Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-11
BRATTLERORO.

The annual meeting of the Valley Fair
directors and other officers will be held at
the Brooks House Feb. 2.
Charles w. Butler, the comedian in the
original "Private Secretary company,
plays the eccentric widow in "Charley' s
Aunt" which will be given here Jan. 28.
Phebe Clark is the winner of the $40 in
gold offered by Morse & Simpson to the
person collecting the largest number of the
FIRMS advertisements from Brattleboro pa
pers in 1894. Her number was 567S. Mrs.
A. E. Fisher was second on the list with
5041.
The stock of boots and shoes i'm the
store of D. A. Martin was sold at auction
Monday under foreclosure of mortgage to
George g. Joselyn, manager for Cutler d
Porter of Springfield, Mass, the holders of
the mortgage. George l.. Durham, on be-
half of the BrattlebOro shoe dealers, bid
$1,000. Mr.. Joselyn has taken charge of
the store and the stock will be closed out
as soon as possible.
Bratteboro's contingent at the officers
school includes Gen. D. j. Estey, Col. Geo.
ii. Bond, Col. Thomas Harmon, Capt. j
q. Estey, Lieuts. Haigh and Bingham and
Sergeants Curtin, Hopkinson, Putnam and
Field of the Estey Guard; Capt. Weld
and Lieuts. Putnam, Mcclure, Connors.
Platts, Clapp and Burnett of the Fuller
Battery, and Brevet Major Childs, retired.
'Mr. and Mrs. Howe LAWN are in Paris.
studying their Italian roles in French-no
small task" says the Musical Courier
correspondent in the French metropolis.
He is studying with Juliani, she with
Marchesi for voice and Berth for dramatic
action. They are charmingly installed,
keeping house, in fact, on Rue Galilee, di-
rectly opposite the United States Embassy.
They are happy and busy"
Mrs. j. j. Estey entertained company
of about 20 personal friends at dinner
Tuesday evening, the event being arranged
as surprise to Gen. Estey on his j0th
birthday. 1t is hardly necessary to say
hat the congratulations on the occasion
were many and warm, and that there was
no uncertain sound when the whole COM
pany, standing, wished to the guest of the
evening "many happy returns"
The directors of the Brattleboro street
railroad company met Monday evening to
receive the report of the investigations
that have been made recently. After some
discussion the meeting adjourned to Mon
day evening, Jan. IA. The opinion of the
directors present seemed to be that the
project should be pushed forward and
strong effort should be made to secure sub
scriptions for the controlling interest in the
company from Brattleboro people
The corporators of the Vermont savings
bank held their annual meeting Wednes-
Jay. The report of the treasurer for the
year ending Dec. 81, 1894, was presented.
1t showed an increase in deposits of $l64,-
600. The surplus, owing to the payment
4 l.. l.. 4
$4,000. The loans on mortgages, real es-
tate, have been increased S52, 200 and its
holdings of county and city bonds have
been increased $4,000. Two semi-an-
nual dividends of 2t per cent amounted to
$4,000, The amount of the extra divi-
dend was 500, 900, making a total of nearly
$4,000 in dividends. After reGlecting
the old board of officers and adding g. A.
Boyden TO the board of trustees, the corpo-
rators ate their annual dinner at the
Brooks House