Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-09-23

1t is stated that IL marriages are to take
place in Brattleboro during the next two
months.
The Relief corps held social and supper
yesterday afternoon, after which their reg
ular meeting followed.
The five boys who were so badly burned
in the powder explosion are making favor
able progress toward recovery.
Harmon d Farr will have charge Of the
victualing department at the Valley fair,
furnishing meals at the usual price.
The engineers on the New London road
had clam bake on the lower island Sun
day, with the Valley engineers as guests.
Starkey II Welman announce guessing
contest on the presidential election, par
ticulars of which are given in their adver-
tisement.
A column or more of Brattleboro local,
including report of the Old Ladies
Home meeting on Monday evening, is
printed on the seventh page of this paper.
There was marriage at the Brooks
House Tuesday. A. T. Chaplin of Spring
field, Mass, was the groom, and several
guests from that city were present.
The Standard Theatre company has been
playing each night of this week at the
town hall. The "Old Homestead was
not presented, an injunction being served
on the company.
The Estey Organ company are erecting
building. 20 by 30 feet, to be used each year
for their exhibit at the Valley fair. A
smaller building is being put up for c. II.
Eddy Il company and Leonard IL Roess.
The fall change of trains on the rail
roads will go into effect Oct. Sd. 1t is I'M
derstood that there is good prospect of
having the afternoon train leave Springfield
at 3 o'clock, as asked in the petition.
DR.. Henry F. Walker of New York,
brother of Rev DIR. Geo. Leon Walker, has
decided $4,000 worth of water works
stock, the interest of which will accrue for
the benefit of the Mcclure library at Pitts
ford.
The prudential committee of district No
2 invite the committees of the other dis
tricts in town to meet them Monday even
ing at the town hall at 1880 to arrange for
the uniting of all the schools in the Column
bus day celebration.
The First Regiment band closed its
series Of concerts Wednesday evening with
a splendid performance. The band has
been unstinted in its work of arranging
and giving these concerts, which have
been a source of pleasure to hundreds
of people.
Tickets for the Y. NJ. G. A. entertain
ment course will go on sale at the rooms
Oct 8, and the choice of seats will be given
Oct Il, at 1870. Single seats for the
Remenyi concert will go on sale Oct. 2l.
A booklet describing the course will be
issued Oct. l.
The Brooks House proprietors elsewhere
advertise for 100 rooms in private houses
for the use of guests of the house during
the Valley fair. The work Of accommo-
dating all who come is undertaken by the
house, not as money-making scheme but
as a matter of public spirit for the public
good, and all who can should respond
promptly to the call.
The Phoenix has by its doorway some
handsome stalks of Tuscarora (Southern)
corn IL feet high, with well-filled ears
growing over nine feet from the ground.
They were grown by f. II. Wheeler in his
! Spring street garden, but he does not rec
ommend the corn for regular crop, as it
requires the use of a ladder for its proper
cultivation and harvesting.
The romantic tale from Beckett" pub.
| lished in the Massachusetts notes in The
| Phoenix last week, has been shorn of its
romance. Mueller who was to build a
| large factory with his German fortune be
| cause of his gratitude TO the town, has dis
| appeared, with funds which he obtained
on the strength of the fortune left by hi,
/ uncle 1t is suggested that Mueller is the
same man who worked the faintng tit
rachel on the streets of Brattleboro two OF
| three years ago.
Alfred jefferson of Toledo, Ohio, has
! been engaged as the instructor in the
/ Y. NJ. c. \. gymnasium. He will come
! here oct - and begin work Nov /. Hi,
engagement will probably be for five
months Mr.. jefferson comes highly rec
commended He has of late had charge OF
the Auburndae branch of the Y. NJ. c. A
at Toledo, and was considered for instruc
tor in the regular city association gymna
stun, but the present instructor there de
cided to remain.
! Many people in Guilford, Vernon anG
Brattlebero will regret to learn of the
death of Rensselaer, Wright. Mr.. Wright
was for many years prosperous farmer in
| Vernon, occupying the farm near the Gull
ford line now owned by p. Brosnahan.
Later he was proprietor of the Guilford
hotel. He vent West - years ago, and
has of late been living near Idaho Falls
Idaho. On the 9Th of August he wa;
thrown from his horse. and instantly killed
Search was continued week before the
body was found. Mr.. Wrights wife died
about two years ago. He leaves a daugh'
ter and son who live at Idaho Falls, and
has relatives in Guilford-members of the
Tyler family.
Oh no! My dear man, this isn't some
other place, it is Brattleboro, and Brattle
| boro Main street at that. 1t is true thai
the street was never so handsome, Of
Showed for as much as it does now, but
! it is all because, in making ready for the
macadam tOp-dressing, the selectmen have
pulled up and pulled down all the hitch,
ing posts, unsightly sign posts, and the
wooden shelter in front of the Willistor
| building, so as 10 give an absolutely cleal
roadway from curb to curb. The street
! looks twice as broad, viewed from either
/ end, and the buildings about twice as high
as ever before. Let us hope that none OF
| the old eye-sores will ever see daylight
again. The selectmen will supply safe anC
convenient hitching posts by setting into
/ the curbing on either side neat gas-pip,
| bitches, two feet high The broken stone
and the steam-roller are apparently doing
frst-class job in Main street, so far.
The ballad lecture given on Tuesday
| evening at the Congregational chapel by
Mr.. Frederick w. Bancroft, was a delight,
| full entertainment, and was much enjoyed
| by fair-sized audience. The lecture is a
history of the English ballad, going back tC
the earliest known specimen in 1850, and
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