Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-11-11

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closed for a few days later in the month
for renovation and repairs.
The fourth annual meeting of the r. O.
n. club was held on Tuesday evening with
Mrs. Phu'be Lindsey on Harris place
Representative Martins bill to prevent
obscene advertisements and shows has
passed both branches of the legislature.
O. /. Miner has shipped from 5000 to
5000 barrels of winter apples this season,
most of them going to Western states.
The practical talks at the Good win
club will begin next Wednesday evening.
when Miss Helen NJ. Fletcher will speak
on "The dignity Of work.
columbian Fair will be the name of
the fair to be held by the Universalist
ladies the last of January The hall will
he decorated appropriately
The Y. NJ. c. A. basket ball team have
the armory for practice one evening each
week. They expect to 90 soon to Burlng-
ton to play the association team at that
place.
Mr.. Bass has traded W. II. Minors
promising trotter, Col. Mansur, with a
Boston dealer Mr.. Minor receives a
handsome sum in cash and a -year-old
gelding by King Wilkes.
The North street school is making a
commendable success of its publication,
the School Dial, the first number of the
third volume of which is being printed at
The Phoenix job Office this week.
The Brattleboro teachers met at Princi-
pal Horne's Wednesday evening. 4 paper
upon school discipline was read by Miss
Elmer and one upon classic literature by
Miss King. Later a social session was EN-
joyed. These meetings have been held the
second Wednesday of each month. but the
time hereafter will be on the first Monday.
Misses Fletcher, Gregg, Adams and Lis
com, who attended the recent state con-
yenton of the Christian Endeavor union
at bennington, gave carefully prepared
report of the proceedings there al the
meeting of the society of the Centre church
Sunday evening.
The venerable DR.. Walter Carpenter of
Burlington, whose death is elsewhere re-
corded was regarded as the best physician
in Vermont bv the BrattlebOro doctors He
was born AT Walpole, attended the academy
at Chesterfield, and studied at one time in
the office of DR.. Amos Twitchell OF Keene.
Next Thursday evening occurs the sec
ond entertainment in the Y NJ. G. a.
course To Brattleboro audiences Mr.. A.
=. burbank, reciter, actor and diaectician,
needs no commentator, the impression
left by his several appearances here still
lingering as delightful memories with those
who then heard him. He holds an unques-
TONED prominence in his profession and
will doubtless be greeted by full house.
W. H. Childs advises the local Demo
Gratis to have their iubilation in the form
. &c trffI }, IL,
ator. The young governor agreed SEINE
time ago to come to BrattlebOro, but of
course he couldn't leave while the cam
paign was in progress. His record Monday,
when he made % speeches in - hours,
showed that he was needed in the Bay
state.
The boys Of the High school have form
ed drum corps which is TO be a perma-
nent organization. The snare drummers
are Fred Childs, Perley Holmes, Ernest
Waterman, John O'Connor, Jack Stewart,
Harry Currier and Fred Gibson, with Louis
Pettee as bass drummer and Myron Davis
as drum major. The boys made their first
appearance Tuesday evening, when they
marched through the principal streets.
w. j. Merrill, who has been employed
by Minor n Co., tearing down the old mill
ness recently to Alfred Holden. In few
days an officer came and took the property
on mortgage. Merrill was arrested We'd
nesday on complaint of the town grand
juror and hearing was held before Jus
tice Newton. He was fined $50 and
costs, in default of which he will be taken
to the house of correction today. c. c.
Fits appeared for the prosecution, Mer
rill being without counsel
The new return postal cards have beer
put on sale at the pOst-ottice this week.
The new card is formed into two parts
folding on perforated line. One part is
marked Message card and the othel
"Reply card Down in the left-hand cor
ner of the message card are the words
"Detach annex cara for answer The
sender writes his message on the message
card and there being no writing on tn,
reply card, the receiver of the messag,
card merely tears the cards apart wher,
they are perforated and thus has read,
at hand postal card for reply.
The local election passed off quietly il
Brattleboro, an almost Sabbath stillnes
pervading the town The vote did no
differ materially from that at the recen
state election, as will be seen by the tabl
published elsewhere, which gives the vot,
in full for BrattlebOro and the other Wind
ham county towns as well as the vote a
, the state election and at the presidential
election in 1888. Early in the evening
: large crowd assembled al the town hall I,
watch for the returns The figures wer
received with some show of enthusiasm
- but nothing like the spirit of four an,
eight wears ago was manifested. After tn
returns from New York city, Brooklyn an,
Chicago were posted the Democrats wer
happy, and it was evident that they hat
carried the day The crowd began to grad
ually thin out before midnight, but a mum
. Der of those who had wagered their hard
earned cash watched and waited until tn
gray dawn was breaking. About ! o'clocl
u the Democratic members of the Wheel clu
marched with brOoms from the club rooT
. to the town hall, singing
Grover, Grover, four years more OF Grover,
In go. out they go,
n Then We he in clover.
a The experience sociable at the Univel
i salst vestry Wednesday evening was tn
p most successful entertainment which tn
ladies of that society have given in lon
e time the annual fairs excepted. So larg
l a crowd attended the supper, that the cal
/ ables narrowly escaped being minu
p quantity. After the supper came the eX
i perence part, when about so members c
= the society, who had earned 81 in som
= work aside from their regular employment
n related their tolls, trials and self-sacritice
in appropriate verse. The entertainment
n opened with a piano and flute duet b
+ Walter Stearns and Harry Horton. Mr.;
# C. H. Davenport made the introductory II