Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-10-13
THE annual field day at Mt. Hermon will

boro Sunday on account of an accident on
the Fitchburg railroad.
The Republican city committee of IIo-
yoke have Endorsed Mayor ID. l.. Farr for
candidate for the state senate from the
second district.
II. r. Lawrence judged the horses at
the Worcester Northwest fair at Athol,
Mass, last week Wednesday. 1t was a
very good show.
I The fourth year class of the High school
swill have husking party at John Gales
in Guilford tonight, and will then return
to Coopers for supper.
DR.. b. F. Beardsley offers 500 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the persons
who took down and destroyed two of his
advertising Tnners Monday night
Frank DuHklee has bought of l.. H.
Richardson and l.. A. Elmer the farm in
Dummerston known as the Gibbs farm
The sale was made through May ~ Crown.
The buttermilk from the Brattleboro
creamery for the year beginning Nov. l,
has been sold to A. F. Waite, at % cents
per barrel. The years product will prob
ably be in the vicinity of $500 barrels
DR.. Beardsley finished his course of pub
lie lectures Wednesday evening and will
now give a few special lectures. This
evening he will speak to women only and
tomorrow, Saturday, evening, to men
only.
Miss Abbie f. Fuller, Estey street, has
returned from the New England Conserva-
tory of Music, Boston, where she has COM
pleted musical course, and is ready to take
pupils in piano, harmony, and theory of
music.
Frank Eckels, the eight-year-old son of
John j. Eckels, uphosterer at S. A. Smith
IL Co.'S, broke two bones of the left arm
Friday. He fell while at play with the
other boys and one of his young compan-
ions fell upon him.
The friends of Mrs. Kirkland, who was
knocked down by one of two wheelmen
Sunday noon, on the crossing near the
Wells fountain, suggest to the young men
that the least they could do under the cir
cumstances was to apologize to Mrs. Kirk
land, who was severely bruised. The
young man whose wheel passed over her
simply picked himself up and went along.
Hollster, the horse owned by A. n.
Kingsley of Ashuelot, which won first place
in the 2:20 class race at the Valley fair.
was also a winner at Enfield, Conn, last
with Hollister, but during the second heat
was run into, thrown and run over. and his
leg broken. Mr.. Kingsley then mounted
the sulky and drove Holister to the front
in the next two heats.
The 25th annual convention of the State
Sabbath School association will be held at
Rutland Oct. %, "a and % Several noted
speakers from different parts of the coun-
Inv ttri1I l,a
l.. w. Hawley of Brattleboro. Rev. j. II.
Rabbit of West Brattleboro, Rev J. f.
Diverty of Bellows Falls, Rev. f. f. Lewis
OF Iutney are among those from this county
whose names appear on the program
The Montpelier Waterman of this week
says that Miss Margaret Dewey narrowly
escaped serious, and perhaps fatal, injuries
one day last week while on the way to
Brattleboro to visit Mrs. j. l.. Martin. her
sister When near Putney station a rifle
ball passed through the car window beside
which she was sitting, only few inches
above her head. Whether it was stray
bullet from hunters rifle or the work of
some miscreant, is only conjecture.
The hunters are taking advantage of the
good weather and several have been quite
successful in bagging game. j. d. Horne
and friend brought in six grey squirrels
Saturday, Ira Knight and Walter Horton
eight Monday, Ned Cleveland and O. IL.
Ellis five Wednesday, while f. G. Frost
and j. G. Ullery take the medal thus far
with one rabbit, two partridges and l / grey
squirrels Wednesday. Frank Hildreth,
Capt. j. G. Estey and l.. ID. TAYLOR went
out to a private preserve one day and Sc
cured three red squirrels.
A delightful surprise party was that at
the Universalist parsonage last Monday
evening, when the members of Rev f. W.
Sprague's Bible class, to the number of "a.
suddenly appeared in force. armed with all
the credentials for a good time. During
the evening Mrs. John p. Goodenough,
with appropriate words on behalf of the
class, presented Rev. Mr.. Sprague with a
handsome picture entitled, "a midsummer
day" Rev. Mr. Sprague replied feelngly,
thanking the class for its kindness and ap-
probation. REGULATIONS, music, ice cream.
cake and fruit followed, and some very re-
markable "free hand drawing" pleasantly
closed the evening.
In test recently made by j. G. Stafford
he found that his herd of six cows gave 932
pounds of milk in y days; $40 pounds of
this milk put in the cooler yielded 175
SR'SSo Vi NiC1h, O.4O spaces 10
the pound, in accordance with the last
creamery report, this was equal to 81
pounds of butter, which at %. IS cents per
pound, the October price paid TO creamery
patrons last year, would amount to $12.27.
The 876 pounds of milk, if sold to milkmen
at four cents per quart, would have brought
Sl4, an apparent difference of S1.73. The
skim milk, however, was worth 81, leaving
only 73 cents for the extra work of hand
ling the milk in the latter case. Mr.. Stat
ford made the test to get at the compare
tive returns from milk sent to the creamery
and milk sold to milkmen, and thinks the
advantage is with the creamery.
Capt. S. E. Howard of West Newton.
Mass, formerly of Brattleboro, who has
served one term as Republican represen-
tative in the Massachusetts legislature, has
again been nominated for that position.
Capt. Howard did not know of the move
ment to nominate him; he was a delegate,
and on reaching the city hall was told that
his name was prominently discussed and
that it would be well to retire This he
was reluctant to do, but was finally per-
suaded to hand over his credentials to E.
b. Wilson. Immediately after leaving the
hall Mr.. Howard wrote a note to Mr.. Will
son positively refusing to accept unless he
received two-thirds of all the votes. The
result was a surprise to the friends of Rep
resentative Esterbrook, who expected him