Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-11-24

covered. He lived here, but his home was
in Mechancsville, N. Y.
Lyman Church met with quite a serious
accident Friday of last week. his hand be-
ing caught in n planer and three of his
fingers being cut off, and his hand jammed
somewhat.
This evening the first number in the
Star lecture course is to be given in the
opera house by the Boston Rivals. Those
who have heard them here for the past two
years are expecting a rich treat.
Voney Averill, Boston and Maine fire
man, and Miss Lizzie Blake of North Wal
pole were married last week Wednesday by
| Rev. ID. l.. Sanford. They will live with
| Mr.. Averlrs mother on Canal street.
by. Reyes and his family have left for
| New Haven, Conn, where they are to
make their home for the present. The
| doctor drove down, Mrs. Reyes and Miss
| Fannie going later in the week by rail.
James Mcdonald, an employee at the
machine shop of c. w. Osgood q Son,
was badly scalded on Wednesday by the
/ bursting of a steam pipe. The burns are
upon his face, arms and chest, but are not
considered dangerous.
The snow storm of Tuesday night left us
about,tivc or six inches of damp snow We'd
nesday morning, giving us our first sleigh
| ing; but it disappeared during the fore
noon, after perhaps dozen early sleigh
| riders had tested it i'm the rain.
Arthur II. Slader was here Monday and
| Tuesday from his home in Providence,
shipping his household goods to that place.
| He is in company with his father in large
and successful boarding house, and his
health is much better than when he left
here a year or more ago.
Local Manager Capron announces that
/ his next attraction will be the famous Tux
edo at the opera house, Tuesday evening,
/ Nov. Is. Tuxedo is 4 delightful melange OF
minstrelsy vaudeville, variety burlesque
and comedy. The company carries nearly
40 people, fine band and orchestra.
}. a. Parker bought the old Catholic
! parish house and began to move it, intend
/ ing to take it up on the Old Terrace, but
he has given that undertaking up and sold
the house to Barney Cannon, ir. Mr.. Can
non will move it on to the lot near his own
| house on Cherry Hill, and fit it up for ten
ants.
The gospel meetings at the Baptist
church, which were begun two weeks ago,
are being held still, there being meetings
on every evening this week except Satur-
day and on several of the afternoons.
Good audiences have been in attendance
at the evening services, and a good degree
of interest is felt in the work
The Times is printing an interesting Sc
ries of "reminiscences of early days in our
vicinity from the pages of the vermont
Intelligencer and Bellows Falls Adver-
tiser," that of last week being devoted
largely to the advertising pages of that pa
| per, July u, 1917, and showing the differ
ence in newspaper style then and now.
The town liquor agent, Capt. Taylor, has
/ lately been requiring all who patrOnize him
to sign slip that they have procured the
ardent by a representation that it was
wanted for medicinal mechanical or man
ufacturing purposes, and giving the guam
| tity and kind procured. These slips are
| kept on file for future reference shouli
they be required, and also to show the
daily sales.
"Hands across the sea" did not draw as
large house Monday evening as its mer-
its deserved. 1t has been here twice be-
fore in former years and is a popular en-
tertanment with our theatre going people,
| but so many first-Class entertainments are
booked Just now in the lecture and High
school courses that it will be hard to make
even the best of plays pay, which are out
side their lists.
The following from the Randolph CORE
spondent shows the estimation in which
one of our business mems work is held
elsewhere: "Ned Pierce of Bellows Falls
completed the stating job on the Normal
school last Saturday morning, In seven
! days, with one man, he punched and laid
81 squares. He is a hustler. Any one
that contracts with him will get honest
work every time
! December p. II. Hadley, as treasurer
of school district No. /, Rockingham, will
pay eight of the bonds of the said district,
which are dated July /, 1873, amounting
to $4,000. The numbers of those to be
paid are as follows: ,, 3, 3, &, 7, Is, IA
and Is, and the holders are requested to
call for their money, as no interest will be
allowed after that date. This is in pursu-
ance of the vote of the district at the last
annual meeting
Geo. L. Leonard of New York, assistant
secretary of the international committee of
the Y. NJ. c. A., spent last Sunday with
his mother here, and at the morning serv-
ices of the Congregational church gave a
very interesting account of his work and
its wonderful growth. His work is more
directly in connection with the college de-
partment, and he had an immense map of
the country showing the location of the
different colleges connected with the work
throughout the country.
Last week a story became current on
our streets that the porter of the CONNER
cial House had been seriously bitten by a
dog, and that there were fears that he
would lose his arm, if not his life. This
coming to the notice of sister living in
Springfield, through newspaper itsm,
made her temporarily deranged, but after
they sent a team here ascertainihg that al
though he was bitten as stated, there we're
no alarming symptoms and the surgeons in
c1arge had not thought of serious results,
she recovered rapidly from her fright. The
hand, which. was bitten by large dog
while Mr.. Parker was trying to defend a
smaller one from his viciousness, is now
healing rapidly.