Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-07

e Jones and the Estey Organ company
have died this week.
l. b. Taft is building barn in the rear
of the blacksmith shop on Flat street. 1t
will be used by Dr. Bowen.
c. d. Noyes's stallion Tyringhurst is be-
ing trained at the Valley fair ground. The
track there is now in fair condition.
Crosby & Co. are to erect an exhibition
building on the Valley fair grounds, ad-
joining that of the Estey Organ company.
The Windham County Pomona grange
will meet with Victoria grange at Whining
ton next Thursday. The afternoon session
will be public.
1t is expected that the east and west
sides of Main street will meet on the island
Tuesday afternoon in the second base ball
contest of the season.
Joseph Fenton, so years old, fell on
Elliot street near his home Monday morn
ing. He was unconscious for sometime
but is now improving,
The fishermen will see the effects of the
drouth in small trouts streams next year.
Brattleboro man who was i'm Guilford
last week found 30 dead trout in one hole.
The peculiar atmospheric conditions of
low day" of 1881. The weather bureaus
explanation of these days is given on the
seventh page.
The Claremont Advocate says: "The A.
j. Pike place has been sold through the
agency of j. c. TimsOn IL Co. to Andrew
Thomas, formerly of Brattleboro now en-
gineer at the Monadnock mills"
Miss Emma Houghton entertained a
party of young ladies at her High street
home last evening i'm hon n of Miss Cow
ing's birthday a merry time was passed,
one of the attractions being a "birthday
tree"
one hundred two-year-old steers were
unloaded here from the West Yesterday.
They were shipped to j. NJ. Moore of Will
Evansville. Some of the animals were in
good condition and others are to be fatted
here before being sent to market.
Among the attractions booked at the
town hall are the following: Sept. Il,
"The BURGLAR %, Gorton's Ministries /;
26, Valley Fair dance; y, Lolita Mon
teith and her fun makers; Oct /, grange
lecture; Oct. %, first Y. NJ. c. A. enter
tainment; Oct. 20, Sawtelle comedy com
pany for week Nov. s, Fencing master"
An audience which overcrowded the
| Centre church welcomed Mr.. Day on his
return from his vacation last Sunday.
The service was made rarely beautiful
and impressive by the singing of Mr. and
| Mrs. LAWN, who volunteered their ser
vices on this the last Sunday and the
last day before their departure for
Europe.
An attractive specimen of old-time hand
work is displayed in S. w. Edgetts wiz
| dow this week. 1t is a linen counterpart
or "coverlid,' in blue and white, fringed
on three sides, with heavy raised flowers
in the large squares, the linen having been
! spun and woven, and the embroidery done
by the same person. The coverlid is from
| l2j to $50 years old.
The sd annual meeting of the Windham
conference of Congregational churches will
| be held with the church in Townshend
next Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. II
and -. The names of Rev. G. O. Day
and c. f. Thompson of this village, and
Rev. j. II. Babbitt, Prof. II. II. Shaw and
Miss ). f. Clark of West Brattleboro APP
pear on the program. Mr.. Day breaches
| the conference sermon.
Next Sunday promises to be a particu-
larly interesting day at the Baptist church.
1t is the annual rallying day of the Sun
day school, and the whole day will be Civ
en- up to it. The pastor will preach in the
morning an illustrated sermon on lessons
| from the dove. The home department
will be present at the morning and Sunday
school services. Special hymns have been
written for the occasion and will be sung
at the opening service of Sunday school.
In the evening there will be lessons frCm
Pilgrims Progress, with aid of the stere-
opticon. 1t is hoped that all present and
past members will try to be present.
The steamship Miranda, which carried
the excursion party from New York to the
Arctic regions, proved an ill-starred craft
She sailed from New York July :, and
10 days later ran head on to an iceberg in
a fog off the Newfoundland coast. Re
pairs were made and the boat then pushed
on to Sukkertoppen, Greenland. That
port was reached August T. and on start.
ing north from there two days later the
| Miranda struck a sunken rock, on
which she beat violently before finally
floating off. She then put back to Suk
kertoppen and members of her party went
in search of American fishing schooners
for relief. Arrangements were made
with one of them to bring the party home
and the passengers were transferred tC
this vessel, the Rigel. The Miranda then
started for Labrador with the Rigel in tow
When 800 miles out, August u, the
tremendous ocean swells caused the
Miranda's water tank to burst, the vessel
began to fill, the captain and his crew
took refuge on the Rigel, and the Miranda
was left to founder. The party reached
North Sidney, Cape Breton, Wednesday
glad that all lives were saved, though
their effects were on the bottom of the
ocean. This was the excursion which
Albert j. Pullen was to have joined, and
he is not so sorry as he was that business
and personal reasons compelled him tc
change his plans.
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