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

A meeting of the Murray club will be
held at the Universalist vestry next Tues
day evening.
A pleasant meeting of the Ruthians was
held last evening at Lindenhurst. Tying
quilts and other needle work was engaged
in.
''Old Jim has some good qualities,
worthy our imitation, as we may learn
from a story by Rev. Alfred j. Hough, in
last number of the EpwOrth Herald.
The second entertainment of the Y. NJ.
G. A. course will be given Nov. -, 1894,
by Rev. r. S. Macarthur, DID,, pastor of
Calvary Baptist church of New York city.
Subject, 1.-The Empire of the Car"
A chapter of the Knights of the Round
Table has been formed among the boys,
and is known as Wantastiquet chapter.
Meetings are held every Tuesday evening,
with George Clapp, and the time is occu-
pied with crokonole and other games.
G. w. Baker is making extensive i'm
provements on his house on the Putney
road, formerly the Chamberlain place.
Among them is the construction of broad
piazza on the south side and a dining
room extension on the north side.
The officers elected at the organization
of the Junior Murray club last evening
were president, Bert Hopkinson; vice pres
ident Laura Stearns; secretary, Florence
Farr; treasurer, Guy Tasker. The club
will hold its meetings the first and third
Mondays of each month.
Fifty or more apples, representing nearly
as many varieties, are to be seen in Chaplin
q Co.'s window. They were gathered at
the fruit exhibition in Spokane, Wash, by
r. NJ. Sherman, of the Vermont Loan d
Trust company, who sent them to f. j..
Holman, the company's eastern manager,
as specimens of fruit grown in the territory
where its loans are made. Several of the
apples weigh over pound each.
The annual grange fair, at the town hall
next Tuesday evening, will deserve the
general attention of townspeople, espe-
cially when the success that was attained
last year is remembered. A new feature
will be the corn maidens' drill by 20 young
women, and there will be many other at
fractions, while vegetables of all kinds,
Mrs. Mixers home made candy, and fancy
articles will be on sale. Supper will be
served from $3.50 to s.
A literary meeting of the Epworth league
furnished profitable entertainment for 20
or more of its members last evening. The
program included papers from Springfield
and Bellows Falls chapters, Mr.. West
gates very interesting report of the conven-
ton held at Ludlow last month, and in
strumental music by Miss BOynton. Mr..
Hough also read his poem "Thanksgiving
at the pearly gate" which he has written
for publication in the Thanksgiving num-
Der of the EpwOrth Herald
A late number of the Moro, Oregon,
Observer devotes a column to an account OF
the rebuilding which is going on along the
Columbia river, and especially at Grant,
where the food of last spring made such
great destruction of property. Walker q
Goodel of the Milling and Distilling COM
pany, are rebuilding on a larger scale and
much more substantial basis than before
the flood struck them. AS soon as the
waters receded they put their Touring mills
in repair. and soon had them running,
turning out three of the best brands in
the Pacific coast market. Their distillery,
which went whirling down stream, is in
process of rebuilding, and will be in opera
ton early in December. The Observer
especially corrects a local impression that
the distllery is for the purpose of turning
out whskey Its product, on the contra
ny, is a choice article of high wines which
goes to San Francisco in carload lots, and
is used in the preparation of medicines
druggists supplies, havpring extracts, etc