Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-02

BrRttIeborO.
-Hawley is in New York this week, look
ing for bargains for his customers.
Call ct the Vermont Savings Bank and
pay the interest due on your note, June lst.
Mr.. Wilder Knight is preparing to build
n house on the corner Of South Main and
Pearl streets.
Rev. A. b. Dascomb of Bellows Falls
will preach at the Congregational church next
Sunday morning
Mr. G. j. Staples of tho Cambridge Di-
vinity school will preach at the. Unitarian
church next Sunday.
Young Boyce and Manning, who had the
scrape with the police fortnight ago, fear
ing re-arrest il they again appeared upon tho
Streets have left town.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Western aqueduct association will be
held at the Vermont Savings Bank, Tuesday,
June 9Th, at 1880 P. NJ.
Mr.. E. L. Hawley and wife arrived from
| Florida on Saturday and have gone TO Brook
line, where it is hoped that his health, now
| quite precarious, will be improved.
e. L. Merriheld, proprietor of the popu.
lar and prosperous Continental Hotel, New
| York, was in town last evening, en- route, with
his son, for a short visit TO his old home in
Jamaica.
As we go to press we learn that A. p.
Childs and II. @. Willard have offered to di-
vide the profits of the "Molly Stark" concert,
to be given here on the 18th, with the finder
of the bodies Of Comfy and RieizsL
Post Sedgwick, &. A. r., attended the
Baptist church in a body last Sunday morn
ing and listened TO a very able and interest
ing sermon on The Mission of the Sword, "
Rev. DIR. Cows text being Jere. xLvn 6, 7.
Mrs. f. T. Housh, editor, and Mr..
Frank Housh, publisher, of "The Woman at
Work." have arrived from Louisville, KY,
and will Immediately take steps for issuing
their periodical from this place, as heretofore
announced
Capt Henry H. Rice of the firm Of II.
II. Rice & Co, commission flour merchants
of Chicago, and son Of the late Shepard
| Rice of this town, is on a visit to Brattleboro,
with his family, after an absence of eleven
years.
L. p. Gallup of Troy. an ex.sheriT OF
! Orleans county, and n man formerly promi-
nent in local politics, died at the asylum this
week from paralysis He was brought to the
institution for treatment only some ten days
previous.
Tho messenger who brings the Sunday
Republicans from South Vernon will deliver
the paper to parties living on his route, pro
FlhNA lucy viii nun VI 'nElI hlHh ~
have the paper and be at their doors to re-
ceve il.
Some 20 members of Beauseant Com.
mandery, X. T., of this town, by invitation
of their Bellows Falls brethren, Joined in the
memorial services a. that place on Decoration
day, stopping at Putney on their return and
taking part in the exercises there.
The ladies Of the Congregational society
will hold their annual strawberry festival and
sale at the town hall on Thursday evening oil
next week. The occasion is one when they
will especially appreciate generous patron
age and we hope they will receive it.
Rev. A. b. Truax is absent on a vacation
of few days. Next week Wednesday b,
will address the Champlain FRANKLIN Co.
Good Templars Union a. Bakersfield, THU
state. Preaching services will be held in tn,
Methodist church next Sunday, as usual.
At a special meeting held on Tuesday al
the close of the memorial exercises, the Crane
Army post passed resolution of thanks Il
the orator of the day, the ladies, CLEO club
citizens, and all others who 80 kindly assist.
ed in the Decoration day ceremonies.
Peter S. Chase samples his bed Of 10, 0OC
dandelons for the benefit OF The PHRNIl
with couple of punches which weigh 6 lbs
6 o., aud measure three feet across. Pete
thinks he has the inside track in growing
| uhuuthOnh IOT lnb ulaThtl, anu we are lucllnel
to agree with him.
One or two of the knowing ones are ex
ercising their sympathes by commiseratinJ
our friend Asaph on being obliged to brinJ
away load of rehearsed and bottled eloquenc,
from the banquet at Springfield on Tuesda.
evening. They should remember, however
that it is the best things which never get said
-Messrs d. P. Cobb Il Co. are making
some improvements III their blacksmith shop
whereby their facilities for work will be in
creased. Their main work-room has beeI
enlarged to some 50x25 feet, and they ar
adding new machinery and preparing to pu
in an additional forge.
"A very pleasant surprise was given Mr.
aud Mrs G.. Il. Sargent, May 27th, it beinJ
the forty first anniversary of their marriage
A goodly number of their lady friends ap
peared to congratulate them, and Mr. s. in
characteristic little speech acknowledged tn
receipt of a nice extension table and sundr,
lesser articles, besides a handsome pile o
silver coin.
Our Brattleboro photographers are max
ing some experiments in the new method o
instantaneous photography and artists How
and Parker succeeded in obtaining very gooC
views of Tuesdays procession, on Main street
Should the weather prove favorable, Mr.
Howe will attempt photograph of the Fire
comes down Main street.
The Military band gave their first open
air concert of the season on Tuesday evening
to very large and appreoiative audience
We hope this was intended the first in
weekly series of similar entertainments dur
ing the season. In this connection we renew
our suggestion of year ago, that the banI
try giving such concerts on the common dur
ing the hot months, with suitable previou
announcement of the time and programme
for each appearance.
Mr.. Frank Glider, pianist and accompa
mist of the Molly Stark concert company
which reappears here on the 18th inst, is
brother Of the present editor Of the Century
Magazine, who occupies the late DIR. Hol
} lands position. Another brother was the New
York Herald's correspondent on the famou
} Arctic expedition. Mr.. Glider is assisted b,
Miss Fannie @. Magivney of Troy, N Y, tn,
most accomplished pianist in northern New
York, and the leading pupil of s. b. Mills o
Brooklyn, N. Y.
-Messrs. 1. X. Allen Il Co. shipped 1913.
700 feet of lumber over the Brattleboro j
Whitehall railroad during the month of May
and have nearly 100000 feet TO ship be
tween now and Nov. LIST, most OF which /
already sold. Their purchases last fall GOV
cred the growth on 72 acres of woodland
their recent purchases cover 80 acres, ant
they are now negotiating for the purchase o
80 acres more. All Of which may be taken a
another indication that the aforesaid railroa;
was not built in vain.
From Rev. DIR. Cows memorial-day ad
dress, which had for its subject "The inspi
ration of War Memories" we extract por
tion which, from its political bearings. seeml
specially worthy Of reproduction in our col
umns. His statement of the principles un
DERIVING our government aud his application
of them TO at least one Of the great questions o
the day will afford as healthy and profitable