Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-10-06


lied at Bernardston, Mass
One of the proposed improvements at
the Valley fair grounds next season is an
addition to the grand stand.
The annual meeting of the Forestvlle
book club will be held with Miss Nettie
Phillips Monday evening, Oct, 8, at 1880.
The Townshend telephone line will be
made into a metallic circuit next spring,
and will connect with the Townshend-
WardsborO line.
Five large new show cases which Mr..
Fox bought while on his recent trip to
Boston have been placed in the Bratteboro
News company's room.
The hearing upon the will of the late
VIM. f. Ryther of Bernardston was post
poned at Greenfield last week until Nov. 4,
to accommodate the lawyers in the case
Dunklee & Ware have gone to New
York to select their stock of millinery
for the full trade. 1t will be remember
ed that they bought out the business of
Mrs. Goodenough.
The grading about the Canal street
schoolhouse has been completed and the
turf is now being put in place. Mrs. p.
Grady is also having grading done around
what was formerly the school building on
Reed hill.
Charles X. Simonds has reason to be
proud of the new span of horses which he
has bought for use on his coupe line. They
are spotted animals of the breed usually
known as ARABIAN horses" They are
closely matched and very handsome Mr..
Simond bought them of a liveryman at
Walpole, N. II.
Rutland has asked that the conservation
services of Rev. Father Hall be held in that
place, but Burlington is thought to have
greater claim, as that city will be his place
of residence. Father Hall will be invited
to come to Brattleboro for his first public
appearance in the state, previous to the
conservation.
DR.. b. F. Beardsley, who is giving
course of illustrated lectures on anatomy
and physiology, will speak in the town hall
Sunday evening at o'clock on Temper
ance from physicians standpoint" The
congregations of the various churches will
join in union meeting and the public is
cordially invited.
George w. Stewart, Miss Rose Stewart
and their mother, Mrs. Stewart, who have
occupied the Bradley cottage above West
river during the summer, returned to Bos-
ton Wednesday. They expect to return
next summer, and Mr.. Stewart hopes to
arrange for another appearance of the Bos-
ton Festival orchestra here in May.
The S0th annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Medical society will be held at
Rutland next Thursday and Friday. DIR.
ii. ID. HoltOn is announced to read an
obituary of Walter Carpenter, NJ. ID. DIR.
A. l. Miller of Brattleboro and Dr. f. II.
Pettengill of SaXtons River are to lead the
discussion after two papers
Merton c. Robbins gave his illustrated
lecture, "A trip to the Worlds Fair" be-
fore invited guests at the North street
school Friday night He is highly praised
for his lecture and the views illustrating it.
The lecture was given at Hinsdale Satur-
day evening and Mr.. Robbins, and his
brother, Walter Robbins, are now making
a tour of the state.
Mrs. William Leonard's house at the
corner of Asylum and Chase streets has
been sold through May IL Crowns agency
to Wallace w. Cook The price is report
ed to have been $500. Mr.. Cook will
move here about Nov l, and will make
repairs and improvements on his new prop
erty. 1t is understood that he will dispose
of his farm on the Putney road. Mr..
Frost who now occupies the house, will
remove to the Higginson house on Asylum
street.
Edward Clark, the well-known dealer in
pianos and organs, sustained painful in
iuries Monday afternoon. He was at the
house of Emery Whitney in Centreville, to
put a Carpenter organ into the second
story window. Mr. Clark was on a plat
form 10 or II feet high with the organ
when the timbers collapsed, and Mr.. Clark
and the organ fell to the ground Mr..
Clark had one bone of the ankle broken in
two places, a second bone injured and the
ankle sprained.
The Burlington Free Press has this to
say of laundryman who has done bust
ness in Brattleboro "Wong Yuen, better
known by his business name of Charlie
Sing, who has run laundry, and some of
the time two, here for the last eight years,
has sold out to Len Chung. Within a
year or so Mr.. Yuen will return to China
to live Although he refuses to state the
exact amount, he confesses to having made
between $1,000 and $4,000, all of which is
in gold and which he will carry back with
him."
George Thomas, formerly of Marlboro.
was married on Wednesday TO Mrs Louise
The ceremony was performed by Rev. A.
j. HOugh in the presence of few immedi-
ate friends and relatives. The rooms were
prettily decorated with flowers. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas left for a carriage drive, amid
the usual shower of rice and good luck
slippers. On their return they will live at
the brides former home. Beautiful pres
ents of silver were received, showing the
high regard in which Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
are held.
An important contribution to historical
theology is the exhaustive work of Prof.
Willston Walker, of the Hartford Theo-
logical seminary, on "The creeds and plat
forms of COngregationalism." (Charles
Scrbners' Sons, Svo, PIP. VIn-604, S3.500
The Boston Beacon closes an extended re-
view of this book as follows: prof
Walker has evidently spared no pains in
making this work complete and exact, and
it is in reality wonder of patient and in
telligent erudition. TO crown all, there is
an index filling nearly 20 pages. Theolog-
ical books of this nature are the kind that
have lasting value"
"Then and now-Three SCENES" is the
title of an article in 'Our Dumb Animals"
the paper issued by George T. Angel, the
president of the American Band of Mercy.
Under scene one Mr.. Angel relates how,
years ago, high spirited mare which he
owned was horribly driven and beaten in