Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-18
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
HINsDALB. N. II.

{. +. keyOu has been III Tor Few days.
Mrs. f. w. Tlden has been quite i'll re-
Gently.
Mrs +. D. Jcffords has been i'll for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. Baker Of Boston is visiting Mrs. j.
r. Holman.
Repairs are going on in the interior Of
Hotel Ashuelot.
Wing Lee opened his laundry on Depot
street last Monday.
Mr.. Andrews Of Sioux Falls OAK, is
visiting at II. b, Streeter's.
Ernest Dupee has taken Frank Larrow's
place at Drnkwine's barber shop.
Lucier's consolidated MINISTRIES exhibited
at the town hall Tuesday evening.
John O'Brien, foreman Of foundry in
Americas, Ga. is visiting his parents here.
Louis Davenport has taken the tenement
in Todd's house vacated by Mrs. John
Mahoney.
Hope {. /. s. G. will meet with Miss
Emma Wplman on High street next Mon
day evening.
The sixth of the course Of the Firemen's
assemblies was held at the town hall We'd
nesday evening
NJ. II. Bardwell has purchased the land
west Of Pine Grove cemetery and has cut
the timber thercfrom.
F. p. Cole has returned from a tour Of
several Massachusetts towns. He has been
following the uphOlstering trade
&. VI. Cook has new work horse, OBJ
tanned from the stables Of }. II. Chamber
lain, the Brattlcboro horse dealer.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. 5. Leach visited G. p.
Hall and family at Winchendon, Mass, re-
Gently, returning Monday evening.
+. W. Cotton has been appointed tele-
graph operator Of the Commercial and
Western Union lines for this place.
On the evening following J. II. Henry,
auction, someone entered his barn and
took new horse blanket. two whips and
chair.
Mrs. Hosford. wife Of Capt. Horace Hos
ford of Providence. K. l., formerly Of this
place, suffered a fracture Of the hip from a
recent fall.
Rev. Edwin Pierce OF Wilmington, Vt,
occupied the Universalist pulpit last sun
day, and Rev. Mr.. Fisher preached in At
tleboro, Mass.
Warren Spencer's white horse, while
hitched in the Congregational church shed
last Sunday evening, fell in such a way as
to break its hind leg.
Forest G. Patterson and bride have re-
turned from their wedding trip and are
now occupying rooms in the Bacon house
on BrattlebOro street.
The ladies of the Congregational church
furnished a supper at the vestry Wcdnes-
day evening, which was followed 10y an en-
Treatment by the young people
Lemuel Fales's new house is nearing
completion, the interior being nearly ready
for painting. Mr.. Murray, who works in
the Halle IL Frost mill, is to occupy it,
II. II. Black crushed the middle finger
of his right hand last Friday by getting it
caught in the rolls at Brightwood mills.
The ball of the finger was severely pinched.
Mrs. Arthur l.. Ide obtained a divorce
from her husband at the October term of
the supreme court, and the couple were
remarked at Worcester, Mass, Thanksgiv-
ing day.
G.. 5. Howe and family attended the sur
prise given Mrs. Persis Eames at Vernon
last week \ very pleasant evening was
enjoyed, and the donors left S22.jO with
Mrs. Eames.
The well-known drama. down by the
Sea- was presented at the Uniyersalist
yestry Thursday evening by the young peo-
pie. The ladies furnished an oyster sup
per for the occasion.
Cantlin Brothers have bought "A phono-
graph which has been ON exhibition at
Worden Brothers news room. NJ. +.
Cantlin, with an assistant, will travel with
the machine this winter.
The wife Of Caspar Rhode, one of our
most prosperous farmers, died at her home
in North Ilinsdalc last Saturday morning.
after lingering illness. Cancer is said to
have been the cause of her death.
The post-oiiice store is being thoroughly
renovated, painted and papered, and with
the additional windows that have been put
in, will make an attractive store. The
new proprietor intends to open for business
early in the new year.
J. f. Lebert has the upright part of his
new store on Brattleboro street up and will
push the work as rapidly as possible until
completed II will make a commodOus
store on the first story with pleasant ten
ement overhead, which Mr.. Lebcrt will oc-
cupy.
Mr. Week the new superintendent at the
Hinsdale wooden mill, is making some
changes in the plans of his predecessor
Mr. Taylor. with the result of starting up
the portions of the mill which have for
some time laid idle. The card and spin
ming rooms are running and an air of bust
ness peryades the factory.
While Charles Davis and family, who
live between Mortified and Ashuelot,
were absent Thanksgiving day, someone
entered the house and helped himself to
all the money he could find, amounting to
between $40 and $50 in ALL The two
youngest children, aged about IL years.
had some $50 which they had earned pick
ing berries, chestnuts, etc, which the thief
also took. The young ladies at the North
field seminary, on hearing of this, collected
like sum and gave to the children