Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28


MRs. dEo. p. CHowELL.
BrastIehoro.
Good fall apples are plenty at 40 cents
bushel
Services will be held at the Episcopal
church next Sunday at the usual hours
Rev. DIR. Geo. Leon Walker will preach
II the Centre Congregational church next
Sunday.
The Nintons are overhRuling their paper
mill and making additions to accom- mediate
their increasing business
"A temperance meeting under the auspices
OF the W. c. I. L. will be held at the Chris
tian association rooms Sunday evening at G
O'Clock.
Protective Grange will hold a basket pic
mic with ]. c. Newton on the Rice farm next
Wednesday. The grange will furnish tea
and coffee and all are invited
There will be a joint meeting of the
board OF managers and the womRn's auxiliary
of the y. NJ. G. A. next Tuesday, at T. NJ.
when all committees will be expected to re-
port.
"A company of about 40 young people
enjoyed corn roast at E. f. Streeters =. in
district No. 6, Wednesday evening. the pro
ceedings terminating with music, singing and
dancing.
Durham Bros. call attention to several
lines Of new goods this week and announce
that they have added q repairing room to
their store. In their window they show the
veritAble shoe in which the old woman with
the numerous children lived
The band concert on Monday evening
was interrupted by the rain 10 the disappoint-
ment of n large audience We have a des.
patch from st. Albans this morning saving
that the band will give an outdoor concert
tomorrow evening on their return from mus
ter.
Miss Ella b. Stebbns, teacher of music
in Wesleyan academy at WilbTaham. Mass
who, with her mother, Mrs Carrie NJ Steb.
bins has been spending part of the summer
vacation in town, returned on Wednesday to
begin her seventh year OF teaching in that
well known and prosperous institution
Armstrong, the plumber. is in financial
trouble through suits begun against him and
his brother, both here and in Keene, by mar.
ket creditors The trouble arises from their
loss IN the FIRE last fall, and it il TO be hoped
that arrangements may be made by which
the business will be continued.
Mr.. G.. c. Averill late of NORTHAMPTON.
Mass, has this week assumed the duties OF
teller at the Vermont National bank He is
OF seven years experience in the First Ma.
tional bank at Greenfield and five years at
Northampton, and comes here with very high
recommendations Both he and his wife
will receive a warm welcome in Brattleboro
ciIcles
While Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cheney. with
their children, we're on their return yesterday
from Blandford, Mass, where Mrs. Cheneys
parents reside, their youngest child, about a
year and half old, was taken sick, and died
few hours after their arrival at the house of
Mr.. Cheney's mother, on Chase street The
cause of the child's death was dropsy Of the
brain.
"A. F. Kelley OF Minneapolis is EAST on
his annual visit and was in Brattleboro yes
terday. He reports good crop prospects. and
a generally favorable outlook in Minnesota
and the Northwest The call for money
among western farmers il not so quick as in
some past years, for the reason that but few
of them are branching out into new enter
prises. The demand comes mostly at pres
ent from farmers who are going into i'm
proved stock raising, needed industry which
capitalists and business men are glad TO en-
courage.
This years August cold wave has been
an unusually cold one in all parts of the ooun-
try north aud west For three days past the
highest temperature locally has been CT a.
shown by our weather record, while al night
the mercury has lowered unpleasantly near
the the frost point, and oveTooats aud fires
have not been superhuous Injuries. On Wed
nesday night and last night slight frosts we're
seen on low lands in various parts of the
county, in and around Brattleboro up the
West river, and on the hills, but We hear of
no case where there was enough to injure
vegetation.
The official list of special delivery post
Offices has been received at the Brattleboro
Office with the departments circular of in
structions in regard 10 the establishment Of
the service. This list gives only FIVE Yer
mont ofices-Brattleboro Burlington, Rut-
land, st. Adams and ST. Johnsbury
of seven, az heretofore published Messen-
gers who deliver the letters will receive eight
cents per letter, or not exceeding $50 per
month, and they must be at command from
O'Clock A. NJ until midnight Under the
rules 1t will be necessary to go through the
1910 P. NJ. mail on arrival here aud send out
the special delivery letters, if any, at once
A large delegation from the Universalist
church have been in attendance on the con
Vention at Bellows Falls this week and report
an exceedingly profitable and enjoyable SEES
sion. For many who attended the pleasure
of the session was marred by the sad news
which called DIR. and Mrs McOollester sud
denly away from the convention. On
WNuuonuh1 uoEuiuB d uohpAtcu came an
nouncing the death Of the wife of their only
remaining child, Rev. Lee MoOollester Of
Claremont, N. H. Rev Mr.. Whitney was
called to attend the funeral, going TO Glare
mont last night for that purpose. The ser.
vices were appointed for 10 O'Clock this
morning and the burial was to be at Mari
boro, n. H., this afternoon.
drown, of the Brooks House boot and
shoe store, has on exhibition in his window
what is claimed to be the largest shoe ever
made for bona fde wear. II is No. 20, 70
inches long and inches wide. The material
Is goat and il is handsomely made in every
way. The unfortunate young woman who
wears shoe the exact duplicate of this in
size, lives, not in Chicago as would natural
ly be supposed, but in Sandusky, Ohio A
traveller who was in town yesterday says he
has often seen her and the shoe is not exag-
gerated. Aside from this strange enlarge
ment of the feet she is well and naturally
formed. The shoe was made at the factory
Of X, E. Foster & 90. of Milford, Mass and
Is used by them as an advertisement of their
very excellent patent cork -soled goods
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