Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04

The stock having all been worked up the
Ross White paper mill was closed Oh Tues
day. thus throwing from 10 20 - hands
out of employment
The Brattleboro Epworth league was rep
resented by II delegates at the district con
vention held at Bellows Falls on Wednes-
day. Rev. Mr.. Webb and General Secre-
tary Fuller took part in the exercises.
Patrick Spillane. who was injured re-
Gently at Springfield 10y being thrown from
a wagon. as related in our "Nicinty Clean
ings." died on Sunday He was a Grand
Army man and well known in Bratteboro.
The bailiffs have recently voted to have
the street gas lamps lights lighted p nights
each month. instead Of by the moon sched-
ule. as heretofore. This amounts to an
additional lighting Of about 10 per cent.
The United Order Of Pilgrim Fathers
will have their annual festival and enter
tanment at Grand Army hall Tuesday
evening. the Sth. It's hoped that all MEM
beers and their families will be present.
Miss Fitts's kindergarten at the corner OF
Oak and Chaplin streets will begin the
coming quarter Dec. II. 1t is desirable
that all those who are to Join the class be
present at the beginning in order TO lose
no time on the Christmas work which they
are to do
The Baptist ladies have their annual
Christmas sale and turkey supper next
Thursday evening. There will be the usu-
al display of fancy articles and after the
supper a very attractive program will be
rendered Every one is invited. For par
ticulars read the announcements.
Brattleboro had fire Wednesday morn
ing which ought to be written up and illus
trated for one of the comic papers. Mrs.
Bullock is a thrifty housewife who lives in
an upstairs tenement in a house on Organ
street. On Wednesday morning she put a
piece of meat to boil in a pot over the fire
while she went to Guilford for a visit
While the pot boiled the water turned into
steam and vanished into thin air Present
ly there wasn't any water left in the pot
but the fire kept on burning just the same.
and the meat began TO burn and filled the
kitchen with smoke. When the room
could not hold any more smoke the smoke
began TO find its way outdoor. Somebody
saw it and little girl ran to the Estey Or
gan company> office and gave an alarm
Mr. Hine, made a splinter time up the
back way and over the fence. forced in the
kitchen door. and revealed the cause OF all
the trouble. In the meantime there was
wild excitement in the Estey office. and
about the time that the source of the al
legged fire had been discovered the alarm
was pulled. and presto, the new $500 fire
alarm was i'm operaton-all but the whistle
and that took the bits i'm its teeth and blew
a continuous alarm OF its own until some
body succeeded in shutting its wind Off.
Ever since then everybody has ieered the
new fire alarm, and We have even heard OF
one or two men who have said cuss words
about il. Without going into the merits
or dement's of tho system. or discussing at
this late day whether or not Brattleboro
needed a patent fire alarm system. it is a
fact that. except for the whistle, the alarm
worked perfectly. The bell struck its four
rounds of Is, the gong in the engine house
and the tappers at the engineers homes
did the same. and the Indicator in the en-
CINE houses also did just what it was ad-
vertsed 10 do 1t would now seem. under
the circumstances. 10 be the proper thing
10 have the whistle-blowing attachment so
arranged as to work entirely independents
ly Of the valve which calls the men TO their
work and announces the noon and night
hours.