Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-11-28

box ass, Brattleboro.
sAowL AND ISDl,S OIL At l. b. THonS's tlo
Main st., opposite High
Mrs. II. +. Houghton has a tenement to rent in her
Main street block, aud furnished rooms 10 her High
street house. Also, sleigh aud harnesses for sale.
rtcrURE FRAMES are cheap at Cheney 4 Clapps.
The old reliable Hartford, New York pennsylyania
and foreign fire insurance companies represented by
Cudworth Childs afford absolute protection. The
bestis the safest in the end
ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMISo at Cheney Capp's.
HrattIeborO.
Perfect weather for Thanksgiving yester-
day.
knapp will open his new hat store to.
morrow.
Frank Convey has gone to work in Haw-
ley's store.
There will be no service at the Unitarian
church next Sunday.
Examination Of teachers tomorrow at
High school building, beginning at A. N.
-Hawleys special sale Of books and other
Christmas goods is TO begin next week Satur-
day.
OTHERS Of Ssdgwick Post, G. A. r., will
be chosen at the reg llar meeting next Wed
nesday evening.
will be printed for January an increase Of
10000 copies from last January.
w. L. Bsms, the painter, was severely
famed last Friday, by fall from ladder on
the roof OF Ranger d Thompson's block.
DR.. Holton secured the passage Of bill
Incorporating our village school district.
Thestatus OF the district Is in no way changed
by the act.
-CAllenders minstrels the genuine colored
article, are TO play at town ball tomorrow
evening. They are accompanied by the cele-
brated Hyers sisters.
Two volumes OF European Life and
Manner by Henry Coleman have been pre-.
scented 10 the Brattleboro Free Library, by
James f, Coleman son of the writer
e. A. Convey, having bought the Gibson
farm near Dummerston ferry, has removed
to that town, occupying the Dr.. Cook house
at the Hollow.
j. NJ. Buzz j, formerly Of Brattleboro,
the builder Of the Brooks House block, has
removed from Worcester, NJ ASS, TO Brook
Ign, n. Y.
The Sunday school in st. Michaers
(Episcopay church will be held at O'Clock
p. NJ. on next Sunday and the Sunday follow
ing
Me Ciary has this week set up" the
head aud neck of one Of Col. Fuller's deer
which it was necessary to shoot on account Of
its begerent disposition.
The water bsgan running into Crowelrs
reservoir on Tuesday. The process of filling
will proceed slowly, however, and close
watch will be kept for possible leakages.
The Odd Fellows held their last meeting
in their old hall last Monday evening" THIS
week they are moving TO their new hall 10
Hooker block aud will hold their regular
meeting there nsGt NJ nd,y evening
The asylum family ate theirusual Thanks
giving dinner yesterday, consuming soms 80
turkeys and 60 chickens. In the evening the
winters course Of entertainments was open
ed with dance in the gymnasium.
John l.. Putnam, the veteran toll bridge
keeper, had family party Of - persons to
eat Thanksgiving dinner yesterday In the
party were / / grandchildren OF Mr.. aud Mrs.
Putnam, aud one great.grandchild.
The narrow-gauge passengers had to
complete their trip below Bradleys ledge on
the locomotive last Monday morning, aud a
car OF Thanksgiving poultry was detained SO
that its shipment was delayed till the after
noon train.
The high wind last Sunday night opened
seam in large maple tree in front of Wells
Frost's house on High street and the sap has
.
trunk and on tue ground at the foot iu a thick
mass.
The Blaine members OF the Taurus club,
having wsgered turkey supper with the
Cleveland members on the result OF the re-
cent election, party Of % sat down to one
OF Cooper's best spreads at the club rooms
last Friday evening.
Miss Lsonard Of the High street Primary
school has resigned her position to accept 4
favorable opening in the Bennington pu bile
/ schools Her place viii be taken next week,
at the beginning of the new term, by Miss
/ Nellie Goodrich Of this village.
Sunday nights wind blew down a locust
tree back OF the town hall, which fell across
charge number Of telephone wires which run
along the bank, aud made a hard day's work
for the electrician to get them up and in or
der again.
The high wind which prevailed here.
abouts on Sunday evening WAS very severe at
points south and west and in some cases CON
siderable damage was done The pouring
rain which accompanied the wind took of all
the snow aud Was godsend to all the far
mers in this region.
%. J. Pratt has just completed an en-
largement Of his cloak rooms TO occupy the
whole of the second hoor over his store, max
ing spacious apartment % by go feet in
size, entrance to which is had by hand.
some staircase leading from the main store.
The improvement is d very marked one.
w. H. Childs used the money he won on
election wagers to buy 20 turkeys which he
distributed among 20 poor families who must
otherwise have gone without such luxury
a very happy way, certainly, of letting 9th
ers taste the fruit of Mr.. Childs's own salts
faction in Cleveland's election.
rous illness of c. b. Rice at Taladega, Ala.
. At first his illness was in the form of slow
malarial fever, but this has now assumed a
very alarming type, and there are fears OF
complications with his old lung trouble.
/ Further news from him is anxiously looked
for by his relatives here
We hear Of sporting dog Of considerable
value which jumpe d into kettle of boiling soap
in Hnsdale, while chasing cat last Sunday,
and met with sudden and painful death.
There certainly is moral in the incident,
but it is so mixed up with questions of soap
boiling on Sunday and of retributou on dogs
which chase cats, that We give up trying to
eXtricate it..
The annual village statement, to be pre-.
scented next Monday evening, will show that
| 5000 of indebtedness has been paid during
the past year, an / that there is money enough
til next May. There will therefore be nothing
in the way Of adopting the act Of the legisla,
ture changing the time of holding the annual
meeting, aud then dissolying the meeting.
&C. f. Miller's friends creme mbsred'
him handsomely on tine occasion of bis mar.
risge, on Wednesday, The Estey Guard gave
him lamp and centre table, the band a
handsome picture, aud other friends an ele-
CANT easy chair. Charlie was wise beyond
his years on the occasion and. to ensure him
self against practical jokes by over-nterest-
cd friends, was married halliday earlier and
took an earlier train than had been anuounc-
ed
A pleasant story is told OF DR.. Couland' d
little two-years old boy, who accompanied
his mother to Montpelier during tho session
of the Legislature, He was in the House
gallery one morning at the opening of the
session, and when the chaplain arose to offer