Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
BRATTLEBORO,

Rev. DIR. George Leon Walker will preach
at the Centre church next Sunday.
The Bratteboro Jelly company will
take sound ripe apples at their works We'd
nesday and Saturday of next week.
E. p. Carpenter has been appointed a
member of the board of award on musical
instruments at the Worlds Fair.
Gorton's Ministries, who will appear
here the 2Sth, are a superior company and
their band is the best with any travelling
organization.
A company of about 80 guests at Wood
side, SpOfford lake, drove to the foot of
Wantastiquet in two tally-hos and other
teams Tuesday, and walked to the pinnacle,
where they held picnic during the day.
eyes, business is pretty dull at our
place" one man remarked. 81 would like
to know where it isn't dull?" said sec
ond. And No. 3 answered the interroga-
ton with cat the brewery" Pity tbs,
it's true.
The cornerstone of the new Y. NJ. c. A.
building at Keene n. H., was laid last
week Thursday. The building will cost
$25, 900, exclusive of the lot. Brattleboro
needs such building for the carrying on of
a good work here.
Collector r. Z. Gordon reports very
slow returns in the payment of taxes. He
has collected from SIS, 900 to SIS, 200, out
of total of about $4,000. Although
the taxes are larger this year than last the
collections are about one-third smaller
than on the corresponding date year ago.
W. Dorr Perry, the well-known night
Waterman and bookkeeper at the Vermont
national bank, and Miss Rebecca Shaffer
were quietly married at the Whippe street
home of j. L. Knowton Thursday morn
ing, Rev. A. j. Hough performing the GER
emory in the presence of few immediate
friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Perry took the
train south for a trip of a few days.
Albert Pullen writes The Phoenix from
Tacoma, Wash, under date of August 8,
stating that he has received some 20 letters
and kilograms at that place congratulating
him on the prospect of his tFiF TO Alaska
He SAYS that several of the correspondents
suggest that he prepare an illustrated lect-
ure of the trip, and that he will probably
do so if he succeeds in bringing back a
good collection of views.
The bass fishing in West and Connecti-
cut rivers this year is much "poorer" than
usual, almost no good catches being made.
George Barker, who caught one bass
weighing upwards of four pounds in the
rear of Hooker block two or three weeks
ago, holds the record for river fishing
Good strings of fish continue to be taken
from Spofford lake. Brattleboro people
who were there Saturday saw one man
who had at least 20 pounds of bass, includ-
ing three that weighed from three to four
pounds each.
L. +. Adams arrived home last Sunday
morning, after an absence of seven weeks,
spent mainly in looking after the interests
of E. Crosby O. Co. in connection with the
affairs of Croker, Fisk & Co. An assign
ment of the Crocker-- Fisk concern has
now been made to the Minneapolis Trust
company and its affairs will be settled in
the due course of insolvency proceedings.
Mr.. Adams finds a marked difference be-
tween the comparatively cheerful business
feeling at the East and the universal de-
preston at the West Minneapolis is put
ting the best face possible on the situation,
and will emerge right side up in due time.
The Northwestern Guaranty Loan failure,
of which many people in northern Yer
mont were the victims, will probably in
volve the loss of every dollar placed in it.
The people of Brattleboro and vicinity,
who have so largely placed their invest
ments through the Kelleys, are fortunate
in having put them in the hands of men of
whose integrity and sOundness there is not
the slightest question.