Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-27
THE VERMONT PHd1NIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, MAY q

The Free library will be closed Memo
rial day.
A petition is i'm the hands of Grand
Master j. l.. Retting for a new lodge of
| Odd Fellows at Manchester Depot.
Mrs. Goodenough has millinery an
nouncement of interest this week in the
advertising columns
The Central Vermont railroad summer
time schedule will probably take effect June
26. 1t will not differ materially from that of
last year.
Between IS and 100 tons of hay have
been brought to Bratteboro from f. l..
Houghtons Putney farm and sold at the
different stables for SIG a ton
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Brattleboro q Whitehall railroad
company will be held at the Brooks House
tomorrow, Saturday, beginning at 1920.
The 40-hour devotional meeting at the
Roman Catholic church will begin next
Monday at o clock A. NJ. Several priests
will take part in the services.
The Phoenix and other leading Vermont
papers will be on file at rooms No. 1905
and 1907 in the Guaranty Loan building at
Minneapolis at the time of the national
convention.
1t is expected that the annual reunion
of the Brattleboro High school alumni as
ISOLATION will be held at the town hall
June II, on the evening following the
commencement exercises.
The drum corps has been re0rganized
and will 90 to West Bratteboro with the
Grand Army Memorial day. Arthur Knight
is first drummer, Charles Smith second
drummer, and Guy Howe secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. w. f. Banks have the
sympathy of many friends in the death last
Friday of their only child, Henry W., a
bright and promising lad nearly II years
old. He had been i'll with a fever for sew
eral weeks.
On Memorial day the Central Vermont
railroad will sell special round trip tickets,
fare one way, between all stations in Yer
mont and New York States. Tickets will
be good only for a continuous passage in
both directions. No stop-oyer privileges
allowed.
The narrow gauge passenger train was
delayed two hours on Monday on account
of land slide two miles above Jamaica
The track was covered to depth of three
or four feet with loose earth and rocks for
a distance of 30 feet
Brattleboro furnishes six Memorial day
, orators this year. Rev. f. W. Sprague is
w ol'ih ~ W toA iAdllldNs lNtNs MI l lldltll
at Putney, Hon. j. l.. Martin at Rochester
? Col Hooker at Enosburgh Falls, Col. Full
Ter at Highgate and Col. Haskins at Wind
ham.
, The annual session of the Windham and
Bennington counties Universalist associa-
ton will be held at Bellows Falls June :
and 5. The services will begin on Tues
day at p. NJ. Rev. 5. II. McCollester,
ID. d., of Marlboro, y. H., will preach the
occasional sermon.
What action has been taken by our
schools relative to the National Columbian
Public School Celebration? Let the pu-
- pills appoint committee to have charge of
the local arrangements and make their
plans for the exercises of October II be-
! fore their schools close for the summer.
Two young women who were followed
to Brattleboro recently by Sheriff Rixford
of Winchester were arrested here on the
/, charge of stealing at Westport, y. IL.
They were arraigned before justice at
Winchester and fined $40 and costs each
and in default of payment they were lodged
in the county Jail at Keene.
In letter elsewhere printed, addressed
p by Mr.. Whitman to the farmers, announce
ment is made that Mr.. Blair of Cromwell,
Conn, has definitely decided to locate his
. ! pickle factory Ill DIdtlltDOfO. Letters
: which have been received from dealers in
all the principal New England cities give
Mr.. Blair a high reputation as a business
man of strict integrity, and vouch for his
goods being equal to the best in the mar
. ket and always commanding a ready sale.
There seems to be no doubt that his fac
tory will make "A valuable addition to the
business of BrattlebOro, and that our
farmers will find ii to their advantage to
raise the cucumbers which the factory will
! require.
The full program of the Connecticut
Valley conference of Unitarian churches,
I which is to he held with the Brattleboro
church Oh Tuesday and Wednesday, June
e : and s, announces that the sermon will
e be preached on Tuesday evening at 1880
j by Rev. Charles G.. Ames of Boston.
T Wednesday morning at IL o'clock, after
l devotional and business meetings, Rev. 5.
I X. Calthrop, of Syracuse, n. Y, one of the
strong men of the denomination, will give
+ an essay on THE primitive gospel and its
D life of Christ" At l2:30 Rev. Grindall
Reynolds of Boston, secretary of the Amer
j lean Unitarian association, will speak.
e At l Z. NJ. luncheon will be served in the
Il town hall by the women of the Brattleboro
society. AT 2:30 Hon. Dorman b. Eaton
5 will speak on "What can laymen do for
: the church" this address being followed
= by five-minute speeches on this topic by
+ several of the visiting clergymen.
+ One hundred years ago. Oct. 2, 1902, the
/ first movement for foreign missionary work
f was begun by the Baptist denomination,
It under the lead of William Carey, at Ket-
j tering, Eng The American Baptist mis-
e sionary union is arranging for the proper
g centenary cOmmemOration of this event,
f and June 26 has been chosen as centenary
o Sunday. For this day three orders of SER
e vice have been prepared, one each for the
j. church, Sunday school and young people S
) society The purpose is not necessarily to
: make collections, but to awaken interest
'. in the commemoration of the founding OF
I. Baptist foreign missions, and to prepare
l. the way for a canvass for funds at the
n times appointed by the several churches
?, The union proposes to raise 81 900, 600 as a
). centenary memorial in addition to the reg.
r. ular contributions to the union, and $500
600 is to be raised by the churches in Their
a annual offerings, and 100000 and $780,
g 600 by the young peoples societies and the
, Sunday schools.
y Peter S. Chase is establishing a market
y gardening industry on his place in Estey.
IS vile which promises to fill place of It's
e own for Brattleboro and vicinity, supplying
n our people to a large extent with plants
e and vegetables for which they are accus.
# toned to depend upon the Boston markets
A ,,racant Mr. Cbosofo opaoialtfog o,.o L.,