Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-17

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HENRY G. WILLARD.
ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMISo at Cheney 4 Clapps.
BrattIebOro.
"A bald headed eagle was seen to fly over
this village a few days since.
Union gospel temperance meeting in the
Baptist vestry next Sunday at 6 p. NJ
Cooper furnished tho collation. at the
Powers Institute reunion on Wednesday.
Mr.. Q. b. Rice of Taadega, Ala, col
lege, is expected back tomorrow on a brief
vacation.
The dry weather of the last three or four
weeks has begun to affect the water supply
of the mills in this vicinity.
A larger number than usual Of Brattleboro
Methodists will attend the Caremont camp
meeting, which opens next Tuesday
Some 300 persons participated in the ex.
cursion to Block Island last Saturday, over so
OF whom took the cars at this station.
-Hawley makes special prices now to close
the season, preparatory to semiannua stock
taking and to make room for fall goods.
The Centre Congregational church will
be open next Sunday, with preaching in the
morning by Rev. Geo p Tyler, d. d., aud
in the evening by Rev Mr.. Barton Of Lynn,
Mass
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Clary are in Spring
| field, Mass, this week, whore they went to
attend the wedding of Mr.. Clary's sister, Miss
Mile Olary, which took place on Wednesday
evening.
Word received from Col aud Mrs J. j.
E3tey announces that they are spending the
| present week in London, and are to take pas
sage for New York next Wednesday per
steamer F'urEcsad.
Grand Master Henry has appointed II NJ.
| Currier Of this town Grand Representative to
| tho Sovereign Grand Lodge, l. O o. r, Of
| the United States, which meets ut Providence,
Il. / Sept II.
The Unitarian church will be closed for
the next two Sundays. Mr. Crothars aud
family are enjoying vacation rest and recrea.
| ton at Mr.. j A. Clarks slightly summer es.
tate on Ames hill in Marlboro.
Will b. Clark, son Of b. A. Clark. is at
Mt. Desert, engaged with Il college classmate
! IN the work Of securing specimens from the
! ocean bottom for the Amherst college cabinet
! The young men find the work both pleasant
and successful
L W. Goodncr st Topographic clerk for
E1tey ~ Co, is in attendance this week on the
! third session of the international congress of
shorthand writer's, hell at Toronto, Ont and
is announced to give paper on The Aman.
uensis and his Duties"
Mr.. II. C. Willard, in his anxiety to have
the ladies preserve their compilations in all
their early bloom aud freshness, has import.
ed from England q cargo OF Pearss soap,
which, all joking aside Is undoubtedly the
finest toilet soap in the market.
Mr. Howard A. Pratt, who has been at
DR.. Clark's Retreat at Burlington for some
weeks past, was in very precarious condi.
ton Of health during last week but we are
/ glad to learn that news from him at this writ
| ing Is somewhat more favorable.
The bouquets Of rarely beautiful gladio
! lus which graced the altar at the Baptist
church last Sunday were the gift to Mr.. l. o.
7. Smith Of Mr.. Samuel Blaisdell OF Chico
pee, Mass, who makes a specially Of the cul
tivation OF choice varieties OF these many.
colored Towering bulbs.
-Whang Whang! Whaug The piano
fend is banging from earliest morn to dewiest
eye-and the neighbors meantime have
reached that state Of subducd evaporation
that they would esteem it a breath from heav-
en- could they but have the hour before break
/ fast for rest and peace
| 1t may horrify some excellent people to hear IT,
but is said to be fact that Mr. Moody the evangc
list hkSs to drive fast horse whenever he can.Ner
1t is well known hereabouts that Mr.. Moody
not only likes to drive fast horse. but that
! he actually does drive one, which he bought
and owns and nobody is "horriied' about
/ O
because he knows a good horse when he sees
| it,
Mr.. Fuller, the engineer who has made
! the surveys for the proposed Connecticut riv-
er DAM has his report made up and su bstan-
tally ready to submit to the gentlemen at
whose expense the work has been done. This
week the engineer has been up to Circuits
Falls, above White River Junction, to ascer-
tain MS to the cost OF the DAM recently built
] Al
here is Sl50OO in round numbers.
The young meD OF the Taurus club with
! ladies, to the number of some % couples,
drove to Chesterfield Lake on Tuesday after.
noon and had n supper and dance at Woods
! Picnic Point resort They were Joined by
| invited guests from the Prospect House, and
early in the evening the whole party enjoyed
steamboat ride around the lake. Dancing,
to the music Of Knapp Il Illness orchestra,
lasted until 1880. All concerned had a most
delightful time
The young people Of the Roman Catholic
society are making preparations for particu-
! larry good time at their picnic which is to be
held tomorrow at Sylvan Grove Bernard.
ston. Prizes for foot races and contests of
! different descriptions have been offered by
some Of our citizens, the competition for
which will be likely to make lots of sport. II
the weather is favorable the turnout will be
large.
The High, Grammar and intermediate
| schools will not begin their fall term before
! the middle of September, and probably not
until the first OF October. The committee
have decided upon this delay in the hope
! that the walls and roof of the new building
may be completed before the schools begin,
! so Us to avoid the possibility of accidents
from falling material The Primaries will
probably begin on the second Monday in
| September
The ladies of the Centre church have Just
had the chapel thoroughly renovated and the
walls and ceiling handsomely decorated A
heavy frieze in warm colors and dado border
| in fresco have been put on the walls, and the
| ceiling has been panelled with a handsome
| border of paper, with fresco shading. The
woodwork of the room and the settees have
| been painted to harmonic with the tint of
! the walls and the colors in the frieze and dado,
and the general effect is pleasing and satisfac-
tory. 1t is a good bit of work from the hand
of VIM. L. Bemis.
A woman tripped and fell her length on
the rickety depot platform day or two ago,
and when she got up she made variety of
vigorous and appropriate observations which
| scared the crossing tender nearly out of his
| senses. Good for her We are glad she
| didn't break her neck and are only sorry that
the railroad managers were not present 10
catch what they deserve in plain English
When somebody's neck, or thigh bone, has
been providentally (?) broken there, and the
company has had a few thousand dollars OF
damages to pay, it may possibly bring about
a new order of things.
There is one hopeful sign in the matter
of the wretched way in which our highways
are cared for and managed-and that is the
fact that so many people have spoken to us
approvingly of our recent publications on
this question. If public opinion once gets
well aroused to the folly and shiftlessness of
our present method, or lack of method, there
will be hope of better things IT, as Col
Fuller says this week, the supply of suitable
road material is exhausted let us have a
stone. crusher, or anything else that will stop
the use of that vilainous material from the
High school excavation. Yorktown dust
wasn't circumstance to the dense smudge
which that stuff raises in this dry weather.
Mrs Geo. Z. Crowell had birthday yes.
terday and her husband embraced the occa-
sion to take her and the children and few
invited friends TO make trial of the oapaci-