Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-04-17
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Il. w. Lord has sold his house on Forest
street to Clinton Lord.
Mrs ]. L. Walker has full stock Of New
York millinery ready to show her customers.
The Knights and Ladies' Of Honor held
a tociable at Grand Army hall last evening,
with supper and dancing.
"A "Reminiscences" of village interest,
With a short and well-put educational essay,
will be. found on our first page to day.
-E1w. Monroe, for a good many years
past an employc at E-tey Il Co.'S, has rented
farm in Halifax and will remove there about
May LIST.
e. L. Parker is filling another large or
der for his washing machines, making more
than 600 made for one Pennsylvania concern
since last fall
Mr.. Swain thanks us for our kind inter
est and says no has sold the old baby car
riage, "and the next baby will have a new
one" Happy baby
The revised version Of the Bible will be
ready about the middle OF May. Cheney a
Clapp are now receiving orders to be deliver
ed on the day of publication.
Mr. O. +. Kittredge of Rocklaud. M,
who WAS a Bratleboro boy, aud was 10 the
dry goods trade here some thirty years sgo,
u spending lew days IN Town.
Mrs. @, p. Nash is soon to join her hus-
band. who is In business IN Maine, and Il. A
Chamberlu aud wife will set up housekeep
log in the tenement which che vacates.
i X Allen a Co. have the contract TO
furnish the lumber for II. ID. CAROLS new
barn, Ninton's shop to replace the one burn
ed, aud Crowel's melOdcon shop addition.
These careless postal clerks" would like
II ,uha ha a .,,s Nl.s
mis- directed package Of papers which the
Jacksonville postmaster in an oblging mood,
sent back to its editor this week.
Next meeting of the Q. L. S. @. will be
held at the Y. NJ. q. A. rooms on Thursday
evening, April 23i, at half.past o'clock.
Members are requested to be prepared on the
April readings. Every member will be ex
pected to be present.
Mrs NJ. NJ. Kellogg is in preearious
condition FROM an acute affection OF the
throat and lungs. Her brother, Judge Adds,
came on from Washington yesterday in re.
spouse TO a summons We are glad TO know
that Mrs. kelloggd symptoms are somewhat
more favorable this morning.
A. Starkey, assignee Of Lillis 4 Smith
has concluded bargain for the sale Of the
store to Geo. T. Mann, tho engineer on the
narrow gauge passenger train, and brother.
business As Mr.. Mann's agent
Warner G. Atwood, who died suddenly
last Sunday. after long suffering from hsart
disease, was an Old resident whose reputation
for reliability and integrity were well earned.
No man has ever done better or more faithful
work in his trade than he and scores of Brat
tleboro housoholders will miss bis kindly but
self-respec,ing ways, aud esteem his death q
personal loss.
The Carpenter organ company have
started their big "Grandissimo" organ on its
way to the London exhibition this week. The
case is in ornate renaissance" style, with Ell.
egAnt carvings, and stands Of pipes in the
centre and at either side. 1t has two manu-
ais, with "a stops, and the action is the best
which the company makes. 1t Is in every
way handsome and creditable piece Of
Brattleboro work.
The adjourned school meeting in Dis.
trict No. was held Tuesday evening and af-
ter an animated discussion q decision was
reached in regard to the size Of the proposed
new school house, and il was voted to have
the building committee, o. Il. Ware, ID. n.
Barber and A. W. Crouch, let It out by the
job. Mr.. j. Johnson kindly offered TO give
quite large piece of land for a building
spot add play ground II the district would
fence il OF. A.
The evangelists, Pratt and Birdsall, con-
cluded their lAbors at the Baptist church We'd
nesday evening, when a large audience was
present. They were to commence work in Au.
burn, Me, last evening. Next Sunday the
pastor will preach morning and evening aud
there will be meetings in the vestry on Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday aud Friday even.
ings. At the close Of the meeting last even
! ing Mr. Tower was given purse of $50 by
his friends in recognition Of his labors for the
church.
Crosby 4 Co. . quotations for -four this
morning are Sc 40 to $3.50 for the best Min.
neapolis patents; 50 80 to So. 10 for the va
rous grades of St. Louis, and So for the best
Michigan. These prices are about ~ cents
per barrel higher than ten days ago The
milers hold prices firm at 81 advance. Lo-
! cal retail dealers, who have stocks on hand
bought before the advance, are selling at
wholesale prices, mono OF tho Brattleboro
dealers having advanced more than 20 cents
per barrel.
The Good Temp!ars gave a sugar-party
sociabe at G. A. II. hall Monday evening,
| which was largely attended. After the sup.
| per an entertainment was given consisting Of
pantomime, vocal aud instrumental music
| by A. A. Nichols and Sophy Foster, song by
| Ethel Joy, five years of age, with piano &C
compartment selections on guitar by Mr.
! Holloway, which were warmly eneored read
! ing by Miss Cora Holbrook, duet by O. f..
Deane and Mrs. Dougherty, quaTtette by o.
L. Deane, A. w. Nichols, Mrs. DouRherty
and Mrs. Joy-all finely rendered. The en-
tertainment closed with an invitation to all
present to join the lodge, which meets every
Monday evening. d.
"A little French girl, daughter of j. Fen.
no, freight brakeman on the New London
! Northern road, was drowned Wednesday noon
| in the pond above the old wooden mill, now
! Fletcher's saw mill. This FsnnO family live
in the house near the mill, the last one on
| that end of Birge street. The mother said she
| gave the child, who was four years old, a piece
! of bread and molasses, and left her in a chair
to eat it. Presently the little girl went out,
and in very few moments the mother, on
looking for her, saw her clothes on the sur.
face of the water, and, reaching in, took out
the child, who was then dead How she had
| fallen in is not known.
Hubert Green, young man who worked
/ for o. l. Howe a Son some two years ago.
leaving there very uneeremoniously, and who
! came back last fall aud went TO work for
Wyatt, 'dusted out" again a week ago, while
/ MIR. Wyatt was absent in New York, taking
some $50 in money from the cash drawer and
articles of clothing, ETC., 10 the value Of $40
more. He took watch belonging to c. l..
/ spear, whom he also owed SO for borrowed
money, aud left board bill of $50 unpaid
at Mrs. Archer's aud some other similar ire
membranes" BE has not been heard from
since be left, but will hardly escape arrest if
his victims think it worth while to look him
up.
The new and revised edition of H. NJ.
Burts Attractions of Brattleboro" is now
completed, aud delivery has been made this
week to local subscribers. II makes a pretty
little souvenir of above 100 pages, and is fll-
ed with historical, reminiscent aud descrip.
tive matter at once instructive and entertain
ing. For frontispiecei it has well-exeouted
wood cut from one of HoWe's photographs
taken on Cemetery hill. The reading matter
is made up Of chapters which successfully de-
scribe the Attractions of Brattleboro" in a
general way, "The Drives, 1.-The Mountains, {"
FOSSILS and Antiquities" "The Old Water
Cure, ," Schools and Churches, " and the lead.
ing manufacturing and business interests
The letter-press does credit to Leonards Office.
and nobody, whether at home or abroad, will
regret the expenditure Of the 25 cents which
the purchase of a copy involves.
Every Vermont season is phenomenal
and this one is no exception to the rule so far
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