Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-09

n |. Hawley is in New York again this
week, picking up selections in clOaks, dress
goods, etc.
The Prospect hill book club hold their
annual sale and supper at d. f.. Taskers |
next Thursday evening.
The ladies of the Episcopal church are
planning to bring out new version OF
Mrs. Jarley's wax works. next month.
County Examiner II. ID. Ryder will hold |
an examination of teachers at Brattleboro |
Nov. "a, and i'm Bellows Falls Nov. 30.
The members of Fuller Battery are re-
ouested to attend the business meeting to
be held next Tuesday evening at the arm
DRY.
The loss on the City Bakery has been
adjusted by the British America Assurance
company through IL. E. Taylor & Sons
agency at S210.1l.
The marriage of Eric Landry and Miss
Alice Veet will be celebrated privately
next Thursday evening at Miss Neets
home on Chestnut street.
The young people of the Baptist Chris
tan Endeavor society are planning for
'Iiterary' evening, which promises to be
very entertaining. 1t will be given the
week before Thanksgiving
May & Crown have sold Holden ~ Mar
tins three building lots in Esteyville to
Charles n. Ward of Hinsdale, n. II. MI.
Ward will erect house and barn for his
own use.
Fourteen years ago Sunday the Their
mometer fell to II degrees below zero
Forty-three years ago there was heavy
fall of snow Oct. :, 'the beautiful in
many places remaining on the ground UNI
| til spring.
The annual meeting of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an
nounced for last Monday evening, was adj
| journed to next Tuesday, when it will be
held in the North room at the Brooks Ii
brary at 1880.
The blowing out of the blow pipe in the
Jelly company's building caused alarm
Monday, but the fire under the boiler was
| quickly drawn out and danger averted.
The employees, however, left the building
hurriedly. A new pipe was put in Tuesday
and operations resumed.
These officers of the Vermont Wheel
club were chosen at the semi-annual meet
ing Tuesday evening: President, +. ID.
Whitney; vice president, NJ. j. Moran; ;
secretary and treasurer Leslie Scott; cap
tain II. l.. Elmer; lieutenant, George
Foster: color bearer +. II. Anterior
club committee, f. d. Whitney, Leslie
Scott, Charles Shattuck, c. II. Thompson
and |. l.. Dickinson.
The Baptist and Congregational churches
will hold union meeting at Z O'Clock Sun
day evening in the Congregational church,
with reference to the week of prayer for
young men suggested for the Young Men 5
Christian associations of the world, and es-
pecialy for young men in our own village,
General j. J. Estey will lead. Addresses will
be made by Revs. Parry and Day, Princi-
pal Beverage of the High school, and b.
c. Austin. There will be good music,
good words and a cordial welcome. A full
house is expected and invited.
b. j. Kenyon is planning to bring out
an opera of which he is the composer and
author, early in December. 1t is entitled
"Breakers Ahead" and calls for IL prin
cpals and a chorus. The opera is highly
spoken of by the musicians who have eX
amined it. 1t is proposed to present il
three or four nights in succession for the
benefit of the old ladies' home or some
other local institution. Mr.. Kenyon wa:
formerly music teacher and orchestra
, leader at Norwich, Conn. but was called
back to his home in Townshend to settl,
the estate of his father, the late DR.. Kenyon
, of that town.
: Mr.. Hines has introduced bill entitled
IAN act relating to the boundaries of tn,
village of Brattleboro." The bill as draw
changes the west line of the village. TIL,
l present line runs between the residences o
/ Mrs. Farley Starr and Hon. II. II. Wheeler
across Western avenue, between the resi-
dences of w. II. Esterbrook and Henry G.
Field, to the west line of the farm formerl,
/ hxr RI lanaaca1 no n,
as proposed in the bill will run west to tn,
west line of the Carroll place; theme,
, southerly and easterly on the west anc
south sides of the road leading from Cen
; treyille past the farms of O. l.. Miner anr
l.. ID. Thayer, to the west line of the Henr,
> Clark farm. This change will bring with
in the village limits all the lots abutting OF
Western avenue as far west as the Carol
= place and the lands and lots abutting OF
the west and south side of the road leadin!
!. from Centreville by o. l.. Miners. Tn
4 bailiffs favor making the line run on tn
: west side of the f. A. Slack place.
Luther r. Plummer sustained an injur
Tuesday which will disable him for severa
; weeks, and the manner in which he escap
: ed death from freezing reads like fiction
: He was at work near the summit of Wan
y tastiquet, repairing the broken wire run
u ming to the meteorological station, when h
fell from the top of one of the poles, hi
y spurs slipping upon the ice that covere
n the pole. His spurs caught near the foo
t of the pole, throwing him heavily into
y foot of snow, and tearing away the liga
Z ments at the knee. Plummer could no
Z. walk a step, and, although he nearly faint
:, ed, he crawled to the end of the broker
Y wire. He had with him what is known a
e test box, in which is a small telephone
Making an attachment to the wire he telC
!, phoned to the village for help. l..
- Whitney was at once sent with his 10
= wagon to bring Plummer down. Owing /
\ the icy condition of the road he was a
y hour in reaching him, and then had t
=, bring him out to the road. Had Plumme
? been unable to telephone no alarm abou
him would have been felt until dark, an
>, it would then have been difficult to fin
, him.
The residence of j. II. White in Mer
den, Conn, was burned Tuesday mornin
e with nearly all the contents. The proper
" ty was insured for $4,000, which only par
e ly covers the loss The storm had wougl
u havoc with the telephone wires and it
7 supposed that the one entering Mr.. White
! house became crossed with a live wire
! causing the fire. Mrs. White first disco'
l. cred the fire, and aroused her husband