Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-08
Local Intelligence
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BraffFeboro.
-Croquet-closing out at low prices at
Felton,.
Books for summer reading at Feton's,
Brooks House.
Fresh novels, also the first part of ed
win Brood" at Cheney & Clapp's."
Two persons were united with the Bap-
list church, last Sunday, by immersion.
MIR. and Mrs. l.. X. Fuller embarked
last Saturday on their return voyage from
Europe.
Rev. ID. o. Mears Of Cambridge, Mass,
will preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday, mornin. and evening.
DIR. G. S. Clark, dentist, has so far re-
covered frou, his recent accident as TO be
able to resume business at his office.
Inquiries are made in reference TO the
fa, mers' "grange" lately organized in this
village. II ii dead or alive? aud If so, how
much?
Rev. NJ. II. Harris is expected home
this week. Services will therefore be re-
sumed in the Universalist church next
Sunday.
can be had for IS cents, or five quircs octa-
70 note for 30 cents, of L. C. Edwards He
also pays cash for rags and papers.
A prise containing about So was. lost,
Sunday morning In front of Mr.. Klinge's,
on Elliot street. The owner, who is poor,
hard working woman, will feel greatly
obliged If the finder will leave the same Mt
the PuGNIX office.
The ladies of the Unitarian Society will
hold their annual fair and festival at the
town hall on Wednesday evening, Aug, l3.
A great variety of useful aud fancy articles
will be offered for sale, together with the
usual refreshments. Doors open at 4.30
p.
Gen. Devens of Massachusetts, on his
way to attend the soldiers reunion at Rut-
land, stopped at the Brooks House Tuesday
night. In the evening he was serenaded
ny the band. when he responded from the
balcony in an eloquent and telling speech.
Gen. A. b. r. Sprague, was then called
upon for speech, but declined.
-Brattleboro is again slandered. Read
the following item from the Rutland Her
aid:
"a Brattleboro woman invented q new
style of fastening for her dress. 1t worked
so well that while walking along one of
the public streets her entire dress fell from
her body TO the sidewalk leaving her cos
tuned like Georgia major
Henry X. Field of Montpelier, son OF
Chas. X. Field of this place, has been APP
pointed by Judge Timothy p. Redfield as
l. "a. Inn I,a
indeb edness Of the Vermont Central Rail-
road management that the Central Ver-
mont Railroad Company is TO pay, in place
of Gen. James S. Peck, declined.
Vacation notes II. W. Clarke return
ed from Martha's Vineyard on Monday.
Fred Keisch and Sidney Miner also re-
turned the same day, via the Hudson River
Saratoga. C. +. Thompson and family are
rusticatng al Buzzards Bay. Mr.. & Mrs.
A. f. Whitney returned from Saratoga on
Wednesday.
The Brattleboro cornet band has been
! invited TO join the Western Massachusetts
| bands in a grand musical festival which is
! to be held at Lake Pleasant on the 9th inst.
| At least fifteen or twenty bands are expect.
| cd to be pre- sent on that occasion, which
will make it one of iare interest. We
understand that tho invitation is open
also TO the public, and the gathering will.
in all probability, be large one.
AT n meeting of the stock holders of the
| Western aqueduct association. hold on
Thursday last, it was voted TO lay four
inch iron pipe from the main reservoir TO
| the reservoir on High street, a distance OF
about one mile. A contract for the pipe
has been made with Philadelphia iron
firm, and an assessment of $50 per share
| has been levied, which is how payable to
the treasurer, Malcolm Moody, at the Yer
mont Savings Bank. 1t is estimated tn II
the whole expense will be less than $4,000.
The following is the list Of letters re-
naming in the post Office in this village
August I, 1878:
Ladies.-Mrs Ahbie Bryant, Mrs n NJ
| Bragg, Mrs Sarah Dunkee Miss Emogene
Gage, Miss Nora Griffin, Miss Maria Hall
| Miss Addie j Mason, Miss Lizzie Morris
Mrs Edward B Pease, Miss Fanny Pratt
| Mrs A ID Russell, Mrs Lucy Richardson
| Miss Almi w Stebbns, Mrs !. i Sheldon
Miss Rose J Stewart, Mrs Mary w White
Mrs Mary d Warner, Mrs w Weeks.
Gents.-Erastus A Britt, Oscar Burhan
Rev Augustus Champur, q Clark, Co
j III NJ Cincb, ID Care, Thomas Farrell
r III King, Frank j Leonard.
Held for Postage. -Mrs + V Circuit, Ath
ol, Mass, Miss Fannie c Rogers, North
ampton, Mass.