Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30

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The farmers who are "a little behind
/ with their springs work are the ones who are
happy this morning.
Eighteen members Of the Odd Fellow
fraternity paid visit TO the Hinsdale lodge
on Wednesday evening
Perkins, the dye-house man. took 9
| ID. -3oz trout out of Milestone brook under
the falls back Of Browns building one day
last week.
w. L. Bates, an employc at Smith
| Hunts carriage shop, had the thumb and two
| fingers Of his left hand badly lacerated by
! circular saw, last Saturday, the forefnger
being nearly taken Of
"A friend who listened to Rev Mr.. Lees
! sermon last Sunday morning makes the re-
mark that If, as report says the parson styles
! himself a Democrat, it must be that he spells
| the word with a small d.
The National W. G. Z. U. Bulletin, Vol.
! l, No. 3, is out with circulation OF 1000
! copies. 1t is hereafter to be a small 4-page
| paper and will be issued monthly by Mrs.
Esther I. Housh.
! The Good Templars are to hold a straw
! berry and ice-cream festival at Grand Army
hall next Monday evening. Supper will be
served from . TO 3 o'clock, after which there
| will be musical and literary exercises.
The Estey Guard will have their annual
| June drill on Saturday, the 9TH. The plan
| is TO go to Vernon by rail and invite the
! honorary members Of the company TO take
| dinner with them there.
! Berthe l3.years- old son OF j. L. Thur
Der, Of Oentreville fell on q scythe Monday
! afternoon and received q severe cut in the
left wrist, which severed one of the cords
/ and penetrated TO the bone.
AT the Baptist church next Sunday
morning Rev. Mr.. Tower will preach on True
| Liberty After the sermon the rite of bap-
tsm will be administered. The young peo-
| pies meeting will hereafter be held on Tues
day evening.
Michael Kennedy, the Irishman whose
death at Ringgold, Ga, we noted last week,
| formerly resided here, but took to drink, de-
serted his family and wandered of TO parts
unknown His former wife, who had obtain
ed divorce, now lives at Bellows Falls.
Several young ladies Of the village have
| formed Red Letter Day Club" with Miss
! Grace Mansur as president, Miss Emma Dick
| inson as secretary, and Miss Grace Lee as
! treasurer. The purpose OF the club is to ar
| range for pleasure parties. benefit entertain
ments, and the like, during the summer
This years drive Of logs, amounting TO
| 1000, 900 feet, has passed McIndoes Falls
and is doomed at Wells River. past which
! point the logs are now running They will
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The water has been at good height from the
| start, and the season is the most favorable
| for years.
| -Four Swede girls, employed as domestics
/ in this village taking advantage Of the pres
| ent low ocean rates will sail from Boston to
morrow for q visit to friends in Sweden. The
fare from Brattleboro to GOttenburg Sweden
steerage passage, is only So. 7O-cheaper for
most of US than staying at home.
Hereafter there will be a regular bust
ness meeting Of the Y. III. c. A on the first
Monday of each month, aud accordingly
there will be such a meeting Oh Monday
evening next at 7:45 o'clock. Il is hoped
every member will bear this in mind and be
present.
The Brattleboro members OF this years
Moosehead fishing party will be Dr. Gale,
II. Il. Lawrence, w. II. Childs, f. W. Childs
A. W. Childs, and Ned Pfummer F. A.
Flagg Of North Adams, j. II. White of Meri-
den, and either \. 2. or Rollin Chids will
join the party. They will leave NJ ondsy,
June ..
Hon. b. D. Harris and his alternate. Mr..
Babbitt Of Bellows Falls, leave for Chicago
this afternoon. Col. Hooker is already on
the ground Several Bratteboro people,
among them Mr.. and Mrs. L. Ct. Frost, will
avail themselves OF the low railroad fares Of
fered during the convention for visit to
Chicago and the west
Gov. Smith came to terms With the Am
herst people when summoned before the
Massachusetts, railroad commissioners on
Tuesday, and next Monday morning another
train will be put on the New London road be.
tween Palmer and that point which will prRc-
tically restore the accommodations lost by
the withdrawal of the owl train
The new cloak and shawl room which
o. j. Pratt has recently added to his store is
proving a very valuable and attractive ad.
junct Of his business. This new department
occupies a large front room, Immediately
over the main store, which has been elegant
| y fitted up and offers TO the ladies an oppor-
tunity TO examine over garments and make
their selections under the most favorable cir
| cumstances and entirely at their leisure The
stock Of goods which this department con-
tains is large and attractive, and will at all
times be kept fully up to all the demands of
the trade.
Mr.. Z. p. Carpenter left on Tuesday for
Mendoza, ILL.,, having been called there by
! the serious illness OF his father, Mr. T. b.
| Carpenter, who is a manufacturer of cabinet
organs Mr.. Carpenter will probably close up
his fathers business while there and hereafter
supply the trade Of the Mendoza concern from
his own works in Brattleboro. On returning
| from the west Mr.. Carpenter will 90 10
Maine and bring his family here for perma.
nent residence.
At the meeting of the officers of the Y.
! NJ. G. A. held the 22d inst the various com
mittees were appointed with the following
men as chairman: Devotional j. c. Howe
membership, E. w. Harlow; entertainment.
j. L. Hall ROOM Z. c. Crosby finance.
Malcolm Moody lecture, L. W. Hawley
distribution and invitation, Geo. Bliss re-
eeption, Edward Kirkland At the meet
| ing OF the executive committee on Monday
! evening, the 10th inst, it was voted 10 retain
the general secretary another year. also TO
take rooms in Hooker block, the first
south of the hall leading to the second door,
! together with the basement.
The Grand Army campfire held at the
| town hall last evening WAS attended by an
audience which completely filed the hall
| The exercises, which were of memorial
character, were unusually interesting and in
ciuded music by the Philharmonic orchestra
| prayer by Rev. S. II. Lee, singing in solo
/ and quartet by some of our best vooalis. s. a
recitation by Mrs. Whiting, and adore sses by
Messrs. A. V, Cox, A. Pattee, E. Crosby. e
| W. Whitney, X. Haskins, L. X Fuller and
ID. T. Taylor. Mr.. A. V. Cox, chairman of
the Memorial day committee, presided over
the meeting, and its success was an ample
vindieation of the new plan of holding these
K meetings adopted last year.
The following item from the New Maxi
! can Stock Grower is of interest in conpee-
/ ton with the advertisement of j. g. Olaneey
d Co., which appears in our columns to-day ;:
"Dinkle, Handy Bros. 4 Co. have 10000 heal NJ
spanish MerlnO sAeep on their range In Texas and
! have sold for $1,000 four hundred and eighfv mead
OF ewes which were not selected but taken lust as
they came out OF the herd. This is about ri rs peT
head. Who says the sheep business is not what il
used 10 be?n ~ "
The sheep from which this herd has grown
were bought of Clancy q Co.. two years ago
End are OF the same stock now offered by
them.
The past two weeks have furnished an
excellent illustration of the capacity for
weather of this New England section of ours.
After several days of midsummer warmth.
with the mercury rising as high as $50 to So,
the temperature fell of to delightful cool.
ness and freshness at the beginning Of this
week, followed by rain on Monday night and
Tuesday. Wednesday brought decided fall
IN the temperature, and during Wednesday
night the mercury fell below the freezing
point and thin ice formed. Last night was
still colder, the mercury going as low as
2o~. This morning on all low lands there
was o white frost and in all this saefion tbo..o