Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-26


The Murray club leap year dance will
be given Tuesday evening, March Sth, and
the invitations will be ont early next
week.
Arthur Wells has sold his interest i'm the
boot and shoe business on Elliot street to
his brother, George Wells.
Fred Gleason has sold his hardware bus
mess at Whitman, Mass, to hardware
house in Boston, for a Mr.. Howard, late of
Windsor and formerly Of Bellows Falls.
The February meeting Of the Profess
sional club will be held at the Brooks
House next Monday evening, when Hon.
j. l.. Martin will give the paper, on "TaN.
alton.
The Bwulcboro Creamery association
has received the large Baldwin refrigerator
offered as premium by Hon. U. A. Wood
bury of Burlington for the largest and best
exhibit of butter from any creamery, at
the late dairyncn's meeting.
The carpenters are now finishing the
work on the new Brooks House barber
shop and the fixtures are ready to he put i'm
place. Mr. Carpenter hopes to open the
shop to the public by Wednesday or Thurs
day of next week.
VIII Adams, a Barre youth, has been
arrested and placed under bonds for steal
ing from his employer, G. w. Potter, form
ery of Brattleboro. Adams had charge of
Mr. Potter's bakery cart, and it is charged
that he sold goods for cash and entered
charges on the books when he made settle
ments with Mr.. Potter.
f. \. Startcy d Co. announce an i'm
portant sacrifice fur sale in their advertise
ment elsewhere printed. These goods are
guaranteed to be of the first quality, of the
latest styles, and perfect i'm every respect.
They come from prominent importer and
dealer who has an overstOck which he
feels compelled to unload. The goods are
now displayed in Starkey Il Co. 5 window
and present very attractive appearance.
Mrs. Emily f. Williamson, well-known
to many BrattlebOrO people, was one of
those who appeared last week at New
Jersey legislative hearing to protest against
a proposed law licensing pool-sellng and
gambling on the race track. Mrs. William
son appeared as the general secretary of
the state charities aid association, urging
in behalf of that organization that the
proposed measure "muSt tend to increase
dissipation, waste, unthrift and disregard
for the restraints of law, and all these
things tend powerfully to increase pauper-
ism and crime
The managers of the Vermont Maple
Sugar exchange have got up a very nice
thermometer for the use of sugar makers,
in convenient and durable form, and so
marked as TO show at exactly what point
syrup of the standard weight may be
drawn from the evaporation, and also at
what point the requisite density has been
reached to stand the 80 test and take the
government bounty. This is without ques-
ton the best thermometer of its kind in the
world. Several other useful "helps for
sugar makers are being introduced by the
exchange, as advertised elsewhere in our
columns. The exchange has also issued a
circular letter of instructions for the benc-
fit of sugar makers for the season which is
close at hand.
Concerning the recently asked for trans
fer of the afternoon mail from Springfield
from the train reaching Brattleboro at G:22
to the express train arriving at BIB, and
the chance of getting the New York morn
ing papers here on the 1901 \. NJ train,
Postmaster Chids was. on Tuesday, in
formed by the division superintendent of
railway mail service that lit has been de-
cided by the general superintendent of this
service not to make any changes i'm the
running of the Newport and Springfield
short run north, and it will continue to
RIM ne ,t ur,snr, 10 ma. knnv.loI,,,
tLnro has bnnu nn fnr,Lor ,h:,r,,a .n,,to,7,
nIotod IN INA Nn,nr ,,, S'.iI,,ti'II I,.
run north. Superintendent Ryan is now
in Washington, and while there he will
cndeavor to arrange so that New York
daily papers will reach Springfield in sea-
son for the D:1j \. VI. train north. But it
is very doubtful if any Surh arrau cement
can be made at present"
On the seventh pace of this naper there
is nrinted a carefrliv symmetrical rn,,ort of
the teachers institute held in Brottleborn
last week The teachers who wore il, at-
tendance. and all others who are interest
ed i'm our local educational affairs will an
preciate having This comnlete renort in
connected form in a sinTle issun Thn
convention was declared Inv tha oIder
teachers to he as a whole tbe host aver
held here. As a ruIe tbe addresses wore
direct and practical rather than Theoretical
in what they attempted To teach The at
tendance of teachers from the smaller and
more remote towns was NOT so general as
il ouoht TO have been In This resnact tho
lack of the personal touch and Influence of
the county supervisor. as il was felt two
wears aoo was very marl,ad Tbo nrooti
cal destruction of the new school law be-
fore it had been given fair and thorough
trial was step backward in the school
work of Vermont.
Mrs l. l. Estev oave an alegant altar
noon recention 10 her lady friends nm
"Wednesday from 1 until a o,clocL Tba
narlors han and DINING room brilli.ntI,,
lighted with Gas and wax candles were