Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-29
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NANrFD-A girl to do homework Apply to Mrs
KERN WHITE, so High street, Brattlcboro, VT
BrRttIeboro.
Three children in Geo. e. Crowell's fam
/ lily are sick with diphtheria.
N. l. Hawleys brother, from Nashville,
Tenn, is on his annual visit here.
-Four barrels Of flour are made into bread
stuiIs daily at Dickinsons bakery.
-Barrows & Co., have removed their coal
office to the south store in Tyler block.
A union gospel temperance meeting will
be held in the Methodist church Sunday at 6
L. NJ.
Judge and Mrs. Tyler left this morning
/ for an outing at lIewitt's Point Marshfeld,
Mass.
The Baptist Sunday school has received
an invitation to attend the basket picnic at
Townshend, July ith.
Mr.. Charles Brown of Rockford, H.,
with his family, is on visit to bis mother,
Mrs Addison Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. W. Miller are to cole
brato their golden wedding anniversary next
Monday afternoon and evening.
A large party Of setters.up at Estey &
Co. picncked at Chesterfield on Wednes.
day with their wives and children.
The women employees at Leonard a
Roesss had an excursion to Chesterfield last
Saturday, all on their own account
- George H. Thomas is building n large
two-siory house on his farm in District No. /,
to be ready for occupancy in the fall.
Judge Clarke and Hon. l.. d. Harris have
been in attendance on the com mencement ex.
ercises at Dartmouth their Alma Mater, this
week.
Fifty. eight young people received the
WfN. gFs 4f.V,fir s.l, ~
church Tuesday morning, Bishop De Goes
BRAND officiating
We have a letter in type from DR.. Tufts
in which he says that he and DIR. Gray have
thought better Of Dakota aud have taken an
Office at Sioux Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. j. D. Roess sailed from
New York on Wednesday morning per Ger.
man steamer WerTd for Bremen. They will
be gone two months or more
Geo. Howe, jr., formerly Of this village,
was graduated at the Harvard commencement
this week being one Of class of 2Oj-the
largest eyer graduated from that university.
Several Brattleboro people, including Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. L. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. +. H.
Putnam, and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Pettee en-
joyed three days visit at Lowell Lake last
week.
DR. Draper read a paper on "The Re.
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tails at meeting of the national association
of superintendents at Newport X. l., yester.
day.
Rev. A. W. jackson, of the Unitarian
church at Santa Barbara, Cal, arrived in town
last evening on a short visit to his friend Rev
s. NJ. Crothers He will occupy Mr.. Croth-
ers's pulpit on Sunday.
E. j. Wood, proprietor Of the Picnic
Point House Spofford Lake, has made ar.
engagements for a dance on the afternoon and
evening of July 4th, with music by Knapp ~
Burneu's orchestra.
Charles Dearborn, son Of Dr. d. p Dear
born has gone to Everett, Pa, to take pc.
sition with the Everett Iron Company n heavy
concern in whose employ viii Cabot son Of
N. f. Cabot has been for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo W. Baker Of Cleve.
land o, former residents of Brattleboro,
who have been here on a visit Of three or four
weeks returned home via Boston on Monday,
Mrs. Geo. L. Selleck accompanying them.
Last Sunday was observed as Chdrtn's
Day at the Universalist church. Mr.. Whit
ney's sermon was addressed to the children.
There were profuse floral decorations, and the
attendance was large. Three little ones were
baptized.
People who use the highways complain
that the cobble- stones are raked out one side
in little piles and there left to work their way
back into the roads, and they ask Why not
take Il team along and gather them and 80
save all further trouble from them
The Vermont national bank declares its
regular semi-annua dividend Of per cent
The Peoples declares dividend OF 3 per
cent. and carries $1,000 to surplus account,
its net earnings having exceeded , per cent.
The savings banks each declare - per cent
dividend
E. l.. Andrews of Guilford, for the past
two or three years a student with Drs Holton
and Conlaud, took his diploma at the Burling-
ton medical college commencement on Tues
day. His friends will be glad to know that
he ranked among the five honor men OF his
class who passed the best examinations.
W. II. Alexander and wife have gone to-
day to Brookline to test the virtue of the
Brookline spring water for an ailment which
has afflicted him for several years Mr..
Alexander says We may announce that they
have gone by horsepower on the overland
route and will be home when they get back"
The universal sympathy felt for Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Taylor in the death OF their son
was attested by the large numbers who attend
ed the funeral services held at the Universal
list church on Saturday afternoon. The Rev
Mr.. Whitney OBLIGATED, and there were many
beautiful floral tributes.
The rear of the log drive left McIndoes
Monday morning, and the logs have already
begun to arrive at Bellows Falls, where they
are being gathered in boom. They will un-
doubtedly be running past here next week.
Il is said that the company were obliged to
leave about a million feet Of logs on the To-
mile falls,
by invitation from st. Pauls Sunday
school of Springfield, Mass, the Universalist
Sunday school will picnic with the members of
that school at Bernardston on Saturday, 60
ing down by the 10 o'clock train and return
ing at q. An orchestra from Springfield will
furnish music and there will be games and all
the usual picnic attractions.
John Houghton, an old offender was ar
rested by night-watch Ais Tuesday night on
complaint of his wife, for abusing her; but
when he was brought before Justice Newton,
next day, she failed TO appear against him
and he was lot OF with fine of 81 and costs
for drunkenness. He claimed to have obtain
ed his liquor lover the river"
We learn that movement is on foot to
put the common in proper order, and to have
ballplaying, rowdyism and other practices
removed, which have rendered the common
anything but the free place for all classes of
people which it was intended to be. The
movement is one which has universal sym
patty and support, and we trust that it will |
be effectively carried out.
The game between the Keene and Brat
tleboro baseball clubs, Saturday afternoon,
resulted in victory for the Keene boys, Is /
to p Our boys held the lead until the fifth |
inning, when the catcher, Kenney, who was
suffering from sore hand, was obliged to re-
tire, and there was nobody competent to fill |
his place. The two clubs have arranged for |
another game, which is to take place at Hol-
yoke, Mass, July IL.
The military band opened tine open.air
concert season on Wednesday evening with .
an attractive programme of seven numbers,
which included Mai Walkers March, Scotch
Wedding March, selections from Iolanthe and
Mariana, Ye Olden Time potpourri, Peek q
Boo, and galop. They had large audience
and their playing was never better or more
spirited. Next weeks concert will be on
Thursday evening
The special train, which will carry the
Patrons of Husbandry to their basket picnic
at South Londonderry on the Fourth, will
leave Brattleboro at s A. NJ. Speeches
are expected from Col Franklin, G. II.
HoughtOn, A. W. Clayton, Rev. A. b. Truax
and others. The Brattloboro and Whitehall