Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-20

ed, was held at the vestry of the Methodist
church on Wednesday evening.
The Murray club will hold a meeting
with Rev. and Mrs. Sprague at the parson-
age next Tuesday evening.
Sherman ~ JENNIE elsewhere make an
important announcement of the purchase
of the business of the Liberty Insurance
company by the Home Insurance company,
of which they are the local agents.
A Thanksgiving dance will be held at
the town hall next Thursday evening.
Music will be furnished by the Philhar-
monte orchestra and Mr. Wales will act as
prompter.
The Central Vermont railroad will sell
round trip tickets between stations on its
line in Vermont and New York states for
Thanksgiving at fare one way, tickets good
going Wednesday and Thursday, and to re-
turn until Friday inclusive.
The ladies of the Baptist society an
nounce that they will give early in the
Columbus year, 1892, an Illuminated illus
trated Columbus entertainment similar to
one recently given with great success in
Philadelphia.
Words of praise are accorded Ellis Lord
Ship wherever the company appears. The
Montpelier Argus says the entertainment
is one of the best given at that place this
season. A good-sized audience will I'M
doubleday enjoy the presentation to-mor-
row evening.
The wind whistled through the whiskers
of Wantastquet on Tuesday at the rate of
60 miles an hour, and at one time reached
velocity of so miles, according to Mr..
Childs's thermometer on the pinnacle. \
total movement of 600 miles was registered
during the night.
The travelling men are loud in their com
plants because the train from the north
which formerly connected at Bellows Falls
with the afternoon express to Boston over
| the Fitchburg road, does not reach Bel
lows Falls until half an hour after the
/ Fitchburg train has left.
The state convention of the Y. NJ. {. \.
/ opened at Rutland last evening. Brattle-
! teboro is represented at the meetings by
/ Col. Estey. General Secretary Fuller, L. G.
Crosby, j. f. Hall, $. W. Edgett. ID. y.
Bartlett and Charles Hawley. Mrs. c. +.
Westgate and Miss Emma Gregg will rep
resent the auxiliary.
"New advertising dodge?' one and an
other asked last Monday evening, as for
nearly two hours u telephone bell in front
ly. This was, however. only one of many
bells thus ringing, the cause of the agita-
ton being the contact of broken electric
light wire with the telephone wires. But
it drew the crowd.
The cuts which are appearing from time
to time in Morse ~ Simpsons advertise
ments in The Phoenix have attracted some
attention. and it may he of interest Ia
know that they are the work of Walter
Pettee, Brattleboro boy. son OF Mrs. 4. c.
Pettee, who is with the Enoch Morgan
Son 5 company. New York, manufacturers
of sapolO, and who designs many OF the
cuts which appear in their advertisements.
News has been received of the death at
Leadvile Colo, on the 9TH inst, of Charles
ii. Reid, a native of Halifax. who moved
to Madison Wis, in 1855, and ten years
later to Delaware county Iowa, which ha,
since been his home, and where the bura
took place last Saturday. He leaves a wild
ow and eight children His death wa,
caused by pleuro-pnelnnonia resulting from
an accident.
In the assignment of judges for the veal
beginning December !, the March term Of
the Windham county court is set To he held
by Judge Tyler, and the September tern
by Judge Munson. Judge Tyler's assign
ments are for the December term of tn,
Bennington county court, the March tern
in Windham, the June term in Orange
and the September term in Essex. Tn,
February term of the supreme court fol
Windham county will be held by Judge.
Ross, Tyler, Munson and Thompson.
Work has begun on Frost meadow t,
make an ice skating rink for the comm,
u-int a1s'e A N hur nj nj Ia laafu
thrown up to enclose a surface of about ~
acre and half, which il is proposed 4
gradually cover with solid ice, the waite
being brought in an Iron pipe from Tn
canal. A small house will be built for tn,
convenience of the patrons and a platform
for putting on and removing skates. Ed
ward Tyler is the protector of the enter
prise and +. II. Farr will have charge @
the rink.
The Boston Herald of last week Thurs
day stated that NOOdcock was TO play will
the Pittsburgs. while L. II. Murnane, tn
well-known authority on base ball subjects
, wrote to the Boston Globe from New York
that Woodcock was to play in the latte
, city. Brattleboro boys naturally inferre
that the latter statement was correct, bu
it has been definitely learned this weel
that WOodcock has entered into an agree
! ment with the Pittsburg management. IT
ceiving a large sum of advance money
The old Brattleboro team of 1889 will b
well represented next season, with Wood
cock, Burrell, Dowd and Collopy in som
of the strongest teams in the country.
: A long period of painful disability, bot
physical and mental, was ended last sun
a day night in the death at Henry Liscom'
D on Grove street of Charles ID. Perkins,
e brother of Mrs. Henry Burnham, by WHOM
1 he had been cared for for several years past
C Mr., Perkins was born i'm COlrain, Mass
and was the son of lgnatius Perkins. III
e went West in his early manhood and wa
5 for a long time the well-knoWn and success
A full clerk of the Clifton House in Chicago
5 He became an invalid some seven year
- ago and for four years had been entirel
blind. The funeral took place ON Tues
, day, his sisters, Mrs. Burnham and Mrs
Bradley, who are now the only remainin
! members of his fathers family, reachin
: here on Monday evening from New York
f The Western Union Telegraph compan
has submitted to the inevitable and vii
! open an office up town, the front end o
the vacant store, TO be occupied by the Re
, publicans as club room, having beef
| rented for that purpose by II. c. Sherman
agent of the company, who was in town
. few days ago. Fixtures will soon be pu
5 in and the Office will be opened within tw
= or three weeks. This will then be tn
70 main office of the company i'm BrattlebOr
= and will be in charge of Mr.. Bardwell