Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-16

Another electric light is needed on High
street near the foot of the upper hill.
The talented McGibbeney family will
appear at the town hall the evening of
July !.
perseverance wins success" is the mot
to of the graduating class of the North
street school.
Miss Clay's second class of the Chase .
street school held picnic at Highland park
Saturday.
r. f. Gordon has sold his farm in Bond /.
vile, known as the Hosley place, to VIM.
Styles of Stratton.
Barney Pratt had his collar bone broken
Sunday, being thrown from his carriage
near the entrance to Highland park.
On account of the sermon before the
High school graduating class no afternoon
service will be held at the Y. NJ. c. A.
rooms Sunday.
VIM. Brooks of Clark street was seized
with a sudden attack of heart trouble yes
terday and fell on the street in front of
buttons marble shop.
Hereafter the 80 morning postal deliv-
cry OH Main street will be discontinued on
Fridays, in order to enable the letter car
riers to complete their work in eight hours.
The special convention of the Protestant
Episcopal church in Vermont will assem-
BILE in st. Paurs church, Burlington, next
Wednesday at 9 \. NJ, to elect new bishop
for the diocese.
A. s. Hubbard, who has been in south
ern California since last fall has resigned
as bookkeeper at the Vermont savings
bank and Harry Webster, clerk at the
Brooks House, will be his successor.
c. p. ellison will have another auction
sale at the Elliot street stables next Thurs
day, when he will sell 40 northern and
western horses. Mr.. Gibson says that in
the lot are some of the "best blocks in the
world
Gov. Fuller inspected the battalion of
the University of Vermont at Burlington
Saturday. He was accompanied by Adj
jutant and Inspector-General I. ;. Peck,
President Buckham and Capts. Tutherly,
Leach and Howard United States army.
The Connecticut River Valley associa-
tion announces a one-mile bicycle race at
White River Junction July for four
prizes. valued at over $50. Entries close
with II. II. Lyon at White River Junction
the 2dth. Brattleboro has several speedy
wheelmen and should be represented in
the race.
The writing classes in the High school
and the 9th, eth, Sth and 9th grades finish
their work today. j. L. Howard, the
teacher, has had in al between 200 and
300 pupils, who have made very marked
improvement in their penmanship. Mr..
Howard has given general satisfaction and
has been recommended as teacher for an
other year.
Our South Londonderry correspondent
records the marriage at that place Wednes-
day of Brattleboro's rising young lawyer,
Clarke c. Fits, to Miss Harriet Helen
Lyon, daughter of Deacon Lyon of South
Londonderry. Congratulations are eX-
tended by friends in Brattleboro and
throughout the county. Mr. and Mrs.
Fits will be at home IA Chaplin street after
June ~.
A strawberry festival and entertainment
will be given in Citizens hall at West
Chesterfield tomorrow evening. After the
farce Thirty minutes for refreshments
is presented there will be speaking and
singing The Universalist ladies of West
Chesterfield will give their annual straw.
berry sociable next Thursday evening
when the Murray club of Brattleboro will
appear in the farce "Dr. Bakers great in
venton." Later there will be dancing
music.
Louis Gregg was driving c. II. ThOmp-
p sons horse Tuesday evening when he at
tempted to cut too short a corner at the
junction of High and Green streets. The
carriage was overturned and the horse ran
down Green street, leaving the rear wheel;
opposite Alonzo Illness, smashing off q
granite post near l.. d. Greene's and finally
coming to a stop against the fence between
Mr.. Greene's and +. c. Crosby's. Moth
ing on Green street this year has caused
such an Outpouriug of its residents as this
/, runaway.
/, The seventh annual reunion of company
c, I'd Vermont Volunteers, will be held a
Spotford lake, Chesterfield, Saturday, tn,
Path Comrades and their families viii
meet at the American House at 10:3I
A. NJ, and transportation for the rounC
trip will be 81. Dinner will be served a
T, the Prospect House, followed by a rid
around the lake. There will be speeche
and music by members of the company
: The business meeting will be held at 4 40
and the party will leave the lake on the re
= turn trip at 80.
A report has been circulated this weel
to the effect that load of refuse had beer
= dumped into the Milestone brook a shoT
n distance above the pumping station. In
vestigation shows that load of tin cans
= crockery, old wall paper, etc, was throw
> into the stream near the iron bridge. An
other report was that bag of dead cat
> had been taken out of the brook near tn
! station. A bag was thrown into tn
{ stream, evidently for the purpose of at
J. tracing notice. 1t was pulled out AM
: found to be filled with coal ashes.
= The May issue of the bulletin of tn
. Maryland State Weather Service contain
!, an exhaustive article on "The leadin
!, features of Maryland climate" by DI
q VIM. b. Clark of Johns Hopkins univel
a sity, and shorter article from his pen o
= "The available water power of Maryland.
> This is the first of a special series {
monthly reports, to be prepared by differ
II ent men, on the natural advantages an
II resources of Maryland, and distributed i
lie large numbers at the Worlds Fair.
i the Johns Hopkins display at the fair NJ
l. Clark has an exhibit Illustrating the g
II ology of Maryland.
N There are over so entries in the 81
, races to be trotted at the June meeting
IL Billings park, White River Junction, III
20 9th and 2Sth insts New Hampshire
: Massachusetts, Kentucky and every part
n Vermont are represented i'm the list of el