Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-29
BRATTLEBORO.

Rev. c. 0. Day has returned and will
preach at the Center church Sunday.
The inmates of the Brattleboro Retreat
were favored with concert given on the
grounds of the institution Tuesday evening
by the First Regiment band
The sale of tickets for the seasons Y.
NJ. c. A. entertainment course will occur
at the rooms Monday, Oct. Q, instead of
Oct. l, as announced in the prospectus.
The choice of seats will occur later.
The Electric Light company is wiring
Thorn's drug store for lights. Miss Saw
yer's hall will be lighted by electric lights
for the first time to- night. A. ID. Wyatt's
and Judge Shea's houses are to be wired
at once for electric lights.
G. F. Thompson Il Co.'s store would
give ample quarters for the Y. NJ. c. A,
with reading room and parlor in front,
large gymnasium and baths in the rear and
door opening out on the plot in the rear of
the town hall A committee has been
appointed to see what terms can be made
for a lease after the store is vacated.
The town hall was filled to its utmost
capacity last evening, and the verdict
seems to be general that Fanny Rice and
her company in Jolly Surprise" gave
one of the most enjoyable performances
ever witnessed in Brattleboro. Managers
Fox & Richardson are to be commended
for bringing this great attraction here when
it could be enjoyed by so many people.
Robert Welch, an employee of John Gal
win, rowed out into the Connecticut yester-
day to get the hat of a friend which had
fallen from the bridge into the water.
Just as Welch reached for the hat the boat
tipped over. Welch went below the sur
face, and on coming up struck out for his
own hat, which he pulled down over his
ears and then swan ashore, leaving the
other fellows hat and the boat to drift
down stream.
Two brothers, Julius L. and Herbert
Porter, who have been boarding at their
brother-n-law' Adelbert Benson's, swal-
lowed bug juice Thursday night, and in
consequence of the indulgence they under
took to "clean out" Benson's house. which
is on the cross road leading from the Brook
road, near the saw mill, up to Western
avenue Benson put them out and sent
for the police. Officers Harmon and
Turner went up and found the Porters in
the barn. They changed their lodgings to
the lookup, and this morning Justice
Newton fined them s. and costs, amount
ing to S10,51 each, for being drunk.
Fred Cole, brakeman ON the Fitchburg
railroad, was fatally injured in the stables
at the fair ground Wednesday evening.
Cole was assisting in caring for the horses
owned by his father-in-law, H. S. Frost,
the Bellows Falls liverymen. A rope was
suspended across the foot of the stall.
One of the horses switched its tail around
the rope and when Cole attempted to enter
the stall the horse threw up its heels, strik-
ing Cole on the side of the head and smash
ing the bone. He was taken to the Amer
lean House in an unconscious condition
and DR.. Webster, who was quickly sum-
moned, pronounced the case hopeless.
Coles death took place about one o'clock.
The body was taken to Bellows Falls
Thursday morning. Coles home had
been in Bellows Falls much of the time.
He was young man of good repute, and
had many friends at Bellows Falls He
was married in January, 1892, to Julia
Frost, daughter Of II. s. Frost.