Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-10-21

the check list.
Remenyi will appear at Montreal two
nights before coming to Brattleboro
The pin of the High school class of '0l |
is on exhibition in Jeweler Ilubbard's .
window.
James Shea and brother came on from /
New York Tuesday with the body Of the .
latter's young child.
There has been talk of the establishment .
of shoe factory in town, but no definite /
arrangements have been made.
y. /. IIawley has presented the High .
school class of 'U3 with a beautiful banner, .
to be carried by them in the Columbus day
parade.
The exterior of the town hall is to be
handsomely decorated for Columbus day.
The national and Spanish colors will be
used mainly.
The section of macadam road on Canal
street was finished last night. This is the
last work which will be done in building
stone roads this season.
A charters being drawn up for prcsenta-
ton in the legislature giving the village
the right to put in public water works at
any time, lay street mains, etc.
The regular meeting Of the Sovercigns
of Industry will he held next Tuesday
evening at Grand Army hall at half past l.
The business will be the election OF officers.
Tom Dowd's batting average for the
whole league season was 2.40 and his rank
SIth in a list of l67 men. Only rs men in
the list stole more bases than DOWd. His
fielding percentage at second base was .9O2.
Il. II. Allbee of Bellows Falls, the referee
in the Esteyville boundary case of Chase
VS.. Butterield, heard last Friday and Sat
urday at the Office of Waterman, Martin
a. Hit, will file his report at the next term
of county court.
The Brattleboro Jelly company are using
more apples than ever this year, the aver
age number being 700 bushels week
The works are running day and night
The apple crop in some places in this
section is heavy. while in other places near
by it is lighter than usual.
The engineer, man of lifelong eXpe-
rience, who has recently been in town to
lay ont the new driveways on Gen. Estey's
grounds, made a careful examination of
the stone-crushing plant and pronounced
/ the stone which the town is using to be
the hardest and best for the purpose which
/ he had ever seen.
the water works have been given notice
10y the selectmen that whenever these COM
panies find it necessary to dig up the streets
where the new stone roadway has been
built, the roadway will be rebuilt by the
town and the actual cost charged to the
companies.
On account of the bill which has been
introduced into the legislature in reference
] l. Iii ltF
with corporations, the EStey Organ compa-
ny asked their employees to give an express
sion of opinion. The vote was in favor of
weekly payments, in the proportion Of
three to two
g. l.. Clary has mounted several speci-
mems Of birds and animals that are of more
than ordinary interest. They include some
species of owls, a fox, pleated wood
pecker and white squirrel The latter is
like a gray squirrel except in color, and is
very rare. 1t was sent here from Ber-
nardston by Frank Turner. Mr.. Clary has
recently presented the Natural History so
ciety with fine specimen of n mink.
The selectmen are making an. experiment
of putting in a crushed stone sidewalk on
the Brook road from the iron bridge to the
foot of the hill near the Swcdc settlement,
a distance Of about 100 rods Sidewalks
of this kind are said to have proved very
satisfactory in other places. being as clean,
dry and durable as concrete. If this eN-
detrimental walk proves satisfactory SINH
lar ones will undoubtedly he built another
season, in other outlying portions OF the
village.
There is a novel advertising scheme on
the bill board in front OF the town hall. 1t
represents the landing Of Columbus near
an cncampment of Indians. An Indian is
painting on a cliff near by the words THE
Columbian Ball is for Old and Young,
and Columbus remarks, 81 guess we better
take that in The idea originated with
5. W. Knights and VIII Stuart did the
work. In this connection it is well To state
that the ball will be held at the town hal,
tomorrow, Friday evening.
The expected has happened again. News
comes from Waterford, y. y, by way of
the Rutland Herald, that Mrs. Mary NJ.
jackson, the sane woman who was "in-
carcerated" for "A years in the asylums at
BrattleborO and Waterbury, in order to get
her out of the way, and the story of whose
Imprisonment was told with so much gusto
by the Herald and other papers, is already
showing her insane delusiOns, believing
she has power over spirits, etc. She will
probably be cared for by the New York
authorities.
The Boston Journal remarks that: "Thc
thumb nail sketch of Miss Mary L. Wilkn,
in the current Century has aroused a dea
of comment. Some believe that The
Whist Players is the fOrerunner of new
type of story on the lines of the famou,
condensed novels, though more seriou,
than those efforts, while others see in il
the materials of a longer and greater novel
II would seem, however, that il is more
likely bit of literary gymnastics, just as
are the 'Pastels in Prose- of Stuart Merrill
and the work of the French symbolists Il
is caviare, however, to the general reader.
Edward Richards, a Putney youth whC
lacks the usual endowment of brains, as
saulted a l6-year-Old girl in Westminster
recently while she was on her way L
school. He seized her, made indecent pro
posals and tried to pull her to one side o
the road. She screamed, struggled, es
% capped and ran. The school teacher an(
pupils heard the girls screams, and wheI
, Richards found they We're coming he fled
, He was arrested Friday aud brought befor
} Justice IL. c. Lane Saturday. lie waived
examination, and was ordered to procur
2 bail in the sum of $500.
DR.. A f. Willis of Shelbume Falls
Mass, formerly of Brattleboro, is develop
! ing wonderful skin in the use of jacl
knife. About year ago, while in a stor
J at Shelburne Falls, the doctor took out hi
l knife and began to white. When h
l stopped he had produced beautiful dove
e Since that time he has cut out medallion