Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-08-30
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Next Monday being Labor day the banks
will be closed
party of Is young people had a corn
roast on Wantastiquet Tuesday evening.
Henry Bond of Buffalo gave an earnes-
and practical address on the common Stunt /
day afternoon.
E. 5. Hunter is moving here from Hub |
bardston, Mass. He will occupy the tene-
ment at 20 South Main street
County Examiner Ryder examined 20 or
more applicants for teachers certificates at
the High school room yesterday
The First Regiment band will give the
thirteenth in their summer series of CON
certs from the Brooks House balcony next
Wednesday evening.
James Coleman has published a conven-
lent and attractive timetable of the trolley
railroad. Copies may be obtained at Mr..
Coleman's barber shop.
one of Simonds's coupes was nearly
run into at the railroad crossing Wednes-
day evening by caboose which was being
carelessly pushed down the track
The managers of the races at the Valley
Fair have decided TO run the 2:22. 2:3j
and 2;j6 classes the first day and the IL,
2:20 and 40 classes the second day
j. II. Goodrich, having sold his real
estate at Lakeview. Lake Spofford. has
decided to dispose of his fixtures and per
sonal property at auction Saturday, sept.
:. beginning at a. ".
The telephone exchange is having a
deal OF trouble in handling its business
with the switchboard now in use. A
board for two operators has been ordered
and will be put in position soon.
Louis II. Stellmann of West Brattleboro
has been granted patent on a machine
for wiring paper packets He has assign
! ed a controlling interest in the patent to
/ +. j. Holman of this village and c. Is.
1 Hopkins Of Hinsdale
The coaching parades at Bethlehem and
Lancaster, y. H., this year are described as
the finest vet held. and they drew crowds
OF admiring spectators This is a hint,
manifesty. to Brattleboro folk to look 10
their laurels in the Valley Fair cavalcade-
and they will DO ii.
There has been great deal Of talk about
burglars since last week. Ii is believed
that /. NJ. Bingham house IN Esteyyilic
was entered one night recently. but moth
ing OF value was taken. There are one or
two reports OF attempt, to turn keys in
doors, and TO gain entrance through blinds.
The j4th annual meeting OF the Wind
ham conference OF Congregational churches
will be held in Putney next Wednesday
and Thursday, beginning al 10 % clock on
Wednesday. An interesting program has
been arranged for the meeting an outline
of which was published in The Phoenix
TWO weeks ago.
Toad Hill residents We're aroused sun
day afternoon by revolver shots, and
ing the last chambers of second revolver
into the hedge near his house. The tirs
thought. naturally. was OF more burglars
bui 1t soon became evident thar the lu
truder was of the species Mephitls Amer.
canus which was finally despatched witt
a shotgun in the hands of Capt. j. Harry
Estcy
John j. Horuer, well-remembere,
Brattlehoro BOY sends this pleasant not,
about the appearance OF the Vermont Si
knight, In general and the BrattleborC
commandcry 10 particular, in Tuesday
grand parade: 81 have talked with severa
= Nermouters here since the big parade anl
all agree that amongst the thousands OF
Knights there were no state commandment
that looked better than the Nermonters
And ] personally thought the Brattlepor,
F, representatives looked as well and carrie,
themselves as well as any from the state.
The Father Matthews pioneer corps o
the the church OF the Sacred Heart @
Cambridge, Mass. took a silk banner a
the recent national convention OF tn
Catholic total abstinence society in PhIla
delphla. The corps had AS competitor
, companies from New ork. Philadelphia,
and other cities. but United States arm
officers gave the prize TO the Cambridg
boys. 1t is this corps in which Miss Kat
! / Austin. sister Of Thomas A. Austin, take
= much interest, it being through her man
, agement that the $1,000 required TO send tn
, corps TO the convention was raised
Only two OF the principals of Madam
Tavarvs grand opera company of last sea
son have been engaged for this year. on
being VIM. Schuster. The company wi
. open Col. Sims new Montauk theatre il
Brooklyn sept 10. Manager Hirsh says
Not since the days when Mrs. Thurbe
sank thousands OF dollars in the Nationa
Opera company has a manager undertake
the production OF grand opera on such a
=, elaborate scale as will characterize tn
u representations to be made by the Tavar
company this year The chorus wi
= number over 100. and no expense will b
spared in making the tour of Tavar
throughout the principal cities memorabl,
The many friends of Miss Katherin
Lills and her family were shocked Wed
Il nesday evening 10 learn OF her sudde
IS death. Miss Lillis has been employed TO
!. over year at the NintOn paper mill. bu
/, on Wednesday she worked in the family O
IS Frank /. Hunt, returning nome to get SUI
II per about g. When her brother James LEI
Il home Immediately after supper she was az
u parently in good health. James met hi
Il mother. Mrs. Eliza Lillis, on Elliot stree
d a short distance from home and told hC
n Katherine was there. When Mrs LillI
d entered the house she did not see he
d daughter and called TO her, but there wa
,, no response. She then stepped into an az
j. joining room and found her unconsciou,
e Mrs. Lillis summoned help but her daugl
D. ter never rallied, and died within shol
IS time. The cause OF death was probab
rs heart disease. or the shock produced
II drinking ice water while III an eXhauste
= condition. Miss Lills was about 30 year
Is old and was well known, having been en-
II ployed at the American House and in 9th,
DE- places about town. She leaves a mother an
ID four brothers-John, Michael and James
as this village and Thomas, who is in II
Is West; and a sister, Miss Anna, of Sprin
p field, Mass.