Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-09


blast the rock in several places.
F. X. BaTows has been appointed guard
ian of Elizabeth and Brooks Marshall
children of the late o. A. Marshall.
The soft concrete sidewalks about the
village have aroused the ire of few thrifty
housekeepers who have found their carpets
soiled by the material which had been
'tracked i'm this week.
Patrick Griffin of Elliot street fell from
a ladder with his pipe in his mouth recent
ly and the stem was broken and forced
down his throat making a wound which
developed into bad abcess.
Dennis Dugan and his wife were thrown
from their carriage near their home in Es-
teyville Sunday. Mrs. Dugan escaped UNI
hurt, but Mr.. Dugan sustained injuries
which have incapacitated him for work
this week.
The ordination and installation of 4. b.
Leavitt as pastor of the Unitarian church
will take place during the first week of
July, probably on Thursday, the 9th. Mr..
Leavitt will probably take up his residence
here about June 20.
The Barlow Brothers minstrels were
well received in their performance at the
town hall Saturday, the comic pieces, mus
zeal selections, and specialties, including
'Zella, the human frog" excelling what is
usually seen in modern minstrelsy
The report comes from Louisville, KY,
that Col Chase's fast stopper, "Siglight,"
has lowered his record of 2:14 in practice
on the Kentucky tracks. Mr.. Burnham
had charge of Siglight at South Royalton
during the winter, and the horse was taken
to Kentucky this spring.
There are now 10 or 20 designs for
mountain tower in II. b. Chamberlatn's
windcw, two having been sent in this week
by c. NJ. Cheney, and one each by T.. Gran
vile Pratt and +. w. Crosby. Charles
BrasOr's design with the memorial tablets
is favorably commented upon.
party enjoyed trip, received royalty at
Suburban hotel, everybody happy is the
concise statement received by The Phoenix
in a telegram from Chicago in regard to the
party of 40 people from Bellows Falls and
Brattleboro, who left Tuesday on the Ray
mOnd & Whitcomb excursion under the
management of j. c. Clair.
Wantastiquet lodge, l. O. O. F., will
| hold a memorial service, under the direc-
ton of Rev. A. j. Hough, at the town hall
on June IL, at 2:30 =. NJ, to which the
public are cordially invited All resident
Odd Fellows not members of Wantasti-
| quet lodge are requested to meet at the
| lodge rooms at , O'Clock p. NJ.
| President Clark of the united Christian
Endeavor societies and his wife will com
plete their trip around the world the latter
part of this month and will come at once
| to West Brattleboro, where their children
have been living for the past year with
Rev j. H. Rabbit. The local Endeavor-
ers hope Mr.. Clark's first address after re-
turning will be made here.
A display in Morse & Simpsons window
Saturday attracted much admiring notice,
especially from sportsmen, it consisting of
four handsome trout, weighing 1t pounds,
the two largest weighing three pounds
each and the smallest two and one-half
pounds. They were captured by James
Menzies in the Little Dead Diamond river
down in Name" who sent them down to
stop the mouths of the scoffers.
The reduction in price at once caused an
unusual demand for the Warwick cycles,
and H. NJ. Wood has already delivered
machines of this make to Dr. G.. F. Bar
Der, Principal Horne, A. d. Wyatt, w. S.
Josselyn and F. II. Newton. He has also
received orders from Wilfred Fisher, NJ. w.
Robb, Walter Stearns, L. II. Barber, G. F..
Mason and l.. NJ. Young. Charles McRea
has also received Warwick this week.
The 10th annual meeting of the Wind.
ham County Board of Fire Underwriters
was held at the Commercial House at Bel
lows Falls Tuesday. A. w. Childs and T.
j. b. Cudworth were present These Off
GERS were elected: President, f. l.. Wal
ker of Bellows Falls; secretary, l.. ID. Tay-
| Tor of Brattleboro; treasurer A. w. Childs
OF Brattleboro; rating committee, {. +. X.
Jenne of BrattlebOro, f. S. Leonard and
George F. Ball of Bellows Falls
c. A. Trip has several antiques at his
store that are very valuable. Among them
is a clock $50 years old, in a perfect state
of preservation. 1t was bought a short
time ago by DR.. Webster from the late c.
c. P. Goodrich. Mr.. Trip owns a jug
which was the property of the great great
grandfather of DR.. HOlton. He also has
other pieces of crOckery, and old flax and
| spinning wheels which came from Wards
boro and Guilford, androns, and other ar
ticles.
There was a large attendance of dele
gates from all over the state at the Baptist
Sunday school convention at Rutland this
week There were addresses by prominent
Baptists and a general discussion of Sun
day school work. These officers were
elected: President, Rev. Gibbs Braislin
of Rutland; vice president, Rev. w. S.
Roberts of Burlington; secretary, Rev. S.
Robson of West Randolph; treasurer, d.
NJ. White of Rutland; directors, j. f. Til
son, f. f. Towner, j. f. Pollard, L. H.
Knapp, Virgil Benedict.
Two fresh youths were driving down
High street Tuesday evening, when the
wheels of their carriage locked with those
of DR.. Bowen's team, which was htched
in front of Geo. f. Selleck's. This caused
DR.. Bowen's horse to run up the second
High street hill, Ned Ranney stopping the
animal near the Methodist parsonage. DR..
Bowen's carriage was partially wrecked.
The youths who caused the accident drove
down High street, without stopping to
learn the result of their recklessness or to
offer word of explanation.
1t has been remarked by some who are
interested in weather representations that
the bulletins displayed at II. B. Chamber
lain's store frequently disagree with those
in the daily papers received here at about
the same time. The reason of the disa-
greement is that the bulletins published in
the morning papers are based upon obser-
vations taken at p. NJ. of the preceding
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