Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-12-02

BrattlebOrO-
Van Doom a Son are opening large
line of holiday goods.
Remember "Our Boys" at Crosby hall,
next Tuesday evening.
Hon. and Mrs. J. NJ. Tyler left for Wash
ington on Wednesday.
-Starkey q wellman announce a lot of
new winter goods this week
Mr.. Geo. j. Brooks left on Thursday for
his winters stay in San Francisco.
Cheney a Clapp display this week the
finest line Of juvenile books ever shown in
town.
Mrs. Jane N. Gibson of Dummerston has
bought Edwin Goodnows house on Clark
street for $4,000.
H. L. Leach, who came here last August
intending to go into the stove trade, has NOV
ed to Brockton, Mass
-Whitmore & Clark will appear at Crosby
hall next Thursday evening, with better
company than ever.
"A new directory of the Brattleboro tele.
phone exchange, issued on the 14th inst,
shows 81 subscribers
The ladies of the Congregational society
are TO have an entertainment at their church
pRrlors next Wednesday evening.
Dry hard wood is very scarce in this
market, and brings 81 to 80 per cord-fgures
which exceed those Of war times
-Olary, the electrician, assisted by Z. H.
Burnap is putting telephones into the Moody
schools at Mortified, Mass, this week
Next Sunday evening Rev. E. W. Whit
ney will give the FIRST of q series Of lectures
to young people Subject, The Secret OF
Happiness"
Mr. L. G. Cook, a large produce dealer
of Michigan, is on a visit among his relatives
and friends in this vicinity, after an absence
of many years.
The annual meeting of Sedgwiok Post,
No. S, G. A. r.. for the election of officers,
will be held at Grand Army hall on Wednes-
day evening next, Dec. Z.
Rev. I. d. Howard of Charlestown, n
H, will preach at the Unitarian church next
Sunday, morning and evening, in exchange
with the pastor.
The ladies of the Unitarian society will
have Christmas sale at the lower town hall
on Tuesday evening, Dec. 10. The entertain
ment will close with a concert.
Phoenix Engine Co. reelected their last
years officers at their annual meeting Wed
nesday evening. Steps are being taken to
procure the company new uniform.
The third Unitarian sociable of the sea.
son was held at Mrs. Keith Whites on Tues
day evening. There was a full attendance
and everybody apparently had good time.
A party numbering upward of 20 persons
from this place attended the presentation of
the oratorio Of So Paul at Northampton,
Mass, on Monday evening, returning by spe-
cial train after the entertainment.
"A slight accident at Estey & Co g gas
house caused an alarm Of fire about $50 on
Sunday evening. No help from the depart
ment was needed, though the machines were
promptly out and on their way.
by advice of his physicians, c. b. Rice
will spend the winter in the South. As here
tofore, he chooses Aiken, S. c., as the most
desirable place of resort, and will 20 there in
course of a fortnight.
Birthday surprise parties are becoming
numerous. Miss Alice Newman had one on
Tuesday evening and Miss Emma Adams
on Wednesday evening, both of which were
very pleasant affairs.
Our readers all through the county may
rest assured that the size of Pratt, Wright a
Co. s new advertisement this week only par
tally represents the size and variety Of their
stock of goods bought especially for this
months trade.
-Hdsel Rirke, as played at Crosby Hall by
a company from the Madison Square theatre
on Thursday evening" drew one of the best
audiences of the season. The cast is an ex-
oellent one, and the leading parts were
played with strength and fidelity.
Sad changes have occurred in the imme-
diate family of G. W. Holbrook, formerly of
this place, now with Il. II. White a Co., Bos-
ton. Since the opening of summer, his wife,
brother-in-law mother and father have died.
His motherless baby has lately been alarming
ly i'll, but is now supposed to be improving
The old railroad station has been moved
back to its place on the edge of the bank,
and in due course of time will be converted
into respectable store-house. Since Mon
day the new station has been in use, though
the inside arrangements are not entirely COM
pleted.
DIR. o. W. Phelps left on Tuesday for
New York to spend the winter in attendance
| upon medical lectures in that city. His place
at the Asylum is taken by DIR. S. E. Lawton
who, during the absence of DIR. Draper in
Europe the past summer, was employed as
third assistant.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, in his Wednesday nights
despatch, says "Gen. Hooker, of Vermont
seems TO be the most popular candidate among
members now here for Sergeant-at-Arms
and, as New England is united in his support
the chances are decidedly in his favor"
-Estey & Co. are driving their factories to
their full capacity to keep up with their bust
ness,-the last two months having brought
some of the largest sales the concern has ever
made. In October and November the sales
we're some 1850 organs per month, and this
month they will be limited only by the capac-
| ity Of the works.
DIR. S. ]. Allen of White River Junction,
chairman Of the state board of supervisors of
the insane, paid the Vermont asylum an Of
fetal visit on Thursday, and expressed his
warm approval of the movement of the trus-
tees in the purchase of the Miles building for
its intended purpose of summer house for
certain classes of patients.
The record shows only two deaths in
BrRttleboro during the month of November,
"a month which is usually one of the most
trying in the year for the public health. We
believe it to be by no means far-fetched TO
suggest that increased attention TO sewerage
is having beneficial effect.
Persons who remember that the narrow
gauge road vas badly bothered by rock and
earth slides last spring, when everything was
| green and soft, and before the slopes had
been properly dressed up, may be interested
| in the fact that there have been two similar
accidents on old. well-established roads in
| New England this week. Last Monday an
| express train on the Cheshire road struck q
three-ton boulder just above Walpole, n H.,
J and threw it 20 feet. By some good fortune