Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-07-02

BrastIehOrO.
- Correspondents and others are requested
TO send reports OF Fourth. of-July observances
early next week-on Tuesday or Wednesday
where possible.
An adjourned meeting OF the legal voters
of the village of Bratteboro will be held on
Tuesday evening next, July &, to receive aud
hear the report Of the committee appointed
at the last annual meeting to consider the tx.
pediency of establishing paid fire depart
ment. 1t is understood that the committee,
Of which j. j. Estey is chairman, will recon-
mend the adoption of such a department,
upon the details aud expense OF which they
will be fully prepared to report.
A subscriber writing from Ada, Ottawa
county, Kansas, under date Of June ~, says
The wheat harvest is almost finished here in
Kansas A fine growing time. frequent show
ers, and farmers are looking more hopeful"
Fred Mack, printer, lately returned from
the west, has accepted the position OF fore
man in the Reformer office at Greenfield.
--Mr' A. NJ. Carlton has bought Of the
Davenport brothers the cobble-stone house on
Canal street and the one adjoining j..
90 G.. b. IIarwood has the contract for build.
ing DR.. Bruce's house-a plain two.story cot
taGe ind will begin work on it next week.
A great many old friends we're glad 10
see MIR. Alfred II. Wright in town lover Sun
day" this week.
Members Of the ladies auxiliary Of the
Y. NJ o. A. are n quested to take note that
the next regular meeting will be held on Tues
day, July 6. at 4 p. NJ.
The Woman's Relief corps will meet al
Grand Army hall next Thursday evening.
full attendance is requested.
Luther $. Richardson, one Of Brattlc
boro's soldier boys, who went west a few
years after the war, is now a prosperous far
mer at Dana Mo, near the Kansas border
where he has farm OF six or seven hundre,
acres and devotes himself largely to stock
raising.
Last Sunday the morning service at tb
Universalist church was devoted to the chill
dren Music Of an appropriate character Wa
rendered by the organist and choir, th
church Was finely decorated with ferns an
flowers, and a large congregation was pres
emit After the baptism Of four children, tn
pastor, Rev. E. W. Whitney, preached a sci
9 mon suited to the occasion from II. XIV,
. The long -contested suit of the estate O
Mabel X. Bowker against the estate of ROl
ana j. Davenport has been settled by tn
payment to Hugh NJ. Adams, administrator
by the Dsvenports, of $500. The full BIZ
70 tory OF this case would make chapter of il
teresting reading
The citizens prizes for next Monday
bicycle races are on exhibition in Ranger
Thompsons window.
The Sunday school of St. Michael
4 (Episcopal) church will meet $3.50 A NJ. ne
Sunday
Some Of the residents Of Prospect sire
n have started project for purchasing the ira
!, of land on the north side OF that street b
:, longing to the Alexander Capen estate, an
"a presenting 1t TO the town for a public par
About $500 OF the $lO50 needed has alTeaC
been subscribed, and the project will u
- doubtedly be carried out The tract COT
:, prises a long, narrow strip Of land. mostly {
a steep side hill, but embracing one or tV
= points which give the most delightful vie'
OF the village to be obtained anywhere. Wi
, suitable appointments the proposed ''Prospt
" Park" is capable OF being made one OF t
20 most attractive and frequented points with
~ the village borders.
~ The Centrevlle school closed to-day Wit
,. out public exercises on account of many
az the pupils being sick with the measles. The
20 have been 81 scholars during the term.
al Next Sunday being July 4, the morni
G. service at the Universalist church will be o
ay patriotic character.
1t is to be regretted that an impressi
" has gone abroad that Brattleboro is an unst
"a. place for summer visitors this year becAl
n. of the prevalence Of scarlet fever and measl
,is We hear Of several engagements for boz
IL which have been cancelled on this accou
a The two diseases named have taken the inc
On table course Of such epdemics in a commun
which has been exempt from them 10
an enough to grow up generation of child
,la subject to the attack. Scarlet fever cam
al be Justly said to have been epidemic here
r. any time during the winter or spring, thou
Oh there have been numerous cases of it, BE-
10 diseases have practically subsidized and
az physicians do not anticipate further trou
10, for them. The measles made thorough WI
n, of their Job and will hardly appear here ag
an until another crop OF children have b'
he grown.
lly The telephone exchange displays a sci
re- handsome new weather signals this mOrnin
The Vermont University of Burlng
IN conferred the degree of LII d. on Judge
he II. Wheeler yesterday honor wOrthily
IN slowed.
,bt John Berrie, formerly baker at the a
lus lum and now baker at the Middletown, Cor
ng asylum, lie in town on a vacation.
an, D E. Tasker began work in tho p,
nd Office on the first inst, taking the place
aus Julius Leach, who leaves the office on acco
for of his health and to attend school after
red summer vacation is over. Mr.. Tasker's
ed. gagement at the Office has no political sign
ng canoe whatever, as has been vAriously alleG
He is an Independent in politics and will
p. main so. He goes into the Off 80 simply a
re- man whom Postmaster Ohilds believes
the make a faithful and Efficient servant OF
it public.
-Four OF L onard 4 Roess's cigar max
/ Albert Smith, Will Stole, Louis Urban
to- Charles Lang, went on fishing trip to 81
any erset last Saturday aud returned yester
EN- morning. Their claim of 500 trout take
nv we'll substantiated by the number of b
they brought home.
ex- Mr.. and NJ g. Orowell, Mr.. and \
ore Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. Selleck and
1t Hjush are intending to join the annual
nts cursion OF the Vermont editors aud publ
for ers' association, which occurs week after
aud includes trip to the Thousand Isa
rec via St Adams aud Ogdensburg, with an
aud tional sail down the ST. Lawrence to N
hal treA
Mr.. George j. Brooks is having
f. ground In his grove on Grove street
day cleared of and made attractive, and the q
will be used as a place of resort for