Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-20

f. Wales gives another social dance at
Harmony hall this evening
c. p. ellison is to sell 30 horses at auction
at Buckmnster's stables at Keenc next
Thursday.
The stove stores are hereafter to follow
the custom of the other stores and close
three evenings of each week
Durham Brothers announce that they
are selling Boston, Woonsocket, Wales,
Goodyear and American rubbers at their
cut prices.
The High school alumni association vot-
ed at its meeting last September to hold a
reunion this year in June. No arrange
ments have been made, but the officers will
hold a meeting within few days.
The Londonderry SITTER announces that
the jurisdiction of j. w. Shanks, road
master of the New London division of the
Central Vermont railroad, was extended
May ?. so as to include the BratteburO a
Whitehall branch.
J. f. Coleman has rented the room in
the Deyens building now occupied by the
Western Union Telegraph company for a
term of five years, beginning next No
vember, when the present lease expires. Ii
is Mr.. COlemans intention to fit mp the
most attractive barber shop in the state.
Fifty Brattleboro Odd Fellows went to
Bellows Falls last night at G:25, returning
late in the evening on a special train. The
second degree was worked and afterward a
supper was served. Delegations were
present from the lodges at Keene, Proc
torsville, Ludlow, Chester. Springfield and
SaXtons River.
j. II. Chamberlain sold % horses at the
auction sale on Tuesday. The prices
ranged from ~l20 to $40 Mr.. Chamber
lain's best horse was bought AT private sale
by Mr. Ellis of New Britain. Conn, who
is visiting at Frank Emerson's. Mr.
Chamberlain goes to New Britain today
to hold a sale there on Monday.
Dr. Leslie T. Page of Lincoln, Maine,
has been engaged as second assistant ply
stefan at the asylum. and has entered upon
his duties. DR.. Page is a graduate OF the
medical department of the University Of
Vermont in the class OF 81, and has since
been in general practice at Lincoln. He
brings excellent recommendations.
Brattleboro will send good-sized dele
CATION to Springfield, Mass, next Wednes-
day to witness the New England intercolle-
giate games. Athletes from Amherst
Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Trinity,
Wesleyan and the University of Vermont
will compete in the different events
Among those who are entered from Dart
mouth are E. X. Hall and j. L. Merrill.
VIM. ). Newton. c. L. Dickinson, \. G..
Barnes, Samuel Wells, F. NJ. Waite, Chief
of Police Mcclure, c. b. Perkins, G. b.
Kirwan and Walter Council have been
called to Windsor this week to appear be-
fore the grand jury of the United States
court in a local case which involves the
selling of liquor without a United States
license. No Indictment was found.
Orders have been issued for the annual
company drill and inspection of the nation
al guard of Vermont Quartermaster
General W. II. Gilmore will be assisted in
inspecting the companies by Col. J. J. Es-
tey, the commander of the regiment, and
First Lieut.. B. W. Atkinson OF the rcgu-
lar army. The date of the inspection of
the Estey Guard and Fuller Battery is
June II.
a representative from the Greenfield
branch of the Rising sun endowment or
der, who attended the insolvency meeting
in Boston last week, reports that the claims
We're neither accepted nor thrown out.
The assignee will sue the more responsible
members to recover the so on each certif-
icate received by them. If he succeeds in
his case the other claims will be thrown
out: if he does not the members will re-
ceive a per cent of what is left.
The Central Vermont railroad company
have just issued for gratuitous distribution
a pamphlet of 122 pages. handsomely
printed and attractvely bound, entitled
summer Homes among the Green Hills
of Vermont, and along the Shores of Lake
Champaign The book is profusely illus
trated, and the attractions of the state
for summer visitors are effectively set
forth. Lists of hotels and private houses
where board can be secured are Civ
en-, with their location and distance from
the railroad company's stations Copies
of the book may be obtained at the office
of the general passenger agent at st. Al
bans or at the New y ork or Boston Offices
of the company.
Three comets are now to be seen in the
heavens, and one of them is visible to the
naked eye. To get a sight at it, however
one must be an early riser, getting up at
o clock or $3.50, before the first streak of
dawn. 1t comes up just before sunrise,
and its location is near the uppermost star
of the constellation Pegasus. The won
derful thing about this comet is its tail
structure, the telescope showing that it has
eight tails, which breaks the record. being
two more than the appendages possessed
by the siX-tailed comet of 1874. This
strange visitor is now gradually fading
away, and is believed to have been nearest
to the sun more than a month ago.
The last of the three entertainments I'M
der the direction of Prof H. Newcomb, at
the town hall tomorrow evening, promises
to be the best of the SERIES and deserving
of a large house. The leading roles in the
"School for Scandal scenes are to be TAX
EN- by Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Smith. Edward
Durand, dramatic reader (Blish SCHOOL,.
will give two selections from Midsummer
Nights Dream Miss Hale, cOntralto, is
a singer new to BrattleborO audiences, but
she has received strong endorsement where
ever she has appeared. Mrs. Frank Lock
wood of Bellows Falls, Miss Thomas and
Mr.. Martin are among the other singers
who will be heard. Sewall Morse and
Clinton Dugan, violinists, have been care
fully training for their respective parts.
The scheme spoken of last week to eX-
pedite the delivery of the II :07 A. NJ mail
from the south was successfully started
Wednesday, when Julius Leach one of the
mailing clerks, went to Greenfield by the
9:25 train, where he met the 9:15 train
from Springfield and worked the mail
back. The carriers were in readiness and
got out on their routes in thirteen minutes
after the arrival of the train, nearly half
an hour earlier than by the old arrange
ment of asserting after arrival, change
which the business firms noticed and APP
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