Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-11

ing service atSt. Michaers Episcopal church |
Sunday.
f. Wales is to have the use of Miss
Sawyer's hall on North street for his dane
ing classes next winter.
Wilder Hinsdale's speedy 'cyclist, is re-
ported TO have made half-mile in 1912 on
the track at that place.
Rev. George E. Martin of St. Louis will
preach to his former parishoners at the
Congregational church Sunday.
Mrs. Lenora Howe has been appointed
one of the assistant inspectors of the state
department of the Womans Relief corps.
The Claremont camp meeting will be
held August 22-29. Rev. A. j. IIough and
members of the local Methodist church
will attend the meetings.
There was clam bake at the New Eng
land Trout and Salmon climbs preserve in
Marlboro yesterday, the company present
including members from Hinsdale and Or
ange.
None of the Brattleboro tennis players
will compete in the state tournament to be
held at Arlington next week. About 20
entries have been received, representing
nearly all the large towns in the state.
Dr. G. +. Bigelow of Boston, for many
years well-known and successful physi-
clan in that city, died yesterday, aged ~.
His present wife was a Miss Houghton of
Guilford, to whom he was married in 1870.
Charles Cushman was recently arrested
charged with assault and battery on the
person of Oliver Barrett. Cushman gave
bail and the hearing was set for Monday,
but settlement was arranged previous to
that time.
Hackley Il Moran have opened branch
undertaking establishment at Hinsdale,
with H. F. Quincy, proprietor of the fur
niture store, in charge. The firm have re-
Gently distributed 1900 coored cards, illus
trating the Worlds Fail buildings.
Suit for $40, 600 has been brought against
the Central Vermont railroad company
through w. H. Brooks, the well-known
Holyoke lawyer, by Patrick Guiheen of
this village, whose son, John Guiheen,
was killed on the railroad track near South
| Vernon.
Dennis Farmer, who recently returned
from Detroit, says that the statement that
the Ferrand II Notey Organ factory had
suspended work is without foundation. A
rushing business is being done in the pipe
organ department and the reed organ de-
partment is closed only temporarily.
Frank Harris, while in camp at Sunset
lake last week, shot a crane which was
nearly six feet tall and measured seven feet
and nine inches from tip to tip of wings
Mr.. Harris brought the bird down with a
% calibre rifle pistol, wounding it in one
wing.
Two special cars attached to the regular
forenoon train leave Lake Pleasant for
Queen City park, under the manage ment
of DR.. Smith, on the 18th inst. The fare
for the round trip is 50, the ticket being
good returning on any train within two
weeks.
Mrs. j. j. Estey showed her friends
Thursday morning floral curiosity in the
shape of three lovely pond lilies, one a
deep blue, one a delicate pink or flesh
color, and the third yellow or stfaw color
The flowers were undoubtedly grown in
cultivation and were the gift of friend in
Boston.
F. L. Houghton has removed the editor
ial Office of the Holsten- Friesan Register
from Boston back to Brattleboro, and once
more becomes a resident of this village.
His friends give him cordial welcome. Mr..
Houghton retains his interest in the Bos-
ton law Office, which is in charge of his
partner.
Col. Hooker made this good point when
recently interviewed: 81 have never taken
any stock in all this talk about the silver
dollar with IS cents worth of silver lodg-
| ing in the poor man. pocket and staying
there. The trouble with the poor man is
that he has to spend all the dollars he gets
they don't any of them stick"
Mrs. Simms Cox, who died recently in
Canon City, Colo, was the daughter of
Augustus G. and Mrs. Mary j. Savory.
| The news of Mrs. CoX's death was re-
ceived with deep regret by her friends
here who hoped that the improvement
which followed her visits to the Adiron-
dacks and Colorado would be permanent.
On Saturday of next week, August 10,
there will be an excursion of Christian
EndeavOr societies to Watch Hill, under
the auspices of the Willimantic, Conn,
union, and Brattleboro will be included in
the excursion points. The rate from here
will be S1.25 for the round trip, tickets
good only on that day. The excursion will
leave BTattleborO by the 5:l5 \. NJ. train
and will arrive at Watch Hill at 10:55, re-
naming there till $3.50. Returning, the
eXcursionists will arrive in Brattleboro at
| 10 p. NJ.
Miss Ellen Calvin, aged p, sister of
JOnn GAVIN, uleu at ner nome IN Middle
bury Sunday. She had been i'll with con-
sumption since last September. Mr.. Gal
vim and family went to Middlebury to at
tend the funeral which was held Wednes-
day. Rev. Father Maloney of Fairfield said
mass and preached funeral sermon. The
church, in which Miss Calvin had been the
organist, was beautifully trimmed. Miss
Calvin was young woman who was held
in high esteem, and she had made many
friends during her visits in BrattlebOro.
The latest thing in railroading is train
of compartment hotel cars, each car hav-
| ing 16 compartments or separate rooms on
alternate sides of zig-zag entrance aisle.
Each compartment has accommodations
for two persons, with all the conveniences
of first-class hotel room, including bath
and sleeping arrangements. Meals are
served in each room from central kitch-
en-. The idea is the invention of Superin-
tendent Allen of the New York. New Ha-
ven & Hartford road. One train of four
cars has been built 1t has been on eXhi-
bition in Boston this week, and tomorrow
will start on its first trip from that city to
the Worlds Fair. These cars are to be
used on the Church Worlds Fair excursion
trains of which Linn d. Taylor has the To-
cal agency, and Mr. Taylor hopes to make
ND a party of 80 BrattleborO people to oc-