Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-06-17
VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1904

house and making 1t seem so home-like.
She was very fond of Towns hotel, which
was built by Mr. Town in 1878, and 1t was
her home until she sold it to Mr.. Rus
sell a few years ago.
The graduating exercises of the class
of 1904, b. +. II. s.. are to be held in the
opera house this evening, and will be
followed by the reception in Union hail.
Following are the class members Classi-
cal course. Helen Winifred Ryder; Latin
scientific course, Bertha Bodine Timothy
Joseph Shea, Walter Edgar Martin, and
Jerry joseph NORM English course, Mary
Frances Barrett Blanche Woodfall, Mar
garet Elizabeth Savage Katherine
Loretto Hogan, Preston Henry Hadley,
ir. Cora Alma Houghton, Mary Frances
Howard Grace Franklin Perry. Naleska
Frances EXner Katherine Helena Sheri-
dan. May Elizabeth Hartnett, May
Augusta Pierce, Julia Veronica MARI
borough Scott Brinton Splan, Hugh
Francis O'Brien, Harry Edwin Mcdonald,
and Grace olivia Williams. AS stated last
week. the valedictory honors go to Miss
Ryder. and the salutatdry to Miss Bodine.
The mandatory of the Vermont Fruit
/ Company, located between Here and Sax
tons River, which is owned and run en-
| tirclv by local parties, is largely extend
/ ing its business each year During the
past year, they bought over eighty
| thousand bushels of apples, and made
| eight thousand barrels of cider of which
| they exported to London England, thir-
| teen hundred barrels of refined cider
! They already have an increased order for
export this year, and the prospects FOR
the fruit crop in this vicinity seem
! abundant They find that cider vinegar Is
practically an unknown article in England,
/ the trade dealing almost wholly in "a
! chemical acid vinegar. The prospect of
this firm is excellent for the coming few
years They are this year perfecting a
new carbonated drink, the basis of which
| Is apples and cherries. 1t is to be put up
under the name of Sparkling Pommen-
| exile" and they are to furnish a syrup of
A feeling is now, at a rather late day,
/ being exhibited by the fire wardens of the
! village that I'm the construction of the
new village hall building between Rocking
ham and Canal streets the fire department
has not been given adequate room for
| their apparatus on the Rockingham street
| floor In view of the fact that the build
ing committee at various times while the
building was in process of construction
asked the officials of the fire department
as well as those of the other village de-
partments, to meet with them and dis
cuss the interior arrangements of the
building. which they declined to do unit
the building was Completed, If 1t is
shown that proper arrangements have not
been made for them, the wardens will not
be apt to secure the sympathy of many
of the voters. To outsiders it looks as Il
the wardens should have taken an inter
est in the matter before 1t had gone 81
far that a large expense would be entaileC
in making changes. The other parts o
the building are fully occupied but the fire
department has refused to occupy thei
quarters. Had this been done, we thinl
they would have been able to demonstrat,
the inadequacy of the room more pleasant
ly than is now being done. They have cir
culated a petition asking the baliffs t.
call village meeting to see If the who'll
Rockingham street floor cannot be re
modelled for their exclusive use. Mean
while the fire apparatus is being house
in other parts of the village which are no
so accessible in case of fire, making al
additional menace to the village.