Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-04
BRATTLEBORO.

The date of the Episcopal fair has been
changed to August 81.
In the list of patents granted recently
appears the name of Gov. Fuller, for a
reed organ.
The Universalist church will be closed
during August, and the sessions of the
Sunday school will be discontinued.
Suffer Brothers have made several
shipments of tobacco this week from their
warehouse here to several places in New
England.
There will be social hop at the Brooks
house this evening and general invita-
ton to attend is extended to town people,
and friends and guests.
The 25th annual convention of the State
Sabbath school association is appointed to
be held at Rutland, Oct. 1925. An at
tractive program is in course of prepare
ton.
Oliver Wood, father of Mrs. C. r. ST.
nonds, who has been i'll for several months
with valyular trouble of the heart, died
Monday night at his home in Bangor, n.
Y. Mrs. Simonds and another daughter
living in Brattleboro, Miss Lila Wood,
have been at Bangor for ten weeks helping
to care for him.
G. w. Pierce has this week consummat-
ed the sale of his property in Westminster
to Rev. G. A. Dickinson of Boston. The
property includes the property known as
the "Kurn Hattin lodge" with 40 acres
of land adjoining. Mr.. Pierce reserves
two acres of land as building lot, where
he intends building a summer place in the
near future.
In addition to Richardson & Co.'s ten
sheep killed by dogs in Edison Smiths pas
ture in Guilford, two or three sheep owned
by Walter Bullock were also slain. A few
days ago Mr.. Bullock shot the large white
bull dog owned by the Countess de Jo-
temps. This dog was chasing the sheep
Harry Kinson thinks that only two or three
of Richardson & Co.'S sheep were killed
by his dogs. His CANNES were at home at
the time the first sheep met their death
two or three weeks ago.
David Leahy and John Cavanaugh don't
agree as to the line between their premises
on the Brook road, and out of the disagree
ment have grown two suits which were
heard before S. II. Sherman Thursday
morning, The suits were brought by Cav
anaugh against Leahy, and Leahy and his
wife, respectively, for trespass-in the one
case for turning cattle on to Cavanaugh's
land and in the other for erecting fence
on Cavanaugh's land. In each the defend
ant gave judgment in the sum of s. and
appealed the cases to the county court.
The ejectment suit of Richard Timson
VS.. Ellis Worden was heard before Judge
Royal Tyler, at his Office Monday. The
plaintiff claimed to have leased a tenement
to WOrden by the month, but the women
of the house didn't agree, and June
TimsOn gave Worden notice to vacate July
1. Worden claimed to have hired the ten
ement for at least year and the right to
remain until the expiration of that time.
The court rendered judgment for the de-
PENDANT to vacate and give the plaintiff
possession of the premises.
Patrick Gregg was at work in the annex
at the Estey Organ works Wednesday,
when fellow workman opened the hatch
way to put lumber through it, A few mo-
ments later Gregg stepped backward and
fell through the hatchway, striking upon
the boxes and lumber. A wound one and
One-half inches long was cut back of his ear.
Another wound through which a mans
finger could be passed was cut i'm the lower
lip. Mr.. Gregg was also badly bruised
about the left hip and right chest. He will
recover from his injuries although he will
be disabled for few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. T.. X. Pratt have recently
been in London, and the Daily Telegraph
of that city in its issue of July 20 says of
Mdlle. Brazzi's Mrs. Pratt's) singing: "At
the GrOsvenOr club last night the 'func-
ton of the present season took place.
Some two hundred members and their
guests assembled in the dining rooms, and
many more at the excellent concert, quite
up to the GrOsvenor standard, which was
given afterward in the great gallery
Mdlle. Brazzi-a real and powerful
contraltO-made her first appearance in
England with great success in Bembergs
"Chant Hindu and Gounod's aria from
''La Refine de Sab, Plus grands dams son
obscurite." Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt are TO
spend the month of August at Whitstable-
on-the-Seine, county of Kent.