Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

for day even The cost is fAratiyeiy small The
local agents are Cudworth and Childs.
PtorUREFR AMEsa are cheap at Cheney h Clapps.
BrattIebOro.
The revised version OF the Bible may be
obtained at Cheney q Clspp's on Thursday
next.
r.. G. Bradley, the painter, who has
been very i'll with pneumonia, is now improv.
ing.
Rev. J. N Emery of Bellows Falls will
preach in the Universalist church next Sun
day morning.
A. II. Dunklee, d. L. Herrick and Thos
Harmon are the Grand Army committee in
charge of Memorial.day services
The regular annual spring meeting OF the
Fort Dummer II fis club will be held Nay %
at their Vernon range.
Mrs. Leroy +. Adams starts next Monday,
with her children, for Minneapolis, where
she will spend the summer.
1t is announced that Rev. John b. Green
has accepted his call TO the Unitarian church
in Dover, N. II.
The special village meeting, TO see about
the lease or purchase of a play ground, is to
be held on Monday evening, May %.
Yesterday being Ascension day suitable
hbiAEibuH rHANlubh NeTt ntiu III D0lI the Eds
copal and Roman Catholic churches
Cashier Dowley is the 6rst in Brattle-
boro to use the Lincrusta Walton wall deoora.
ton, W. X. Geddis furnishing the goods
The names of Misses Hattie Brazor and
Mary Howe appear in the chorus list OF sing
ers at the Rutland musical festival to be held
the last week in this month
The E4tey Guard at a meeting held last
ayaninu vntaA 10 -. Al.
Grand Army post to perform escort duty on
Memorial day.
1t is said that the Central Vermont com.
pauy will this season run through cars be-
tween Montreal and New London TO accom-
modate the Block Island travel
A pike weighing I2i lbs, which Frank
Wheeler Of Chesterfield spearod in Spofford
lake Wednesday night attracted a crowd at
the American House yesterday.
At the Centre church, Sunday, there
will be preaching by the pastor, Rsv. S. H.
Lee. A new feature of the service will be
singing by recently formed chorus choir.
Mr.. Il. Apfelbaum suffered a slight stroke
Of apoplexy last Sunday morning, rendering
him partially unconscious for q day or two
but lie now bids fair to recover from the at
tack
The attention Of the farmers is called to
O. II. Thompson d Co.'s phosphate adver
tisement this week. The firm evidently
mean to give them a hard times" help which
they will appreciate.
The passenger rate war brings the price
Of tickets from Brattleboro TO Chicago down
to 80 by the Grand Trunk, $40 40 by the
erie, and Sll 30 by the West Shore. The
regular fares are SIS and so 30.
Two carloads Of young bulls wore started
this morning for the Vermont Live Stock
company's ranch in charge of Burr Taft and
Freeman Scott. At Chicago and st. Paul
they will meet several other carloads from I'LL
nois and Missouri.
A Chicago man got hold Of the wrong Jug the other
day and took big drink of a mixture OF Kerosene
oil aud muriatio acid. Then he accused the servant
girl OF stealing his whskey aud pouring the
jug to conceal his theft.-!St Louis Whip.
In Brattleboro they call it turpeniine.
BY the unanimous request OF the officers
OF the fire departing mt it has been decided to
postpone the annual hremens parade until
September. 1t is hoped that it may be found
expedient to arrange for a fremen's muster
at that time.
The true spirit and Significance of Me
mOrial-day has never been more beautifully
or eloquenuy voiced than in Commander in
Chief Kountz's general order for this year =
observance of the anniversary, which is print
ed III full on our first page to. day
Hon. j. l.. Martin has bought of w. O.
Chaplin the vacant lot between the Chaplin
homestead and DIR. Diapers house on Asy-
lum street, and will build a handsome resi-
dence there the present season. The price
paid for the lot il understood to have been
$4,000.
-"Our Irish visitors" furnished two solid
hours of laughter to those who attended the
presentation on Wednesday evening. The
piece is full Of rOllicking Irish fun from be
ginning to end, the acting is good, and both
the principals and their support mako the
most of every absurd situation.
-Brattleboro housewives, who are having
a lively skirmish with the picket lines of the
new carpet beetle, are reminded that charge
of benzine, which costs only 10 or 10 cents a
quart, is sure death to the invaders, and no
article or fabric which the beetles attack is at
all harmed by 1t.
-Brattleboro teachers and members of the
school committee in recent yeara will learn
with regret of the death of Geo. b. Damon,
a man formerly we'll known to them through
his connection with leading New York pub
fishing house. He died of pneumonia at
Des Moines, Ia.
An excellent beginning was made on
Tuesday evening toward the formation of a
useful, efficient Village Improvement society.
1t il to be hoped that the executive committee
will be called together at an early day to lay
out plan of work and to take measures "a
make the membership cover the whole vii
age, and so far "a possible the whole town.
Peter Chase's dAndelions are one OF the
features" of the provision market Just now,
and his crop has never been better in quality
or quantity. He was the first Brattleboro
man TO learn the secret of growing this
truck" successfully, and he now has at least
ton of tue vegetable ready to cut W. S.
Brooks also has q crop of remarkably thrifty
and well-grown dAndelions in the market
AT the annual meeting of Fountain steam.
err engine company No. on Tuesday even.
ing the following officers were elected:
John orion, foreman; F. B. Walker LIST assistant
q. l.. Cobb, I'd; IL. A. Strong, clerk and treasurer
A. o. johnson, LIST engineer Carmine Chandler, "a
LIST hoseman; Fred Thrower,2d George Allen sd W
O. Gone, 4th @. II. Sargent, steward David DoWner
LIST aHeman; w. II. Roleau, I'd.
An official notice from the Comptroller
| Of the Currency announces the extension OF
the charter of the Vermont National bank
for period of 20 years from May ~. The
'old" bank, which was organized for bust
ness as a state bank In 1921, and recognized
under the national banking law in 1865, has
proud record behind it. II has long ranked
as one of the strongest fnancial institutions
in the state, and it was never better differed
or better managed than it is to day.
The newspapers at the north part OF the
state are saying that Essex Junction is "a
vored by many of the officers and men of the
National Guard as the place for the next mus.
ter" This is the place of which the present
minister to England wrote,
"' with redoubled JUNCTION:
hope in hell
Their souls may dwell
Who first invented Essex Junction
1t is announced that the railroad fare
from Brattleboro to the national G. A. X. en-.
campment at Portland and return, will be
$3.50; from Bellows Falls SO. A special
train will leave BrRttleboro on Monday, june
", about A. NJ, going via Bellows Falls,
White River Junction and Wells River Col.
Greenleaf, Commander of the department Of
Vermont, has recently been In Portland 10
arrange for the accommodation OF the Yer.
mont old soldiers, and will soon publish an
official announcement in regard to railroad
fare, rates of board, etc.