Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-17

ton will hold its sixth annual reunion
here on Saturday of next week. Members
of the Grand Army posts in Nindham and
Windsor counties, with the WOman's Re
lief corps and Sons of Veterans, are invited
to attend. A large attendance is expected.
The First Regiment band of Brattleboro,
and the American band of Claremont Y.
H.. will furnish music. There will be a
parade and a banquet, the latter at the Is
land House. In the evening there will be
a campfire at the opera house, with
speeches, and singing by Mr. Markham of
Brattleboro and the f. w. G. b. quartet.
The railroads will carry passengers for half
fare and a special train will run from Brat
tleboro, leaving there at , p. NJ, and re-
turning after the campfire The officers
of the association are: President, Geo. w.
Hooker, Brattleboro; vice president, Geo.
X. Russell. Bellows Falls; secretary and
treasurer, &. VI. Russell, Wilmington.
Henry and Emily Gosselyn are spending
their vacation with their father, DR.. Vim
cent GOsselyn on Green street They have
been for the last two or three years in at
tendance in a convent school in Montreal,
to which they will return in the fall.
George f. Cady is to occupy the north
store in the block formerly occupied by
A +. Winnewisser, for his wholesale and
retail confectionery trade. 1t has been
fitted up in the best shape and will make
him very good location.
The library will be re0pened for the dis
tribution of books Monday
1t is said that Ed Green. son of Mrs.
Hetty Green, now of Chicago, is making a
great success in his real estate business in
that city. He is developinga large amount
of tact in investing large sums of money.
Mrs. Green recently said to one of our cit
liens that she had just placed 500, 600 in
his hands for investment in real estate as
he should see fit. This would seem to in
dictate from her well-known sharpness in
such matters that Ed has considerable
ability in this direction.
A petition has been largely circulated in
the last few weeks asking that the hour
when the pOst-Ottice is open SUNDAYS NAV
be changed from noon to the hour from
$3.50 to 1920 a. NJ. Its said that this ar
rangement would probably accommodate
larger number of patrons than the present
arrangement. and would be much easier
for the clerks on duty, who have to be
there at that hour any way, thus saving
them one hours work on Sunday.
Nat Smith and Louis Wilson have been
spending a week or two in Great Barring
ton.
\ party of IS from this place attended
the press excursion as invited guests or as
members. The eXcursionists presented
Mr.. and Mrs. Swain with an elegant easy
chair as a testimonial of their regard and
of appreciation of the excellent lunch
served them while on their way to Boston
last Friday.
The Fall Mountain paper company have
built new log way and engine house in
their lumber yards at North Walpoe
Their logs will soon be at the Falls and
they are busy getting ready for them.
Leo Foggett, II, fell from tree Monday
and broke one wrist so that the bones pro
truded from the flesh. The fracture was
very serious one.
Henry F. King and family went to Sun
apee Saturday for few weeks stay, having
hired Wallace Whites cottage. Geo A.
Weston and family went Thursday of this
week, having rented cottage of Perley
Kinball. Hon. \. N. Swain and wife
have gone to their summer home there this
week; as have also the family of Mrs.
II. NJ Leonard, who have taken the Ben
nett cottage; Norman Brockway went
that the Bellows Falls settlement at that
delightful resort must be quite a society af-
fair by this time. Certainly reports
from there indicate all to be enjoying them
selves to the highest degree.
L. G. Howard, who has been making his
home for two years in North Reading.
Mass, came here Tuesday to spend a few
days.
Thomas Marston of Minneapolis, Mimi.
former well-knOwn railroad man in this
vicinity, and later hotel proprietor in
Charlestown and Walpole, is on business
trip through the East and was i'm town
Wednesday. He is connected with the
management of one or two iirst-class loan
and trust companies in the West, and indi-
Gates to his friends here that he is doing
much better than he could hope to do in
New England. As passenger conductor
and hotel proprietor few men have ever
been more generally esteemed in this vicin-
ity.
The families of Mrs Josiah Bowtell and
II. f. Bowtell have moved from the house
near the station, where they had lived for
80 years, to the house on Canal street. re-
Gently built by Geo. b. Wheeler, occupy
ing the second and third floors. The first
tloor is occupied by Charles Brown and
family.
Rev. Chas T, Ogden, formerly rector of
Emmanuel church, is now a canon in St.
Luke's cathedral, Portland, Me. The
Churchman of a recent date speaks of a
sermon preached by him before the Maine
diocesan convention as IAN able discourse
on the authority and strength of the
church"
Edgar Caruthers of the class of 81.
High school, will enter Norwich university
next fall.