedly be resumed an
other season.
The Woman's club takes pleasure in an
nouncing an evening of song, to be given
by Mrs. Harriet Brasor Pratt at the
Brooks House Thursday, Sept. s, at $50
O'Clock. Mrs Pratt will recite Tennyson's
P,'' ioNh <AiueH' anu VIII sing sew
eral selections from Tennysons I'm Me-
moram." The melodrama "Enoch
Arden" with incidental music by Richard
Strauss, the most discussed composer of
modern times, excepting, perhaps, Richard
Wagner, has been given all over the
world during the past two years The
music was written by the young COM
poser about seven years ago. and is
tone poem of great beauty and power
following the lines of Richard Wagner's
music dramas. The principal thought in
the music is in the use of the "leitmotif"
each parsonage in the poem having his
own musical phrase to announce his ap-
pearance in the action of the play Every
phrase is of perfect beauty and fraught
with the deepest and most tragic power
Strauss is a Revolutionist in music and
as such has torn down and more swiftly
rebuilt than any other worker in literary
or musical history.