Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18

last evening at Rev. Mr.. Morse's.
The Carpenter Organ company are now
rushed with orders, and night work is car
ried ON in the mill and action rooms.
The Methodist parsonage is being inn
proved by the addition of an i on the east
side
The grounds of George Z. Crowell were
lighted Saturday night by electricity for the
first time.
The choir of st. Michael's church 90 to
Bellows Falls Tuesday to sing the wedding
mass at the marriage of J. j. Fenton.
A party of nine took trip to the pima
Gle Wednesday, enjoying corn roast there
and returning by moonlight.
"Prof Brainard, VI. D., is heard from
again this week i'm our Williamsville cor
respOndence.
The annual meeting of the Fort Dunn
mer rifle club will be held at the range in
Vernon, Sept. 2G.
A. b. Hall has sold his chestnut trotting
mare to a man in the north part of the
state.
There is collection of coins worthy of
inspection i'm the window of W. l.. Boyn-
tons cigar store. The collection is owned
by VIII Stolte.
Frost street people are indignant over the
wholesale poisoning of cats which some
one is INDUCING in, many pets having died
from poison the past week.
"Oney," the celebrated travelling dog,
was in town Wednesday. He arrived on
the 1880 train and after looking over the
town left on the o'clock train
Monday afternoon, as Mrs Z. c. Stearns
hn 81 al at
she slipped and fell, sustaining a bad dislo-
cation of her shoulder and cutting her
face about the eye and temple
Rockwell d Sherwin are building an
addition to their shop on Elm street. Work
has begun this week on the Brattleboro
livery cOmpany's new building on the lot
on the south side of Flat street.
The stringng of the copper wire for the
metallic long distance telephone line be-
tween Bratteboro and Bellows Falls began
this morning. and when finished will COM
plete the system from Greenfield to Bel
lows Falls.
The High schools and Putneys played an
interesting game of ball on Wednesday, re-
sulting in a victory for the school BOYS,
to l. Lamb and Mooney were the pitch
ers. Short Stop Dunlevy made brilliant
plays.
The bankers proved too much for the
hackmen in Tuesdays ball game, winning
by score of 10 to II. Richardson and
iennessy were the pitchers. Thompson
batted heavily.
Last Sunday morning as II. q. Coolidge
was driving down South Main street with
pair of horses, something about the har-
ness broke, letting the carriage and its load
on to the horses. Stephen Ellis came to the
rescue and what might have been a serious
accident was averted.
A party of six village officers from
Brewsters, y. Y, under the lead of Mr..
Frank Wells, a former cashier of the Yer
mont national bank, are in town today to
look over the Western and Northern aque-
duct systems, with a view to the introduce
tion of a similar method of individual wa
ter supply at Brewsters.
Friends who have recently called on John
Ray at the Somerville ASYLUM found him in
a very depressed and melancholy state. He
refuses to talk about Brattleboro people.
and will not read BrattleborO newspaper,
for the reason. doubtless, that it reminds
him of his unfortunate condition. The ply
sicians express little hope of his improve
ment.
The g. c. heard somebody say Paris"
last week and forthwith announced that
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Durham were going
abroad on their wedding journey. 1t did
not dawn upon the astute editor that Mr..
and Mrs. Durham were going to the
groom's old home in Maine,-or as friend
suggests, she did not catch on to the
Main(e) part of the joke
No piece of work done at The Phoenix
job printing Office has been more praised
and appreciated than the large valley fair
posters. A Boston visitor to the Brooks
House the other day, who has been the
rounds of the leading New England fairs
this season, pronounced this the cleanest
and handsomest fair poster he had seen.
The next meeting of Wndham county
Pomona grange will be held with West
River grange, TOwnshend, next Thursday.
The afternoon papers will be by f. b. Pier
of Jacksonville on ''Improved methods of
business for the farmer" and J. c. Newton
of BrattlebOro on ''HOw can we keep the
young men of Vermont on the farms?'
While at Poland Springs, Me-, recently,
Col. F. GOodhue met a descendant of the
Butterteld family, one of the earliest
settlers in BrattleborO, who said he had in
his possession the first ballot-box ever used
in this town. He promised to send it to
| Col. GOodhue to be placed in the library
building.
Post-otiice Inspector Willis has been in
town this week and received the bid of the
town for another lease of the town hall
quarters. This lease provides for changes
which will give more room for the office,
and which will be made if the lease is ac-
cepted. The present lease expires Oct. /,
but it is not certain when the new PROPOSE
ton will be considered. The inspector
looked at other quarters about town.
A row in which two drunken strangers
and sober companion, who came here
from the north, were the participants at
tracted considerable attention on the rail
road track Tuesday afternoon. One of the
men fell headlong down the bank near the
railroad bridge, and landed on a pile of
boards, where he went to sleep and remain
ed for an hour. Later he came up the bank
and INDUCED in fight with his Younger
companion who had not sobered off The
latter then attacked two men at work near
the narrow gauge engine house. but was
thrown to the ground and sat upon until he
promised to be quiet.
The announcement on Saturday that
Amidon Brothers, the grocers, had made
an assignment, was a general surprise, as
they began business only last spring. The
firms Indebtedness is S1735, aside from a
mortgage of $1,000 which Mrs. Della A.
Wilder holds on the stock and fixtures.
The amount due them on book accounts is
Sl3l5, but part of this is considered diff