Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-09-23

Donnell ~ Davis are just home from
New York with full line OF fall and win /.
ter millinery.
Manager Fox continues to make improve
ments in the store Of the Brattleboro News
company, and will soon have one of the
most attractive business places in town.
A train of IL cars bearing the main part
of the Vermont representation to the Grand
Army encampment passed through Brattle-
boro Sunday en- route to New London,
where the boat for New York was taken.
Mrs Cynthia Worden, whose death in
Marlboro was recorded last week, was a
sister of |. A. Williams of this place. The
funeral on Friday was attended by Rev. f.
W. Sprague.
The seventh annual Valley fair ball will
be held at the town hall Wednesday night
of next week, as usual. The BrattlebOro
orchestra will furnish music and VIM. G..
Ryan of Springfield, Mass, will be the
prompter.
The executive committee of the Profess
sional club have the program for the meet
ings of the coming season well in hand.
The opening meeting will be on Monday
evening, Oct. "a, when Rev. DIR. Walker
will give the paper on Formative intu-
The annual fall shoot of the Fort Dunn
mer Rifle club took place at the Vernon
range Saturday. Owing to the heavy wind
which prevailed, especially during the latter
part of the match, the scores were below
the average. The Hooker medal was won
by George Sargent and the club medal by
A. $. Nichols.
a large number of Brattleboro people
took advantage of the fine weather on
Wednesday for days outing at the coun-
ty fair at Newfane. The special train car
ried up about -, two tally-ho loads went
up, and good many drove up in their own
teams. The delegation must have num-
bered at least $50 in all. What is more,
everybody had good time, and said it was
good fair.
Brattleboro wheelman have often tested
their speed and endurance over the road
from Spofford lake to Brattleboro. Several
wheelmen have ridden from Brattleboro to
the lake without dismounting Charles
| Smith performed this feat on solid tire
machine and Frank Putnam on a cushion
tire. The record for the trip from the lake
to Brattleboro has stood at 40 minutes for
some time, but last Sunday DERRICK Stolte,
| jr., and Charles Streeter covered the dis.
lance in 81 minutes-fast time considering
| the hills and the condition of the roads.
The next annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Teachers association will be
at Montpelier, Sept 20, 30 and Oct. /.
The gathering will be one of the most i'm
portant of the kind ever held in the state,
and an excellent program has been pre-
pared. DR.. Emerson of the Emerson col
lege of oratory of Boston, Prof. Haines of
Harvard and President Ackley of the
Rhode Island Institute of Instruction,
have been secured as speakers, in addition
to the leading educators in the state. The
railroads will extend the usual courtesy of
reduced rates.
c. +. Allen is just finishing the most
important addition which he has yet made
to his extensive greenhouse plant. This
is the erection of house for rose growing,
rs by 20 feet in size, with high roof, very
light, containing about 1000 feet of Amer
lean glass, and built after the most ap-
proved plans for rose culture. The house
is to be heated by steam, with new Fur
man boiler, the same kind which is to be
used for heating the Conservatives at the
Worlds Fair. The main purpose of the
house will be to grow roses for cutting, but
there will also be an apartment for ferns
and palms. ThSrcompleton of the house
will make II greenhouses now in use by
Mr.. Allen.
The committee appointed at the citizens
meeting, held in the town hall Monday
evening to prepare and submit a list OF
names for the officers of permanent or
ganization to supervise the citizens cele-
bration of Columbus day, in conjunction
with that of the public schools, met
at the Brooks house Wednesday evening,
and organized with the Rev. j. H. Babbitt
as chairman. A list was made and agreed
upon, which will be presented for approval
at the adjourned citizens meeting to be
held at the town hall next Monday evening
at 1880. 1t is hoped that there will be
present a large attendance of patriotic men
and women, that the demonstration may be
carried out in manner creditable TO the
occasion and TO our town.
One of the finest concerts Of the season
is announced for Monday evening, Oct. 3,
when the Madame Fry concert company
I will appear under the auspices of the
Y. p. S. c. f. of the Congregational church
The following notice of a performance OF
the company is from the Brston journal
Especial mention must be made of the
well-selected program. THE dove" by
Miss Eugene, displayed an unusually
bright high and flexible soprano voice, tC
the pleasure of all. Miss Lula has a con
tralto voice of much power and beauty OF
quality, and sang her numbers with keen
appreciation of their sentiment. Miss Alta
was heard only in her violin solo, but
shares the musical intelligence of the 9TH
ers. Madame Fry's really marvellous voice
was a rare pleasure, and warrants one the
desire to have her remain with us, to be
heard in our Oratorio performances"
About so Brattleboro people attended the
bicycles races at Springfield, Mass, last
week, and the sport is generally pronounced
interesting and exciting, the only criticism
being that in some of the events the wheel
men did not exert themselves until the lina
squirt. The fastest mile in a race was rid
den by George F. Taylor, in 2:15 20. The
worlds record race was won by A. A. Tim
norman, the noted New Jersey rider, who
went abroad and defeated all the fastest
men in England and Germany. Windle
whose exhibition of fancy riding at the
Vermont Wheel clubs ball a few winter,
ago will be recalled, was second, and Taxi,
of Philadelphia third. Harry Tyler of the
Springfield club rode a mile against time
and reduced the record for a standing start
to 2:0S 40. johnson, a Minneapolis rider
rode a mile yesterday at Independence
Ia, on a kte-shaped track, flying start in
= ;56 3-5 the half-mile being made in :2St
The Manchester Mirror q Farmer says
Harry Lawrence of Brattleboro, who
judged the stock at the New Hampshire
Breeders meeting last year, and who was
called upon to perform similar service