Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-20
1RMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1892

The state convention of Congregational
churches will be held at Burlington June
IA.
The seventh annual reunion of Compa-
ny c, I'd regiment Vermont volunteers,
will be held Friday, June "a
The time for licensing dogs expired Sat
urday night. The total number licensed
in Brattleboro this year is 800
j. c. Howe took a photograph of the
High school building, with the several
hundred children on the lawn. on Thurs
day.
The new fire alarm box bought by the
village for the Estey Organ works was put
in place yesterday 1t will be known as
No. /.
The barn on the Cutler place OH Oak
street has been sold by f.. II Van Doom
through Bailey ~ Co.'S agency to Theodore
Chamberlain, who will move il to his farm
on the Newfane road.
At meeting of the trustees of the
Brooks library building last Saturday
evening Oscar A. Marshall was elected
trustee and auditor .Of the board to
fill the vacancy caused by DR.. Diapers
death.
The Journal of the Non-Secret Endow-
ment order contains the names of / Brat
tleboro people who were bene6ciaries during
the month of April. They received a
total sum of $40, the amounts ranging
from $50 to 500.
A meeting of the Forest and Stream
club is to be held at the Imperial hotel in
New York June /, to make arrangements
for the trip to Wilmington. 1t is expected
that the party will come to BrattlebOrO
and drive over the hills in tally-hOs.
The Boston Globe. in its account of the
granite troubles, gives the number of men
involved in different places. The number
at West Dummerston is estimated at 400
and at Brattleboro POO. Evidently the
tariff statistician of the Globe is now devot-
ing attention to the granite industry. The
lockout affects about 30 men at West
Dummerston and none in Brattleboro.
The May term of the United States cir
cult court opened at Windsor on Tuesday
before Judge Wheeler The jurors drawn
from this county were: Oscar l.. Sherman
of Williamsville, Howard A. Pratt and
L. l.. Cooper of Brattleboro, Henry Craw-
ford of Putney, Daniel Kellogg AMI Henry
c. Lane of Westminster, p. II. Hadley
and y. G.. Williams of Bellows Falls and
c. f. Wheeden of Rockingham.
The members of the Good Will club held
their second conversation on current top
les Wednesday evening The Chicago ex-
position. the OklohOma movement and
the one hundredth anniversary of the for
nation of the New York stock exchange
were among the subjects taken up Miss
Florence Clark had the meeting in charge.
The club are planning to move soon into a
commodious room in Hooker block.
The several hundred Brattleboro people
who were delighted with the recent presen-
tation of cold Jed Prouty'' will be inter
ested in this news item in the papers of
Tuesday: "The l000th performance of
odd Jed Prouty' was given at the Hollis
street theatre. Boston, the occasion being
marked by the distribution of solid silver
teaspoons to holders of reserved seat cou-
pOns The house was filled with an APP
preciatve audience and Richard Golden,
the star, was accorded hearty reception
General Secretary Simmonds of the Mer-
rimac Mass, Y. NJ. &. A. has accepted a
call to a similar position with the Bratte-
boro association to succeed W. II. Fuller,
resigned, and will enter upon his duties
June lst. Mr.. Simmonds was here two
weeks ago and conducted the Sunday ser
vices at the rooms. He created a very ia
vorable expression. He is a young man,
being only % years old He graduated
from Brown University in the class of s.,
and was engaged as a teacher until year
ago, when he began his \. NJ. {. A., work
at Merrimac.
The mountain road workmeD are this
week blasting out the top OF the long,
steep, "Dnuer Point pitch, reducing the
grade four feet, which will make a very
4.
been widened eight feet at that place. De
cided improvements in the grades have
been made at other points. Those who
use and enjoy this new accessory to Brat
teboro' outdoor attractions are reminded
that the present is the time when W II.
Childs will particularly appreciate the re-
ceipt Of their contributions. whatever their
size
Principal Horne will introduce a very
suitable feature into the High school exer-
cises on the last Friday afternoon before
Memorial day, May p. The afternoon
session will be devoted to rhetorical eXer-
cises and singing suited to the Memorial
occasion, and there will also be an address
by some citizen whose name is not yet an
nounced. The exercises will begin at ?
o'clock and all friends of the school are
invited to attend. In the Massachusetts
schools it has long been the custom TO in
troduce this Memorial feature, and its in
PRODUCTION into Brattleboro should meet
with cordial approval.
Miss Florence Clark, the agent for the
Hammond typewriters, is meeting with eX-
cellent success in the sale of those ma
chimes, having sold, this week, another
of the Ideal HammOnds. 'Eyesight
charts issued by the Hammond company,
which she has recently distributed makes
the claim, backed by the opinion of emf
nent ocuists, that the Hammond keyboard
is the best for the comfort and safety of
the eye. No modern labor-saving inven-
ton has come more rapidly into Use than
has the typewriter during the past five
years, and those who have once seen how
they tighten and advance Office work won
der how the work was ever done without
them.
Patrick Sheehan. formerly roadmaster of
the BrattlebOrO n Whitehall railroad, has
been appointed roadmaster of the Rutland
division of the Central Vermont, to till the
vacancy caused by the resignation of +. W.
Homer Mr.. Sheehan has been in Rut-
land this week, and looked over the divs-
ion with General ROadmaster Bean. Many
improvements are now being made on
the Rutland division. In addition to new
steel rails eight heavy iron bridges of the
latest and most approved pattern are being
put in, located as follows: One draw span
at Burlington, one truss and one girder
span at Leicester Junction, one truss span
at Proctor, also truss spans near Gassett's,