Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-23

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Enamel Furniture Polish. Sample free.
HENRY c. WILLARD.
ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMING at cheney Clapps
BrattIebOrO.
The Universalist fair and festival is set
for Jan. II.
Services in the Unitarian church Sunday
evening at o'clock.
II. A. Chamberlain has sold his milk
route to Jerry Frost.
The Young Mems Christian Association
seems to be on the move after the billiard
rooms
The subject of Rev +. T.. Towers ser.
mon next Sunday will be Paul and James
reconcod"
Col Haskins was admitted to the bar OF
the United States Supreme Court ut Washing
ton on Monday.
Rev. L. w. Whitney will preach ser.
mon appropriate to the annual Thanksgiving,
next Sunday morning.
Rev. s. II. Lee will continue his lectures
on Luther at the Congregational church next
Sunday evening
"A handsome hanging lamp ito be voted
for at the Roman Catholic fair next week, "
hangs in Lillis a Smiths window.
Cheney q Clapp will take pleasure in
showing their selection Of ongravings to visi-
tors whether purchasers or not
A union Thanksgiving service will be
held at the Methodist church Thursday, Nov.
%, at II A. NJ, with sermon b. the pastor.
We are requested to call special attention
to the advertisement of H. Lincoln, of Hol.
yoke Mass, headed Make money at home. "
j. j. Ray has made clean sweep OF his
Brattleboro property, having sold aud decided
his barn on Flat street to his father this week.
Prof Gardner, a peripatetic sage, has
been lecturing before the school children in
the higher grades this week at / 0 cents head
Madam Camilla Urso aud her concert
company are billed to appear in Brattleboro
Dec. &. They will be sure Of a cordial vel
come.
Chester W. Thomas is laid up with an
ugly cash in his left forehnger which he got
while cutting lard at the bench few days
ago.
At a meeting of the Grand Army post on
Wednesday evening Col. Hooker presented
the post with fine steel-engraved portrait OF
himself
Conductor Spoiford has already SO far re.
covered from his late injuries as make his ap.
pearance upon the street with the aid Of a
cane.
The young mems meeting will be con.
Quoted in the new room of the Y. NJ. G. A.
next Sunday at I =. NJ. Temperance meeting
at the same place at $50.
The workmen at Highland park have
completed the rustic bridge and are now
at work upon rustic arbor located on an
eminence little further north.
Wilson d WlcoI's mirror Of the World
will be exhibited at the Methodist church next
Wednesday evening" the proceeds to be for
the benefit Of the Sunday school
We don't always agree with our friend,
Lieut. F. W. Childs, politically or otherwise,
but when it comes to distribution Of sou
venirs Of the great Yorktown-fght-our
heart is with him every time.
Drown & Bliss the new shoe dealers
have two of the most handsomely arranged
show windows in town. The firm have some
thing to say TO the public in our advertising
columns to-day.
Read Hawley's new advertisement to.
day. He has been in New York this week
buying more fine cloaks, making arrange.
ments for holiday goods, and picking up bar.
gains for his customers.
A tsbleau performance entitled Those
First Mortgage Bonds, was given in a Sc
cluded apartment in Crosby block one morn.
happy to give particulars to all who may in
quire.
Col. and Mrs. Hooker left for Washing.
ton Tuesday afternoon Gen and Mrs. j.
W. Phelps left for Westchester, Pa, Thurs.
day morning. They will spend the winter
there. Miss Ethel Dalton is on q visit to
| New York.
W. S. McKenney, book keeper for Lyon
* Co, got the fingers of one hand crushed
while assisting in the transfer OF a car OF
granite Tuesday, so that it was necessary to
amputate the end of the forefnger.
1t is during this annually recurring peri.
cd of long, dark evenings that the village
fathers are regularly and respectfully petit
toned to provide additional street lamps, and
that said petitions are regularly aud respect.
fully-pigeon holed.
Everybody is glad to know that Hon.
Farley Starr is steadily improving in health
He has ridden out on three several days dur
ing the past week, gives some attention to
business matters and shows a slow but con
slant gain in strength.
The Primary schools will close next
Wednesday for ten days Thanksgiving re.
cess, resuming their sessions the I'd Monday
in December. The higher grades will only
have the remainder of next week, beginning
again Dec. Sd.
Jack Martin. an Irish boy Of about 20,
was brought before Justice Newton by the
bailifIs on Wednesday and fined $40 and
costs for trying to get liquor at the town
agency under false pretences on the night be-
fore the fire. He plead guilty to the charge.
The Grand Army fair committee ask us
to say that it was their original intention to
publish list of all who contributed articles 10
their fair last week, but they find that the
list would occupy so much space that they re.
fer their friends to the village directory in.
stead.
Misses Lille and Alice, daughters of F
W. Brooks, left for cambridge, Ga, Thurs.
day morning. where they will spend the win.
ter with an aunt. They we're accompanied
to New York by Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks, and
we're to go to Savannah by steamer. Miss
Mabel is at school at st. Agnes Hall, Bellows
Falls.
-- The erection of Col Hooker's new block
next year ought to ensure provision for a
suitable place for the post office 1t goes
without saying that in its present quarters
the Office is inoonvenient for its patrons and
unwholesome for its employees. We trust our
leading citizens will keep this matter in mind
and put in a word at the right time.
-Whitmore & Clark's minstrels will make
their annual appearance here at the town hall
next Monday evening. Mr.. Hardy, the man
ager, assures us, that in spite of Hank Whites
retirement from the boards, he has stronger
and better company than ever before. Ad.
mirers of negro minstrelsy are sure to have
their fill of fun and novelty.
Mr.. Ambrose Knapp, for a long time
with Estey Co., as tuner, and we'll known
as the first violin Of the Brattleboro orches-
ira, has bought j. j. Rays stock of goods,
having taken possession last Monday. Mr.
Knapp has many friends in Brattleboro, and
is entitled to the confidence and patronage of
the public. We wish him success.
The New London Northern railroad com
pany announce an excursion to New York to-
day and tomorrow on account of the Evacu-
alton Day celebration in that city next Mon
day. Tickets will be sold from Brattleboro
by the steamboat train tonight and to.mor-
row night at So, good to return Monday night
or Tuesday night
The warrant has been posted for the an
nual village meeting which occurs on Mon
day evening, Dec. 3. Besides the regular
routine characterization of officers, pay
ment of the fire department, the raising of
money, etc.-there are articles TO see if the
village will offer a standing reward of $1,000
for the apprehension Of fire bugs to see if it
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