Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-23

Fred Hopkinson is now pushing to com
pletion his house in Esteyville.
DR.. Judson has party of Is or 20 at
The Cottage in Highland Park, from his
mission work in New York.
Dr. H. d. Holton has sold the Reed
street schoolhouse to Hon. H. II. Wheeler,
who Will convert It into a two-story tene-
ment house.
A Frenchman at the steam mill In Dunn
merston had his face badly cut and bruised
one day this week, being hit by the limb of
a falling tree.
The drivers of Mr.. Coolidge's coupes
have a large number of time tables, With
the new summer schedule, which they will
distribute gratuitously.
Mrs. II. S. Goodenough has sold her
millinery business in Cutler block, to Mrs.
A. Dunklee and Mrs. NJ. b. Ware, who will
take possession July 1.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
the thermometer recorded from 81 to 90 de-
grees in the shade, with mean tenpera-
ture Of from 40 to SO degrees.
Why not give us poor pedestrians few
street crossings on Main street, Mr.. Road
Commissioners All that it needs is man
and hoe, and life would be great deal
more tolerable.
Seven members of the senior class of
Trinity college have been appointed COM
mencement speakers, among them Will F.
Collins of Brattleboro. The speakers are
chosen on rank in scholarship.
Frank H. Taintor, who is employed by
r. II. Baker, was married yesterday at
Providence, r. l., to Miss Jennie b.
Cd ia hos
tonight, and will remain with Mr.. and
Mrs. Baker until they are ready to begin
housekeeping in the MILESTONE building.
The Lake Raponda resort at Wilmington
has been opened this week, and the out
look is favorable for prosperous season.
The hotel has been newly painted, and is
in the hands of new management. II.
Collins and NJ. G. Wilcox-who have a
good reputation to maintain, and who
promise to give the public good service in
every respect.
The success Of the annual fair and fes-
tival, given by the Congregational ladies'
society at the town hall last evening,
seemed in no way affected by the pouring
rain outside The supper was one of the
most delicious ever served by the ladies,
and the two double booths and three single
ones were very prettily decorated. The
fancy work and hand-painted trifles were
especially dainty, and the doll table at
tracted much fiattering notice. The gross
receipts reached $500.
The big telephone poles which have been
set in Main street from the bridge up to
the Peoples bank corner are undoubtedly
cosmopolitan, you know" but they are
crying offence to the eye, and their effect
is as ugly as 1t is possible to imagine. We
have been very proud of Main street since,
a year ago, the hitching posts, sign posts,
and all other distractions were removed
from the cutters and curbing, and now
comes something worse than all put to-
gether. The poles are understood to have
been erected by the consent of the author
tiles and the only satisfaction TO be gained
by the public, we suppose, is in lamenting
that the beauty of the street must be rIi-
ined In this way. The atrocity would be
lessened If two or three of the crookeder
poles were replaced with straight masts.
The following item is from the Rutland
Herald and many of the other state papers
have published a statement to the same
effect: "A new track record for Vermont
was established last week at Newport
The PAGER Charles L., owned by William
Landon, turned the track in 2:191, reduc-
ing his records from 2:20t. The state
record, however, in pisa, made at the
Valley Fair in Brattleboro last yeaI by
Ned Winslow, owned by r. A. Bagg OF
Springfield, Mass. The entries are all in
annual meeting Of the Yer