Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-11
Local Intelligence,


next Sunday evening.
Judge Tyler is breathing the salt sea air
at Hyannis Port, Mass.
The time of holding the county fair this
year is fixed for Sept. II and IS.
The farmers are busy with their hAy
crop, which is about an average one.
e. G. Crosby and family leave to-day for
Martha's Vineyard, where they have rented a
cottage.
Rev. l.. Dodd of Union Village will preach
at the NJ. e. Church next Sunday, in exchange
with the pastor.
Admiral Green and family are at JaiTrey,
N. H., under the shadow of the grand old
Monadnock mountain.
The Eli Sargent farm, near the Dummer-
ston line, has been sold to Geo. W. Walker of
Dummerston. Price $1,000.
Howe is making some new cabinet por-
traits, with unique accessories, which are very
admirable specimens of Photographic work
Hon. and Mrs. J. NJ. Tyler returned from
Washington on Saturday, having leisurely
journeyed homeward by way of the Hudson
river boat and Hoosac tunnel.
People DESTROYS of being insured are re.
ferred to the advertisement of the well-known
agents, Messrs. Sherman & JENNIE in another
column.
The Baptist Sunday school, to the num-
Der of about one hundred, picnicked on Col.
Fullers grounds on the morning Of the 18th,
to the enjoyment of ALL
Lost on Wednesday evening, somewhere
between the post Office and the Congregations
al church, ladys gold cuff pin The finder
will please return it to this office
An item which we forgot last week was
the purchase Of VIM. Leonard's wel-known
bay mare, "Lupo" by Mr.. Russell of the
Fall Mountain Paper Co., Bellows Falls.
H. w. Simonds has bought the Roswell
Goodenough farm, of some fifty acres, located
one mile from West Bnttleboro, on the old
stage road to Marlboro Price $1,000.
Hon. u. Eastman of Chicago was in town
a few days since on his way to Fayetteville,
where he edited newspaper called the "Ver-
mont Free Press, in 1916. This is his first
visit to this section since that time
Very few old potatoes are in the market
and these, such rs they are, retail at from 50
to 30 cents. The last end Of the Bermuda
crop is now in hand and sells at 10 cents per
peck. Virginias, of excellent quality follow,
at 80 cents per peck.
One hundred and ifty-two Springfield
tickets were sold at the Bnttlcboro station
on the Fourth, and about 30 for Lake Pleas
ant. How many of our people helped to
swell the crowd Mt Lake SpofTord is matter
not so easy to find out.
Next Sunday will be observed as Chill
drens Sunday in the Univcrsalist church, at
which time children will be consented and
the pastor will preach special sermon to the
children 1t is hoped that MI the friends in
the parish will see that their children are
present at the morning service.
Passengers up by the White Mountain
train, so far this week, have averaged about
100 per day, the greater portion of whom
have been teachers en- route for the American
Institute of instruction, which began its 10th
annual session on Tuesday in pavilion erect
ed for its accommodation near Fabyan's.
-Messrs. II. II. Inman of the Record and
Farmer, and d. Leonard, job printer, are i'll
attendance upon the excursion of the Yer
mont Editors and Publishers Association.
this week. The excursion embraces a trip TO
New York city and Coney Island via Rutland,
Troy, and Hudson river steamboat.
-Blueberries and raspberries have made
their appearance in market, though straw
berries have not yet wholly disappeared.
Blackberries promise an abundant yield The
apple crop, though generally less abundant
than last year, will be better in some To-
calites, while pears and peaches promise ex-
ceedingly well.
In the rifle shoot ut Vernon on the 4th,
the Battery team was victorious over the Es-
tey Guard by total score of 800 to 32l. In
the practice of the Fort hummer club, W. II.
Childs made the best score Mason Lamb be-
ing second. Col, Fuller made the best score
at the 800 yard range. Some 10 persons were
in attendance.
The seasons strawberry crop has prob
ably been less than half an average one-the
late frosts having ruined the yield of many
promising beds. Prices have accordingly
been unusually firm, few berries having been
sold for less than 20 cents, while % cents per
basket has for the greater part of the time
been the ruling price
An Irishman named Dennis Cane living
near the Marlboro line, was brought before
Justice Newton Tuesday, charged with an as
sault upon his wife on the 4th inst, and in
default of $500 bonds was committed for trial
before the county court Cane is said to be
an ugly customer when drunk, which is the
biggest part of the time, and on various oc-
casions has threatened peoples lives.
A telegram received on Wednesday morn
from Wproagtar ~
fact that, at a meeting of the First Universal
list parish in that city, held on Tuesday even
ing, hearty and unanimous call was extended
to the Rev. NJ. II. Harris of this place, to be-
come their pastor. We learn that, notwith-
standing the protest of his people, Mr. Harris
adheres TO his determination to resign his pas
torate here, but whether Worcester is to be
the place which will gain by Brattleboro's loss,
we are not informed.
The proceeds of the matinee and supper
given by the ladies of st. Michaers Episcopal
church on the 4th of July were about $3.50.
The matinee, consisting of the Sleeping
Beauty in twenty or more scenes, was n most
artistic series of tableaux, and it is only to be
that the heavy shower which came
up at that time prevented many from being
present Miss Harris kindly furnished appro-
pirate music for the tableaux, and Miss Cut
ting gave a charming rendering of Thomas's
Queen of the Night" The evening was
brought to hilarious close by the ballad of
Mary Jane"
There was greater rush to Chesterfield |
Lake on the Fourth than on any previous day
in the history of that resort. The crowd |
hocked in from every direction, and the num-
Der was estimated at all the way from 5000 to
5000. The music by the West Swanzey n. |
H., brass band was the chief attraction, with
music for dancing in the pavilion by quad |
rifle band from the same place. Notwithstand- |
ing the sudden and hardly expected onset, the
resources of Dunton IL Fairs establishment |
were found equal to the emergency and there