Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-10

The annual excursion of the State Press
association this summer takes in Boston.
Plymouth and Nantasket beach. The as
ISOLATION and guests left this morning. and
a banquet and musicale occurs this evening
at the American House, Boston, where the
party are to be quartered. Col. Albert
Clarke. secretary of the Home Market
club, will be the POSTMASTER. The invited
guests on this occasion include Hon. Red
field Proctor, secretary of war: Governor
Carroll ). Page and the state officers of
Vermont, Hon. \. W. Beard, collector of
the port of Boston, Chief Justice Wal
bridge \. Field and Judge +. b. Sherman
of the superior court, State Treasurer
George 4. Marden, Speaker w. f. Barrett,
members of the Boston daily press and
other Massachusetts, notables. Saturday
will be spent at Plymouth and Sunday at
Nantasket
The Vermont Church Choir guild will
hold its 18th annual festival of parish
choirs at Trinity church, Rutland, on Oc-
tober u and %. :. b. Whitney of Boston
will be the conductor.
Ethan l.. Allen of Pittsfeld was injured
by the premature explosion of a cannon
Saturday, his left arm being so badly brok-
en- near the shoulder as to make amputa-
ton necessary.
The second annual convention of the
Vermont State Firemen's association met
in Rutland Friday with an attendance of
50 delegates from the state. The Vermont
Legislature having granted the association
| a corporate charter, the charter was ac-
cepted and the association organized under
/ its provisions, Frank +. Allen of Fair
/ haven being made president. The parade
of the attendant companies, and the con-
| tests and hose races occurred on Saturday,
/ the Aliens of Burlington securing the prize
offered by the Rochester clothing company
, for the company making the best appear
ance on parade Thirty-siX hose and en-
! CINE companies appeared in line.
Saloon-keepers at Montpelier were dis
appointed i'm their expectations of a big
business on the Fourth, nearly every place
being raided Friday evening and about
/ $500 worth of liquor being seized. over
| 10 barrels of beer were taken from the
Montpelier ~ Wells River depot. A freight
car was entered and large quantity of
liquor seized. The railroad will sue the
town for damages, officers having broken
the seal of the car
The Vermont delegation of Grand Army
men going to the national encampment at
Detroit the first week in August will leave
Rutland Aug. l, at 4:05 p. NJ, on the fast
express train to Montreal, and thence west
by the Grand Trunk road.
The free delivery system for Ludlow
went into effect July l.
Mrs Isabel Fairbanks Farwell youngest
daughter of the late GOV. Fairbanks, died
suddenly last week Thursday at st. Johns.
bury of heart failure, at the age of -.
John Maynan was run over by freigh
train early last week Thursday morning al
St Johnsbury while walking on the track
and died soon after
The bar docket of the September tern
of Washington county court, recently is
sued, contains 19l cases beside "a chan
Gerry cases; "a are divorce cases.
During sham battle at Morrisville, Sat
urday night, on the occasion of the annua
reunion of the Lamoile Valley veterans
association, John AmidOn of Eden hat
one arm taken off, lost one finger from hi
other hand, and his eyes and face were bad
~ burned by the premature discharge o
a cannon. Amidon was severely injured
several years ago by the premature dis
charge of the same cannon on the sam
grounds.
The trustees of the university of Yer
mont are laying out $4,000 on the build
ings of the new experiment farm lately an
neXed to the college. The mammoth barr
is 105X4S feet, with 22 posts, and will haY
a capacity for 100 tons of hay. There
also i'm process of construction one of tn
largest silOs i'm the state, with a capacity o
270 tons. There will be a creamery build
ing fitted up with special reference to
dairy school, which will be held in the fall
The old experiment farm in South Burling
ton is to be sold, and will make valuabl
property ON account of the many improve
ments and the immense amount of fertil
izers laid out upon it during the four year
of its occupancy by the state.