Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28


tainment is promised in the presentation of
"The wedding march, to be given by the
Brattleboro dramatic club at the town hall
next Tuesday evening. The piece is a bit
of bright and wholesome fun, with anus
ing situations which give full play to the
dramatic abilities of the young people TAX
ing part in it. Tickets are now on sale at
Chaplin ~ Co.'s.
The representatives of the Gamewell
company are still at work putting i'm the
electric fire alarm system, and ii is expected
that the apparatus will be i'm working order
in a week or ten days. The locations and
numbers of the boxes are as follows: No
24 at the corner of Grove and Main streets;
%, North Main, at the junction of Terrace
26 asylum: u, corner of Chaplin and Oak.
1t will be seen that the numbers in the
twenties are at the north part of the vii
lage. The numbers in the thiTties, fOrtes
and fifties also represent section, and are
located as follows: 30, steamer house: "a,
Elliot street, near }. joys; 80, corner of
/ Elm and Frost; 80, Main, near bridge; ~,
corner of High and Oak: 43, Green, near
| S. 5. Hunts; As, Western avenue, near
Mr.. Cheney's: 46, Birge, corner Estey gas
house; 81, Esteyville, near schoolhouse:
80, cemetery hill, corner Washington and
/
"a, Canal, near Mr.. Conant's. Randall Il
Clapp have had slips printed, which can be
placed in a watch case on which the loca-
tions and numbers of the boxes are given.
Old "Phir' read The Phoenix extra care
fully through Wednesday morning. and
when he had finished the announcement
about Secretary Proctor's appointment as
senator he looked up to Porter with perfect
seriousness and said: as this Mr. Proctor
the Teller that's with Wells Frost?'
Mrs. Elizabeth Colley, whose death is
recorded this week at Boston, is well re-
membered by many of the middle-aged
residents of Brattleboro and Westminster.
She was the Oldest child of Mr.. Phineas
Goodrich by his first wife, Maria +. Caver-
ly. She was born in Boston, but removed
to SaXtons River and afterward to West
minister in her infancy. She was about L.
years old when the family came to Brattle-
boro, and here she grew up, being pupil
of the High school under Mr.. Bacon, and
afterwards attending school in Newton and
Boston. She left here about 1862, being for
a time matron of one of the public insttU
lions in the latter city. She was married
in 1870 to Mr.. Benjamin Colley, who has
recently removed to Buffalo to engage in
business. She leave, two sons. aged - anC
II years. She has the past summer paid q
visit to her father and friends in Westmin
ster and was then contemplating the surgi
cal operation which-she submitted to near
~ two weeks ago i'm Boston, and from
} which she had not strength to recover. BY
her request the burial was in the cemeter,
at Westminster by the side of the body o
her mother Her uncle, Mr.. Charles Cav
erly of the Universalist publishing house a
Il tAr
, ent at the services at Westminster
Mrs. Cook, the woman who was assault
/ ed at Kings Station, y. Y, by the negr,
Willard brothers, and whose husband die,
of heart disease while in pursuit of the of
l tenders, has become insane. 1t woul,
seem that the Wizards have now committee
an offence which will keep them playin;
{ checkers with their noses at the CRATES 70
t a long term of years.
l The Estey Guard arrived home iron
= Bennington about $ o'clock last Frida,
| night, after pleasant trip over the noun
[ tain. The start was made at : o'clock il
o the morning and dinner was taken at vii
: mington, although it had to be prepare,
on short notice, the prOprietors of tn
[ hotel not knowing that the company wa
t. coming until some of the officers arrive
: three-quarters of an hour before the troops
+ 1t rained heavily while the company wer
> passing through Marlboro. Fuller an,
o Cushing Batteries broke camp at Benning
n ton at $50 Friday morning and pushe
V through to Wilmington that night encamp
L ing on the fair grounds. Next mornin
farewells were exchanged and the two bal
/ teries parted, Fuller Battery arriving i
: Brattleboro little before noon. Cush
4 ing Battery made the trip back to NewpoI
!. by way of Jacksonville, Halifax, ColerainC
- Shelburne and Greenfield, on to Worce,
ter, from whence the route followed on tn
J, way to BrattlebOro was retraced.