Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-04-18


Mrs. Avery is ready to show full stock
of spring millinery. Read her announce.
mont.
b A. Clark will sell tho late Mrs. @. V.
Mays residence by auction next Tuesday af
tornoon.
II. w. Simonds has become Interested
with his brother Leonard in the raising Of
high-blooded Jersey cattle in Canada.
--Dea N. w. Goddard, formerly of Brat
tloboro and now of Natck Mass, has sold
out thoro and will return hero to live.
Tho Connecticut was higher Thursday
afternoon than at any time before this spring.
Tho water is now slowly falling.
p. 8. Chase has received another order
from the agricultural department ut Wash
ington for dandelon seeds-this time 500
worth.
w. f. Howe, who has recovered from his
partial stroke of paralysis sufficiently to be
upon the street, has gone to Boston for special
treatment.
d. A. Abbott is improving his premises
on Canal street by the removal of ten feet
from the west end Of the blacksmith shop
which stands too noar his house.
A selection of engravings and etchings
received by Cheney q Olapp to-day includes
the latest subjects and is the finest they have
yet shown.
Mr.. Mansur was at the post Office Tues
day afternoon for the first time since the
evening of Dec. 3lst last lie is slowly re-
gaining his strength.
The school in Clntrovilo district will OPP
on next Monday with Mira. Jennie T. Warron
rs teacher this being her fourth consecutive
year in the school and her seventh in ALL
i. w. Goodner for several years steno-
graphic clerk for j. Estey & Co.. has resign
ed that position and gone to Dakota, where
he will locate as q court stenographer.
Miss Fannie Newhall's engagement at
the skating rink announced for this evening
is postponed until to morrow evening, and in
its place game of polo will be played
-Selectmen Herrick and Boyden have
been in New Haven this week to look at
stone crushers, but no decision about tho pur-
chase Of one has boon arrived at.
The maple sugar season is now ended, ex-
oept in some of the hill towns. Notwith.
standing tho unfavorable indications at the
beginning of the season, the crop has proved
to bo about an average one.
Rev. G. E. Martin, formerly OF Brattle-
boro, has accepted an invitation to preach in
| one of the largest churches in st. Louis Oh
the second and third Sundays in May.
Another old landmark has disappeared
this week in the pulling down OF the old
| barns on the Goodhue estate. The barns
were built by Francis Goodhue grandfather
of the present incumbent of that name.
-wantastiquet lodge, l. o. o. F., will Gel
citrate the Goth anniversary of the order Of
Odd Fellows Saturday, April &c, at Crosby
hall. There will be q supper, followed by a
literary and musical entertainment, and dane
| ing
Hunter & O'Neil, stair-buders and cabi-
net makers, who have an advertisement this
/ week, are experienced men whom it is entire
/ ly safe to recommend to the patronage of the
public. They have all the machinery and
tools for doing the best of work.
F. A. Whitney, who returned on Tuesday
from his trip to Illinois, reports all kinds OF
business as quiet through the West hs here,
and tho people waiting for a new crop to give
things start. Among the people, outside Of
the politicians, there is a decided Edmunds
sentiment in Illinois.
Tho selectmen have heard nothing from
the department about their bid for the post
office. They inform us that they hold them.
selves ready TO 60 on with the proposed i'm
provements, AZ soon as the department says
the word without regard to the decision that
the office will not be removed to the Hooker
block.
The abundant warm rains OF the past
wien uuNc pun u utN lhGb Ou luc uhluTh
world, and farmers and gardeners are busily
making ready for the seasons campaign.
Wednesday afternoon brought the first thun.
der shower Of the season, and the beautiful
rainbow which followed gave glorious prom
Use Of the years seedtime and harvest.
The third and last Of the series of Ma
sonic sociables was held at Masonic hall last
evening. About $50 of the brethren, with
their ladies, were present, and the occasion
was brilliant and happy one. Cooper fur
nished a sumptuous banquet, and the Phil
harmonic orchestra discoursed their sweetest
music during tho evening. The exercises
closed with dancing.
AT the Republican caucus to be held to-
morrow evening at O'Clock there arc 90 del
egates TO be chosen-ll to the state conven-
ton and II TO the district convention-both
Of which conventions meet at Montpelier weeB
after next to elect delegates TO Chicago. The
Republicans of Brattleboro are all Edmundi
men, and they ought to be out in full force al
the caucus. 1t is their best chance to give his
boom push.
The last meeting OF the G. L. S. c., held
at Mrs. Clark's, was a well attended and very
pleasant one. The committee to arrange for
future meetings now consists of Mrs. Draper
Miss Dix and Miss Barnard, and very attrac
tive program has been prepared for the
denoe of Rev. s. IL. Lee on Thursday even
ing, April "a. A special feature will be the
consideration OF the life and works of Shaks
pere.
Geo. II. Adamss Humpty Dumpty com.
pany, travelling under Adam ForepRugh'G
management appears at Crosby hall next
Tuesday evening. An advertisement else
where published gives particulars in regard
to the specialties, which are promised to b
better and funnier than ever. leading New
York paper says that "Mr. Adams is the bes
pantomime artist now on the stage his ev.
cry motion is a sentence and his audiences
have no difficulty in understanding his mute
signs"
The Burlington Free Press on Monday
had an appreoiative notice of G. E. Alleni
large greenhouse business, and gave among
other things items of comparison showing
how much lower Mr.. Aliens prices are thar
those of travelling statesmen. The Free Press
recommends its readers to ''send to Brattle-
boro, and says "the people Of Vermont sont
Thousands of dollars every year to New Yorh
nurserymen and seedsmen, which would be
far better spent by dealing with responsible
Vermont concern"
Mr.. and Mrs. o. f. Newell were sur
prised last Monday evening by visit from
about fifty of their neighbors and friends
who called at their residence on Clark street
to congratulate them upon the arrival of theil
10Th wedding anniversary. The gifts, which
were various and valuable, were presented il
a few appropriate remarks by Rev. Mr.. Whit
ney. The occasion was a happy one to al
concerned, and especially to Mr.. and Mrs.
Newell, since it bore evidence of kindly re-
gard on the part of so many.
by an unaccountable slip of the memory
we forgot to say last week that our little spring
flower girl, Mabel Sargent who lives on the
Brook road, brought us, April T. when snow
and ice covered almost everything, q large
bunch of hepaticas and ooltsfoot blossoms
which she had found in some warm nook II
the valley where she lives. This week VIZ
have a great handful of hepaticas from two
little West Brattleboro boys, BERTHE and Fred
Akley, who have also learned to spy out ma
lures earliest spring secrets.
1t is definitely decided that the post-offict
will not be removed to Col. Hooker's new
block, and the north store, which was its pro
spective location, will be occupied by F. X
Barrows. The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation will have quarters on the first floor il
the room Immediately south of the stairway
and entrance to the second floor. Other prob
able occupants of the stores are II. w. 81
monds and u. w. Frink. DIR. Pettee viii
have rooms on the second floor, and IA. Tay
lor will occupy the tenement flat over Bar