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


at Wells hall on Tuesday evening. with
supper at u o'clock
\ delegation from Putney assisted the
odd Fellows here Monday night. when they
initiated several members.
The annual meeting Of the Main street
book club was held Tuesday evening with
Mrs. o. j. Pratt. The annual sale Of
books took place and Mrs Pratt was
chosen president OF the club Miss A. NJ
Hall secretary: and Mrs. Pratt. Miss Hall
and Mrs. Geo. +. Selleck book committee
Clapp a Jones have received the annual
volume Of ChattcrboX. filled with big pic
lures. stories. verses. and everything i'm the
way Of reading 10 delight the young. APP
propriatc 10 this season the frOntispiece is
a full-pagc Illuminated picture Of a lively
scrimmage al football.
\ varied program developed at the social
held by the congregational society last
Tuesday evening. and the occasion proved
one Of unusual enjoyment. After the
supper Mr.. Lurien Howe gave delightful
program Vi organ music and then Nr. Day
read a paper describing things seen and
done by him i'm the Adirondacks last
summer.
\ shanty in Esteyyile in which the
boys were wont 10 cOngregate to play
games etc. took fire from the stove which
heated it one day last week while the boys
were away and a dog confined there was
burned 10 death
Mr.. Perry has recently put the mountain
road in condition for winter by building
water-bars at various places to prevent the
spring rains and melting SHOWS from wash
ing out the steep grades. People who
climbed Wantastiquet last Monday after
noon were rewarded with the beautiful
sight presented by the unbroken eXpanse
of snow which extended from Haystack
around through the north to Ascutney.
while the other half of the circle TO the
south wore the familiar tint OF November
purple.
Some 200 or 800 people showed their
goodwill for Florist McGillivay and his
bride on Tuesday evening by calling at the
attractive cottage which stands at the
entrance to the Bradley grounds. The
Canton Palestine. OF which Mr.. Gillivrav
is a member. marched up in a body and
presented him with beautiful easy chair.
The cucampurul gave him a handsome
combination bookcase and writing-dc>k.
and the Bebckoh lodge also presented an
easy chair There were many other gifts
from Brattleboro people. and an exceed
ingly pretty display Of gifts 10 the bride
from her friends iu Canada. Refreshments
were served. and everybody found The
evening a pleasant one.
Dr. W. r. Patch left on Tuesday for his
new field Of labor in Ftchburg, Mass.
where he will enter upon the general prac-
tice OF medicine under favorable auspices.
Dr. Patch has been connected with the
Vermont asylum for two and a half years.
the last year a first assistant physician.
Added to a liberal preliminary preparation
and his graduation at the Dartmouth med
zeal school, he has since attended a course
of postgraduate study in New York city.
His experience at the asylum has given
him familiarity with nervous and mental
disease, and he therefore enters upon gen
eral practice with wider qualifications than
most young physicians. He carries with
him to Fitchburg the good wishes of his
asylum associates and Of many other Brat
tleboro friends.
The road in front of the Miner building.
covered with four inches Of mud. was the
stage whereon thrilling pantomime was
enacted last Saturday afternoon. \ farm
er was carrying live poultry from his bug
gy into the Barnes market. In the buggy
sat small boy. Without warning a horse
attached to an old express wagon appeared
on the sidewalk. coming from between the
Miner building and the building occupied
by Mr.. kirWan. This horse "gOt gait on
quickly. and the wheels of the express
wagon crashed into the buggy, tipping it
over. The small boy flew into space 1t
seemed that he must be seriously injured,
but he landed gently in the mud and was
unhurt. The express wagon came apart
two rods beyond and the horse was caught.
The big box of eggs which was thrown
from the buggy into the mud and the live
poultry which appeared from under the
seat were among the minor realistic feat
ures.
The local members of the Order Of the
Rising sun receive very cold comfort from
the information which they can obtain in
regard to the prospects Of recovering their
money. Hope is dead i'm the breasts of
the Northampton members. and paper
published at that place has this to say
about the order: "Dr. Smith was bonded
only for 5000, and this lit is claimed is
good. They also think there is $1,000 in a
Lowell bank, making $1,000 to pay S7j,-
600 of claims. The $4,000 that was turn
ed over TO the Fraternal Circle was divided
among II of the officers. But of these H.
10 only pay poll tax. The other one has
500 that can be attached. The Suns at
tOrney, Lawyer Cobe, says that if all legal
proceedings will be Withdrawn against
Flagg, Smith and Mckenzie, ne will agree
that the 81. 600 taken will be restored, and
the three officers will try and obtain that
so 900. The detective employed TO find
the missing men was of no use, as he only
watched Smiths house. The order has
gone into insolvency, and the cost for doing
so had to come out of the members pOck-
cts, as the supreme officers that are left
claimed they did not have any money. 1t
is also claimed that Smith carried most of
the money on his person, and that Carson
Of the Greenfield lodge had the $4,000 in
his pocket when he and our local secretary
were looking for them
The enlargement of the post-oftice quar-
tiers, and their general renovation and i'm
provement, are now practically completed.
With the arrival of new letter-case for
outgoing mail, which is being made to Or
der at Milford, y. H., the Improvements
will be entirely completed. BY including
within the wOrk-roOm the old corridor
! leading to the side entrance on the north,
and bringing out the front of the office on
a line with the main corridor, work-room
| is now given 81 by % feet. Additional
| space is also secured for the money order
and stamp department. tits entirely with
| in bounds to say that with this enlarge
ment the Bratteboro post-office now has
/ the largest wOrk-room and the most com
/ plete equipment for the expeditions hand
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