Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-01


issued from The Phoenix job Office in
about two weeks.
The choir will return to its place at st.
Michael's Roman Catholic church Sunday
after months vacation
The annual Windham County conference
of Congregational churches will be held
here with the Centre church Wednesday
and Thursday, Sept. Is and H.
Mr.. Stearns of Brooklyn, n. Y, owner
of Woodside, gave a shore dinner to 80
members of the Spofford Lake Fish and
Game league at the lake Saturday.
Brattleboro took the lead in the move
ment for good roads. Then Rutland and
Burlington followed by buying stone roll
ers, and now Montpelier is planning to
fall into line.
II. E. Hunter, who has taken the con-
tract to build G. F. X. Jenne's new house,
has sold the old house damaged by fire to
n. T. Ryan, who will move it to Forest
street and fit it up for tenements.
Rudyard Kiplings new home will be
known as 1.-THE Naulahka," in honor of
"a Tale of the East and West" written in
collaboration by Kipling and Wolcott Bal
estier, and published in the Century.
S. A. Smith & Co.'s factory closed Sat
urday night for the usual summer vacation.
The large chimney at the factory is to be
cut down - feet and then built up 25 feet.
When this is completed work will probably
be resumed.
Rev. c. o. Day returned from his vaca-
ton Wednesday night, and will preach at
the Centre church Sunday. His wife and
children will not come until toward the
end of the month. 1t is the intention of
the family to occupy the parsonage on
their return.
Through typographical error a wrong
impression was given in regard to the val
ue of the "Fugio cent of 1887 owned by
Mrs. n. w. Loomis. The coins are not
very rare, and are sold by collectors at from
81 to S1.50. There are only two or three
mint proofs in gold of this cent, and these
are worth 1925 to $50.
Mrs. A. T. Eddy and Mrs. A. A. Stearns
were chosen delegates last Sunday TO the
| Universalst state convention, now in ses-
ton at Mortified. Rev. Mr.. Sprague,
who is to preach a sermon. and Mrs. War
ner, who is to present the report of the
women's centenary association, are also
attending the convention.
The Brooks House is having a rushing
business, and is frequently overcrowded.
Monday night it was necessary to secure
rooms outside for number of guests On
account of lack of accommodations Land
lord Tyler has written the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery of Boston that he can
not receive their party of over 200.
Wood and Sankey, the expert tennis
players from Mortified, met Thompson
and Gregg on the Chaplin street court Mon
day. The Brattleboro boys won the first
set 6-3, and lost the second o., giving
them the lead of one point on the total
score. Hooker and Crosby went to North
field Wednesday and were beaten by Wood
and Sankey CD and Ga.
BrattlebOro friends received invitations
yesterday from Mr.. and Mrs. o. II. But
terrified to the marriage reception of their
son, Ora Elmer Butterield and Miss Amy
lola Dunklee, Thursday evening, Sept. Ii,
at Ann Arbor. Mich. Both of the Young
people formerly lived here, and congratll-
lations will be extended by a host of
friends Mr.. Butterfeld is now rising
young lawyer at Ann Arbor
Adam Forepaugh, son of the late Adam
Forepaugh, has embarked in the circus
business on his own account and bids fair to
achieve as much prominence as his father
|
experienced in management, and in the pre-
sentatiOn of an entertainment never had a
superior in his peculiar and particular line
| The new show is extensively billed here
for an exhibition Sept. 6. The advertising
car arrived Monday night.
The 10 rooms in the Brooks House
| above the second floor have been equipped
this week with the Sewal patented fire es-
cape, which is recommended by the Boston
board of fire commissioners. This escape
consists of rope fastened in the room, with
supports for holding a person. The es-
capes were tested Wednesday, when boys
slid down on them from the top floor. The
boys were able to stop whenever they
pleased, and in every way the escape
worked satisfactorily.
August was a month of sudden changes,
but it had very unusual record of low
| death rate. In Brattleboro only three
deaths took place, none occurring between
the Sth and 25th. In 1887 there were
nine deaths in town, in 1888 II, in 1899
six, in 1890 nine, in 1891 six, and in 1892
four. The number of deaths for the month
has been much below the average through
out the country, especially in New York
city, where the extra precautions in the
way of cleanliness, taken from fear of
cholera, are supposed to have had whole
| some effect.
Mrs. Margaret T., wife of Edward T.
| Conner of ClaremOnt, and daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Q. Shea of Keene, y. H.,
died at the home of her parents in that
city Monday of bilious fever, aged 26. This
is the first death to occur in family of
three brothers and four sisters, one of
whom is Mrs. Angelo Gorborino of this
village. The funeral was held Wednesday
and was attended by Mr.. and Mrs. Gorbo-
rino, Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy Shea, Michael
Shea and Alice Shea, Mrs. Whalen and
her niece, Mary Cummings, all of this viii
lage.
The missionary meeting of the Baptist
Endeavor society Tuesday evening was
largely attended Mrs. Alice B. Coleman
of Boston was given the hour, and she
spoke very Interestingly of the condition of
the colored people in the south and the
work done among them, telling of her per-
sonal observations in Atlanta, Ca, where
Spellman seminary, the mt. HOlyoke"
for cOlOred young women, is located, and
drawing a striking contrast between the
state of ignorance and superstition of the
negroes not yet reached by the gospel, and
the condition of those who have come UNI
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