Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-21

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Norman Howe has gone to Alstead.
Where he has a position i'm the store of
Pollard & Shepardson.
Rev. Arthur Peabody Pratt has spent
the most of this week in Wiliamstown.
TINS state, with his mother and sister.
Many friends of Vermont academy have
been attending the commencement exer-
clses at Saxtons River this week from
here.
Fred j. Jefts paper mill man we'll
known locally, has accepted the position
of superintendent of the paper mills of
Robertson Brothers in Hinsdale
Inc village trustees have bought an
| lriquois steam power road roller for use
on the streets, and it will be here in a
Few days. The price paid was $26S5.
Gertrude S. Hayes went Wednesday to
! Silver Bay on Lake George, where she
Will remain during the summer. having a
| position in the office of the Silver Bay
| association.
Cards are out for the wedding of Jay l..
liVermore of the Bellows Falls most Of
flee clerical force, and Miss Bertha Wig
gin, which will take place next Tuesday,
at the home of Miss Virgins parents.
Frank S. Written, of Lynn, Mass, a
| printer of many years ago in the Times
office, spent Sunday with his uncle. A. n.
| swain. His mother Mrs. Goddard, came
! to Mr.. SWANS early last week and will
! spend the summer here
| The baccalaureate sermon to the grad
| uating class was preached Sunday even
ing in Assembly hall in the high school
building The opera house was not then
| quite ready to be used. The audience
which filled Assembly hall was a large
one.
Miss Mary Read, daughter of the late
Judge L. NJ. Read had expected to be one
| of a party to lake a six weeks trip
abroad, sailing from Boston next Tues
day, but early this week was taken i'll
with measles, and so has had to forego
the trip.
This week there has been a large
patronage of the rustic theatre at Bar
Der park, THE Great Raymond" in his
Houdini performances having been the
attraction. He has performed many won
derful feats and the audience has grown
larger each evening.
Rev. c. r. B. Dodge of walllngford. a
former pastor of the local Baptist church,
preached here last Sunday. and in the
afternoon attended the funeral service of
the late Mrs. E. c. Fairbank The inter-
ment was in the family lot at Grafton
where Mr. and Mrs. Fairbank formerly
lived
The annual meeting of the alumni OF
the high school will occur Monday even
ing There will be a reception in Union
hall, to be followed by banquet at
Hotel Windham. a business meeting
will occur at about 9 o'clock and dancing
will be enjoyed later. The executive COM
mittee this year are Misses Babbitt and
Williams, and Herbert G. Bancroft.
The high school baseball team went tc
Keene Saturday and was defeated by the
keene team IA to s. Saturday at Barber
park the Vermont Farm Machine com
pany team won from the Saxtons River
Wooden mill team Z to 5. In this cas'
each team has one game to its credi
and interest centers in the third game
which will come off some Saturday in the
near future.
Miss Jessie Judd, principals assistan
! in the high school, has been in attendant,
this week upon the exercises at Kimbal
Union academy, where her brother, Edwin
! Judd, graduated. Miss Judd will go toda!
: to Boston to sail from there Tuesday oil
the Cunard steamship Ivernia for a 81!
! weeks vacation trip abroad She vii
be accompanied by Miss Alice Dascomh
a former teacher in the local public
schools.
A large number went to Rockingham
; from here last Sunday TO attend the frs
l service in the renovated ''old meeting
l | house" The services were conducted b.
S | Rev. d. l.. Sanford, and he was assiste
b. by a portion of the choir of his church
4 A special rededication service is bein
arranged, to take place some time 4
r July, and it will take on something O
j the nature of an Old Home day celebra
s ton, bringing back to the town a mum
r Der OF old residents now living elsewhere
The change from backward spring t
middle summer last Tuesday was one O
the most complete changes here for man
years. There had been no warm weathe
r this spring up to that time and that da
d the mercury in various parts of the VII
[ lage ranged from 80 to Sc, while at on
: place at the north end of the village, an
d in the shade, 1t reached 100. At the eN
s press office at the railroad station a littl
s after noon it registered 12O degrees, bl
Il the reflection of the sun from the raj
: tended to raise it higher than If 1t ha
II been away from their influence.