Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-12-16
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LOCAL OVERFLOW.

Miss E. c. Sparks is making a local
canvass for A. E. Atwood's Brattleboro
souvenir calendar for 1911.
The annual Christmas tree of the free
kindergarten will be held in their rooms
Thursday, Dec %. Friends are invited.
f. Wales will hold a reception for his
evening dancing class in Grange hall
Tuesday evening. The public is invited.
Pocahontas council will hold its election
of officers for the coming year next
Thursday evening, Dec %. All members
are requested to be present.
The cups given by f. A. Thompson for
first prizes in the Vermont Wheel cluU
billiard and pool tournament are on exhi-
bition in Vaughan Il Burnetts window.
The Brattleboro Trust company an
nounces that beginning January 1 it
will pay depostors in it's savings de-
partment interest at the rate of four
per cent
The local grangers who attended the
annual meeting of the state Grange at
Burlington this week were Mr.. and Mrs.
II. w. Sargent Mr.. and Mrs. F. b. Pier
and Mrs II. S. Dearborn.
Supper for members of the Vermont
Wheel club will be served in the Grange
banquet hall Saturday evening. Tickets
may be procured of the janitor. The hour
give those employed in the stores an OPP
portunity to attend.
The annual Christmas tree and supper
of the Unversalist church will be held
Dec %. Supper will be served at $50
o'clock and afterward an entertainment
will be given, the special feature of which
will be a stereopticon lecture on the life
of Christ by Rev D. E. Trout.
All friends of the tuberculosis camp
will be very welcome at the donation
party which will be held tomorrow after
noon in the Congregational chapel from
to o'clock for the benefit OF the
patients. Light refreshments will be
served and a chance will be given all
to meet Miss Schumacher and Miss Love-
joy the new nurses in charge. 1t Is
hoped that there will be a generous con-
tribution from housewives and friends
interested in this work.
When visiting ball teams and fans come
to Brattleboro next season they will see
one Of the best ball parks in this section
of the country, if plans now in mind are
carried out. The managers of the Island
Amusement company, which is spending
a large sum Of money on Improvements on
the island, have arranged for a grand
stand, pavilion, bowling alleys, pool and
billiard parlors, a dance hail, and a base
ball diamond and athletic field that will
will lie with the home plate near the south
west corner of the island and the centre
fielder will play in front Of the bill board.
\ grandstand. to seat between 1900
and 1900 people is already in the
course of construction. The seats will be
commodious and around the top a four
foot promenade will make it easy to get
to the seats. The grandstand will be
about 1S5 feet long and the lowest seat
he 10
dancing pavilion will be As by 70 feet and
the management intends to put in an
excellent floor and to finish the interior
so that it will be attractive. Downstairs
a bowling alley will be installed. Other
attractions, such as a movable stage
which can be placed in front of the grand
stand and upon which vaudeville acts
may be performed, and picnic grounds
for children and others parties are being
planned. In the spring the grounds will
be rolled and the diamond put in excel
lent condition.