Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-05-26
BRATTLEBORO.

The jewelry stores will be closed all day
Tuesday.
Brattleboro will soon have a third coal
dealer, as Leslie Yeawvey is planning to
engage in the business.
The ladies of the Congregational society
are preparing to hold their annual fair on
the evening of June IL at the town hall.
The Valley Drum corps-Charles Smith,
Charles Sturges, Clayton Daniels, snare
drummers; Chauncey Young, bass drum
mer; Gerry Messer and Harry Horton, fif-
ers-will play at Wilmington Memorial
day.
Herbert E. Robertson's farm, know as
the DR.. Wooley place in North Hinsdale,
has been sold through May Il Crowns
agency to A. F. Boynton. This makes
three farms on the Hinsdale road sold
through this agency in three weeks.
The designs for a mountain tower are
displayed in H. b. Chamberlain window.
Four designs are by Frank Crosby, now of
Boston, two by Charles Brasor, and one
each by Paul Henkle and George Childs,
the latter two pupils in the public schools.
President Smith of the Central Yer
mont railroad, and other officials, includ-
ing j. w. Hobart, f. K. Chamberlain, L.
A. Emerson, j. A. Southern and F. W.
Baedville of St. Adams and d. Mckenzie
and Robert Colt of New London, were in
town Saturday. They were making trip
of inspection over the Central Vermont
line in private car.
The finest string of trout ever brought
into town, probably, was photographed
yesterday by Wyatt. 1t consisted of 30
fish weighing 20 pounds and two ounces,
4 I .
in the New England Trout and Salmon
clubs pond at Marlboro, Tuesday evening
and Wednesday. This shows what can be
accomplished by intelligent work in the
direction of scientific fish culture.
The Medical News of a recent issue pub
lished reports of POI cases of Kelley cure
treatment, among which were l5S relapses
and IS cases of insanity after treatment.
What the Medical Record, another leading
journal of the medical profession, con-
dennis in the rum-cure business treatment
is "the secrecy, the inhumanity, the indis-
criminate dosing of all kinds of people, sim
ply for purposes of gain"
A contemplate piece of business oc-
CURED Saturday night. A man of "bi-
zarre appearance, who had committed
no offence, was pelted with eggs by two
not hit. One of the eggs broke pane OF
glass, and another struck a wel-known
Elliot street citizen and sOiled his clothing
A young man on Main street is said to
have bought the eggs and urged the boys
on to their dirty work.
Two old watches owned by Randall IL
Clapp are with the Keystone exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. They have attracted the at.
tention of the publisher of a jewellers pa
per who wishes to buy them. One of the
watches is verge repeater, which was for
merly owned by an uncle of Mr.. Randall,
who was a jeweler This watch is over
100 years old. The other watch is prob
ably 200 TO 800 years old. 1t is verge
bulls eye, and has a fine fiddle string in
the place of the usual chain in the works.
1t was bought by Mr. Clapp when on the
road a number of years ago.
Next Monday evening the Dartmouth
college Glee and Comedy clubs will present
in the town hall their laughable musical
entertainment, "a box of monkeys" The
entertainment is unique, and has stirred
the audiences that have witnessed 1t to the
highest pitch of mirth and enthusiasm
The college boys make pretty good looking
girls, Judging from the photographs that
have been on exhibition at Chaplin Co. s
drug store during the week, showing some
of the comic incidents developed during
the evening. The singing, as given by
them when here last January, was unusu-
ally good. There has been a large sale OF
tickets and a well-filed house will greet
the young men.