Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-09

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Charles W. spger has sold his house on
Chestnut street and started for Dakota.
Rev. g. W. Jenkins will preach in the
Universalist church next Sunday, morning
and evening
"A union temperance meeting will DO held
at the Methodist church vestry next Sunday
afternoon at $50.
The ladies of the Congregational society
will hold socable at the church parlorF
next Tuesday evening.
New telephone subscribers are G. II.
Eddy's residence, Clisbeo's store aud the CO.
operative meat market.
The concert under the direction Of Mr..
L. W. Hawley, with which the citiz9 course
will end will be given April 18th.
Rev. j. Edward Wright of Montpelier
will preach at the Unitarian church next
Sunday in exchange with Mr.. Crothors
H. f. Taylor, chief mastering officer of
the department Of Vermont, organized a
Grand Army Post at Chester on Wednesday
evening
There will be another campfire at the
Grand Army hall on Tuesday evening, March
10, at . o'clock. All old soldiers and their
friends are invited.
The new Union Protective Association
have rented G. f. Alexander's meat market,
and placed the management Of it in the
hands of A. L. Thurbcr.
The series of dances at Crosby hall I'M
der the direction of Prof. Green will end
with a calico bal' on Friday evening", April
% Music by the military baud orchestra.
Frank Livermore, for the last three
years in the employ Of D. Leonard, job
printer, goes to Albany, n Y. in few we Ks
to work in the job Office Of J. II. Prou'y ~
Co.
Our local poultry fanciers ARE receiving
orders for eggs from their choice stock from
all parts Of the coun,ry-a result Of the high
reputation which they have acquired in the
exhibitions Of the past season.
The supervision OF the territory of the
Boston Il Northern telephone company,
which comprises nearly everything above
Bratteboro has been removed from Bellows
Falls to the Greenfield exchange Office.
Mrs. Van Kleeck left GU Monday en-
route for her home in Poncha Springs, Col
Next Monday her cousin, Miss Brooks, will
join her ia New York and accompany her
home for a stay of some length.
The annual meeting OF Protector Hook
~ Ladder company was held Monday even
ing, when the following officers we're elected
Foreman, Newell Lindsay LIST asst. @. q.
Clancy "a asst L. j. Knowlton clerk
and treasurer, Albert Shackford steward,
Frank Green.
In spite of March SHOWS Van Doom &
Son have made ready for their spring trade
by putting in full line of the latest styles of
wall papers and window shades. They re-
mind their customers that work in their line
ordered now can be attended to at once,
while those who wait till late in the season
will be inevitably delayed in the general rush
Of orders.
Mr. Crothers's much-married honest
miner -Four. Eyed jim" a. described in
his recent lecture, seems to have found his
exact counterpart in Senator Tabor of
Colorado, whose wedding with vulgar pomp
aud show in Washington last week was only
sham, for the sake of being married lin
high life, the real marriage having taken
place privately before st. Louis justice last
fall
E. p. White put in a rather unexpected
appearance from Florida on Tuesday. bring
ing his family home with him from Worces.
ter, Mass He has returned to his work at
EStey * Co. s aud will remain there for the
present, with possible prospect of return
ing to Florida in the fall. Mr.. White reports
that state as full OF northern people some of
whom find the country and the prospect to
their minds, but many of whom come away
disappointed in their expectations.
The Nottingham people will probably
succeed in getting up some feeling on the
railroad question if they keep on. With the
exception Of Mr.. Barker, the second select
man. all the officers elected last Tuesday live
in Sadawga, and every one of them is be-
ieyed to be an anti-railroad man. This is
heroic treatment on the part of the friends of
the road and We trust that in the end it may
work a cure
The Boston Herald vouches fo- "Leav-
tits Gigantean Minstres," who are TO appear
at the town hall next Tuesday evening as hav-
ing achieved something long regarded as
Impossible-it presents something really nov
el and entertaining in minstrelsy." The
company is large aud strong one and will
undoubtedly deserve the full house which they
are pretty sure to receive.
The famous Little Corinne" and her
troupe of "Merrie Makers are to appear at
Crosby hail tomorrow afternoon and even
ing. "Corinne, the child actress and star
of the company is already well known in
Brattleboro through her former appearances
here, and her support is vouched for as ex-
cellent. The play given will be BijOu, the
same played by Corinne for many success
siye nights in Boston, New York aud Chi
cage.
The children will conclude their series of
dances with a Mother Goose party at Crosby
hall on Wedn esday evening March 2Sth, in
which the young people will appear in dress
of the characters of the Mother Goose meo-
dies. All are invited to look on, and tickets
can be had from the children or the librarian
at the free library. The proceeds will be de-
voted to the library fund.
People TO whom the town tax of 60
cents, voted on Tuesday, seems high one
should remember that with the state tax left
out, as it will be this year, the total tax will
be but a trihe higher than last year, and not
so high as on many previous years. Last
year the town tax was 40 cents, the highway
tax % cents and the state tax 10 cents, max
ing total of 10 cents for these three taxes.
This year the town tax is 60 cents the high
way tax only 20 cents, and the state tax drops
out, making the total rate only = cents high
er than last year. Three years ago the state
tax was 20 cents and two years ago it was II
cents.
"A parish meeting was held in the Univer-
salist church last Monday evening to consid-
er the subject of new organ. 1t was voted
that committee, consisting of the trustees
and pastor, be authorized to contract for a
new instrument, build recess to contain it
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changes in the church as may be necessary.
The committee, who have made a careful in
yestigation of the merits of different organ
builders, have unanimously voted to pur-
chase of Hook d Hastings of Boston TWEEN
| ty.eight hundred dollar organ. 1t will have
two manuals, % stops, and s42 pipes. Three
hundred dollars is the estimated expense of
the necessary alterations in the church. 1t is
hoped that the organ may be placed in the
church early in the summer.
Seven inches of fine, dry snow fell on
Tuesday, and the high wind which sprang up
on the coming of clear skies piled the snow
up in the most reckless manner and made
Wednesday the most trying day of the sea-
son for persons exposed to the weather. The
Wilmington stage went no farther than Marl-
boro Wednesday night Thursday morning
both the county stages reported the worst
drifts of the season. Residents of the hill
| towns say that worse day than Wednesday
is rarely seen. The snow-storm extended all
over New England the middle states and Do
minion of Canada, and was especially severe
in northern New York and the Province of
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