Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-10-05


turn game with the Amherst boys next
Wednesday.
Tho Boston Theatre company are to APP
pear here on the 18th in their great play, "The
World
"A union gospel temperance meeting will
be held in the Y. NJ. 9. A. rooms Sunday at
5.3O j.. NJ.
Tuesday, oct. 10, is the date Of the har.
vest festival to be held by the ladies Of the
Baptist society.
Ray is promptly on hand. a. usual with
full line OF goods for the fall aud winter
trade. See his advertisement
THE Gospel Sword will be the subject
OF Mr.. Towers sermon next Sunday morning
OF the Baptist church.
Fred Mack, formerly Of this place, won
the second money in the bicycle race at
Greenfield on the third day Of the fair.
L. NJ Knowlton, who has had charge Of
the Bellevue House at Newport, for the sea.
son, returned last week by team
On account Of the rain the Baptist So
ciable which was to have been held at Col
Estey's last Tuesday evening was postponed
one week
The town librarian reports tine number
Of books drawn from the library during the
month Of September at 1886, OF which 1860
were works of fiction and 2l5 historical
The Picnic Point House at Spafford lake
has closed for the season, and l.. j. Wood
proprietor, goes to Claremont, n II this
week to take charge Of the Sullivan House
The High school opens the year with ~
/ pupl--several more than the desks accom-
modate. In the Grammar and intermediate
departments the numbers are larger than ever
before
The fire seen in q northeasterly direction
Wednesday evening is reported 10 have been
caused 10y the burning Of a coal shed belong.
ing TO the Cheshire railroad company at East
Westmoreland.
Edward Clarks organ aud piano business
has become so extensive that be now has in
his employ seven men Three OF them, j.
A. Bond A. Baldwin, aud Chas. L. Knight,
are IRON Brattleboro.
The cool weather Of this week has set
everybody thinking Of fall and winter
goods Pratt a Wrght's counters. both in
their ready made and custom departments.
will be found equal to all possible demands
upon them
The reAdjustment Of salaries Of post
masters Of the first second aud third cla9ses
known a. presidential offices which went
into effect on Monday, does no, affect the
Brattleboro Office the salary Of which re-
mains at S24OO.
The amount Of newspaper postage, pre-
paid by publishers collected at the post Office
in the quarter from J uly 10 October was Soil
. O+-the largest quarters receipts yet-show.
ing that the business OF the craft is flourish
ing.
The State Pharmaceutical association
holds It's annual meeting here next week
Wednesday and Thursday The meetings will
be held in Crosby hall, and there will be- dis
plays OF drugs aud medical preparations from
city houses which will be open 10 the inspec-
ton Of the public
Hon. Farley Starr was brought home
from North Adams Wednesday. in q special
car which arrived at noon He is still very
feeble being unable to sit ~ much. but bore
the journey well, and j, Is hoped that nov
his recovery will become more rapid
Large numbers OF people from this sec.
ton will visit Boston next week, taking nd.
vantage Of the excursion rates offered by the
Central Vermont management-S - from
Bratteboro and return, good to go Oct 9th
and 10Th and to return any time up TO the
10th. The excursion goes by way OF the
Fitohburg road
There was lively tussle on Main street
Wednesday evening. caused by the arrest Of
james McCabe OF Hinsdale by Officer Her
rick for disorderly conduct McCabe's com
panions ondeavored to prevent the arrest
but Mr. Herrick succeeded in putting bis
man il the lookup, and Justice Barrows
fined him s. and costs
On Tuesday evening OF next week Master
Allen Il. Hunter, the phenomenal boy pianist
assisted by Mrs. II. NJ. Smith Brattleb oro.s
fAvorte soprano, L. j. Holmberg clarionet-
list, and the Boston instrumental Quartette,
will appear at Crosby hall in d concert pro
gramme Of rare artistic excellence. insuriuR 10
allwho attend a rich musical treat
The following item from the Springfield
Republican may be read IN connection with "a
new advertisement which appears IN our col
umns day Frank L. Drown and Frank
Bliss, for several years with Mcintosh X Co.,
are about to open a retail boot and shoe store
in the Brooks House block at BrAttleboro
The thunder.shower season closed Oh
Saturday night and Sunday morning with
two or three heavy showers attended by
sharp. rafting thunder Monday was
weather breeder, according to the lore Of
the weather prophets, and Tuesday brought
Oh Rll-dEy, pouring rain, which was cold
enough TO suggest the snow fall which visited
the country hundred miles farther north.
The series Of outdoor concerts given
during the summer by the First Regiment
band closed with that Of last Wednesday
evening, the weather being too cold for their
further continuance. We learn. however,
tuht the DhuQ nave II view series OF con-
certs to be given during the coming winter,
which will be Of first class character, such
as our music-loying citizens will appreo late
and enjoy.
"A correspondent Of the Chicago Times
thinks that Dr. Bradley Blakslee OF Addison.
n. y. is die oldest Mason, and says he was
born in Brattleboro 50 years ago, and was
initiated Oct 10, 1915. In our wicked mo.
ments We sometimes wish that somebody
would really hunt up 1.-THE oldest Mason and
kill him-if that would only end for a little
while the never-ending talk about the old fell
low.
Mr.. Darius L. Dowley, an old resident OF
Bratteboro, died yesterday morning, after q
short illness, at the residence Of his daughter
in Greenfield, where he and his wife have
been living for two years past. His funeral
will take place tomorrow afternoon from the
residence af his son Geo. S. Dowey, in this
village. Mrs. Dowley is very low and probh.
bly, cannot survive her husband many days,
The Brattleboro post office had its full
share OF the boom in the sale of two-cent
stamps on MondAy-the sales Of that day
amounting 10 5000. besides the delivery of
80, 600 two-cent envelopes previously ordered
by patrons Of the Office Up to this morn
ing the sales Of two-cent stamps had been
$500, or more than one-half the usual aver
age for a full month.
-SedgwiGk Post G. A. r., Of this place,
has formally accepted an invitation from
John Sedgwick Post Of Keene to attend a
parade and campfire at that place next Fri
day, Oct. y. the Brattleboro post will be
attended by the band or drum corps and
will 60 by special train to Bellows Falls,
joining Stoughton Post Of that place, which,
together with the Claremont post, will unite
with the Keene veterans in their festivities.
Another shot gun accident occurred on
Wednesday afternoon. W. II. Kinson and
Eugene Clark were out after woodcoek near
the west village, and had wandered a little
apart when Clark fired at q woodcook and
Kinson, who was only three or four rods
away, hidden by bushes received some 80
shot (Gs) in his body, most of them being in
his legs, hips and abdomen. Having team
with them, Clark Immediately helped his
companion into the buggy and brought him
home. Most Of the shot lie too deep for ex.
traction, but it is hoped that his injuries may
not prove serious
BY the new arrangement which went in
to effect last Monday, the Montreal day ex-
I Drega takes the Mace of the White Mountain