Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-15

The j. I. Rockwell theatre company VIII
hold the boards at the town hall every
evening of next week.
A class will be instructed in the third
and fourth degrees by Protective grange
next Tuesday, with the usual social feat
ures. Plans are to be made and announced
at that time for the October meetings.
The Ancient aud Honorable Artillery of
Boston, which decided not to come here for
its field day because the Brooks House
could not furnish accommodations, will
have its celebration at Pittsfeld, Mass.
The state convention of the Daughters
of Rebekah lodges will be held in Rutland
November s. There are % lodges in the
state. An entertainment and reception
will be given the delegates in the evening.
NJ. w. Stickney has sold the coat and
cloak hanger business, known as the Yer
mont Manufacturing company, to K. II.
and Frank B. Eddy of Greenfield, Mass.
The sale was made through May d Crowns
agency.
Miss Josephette N. Brown of Brooklyn,
who was saved from drowning at Lake
Spofford recently by OR" Robbins of
Chesterfield Factory, has presented her
rescuer with a costly gold watch and chain,
appropriately engraved.
At the adjourned hearing of the cases
of b. G. Corser against the Brattleboro
Overall company for alleged infringements
of patents, set fol last Monday, further
extension of time of two weeks was grant
ed by Judge Wheeler to enable both par
ties to the litigation to put in their exhibits
as part of their case.
Watson French appeared in town this
week. French has been confined in the
county Jail at Keene, n. H., for several
months, charged with receiving stolen goods
at his home at North Hinsdale. For some
time French has been suffering from rheu-
matism, and Judge Smith granted a petit
ton asking that he be released on his own
recOgnizance.
j. L. Howard has been engaged as teacher
of penmanshp in the public schools fol
another year. His work has been extended
to grade four, and will include all classes
above this grade as heretofore. Mr. How.
ard is well known through all this section
and he has shown marked ability as q
teacher He has also been engaged at the
Moody schools for another year.
The first annual convention of the ordel
of Kings Daughters of Vermont will bC
held in Brattleboro, Oct. 10. Mrs. Mary
Lowe Dickinson, general secretary, anC
of the international order of Kings Daugh
tiers, will be present. The railroads in tn,
j state will sell tickets for fare one way t
those who attend the convention.
AT the reunion of the Windham count,
veterans, to be held with Greenwood pos
. at Putney, Wednesday, Oct. 4, there will
I be no evening meeting, the exercises bein!
in the forenoon and afternoon. At nool
a regular army bean dinner will be served
e At the camp fire in the afternoon Gov
Fuller, eX-Lieut. Gov. Woodbury. and 9th
d ers are expected to make addresses.
o The annual meeting of the stakeholder
y of the Connecticut River railroad will b
n held at the Office of the company the Goth
II Besides the choice of directors the stock
u holders will decide on what action will b.
taken relative to issuing bonds to al
amount not over 81, 900, 900 for the purpos
of funding its floating indebtness and tn
payment of money borrowed for Lawful
K purposes.
/ Z. Z. Stockwell and w. X. Fisher take
t deal of satisfaction in the result of tn
awards on oxen at the state fair at BuI
e lington last week. Mr.. StOckwell receive
:, first prizes for the best five yoke, the hes
/ fat pair, for the best pair weighing les
e than 5000 pounds, for best pair weighin
less than 5000 pounds. Mr.. Fisher wa
e awarded the first prize in the contest ope
t to all oxen, Mr.. Stockwell second an,
k Stockwell Il Fisher third and fourth.
e Thepassengers on the narrow gauge trail
e were badly shaken up and frightened Frida
night, at the Reynolds mill between Towns
n bend and West Townshend, the locOmotiv
: running into loaded freight car on the mai
a track. The locomotive was thrown iron
}. the track and the front part of it smashed
e the cowcatcher being completely demolish
ed, and the smokestake and iron wOrl
o damaged. After a delay of about three
n quarters of an hour the engine was re
r placed on the rails and the train proceed
9 ed. The accident was due to the crimina
. carelessness of men at the mill, who loade
the car and left it standing on the track
without putting out danger signal.
. The lovers of minstrelsy were delighte
= with the performance given by the Lucier
a company at the town hall Monday even
a ing. The stage was very prettily arrange
! with plush back ground, and the minstrel
. were arrayed in plush costumes. Tn
" band is one of unusual merit and include
i several good solOsts, among the them tn
II blind Lucier. The clever things in mt
" steal and farcial lines evoked applause, an
= approval was also earned by the frog mar
whose contoTtions were more wonder1u
than those of any other similar performer
:, Billy Fries, the tambou:ine spinner, who
70 also the skillful baton wielder; the lam
> balancer. and others.
&c The Concord Monitor is demanding a
II explanation of the financial jugglin
! whereby 5000 of the money allotted I
l. the New Hampshire Worlds Fair commi!
81 sioners was converted to the use of the Ha
, flax Hosiery mills of Laconia. Dr. Henri
T Tucker, formerly of Brattleboro, is treasu
g er of the mills, and his brother-in-law, Dl
j. G. Moore, is the president. Dr. Moor,
re it will be remembered, is also the presideT
1t of the Commonwealth national bank {
y. Manchester. The Monitor asks sewers
s state officers what they have to say, and /
he conclusion adds: "Above all Others d.
/ Joseph c. MOore's narrative will intere'
&c the public The Halifax Hosiery mills, {
ne which he was president, owed the Con
Id monwealth bank on the nth day of Marc
II last the sum of S31 600 On July II til
lg hosiery mills received credit in that ban
a for $1,000 stolen from the state of Ne
re Hampshire. What does DIR. Moore, VIII
was also president of the bank, kno
" about the crime? Will he tell?"
" The Evansville, Ind, journal says tha
n H..