Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-12-08
Local Intelligence.


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j. Estey & Go. report orders coming in
more freely than at any tine since the No
vember election.
e. NJ. Douglas has removed his stencil
works to Judges building, below the Re-
we're House.
-Spaulding's Swiss bell ringers will give
an entertainment ut the town hall next
Monday evening.
ID. b. Silsby & Co. have a special holl-
day announcement this week which will
interest the ladies.
j. A. Church has been building house
for Il. X. Goodall on the place formerly
owned by VIM. Holding.
The Bickford Knitting Machine Manu-
featuring Co. are removing their works 10
tho second floor of Harmony block.
-Four persons united with the Univer-
salist church last Sunday morning, three
Of them receiving the rite of baptism.
Artificial ivy and autumnal vines for
interior decorations, pretty and effective,
have been introduced by Cheney & Clapp.
%. l.. Miner bought and shipped TO
Thanksgiving market 22i boxes Of poultry
-3S, 1907 pounds. Some turks and chicks
for one week
The Main street sky cleared up this,
Thursday morning. "Slowly and sadly"
they laid down those portraits-and the
brooms likewise.
For want of room we are compelled TO
defer TO another week an interesting com
municatlon from al. c." in further dis
cussion of that grammatic "nut."
Howe is making some of the finest
cabinet portraits that we have ever seen,
and he says very appropriate word about
them in our advertising columns to-day.
Amy Stones dramatic troupe, a favorite
in Brattleboro, drew good house on Mon
day evening to hear the play of GLOW she
loves him."
DIR. Miles Poer will give temperance
lecture at the town hall next Sunday afler-
noon at $50 o'clock. He is said to be an in
teresting and effective speaker.
John w. Drew, the temperance REFORM
err, is actively engaged in organizing re-
form clubs in New Hampshire, being reg
ularty employed by the Slate society.
jefferson Burnham, an old and well
known resident Of our village, died very
suddenly wednesday morning, at his resi-
| dence on Elliot street, of heart disease.
The ladies of the Baptist society will
| give Tea party at the vestry Of their church
next Thursday evening, 14th inst. Articles
suitable for Christmas will be on sale.
-Ofall the organs exported to Europe in
in the first eight months Of 1916 las appears
| in official reports) with a valuation of S2lG-
462, j. Estey & Co. shipped SlO7, 900, or one
half the entire amount.
Mr. c. A. Grdley of &c., Hadley, Mass,
has taken the shoe store in Fisk block
! known as Geo. Cutters old stand, and, II
we may judge from his advertisement,
which appears in another column, he means
business.
Thanksgiving passed by in the usual
quiet manner. Few, il any, deaths seem TO
have resulted from tho annual assault on
turkey, and the only special features OF the
| occasion were the church services in the
morning, the opera in the evening, and the
first genuine touch of winter during the
night.
| The bill OF amendments OF the Brattle-
boro village charter as it finally passed the
| ltRlsldluIt dlhtIS III ScNtNdl tsStulldl IC
spects from the o riginal bill as published
in our columns two weeks ago. For this
reason we give the bill in full to-day in it:
amended form that our voters may see fol
themselves what they are to take action up
on when the proper time arrives.
The most effective part of the entertain
ment Thanksgiving evening was, undoubt-
eddy, the O6ligdtO horn solo, introduced and
elaborated by Mr.. Rudolphsen during the
tn rilling recital of his fellow lodger's mys
FERROUS disappearance. At this point ever
the severest of our musical critics laid aside
their conventional faces OF calm indifler
ence, and Joined gayly in the genera
hilarity.
Officers of Phoenix Engine Co., No. 6
just elected: d. w. Brosnahan, foreman
Martin Austin, LIST asst; John Hurley, %
asst; James \. Lillis, clerk Edwin Put
nam, lst suction hoseman; Chas. McMin
neman, I'd f. J. Hesson, 81; Job Long
4th c. Turner, LIST hoseman; ii. McMin-
neman, I'd; George Willard, Sd; jane
Higgins, 4th; T. b. Pratt, steward.
Officers of Hydropath Engine Co., No
3, chosen at the annual meeting, Tuesday
evening: w. d. Perry, foreman; L. Glib
son, lst asst; II. C. French, ID asst; Har
rison Cutler, clerk and treasurer; Il. Len
nox, engineer; ID. w. Pratt, LIST asst; WIN
j. Pentland, I'd asst; VIM. Nesbitt, Sd;
o. Howe, LIST hoseman; +. T. Perry, I'd
Dennis Tasker, Sd; Solomon Nesbitt, 4th
Willard Edwards, steward; Noyes White
LIST axeman Ben Perry, I'd.
u,ay or NAV not ha n ~, ottar Of mn IA
lie congratulation that so many of the genu
rough as attended the play on Monday eve
ming, are still capable OF evincing their en-
joy ment in some Ineligible manner, if no
in the most appropriate. The audienc
might, however, have been better please
ifsuch entertainment as the very enjoyabl
orchestra afforded, had produced an i'm
preston upon the hearts rather than tn
, boot-heels of certain impressionable youth
present; or equally well satisfied had thos
boot-heels been moved TO convey thei
owners to the street, where, il anywhere
they belonged.
The following is the list OF letters re
naming at the posi- Office in this villag
, Dec
Ladies.-Mrs. Annie b. Hall, Lucy +
Marshall, Mrs. Ellen Smith, Mrs. Rill
Smith.
> Gents.-H. II. Bartlett, Otis +. Gales,
G. Halliday, j. T. HerrIck, George II
Miller, J. II. Mills, Thos. G. Maynard, N
j, Pattee, John Rudd, William Welch.
1T is a good plan to get a diary tha
, suits you, and this can easily be done b
! calling on Cheney & Clapp.