Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-02
BRATTLEBORO.

The receipts of the Episcopal fair on
Thursday evening of last week were about
$500.
Two Brattleboro young men who were
drunk and disorderly at Winchester. y. H..
recently, were taken in charge by Sheriff
RiXford, and paid fines of 81 and costs.
amounting to 1888 each.
Miss Wyman having resigned as con-
ductor the chorus choir at the Centre
church will be discontinued and the
Georgemaln quartet-Miss Cook. Miss
Veet, Miss Gregg and Mrs. Hubbard-have
been engaged.
The necessity of using the fire alarm
system was narrowly averted on Monday.
Sparks from one of the locomotives set fire
to the roof of the narrow gauge engine
house and place few feet in size had
been burned when Mr.. Dunlevy, from his
tailor room in Hooker block, saw the
flames and notified the men at work near
by. The fire was eXtinguished with few
pals of water
The Worcester papers gives descriptions
of the large and handsome new grocery and
provision store which A. f. Whittemore
has opened in that city, occupying the
whole of the first floor of the new Hotel
wide by 100 feet deep, with all modern
conveniences for carrying on a large meat
and grocery business. 1t is the grocery de
partment of this store of which l. L. Stick
ney, recently of BrattebOro of the firm of
Stickney Bros, has charge.
1t is stated that the Berlin Bridge COM
pany of East Berlin, Conn, the builders
of the Brattleboro and Chesterfield suspen-
cin nj flN- Oh ~
of iron building material for bridges to
Brazil the trade in that country having
been opened up through the reciprocity
treaty. Such material had formerly been
bought in England, but the Brazilians are
now able to obtain better goods at the same
rate in the United States.
Revenge was sweet to the Bankers last
Saturday and they downed the Miller
Brothers aggregation IA TO 1. Hennessey's
effective work in the box had much to do
with the result and he was well supported
by McNeigh, who threw several men out at
second, and also batted strongly. Austin
Miller and Louis Ellis as pitchers and Bert
Ware as catcher, did the battery work for
the Miller Brothers. A third and decisive
game will be played soon.
Many people undoubtedly noticed the
low pitch of the water in the Connecticut
river last Sunday morning The water has
been for some time at the lowest point at
this season for a number of years, but last
Sundays perceptible fall was due TO the
shutting down of the mills at Bellows
Falls. 1t is stated that at that time the
stream between Walpole and Westminster
was very narrow, and so shallow that a
man could wade through it with an ordin-
AIRY pair of boots, without wetting his feet.
The result of the alumni ballot for trus-
tees of Dartmouth college was declared at
Hanover, n. H., last Saturday. DIR. Carl
ton p. Frost, '52, of Hanover, James b.
Richardson, 81, of Boston, and Charles
w. Spaulding, SO, of Chicago were elected.
DR.. Frost is dean of Dartmouth medical
college and professor of science and prac-
tice of medicine. He was born in 1880
and graduated from Dartmouth in 1852,
and from the medical college in 1855. He
was a surgeon in the 18th Vermont volun-
teers and practiced medicine at Brattleboro
from 1865 TO 1871, leaving here to become
a professor in the Dartmouth medical col
lege.