Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-09


DO books and framed pictures Call early,
j b. STEDMAN.
BrnttIeboro.
A class in botany for the members of the
Nomans Industrial Union will begin to
hold regular sessions next Wednesday at
10 O'Clock A. NJ, meeting for the present
with Miss jeanette Howe, Harris place
Grays botany will be the textbook used
The letter carriers record for last month
shows a material increase in the number Of
pieces handled over the corresponding
month of last year The figures for the
past month are 1868 mail letters, los
registered letters, j,lS1 mail cards and
q ,O3l papers collected %, SGl mail let
ters, 2ll3 local letters 3SS1 mail cards
LILO papers total, ~, 6jG
Lady Wellington, daughter of McCIe-
lan's Victor, owned 10y New York parties
has recently trotted full mile in > 10 and
repeated IN , l3t 1t Is reported that she
trotted a half IN "A and has since been sold
for $4,000. Perhaps some of the stock
raised from Victor IN this vicinity will do
well and even better.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
next Tuesday afternoon, when full at
tendance of members is desired
One of the pleasant events Of next week
will De the musical for the benefit of st
Mchael's Episcopal church. on Thursday
evening, at the Brooks House
The fire at Spokane Falls Washington
territory, has a local interest IN the fact
that branch office Of the Nermont Loan
* Trust company is located there A tele
Al
reports the loss of only ID few books aud
papers. the company having no risks IN the
city.
The Rev VIM h Buckingham Of Rut
land will oticlate in st Michael tEpiscu.
pail church. ON SUNDAY next, IN exchange
with the rector Services 1880 A. NJ and
$40 p. M Sunday school ll:4j A. NJ
Sidney Barrett Of West Dummerstou
shot crane Tuesday which measured Il
feet from TIP to tip aud was feet q inches
tall
The attraction for this evening is the
Ruthlans color party at l.indenhurst
Rev l.. H. Elliot will preach at the Cen
tire church next Sunday morning aud Rev
Mr. Rabbit in the evening
The appointment Of H. c. Shepardson 10
he postmaster at Jacksonville is announced
Attention Is called to the advertisement
of the joint exhibition of the Nermont
state agricultural society and the Cham
pialn alley association at Howard park,
Burlington, September 3 10 g.
Many people will doubtless avail them
selves of the excursion u Newport next
week Friday and to Mystic Island, Watch
Hill and Block Island next week FRIDAY
and Saturday. Tickets will be good for re
turn passage until Monday, the 18th The
trip u Newport from New London will be
made by the steamer City Of Worcester
and u Block Island 10y the steamer Block
Island. The excursion tram will leave
Brattleboro at > A. Nj
The lie Ban Brothers, whose contortiou
teats on the streets short time ago will be
remembered, were arrested in Bethel last
week for skipping out of Barre, leaving
their bill unpaid
The ladies Of the Industrial Union held "a
pleasant and successful ice-cTeam and fan
cy goods sale on Wednesday evening
Miss Mary hOughton has resigned her
place as teacher III the intermediate school
aud Miss Mary Ayres, of this place, High
and Normal school graduate will take her
place. Aside from the new High school
principal this Is the only change now ex-
pected in the corps of teachers for the term
beginning Sept. 9
d. b. Stedman mas bargained for the sale
Of his house on Western avenue to L. L.
Roberts of Winchester, y. H.. possession
10 be given at All early daV Rockville
Conn, where Mr.. Stedman intends locAt-
ing III the lumber business, is a thriving
manufacturing place of 5000 or 10000 in
habltants 1t Is situated in the north cen
trial part of the state, 2 or | , miles east of
Hartford and % miles south of Springfield.
and Is making rapid growth in popula
ton, In company with L. c. Foote, who
is native of this state formerly engaged
III the lumber trade at Rock vile, Mr. Sted-
man will start "a new lumber business, the
opening appearing to he an unusually IA
vOrable one.
Next year, when the census is taken,
farmers will he obliged to give the amount
of their this years crops If each producer
begins now and records what he raises. it
will aid much in making the census figures
complete and accurate
Sherman x JENNIE have Mutual Life
Insurance company advertisement of local
interest in this issue
handsome display of asters may he
seen IN the asylum garden. The largest
plant in the collection contains ZAP bios
SONS
The coal dealers seem to he prospecting
Maj. Bond has had new sheds built and his
fancy delivery wagon appears on the streets
this week. E. b. Barrows is having plat
form scales put in on the Vernon road
One of the plans for President Harrison 5
return IN Washington from Bar Harbor
next week was to visit the White Noun
taIns and pass down the Connecticut valley
To New York, but ms route will probably
he by the way of Concord, all invitation
having been extended by the New Hamp
shire Legislature 10 visit that city.
The Tribune fresh air fund is exhaust
ed and the children who were To arrive
here next Tuesday will not he sent out
The local theatre season opens September
3, when Frederick Marsden's "Humbug"
will he presented by a Madison Square
Theatre company, headed by Chas f. FL
bridge
L. S. Cooley had the ends of three fin
gers of his left hand cut of on a moulding
machine at Smith 4 Hunts shop Wednes
day
The report of the proceedings at the 18th
annual meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union held at Rutland last
September has been issued from the press
of +. f. Housh x Co., and is now ready for
distribution and sale
&. w. Sargent, master of the Pomona
Grange, writes us that the place of the pie
me set for sept. IA is not yet fixed 1t NAV
he held anywhere in the county, as it is un
der the auspices of Pomona Grange
The ljO-yard foot race for $500 a side
between kimball of Lynn aud Carleton.
the celebrated English sprinter, at Green
field last week Friday, was won by the
former Carleton lead until near the fin
lsh, when he was taken lame" At the
race here last week Wednesday, when the
men were announced as Colbert of Athol"
and Harris of Brattleboro. " Carleton won.
The Boston Herald of Sunday contained a
silly story about how Brattleboro people
had lost sl5OO at Greenfield by betting ON
Carleton, and that the race was arranged
by AUbul sports to fleece Brattlsboro men.
The fact Is that less than $50 of Brattle
boro money was bet. The races were got
ten up 10 dupe a North Adams man named
lalham, father of the sewing machine
agent who recently decamped from here
Ialham, at a race ia Troy, ~ y, won
large sum on Carleton, but failed 10 divide
with the sprlnter, as he had previously
agreed Carleton determined 10 have his
revenge, and hence these races The race