The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-08-23

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The Administration Committee d
the Marx skinner Library wishes i,
express q thanks 70 al tbose sho !,
kiaiily gave their services 10 make DO
elieffainmcni for the Book fuBd ih'
ssnal aicress thai i was and % helpvt
add Substantially - the fund.
The lawn feis FOR the benefit d
the building FUND u S. johns church
whlch va. held % their recently par
CHASED grounds. WAS q great success,
nearly 800 being realized, The plncs
was most brilliantly lighted in the even
INK with large number ~ electric
lights. which we're furnished and ar
ranged by A. II. Marsden.
Abraham SwAriz, OF Abraham
Whit, a. 81 il HON called. and well
Z remembered here n being connected
with The quarry on the Dyer farm. re-
GENTLY made ten strike III Wall street,
clearing about s2.oa0, 900 in the rise Of
stocks in the Pacific railroads. He
has purchased, for soo,0oo, the resi-
dence erected by the late John X. Ne.
CAN, the insurance man.
Manchester has two inmates in
Vermont insane hospitals. Their main
tenance costs the town nothing. Ii
costs the state about $500 year and is
paid from the tax ON corporations.
there being no state tax. II Manches-
ter paid this, as was form erly the ease,
Il would mean town tax of 2.5 cents
on every dollar qf the grand list. Glenn
ent condemns tho present system Of
caring for the insane. DO your II
not, vote the republican ticket Septem.
Der 1.
One OF the most successful enter
lainnenls Of the season was held at
Music Hall last Saturday for the bene-
iit OF the Book Fund oi tbs Mark Skin.
ner Library. Mrs. George Y. Law
renee sang delightfully."- and Miss Murl.
less's fine soprano was heard for the
first lime in Manchester. The Misses
Hoyt gave series of three Indian
songs, rendered with even more than
their usual felicity and dramatic power.
The largest part of tho entertainment
consisted, however, In u SERIES Of ta'
bleaux of Shakespeare aud Tennyson
heroines posed by Miss Elizabeth Fish
or Of saltwater, Penn, whose success
in this line Of work has been remnrka-
Bile, and who provided series of
beautiful and astonishingly pcture-like
Shakespeare portraits which quite took
her audience by storm, She was for
tluate in her models, who seemed
made for the roles given them and for
the rich and artistic costumes. Ii would
be impossible to select any for special
praise among all the pictures which
were so admirably successful
one, as II MAS shpyn, seeming more
harmonious and beautiful than those
preceding. The Committee for the
Library reports that the financial re-
suit was also very pleasing, ~ over
one hundred dollars were cleared for
the purchase of new books.
MANCHESTER CENTER.
Miss Zoe Hehert Of Dandy is visit
ing in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheldon of Benning-
ton were in town Friday.
Miss Lewis of Rutland was recent
guest Of Miss Minnie Bell.
Edward Day of California, spent
Sunday with friends in town.
Frank Combs of Albany. spent
Sunday with friends in town.
Mrs. Edith Chaplin, nee Adams, is
visiting many friends in town.
Mrs. Cora Spellman and children
of Westfield are visiting in town.
Mrs. Stella Coombs of Rensselaer,,
n. Y, has been visiting in town.
Miss Godfrey of Albany is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Bundy.
j. Balch, who has been in Shafts
bury and Bennington, has returned.
The Misses Shaw, who have been
visiting in town, have returned TO North
Adams.
There were five young people bap-
tiled at the NJ. u. Church last Sunday
Miss Grace Gleason of Providence,
X. l., is spending her vacation at Mr..
Barretfs.
--Leonl Aldricb of Londonderry, has
been spending few days at NJ. w.
Barrett's.
Miss Mabel Bentley of Middlebury
is the guest Of her aunt, Mrs. Charles
Palmateer.
p. ID. Phalen has moved from
Botsford's block to his aunt's tenement
Fairvlew.
Mrs. Clarence Curtis, Mrs. Eber
Sessions aud daughter visited friends
in Bennington the 10th.
One hundred and fifty-iive tickets
were sold al the station here Sunday
for the excursion to Burlington.
The rain Monday night was wei.
coined most gladly by our merchants,
ms the dust was something terrible.
Misses Mae and Isabelle Beatte of
Fall River are guests Of their grand