Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-23
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PICTURE FhAHEs are cheap at Cheney Olapp's.
RrauIebsrS.
The annual Grand Army fair Is 10 be
held at the town hall Nov. 18th.
rDrummonds tea exchange is TO be closed
out at auction on the 3lst.
The bicycle club are TO take q moonlight
ride to Hinsdale this evening.
Mrs. Thomas, milliner, has satisfied W.
g. Doolittle's claim and resumed business.
The Phoenix sends hearty congratulations
to its fellow craftsman In Harmony block. 1t
Is boyl
"A union gospel temperance meeting will
be held in the Y. NJ o. A. rooms next Sun
day at $3.50 =. NJ.
Members Of the O. L. 8. O. can obtain
programs OF next meeting, Oct. 2S, at the Y.
N. @. A. rooms.
ID. P. Cobb has sold his blacksmith bust
ness TO parties named Hicks and Angler Of
Walpole, N. H.
The lower end OF Green street is being
improved by the laying OF a sidewalk over the
gutter in front Of DIR. Posts promises.
Rev. Mr.. Wright OF the Nortbfeld, Mass,
Unitarian church preached at the Universal
list church last Sunday in exchange with Mr..
Whitney.
The long wished for lamp. post on Brook
street has been set this week. Two naptha
lamps on Organ street have been replaced
with gas-lamps.
Five immediate delivery letters ct the
Brattleboro Office the past week, and I'd cents
pay for the messengers six days work Of II
hours each.
The Montreal smallpox scourRo has
killed the through travel between that city
and New York over the Central Vermont and
Connecticut River line.
Frost Il Proctor make a specially Of the
best grades Of -four, as their customers know
very well, and this week the firm call Atten-
ton throughout columns TO several Of their
Best" brands.
-Herrick Boyden are adding another
story to their tenement house on Elliot street,
20 as to have it accommodate sir families,
but they have decided not TO lay the founda-
tions OF their rejected business block this
fall.
The large quantity Of sand and gravel ex-
cavated in building the new street across the
Charlier place Is being used 10 good purpose
in filing up the low place on Cedar street
and elevating some Of the neighborinR build
ing lots.
Letters received from superintendent
Adams Of the Vermont Live Stock company
state that he left the range last week Thurs
day with 800 head OF cattle for the Chicago
market-the first lot which has been sent
from the range.
Atkins and W. II. H. Bingham passed
through here last Saturday en- route for
Washington with war paint on and toma-
hawks in hsnd, ready for the string Of scalps
which they have triumphAntly hung at their
girdles this week.
The First Regiment band serenAded Hon.
B. d. Harris and Mr.. N. 1. HAvley Tuesday
evening. Mr.. Harris responded with high
ly appreciative speech, and Mr.. HaWley with
an invitation TO the boys 10 Join him in q lit
tie entertainment at Ooopers.
As q matter OF Justice 10 Mrs. Doolittle,
on whose premises last weeks drunken crowd
had their spree, IL should be said that the
! young men got possession of John GlAVin's
room, and afterward entered her own, under
false pretenses and during her absence.
Herbert l. Bangs Of Green street, late Of
| Company B., 10th Vermont Regiment, has
just been granted pension Of S2I q month,
TO date from August l, 1888. This 10 we'll de-
served, and his old comrades and other nume-
rous friends will rejoice in his good fortune.
AT the annual meeting Of the Vermont
Mutual life insurance company, held at Mont
| pelier last week, A. NJ. Butler OF Jamaica was
elected director for this county in place Of O.
W. Wyman, who has served the company
faithfully for several years.
We stop the press 10 say that, owing 10
the rush of fall trade, the pressure of per-
sonal politics. and . modest reluctance on
the part OF property holders TO thrust them
selves too conspicuously before the public,
the railroad bank has not been cleaned up
this week.
Harry Kinson shot an English snipe while
hunting woodcook last week. q bird very
rare in this region, though found in eonsid-
cradle abundance in New Jersey. II Is a lit
tie smaller than q woodoock, with similar
head and bill, and Of a soft dun color beauti-
fully marked with black.
"A small boy who ran over the big fire.
| department reservoir in EsteyVille on Tues
day came within an ace OF falling through
the rotten covering, a portion of which tum-
bled In under his weight. The attention OF
the bailids was called to the matter and
new covering is now being put on.
Hon. and Mrs. B. d. Harris returned
last Saturday from a carriage drive of some
400 miles through Vermont and return, going
as far as Burlington and taking in most OF
the leading towns in the state. Many old
acquantanceship were renewed during the
journey, and the delights of Green Mountain
scenery in early October fully enjoyed.
Edward Edwards has introduced novel
article OF manufacture In BrattlebOro having
made large number of toboggans after the
genuine Canadian pattern. The young folk
are anticipating no endaof sport with them
the coming winter. Why not make q con-
oerted move and have q slide where every.
body can have taste Of the sport In safety
1t would prove the most popular thing out.
Dan A. Willoutt formerly OF Brattls-
boro, and now living In Pennsylvania, is In
Buffalo, N. Y, for surgical treatment Of the
eyes. and has submitted TO q very difiouIt Cd
Grafton which promises 10 partially restore
his sight Mr.. Willcutt sends his friends
here word that he has reason 10 thank Mr..
and Mrs. Dwight Goodenough very sincere
y for aid rendered him during their visit TO
Buffalo.
1t gives one . certain permissible feeling
OF envy to read Of the handsome and commo.
dious new library building which q flial and
public-spirited son of the town has presented
the pleasant and cultivated village Of Wood.
stock. Brattleboro needs similar Gift and
we hope TO see the day when some wealthy
resident will choose this way of honorinR his
town and building his own most enduring
monument
Petitions for the appointment Of Willis
Bemis as postmaster at BrAttleboFo were put
In circulation yesterday. One OF them, It Is
understood, Is for the signatures OF those who
have signed no other petition, and the other
Tor those who have signed for some other