Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-15
Local Intelligence.


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Mr.. Maxhams concert at town hall this
evening.
Five persons received the rite of bap-
tism at the Baptist church last Sunday.
j. c. Smith is about to open new coffin
wareroom on the second floor of Coxs block.
-lIawley has leased the corner store in the
Brooks House block and will occupy It with
his dry goods trade next week.
Sermon to young people next Sunday
evening at the Methodist church at o'clock.
Subject saul, splendid failure"
The Jamaica stage has entered upon it's
winter schedule md now arrives in Brattle-
boro at 1 o'clock p. H., and leaves at 3
O'Clock
The public Examination of teachers by
the Superintendent of Schools will take place
in the High School room on Saturday, Nov
3Oth, at o'clock, A. NJ.
Mrs. Woodbridge of Ohio, one of the
original crusaders" gave an able and inter
estsng temperance lecture at the Congrega-
tional church on Wednesday evening
Henry C. Nash late proprietor of the
Revere House, has taken lease of the
Pyncheon House at Springfield, Mass, and
removed to that place with his family.
"A Brookline man who left n tub of but
ter in his wagon in the town hall shed on
Wednesday, while he went to look for Gus
TONER found the butter missing when he re-
turned, and neither it nor the thief has vet
been found
BY change of time on the upper roads,
which went into effect last Monday morning,
the morning train from the north, heretofore
known as the 'half-past 8 train" does not
now arrive till 10 o'clock. Its leaving time is
1913.
"A meeting of persons interested in Poul-
try and Pet Stock of all kinds is to be held at
the Brooks House next Saturday evening. at
half past seven o'clock the purpose being. as
we understand, to form an organization with
n view to holding an exhibition some time
during the coming winter.
The Brattleboro ladies will now have a
chance to examine for themselves the Buck
eye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping"
of which they have seen so many apprecia-
tive notices. Miss c. c. Hatch having taken
the local agency. 1t is of this book that
Miss Mary A. Livermore says in the Womau's
journal: No housekeeping or cookery
book has yet appeared 80 complete or COM
prehensve in all its departments, and so well
adapted to the purses and tastes of the mil
lion"
The second concert given by the Swed-
ISL lady vocal quartette last Friday WAS of an
equally high order, and equally enjoyable,
with that given ON Wednesday evening The
house was well filed as on the previous eve
ming and a very general hope is expressed
that at no distant day We may again see and
hear the ladies in Brattleboro. At Montpel-
Ter, where they sang on Thursday evening,
they were greeted with crowded house, and,
from all reports, their auditors, who included
many of our very staid and sober Legislators,
were carried fairly wild with enthusiasm and
delight.
The Lynn, Mass, Reporter of last week
has the following item of personal news,
which refers to granddaughter of our ven
cradle townsman, Joseph Steen, ESD. En-
ma S. Steen, NJ. D., arrived in New York,
Oct. 20, from London, in the steamer Cali
fornia For two years she has been pursu-
her medical studies in the universities of
Halle and Frinburg, Germany, and the hos
pitfalls Of Vienna and London, where she has
made an extremely brilliant record. Doctor
Steen is graduate of Boston University, and
was for number of years a student of Doc
tor Flanders, of this city. We cannot ques-
ton her success in Baltimore, Md, where
she will soon open an office"
The Ticket Of Leave Man. as played
by the Estey Guard Dramatic Alliance at the
town hall on Wednesday evening, was de-
cided success, not only in attendance but in
the character OF the performance. 1t is
enough to say that the actors, one and all,
performed their parts admirably. The cast
of characters was as follows: